Joel Gascoigne
The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
17th Jan 2019
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
Patrick Kayongo
Stimela
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya...
28th Jan 2023
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya asked this while squashing the newspaper within her clenched fist. Her lips were quivering, her face contorted to hold back the tears of anger and fear. “My brother went to the mines...
Eric Migicovsky's...
A software engineer's guide to A/B testing
As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired...
13th Jul 2023
As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired impact. Track user metrics and run A/B tests to verify…
Ink & Switch
Inkbase: Programmable Ink
What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
20th Nov 2022
What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I...
30th Oct 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I really can’t get enough of how the whole device is integrated with a multi-layer stacked PCB. I imagine that inside the middle of the stack there could be some interesting circuitry...
James Vaughan's blog
How I Keep Up With Concerts
11th Nov 2019
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't thank Chat GPT
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are.
Not...
30th Jul 2023
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are.
Not only is there no logical reason to add pleasantries to your chat with GPT, but it also takes tokens for it to remove them and get to the point of your message.
Don't thank Chat...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The...
27th Apr 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
Eric Bailey
Battery Status API: We need to talk
13th Jan 2016
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Estimating floating point error the easy way
Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go...
11th May 2019
Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go unpredictably. The bugs that don't reproduce on unit-tests and lay low through the integration phase only to be seen by your most important customer.
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
A good first word for Wordle
Ok, I gave in to the fad and took up Wordle. For those who have been living under a rock for the...
27th Jan 2022
Ok, I gave in to the fad and took up Wordle. For those who have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, Wordle is a relatively new online word game which has become viral. It is a variation of Bulls and Cows. You have six tries to guess a five-letter word. Each […]
The...
General Robots
Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks
The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
16th Dec 2025
The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
the singularity is...
Critical Trade Theory
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
10th Apr 2025
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false.
The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
blag
Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang
This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
1st May 2021
This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
Stephen Wolfram...
Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
17th Jul 2023
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
dthompson
Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an...
23rd Jan 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket
protocol, both the
client and server sides, for Guile Scheme.
Highlights for this release are:
New (web socket) module that provides a standard Scheme...
A Day In The Life...
A list of 100 opinions I hold
A list of 100 opinions I hold
5th Sep 2022
A list of 100 opinions I hold
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
14th Apr 2023
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
Josh Comeau's blog
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
27th Jun 2022
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single
tag.
A Smart Bear
The Lindy Effect on startup potential
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
9th Jun 2024
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here, but 10x?
davidyat.es
Signifier flotation devices
27th Sep 2025
On Test Automation
On working and contributing to conferences abroad
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want...
6th Feb 2025
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want my career to go’ series. I will get back to writing technical and automation blog posts soon, but I need to finish my contract testing course first.
One of the things I like to do...
Eric Bailey
Where do you put spacing on design system components?
I work on design systems now. It scratches a lot of itches I have, most importantly organizing and...
7th Dec 2021
I work on design systems now. It scratches a lot of itches I have, most importantly organizing and standardizing things, as well as baking accessibility in at both the design and development layers.
My very cool boss is working on updating our grid system, and with that comes...
Marco.org
A letter to John Ternus
As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who...
1st Apr 2026
As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who loved computers started making great computers to inspire more people to love computers.
That spirit is difficult to find in the tech business today.
Immense scale, soulless...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours...
On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
9th May 2022
On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in its default form), since it transmits IP addresses…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Cool Facts about Cuttlefish
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short...
15th Jan 2019
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short lightning talk on any topic we wished. I picked cuttles. I actually saw one in real life diving in Fiji once!
Buttondown's blog
Google Reader was building the wrong future
The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
1st Jul 2026
The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
David Gerrells
too many birthdays
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
10th Mar 2021
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
Ink & Switch
01 · Universal version control
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators...
13th Feb 2024
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
Jordan Eldredge's...
I'm glad I factored out jQuery
I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
13th Dec 2014
I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
Liz Denys
So you want to make a public comment! mini-zine
I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable...
28th Jun 2025
I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable housing, and sometimes people ask me how they can do the same and what to expect. I decided to make a mini-zine that tries to demystify speaking up at public meetings:
All text in the...
TokyoDev
Supporting communities that empower women in technology
Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last...
6th Feb 2023
Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last survey's results, published in December 2022, I explored [the connection between gender and compensation](/insights/2022-developer-survey#salary-by-gender). The results were...
On Test Automation
The ‘valuable’ in valuable feedback, fast
When I talk about the goals and the purpose of test automation, I often use the phrase ‘valuable...
1st Apr 2026
When I talk about the goals and the purpose of test automation, I often use the phrase ‘valuable feedback, fast’: we use tools to support our testing to help us get valuable information about the state of our product in the most efficient manner possible.
The ‘fast’ part of...
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
9th Jan 2023
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings.
Built to Fail?
I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Spent Labor Day in Boulder - Went to Alchemy Springs Sauna in SF- I'm happy to see...
Boot.dev Blog
Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency...
4th Jun 2020
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency functions one after the other. For example, if I have a web page that needs to request seven files from the server before it can show the page, I need to asynchronously fetch all those...
bt RSS Feed
Simple Accessibility
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward:
Basic design
Test that your project has the proper...
Copper • A blog...
How good is Claude, really?
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant.
So much has happened in the...
4th Mar 2026
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant.
So much has happened in the time I was busy carving wooden spoons, that I felt it simpler to just ignore the hype.
One morning, in this seemingly never ending winter, a friend told me excitedly how his employer...
Basta’s Notes
Happier development
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
26th Mar 2026
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
blag
Oldest recorded transaction
The oldest recorded transaction was in 3100 BC
6th Sep 2025
The oldest recorded transaction was in 3100 BC
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2023
The Ware for January 2023 is a front-end readout board from the KASCADE muon detector. Thanks again...
27th Feb 2023
The Ware for January 2023 is a front-end readout board from the KASCADE muon detector. Thanks again to cpresser for contributing the ware, and also congratulations to AZeta for nailing it! email me for your prize.
Steve Klabnik
Ember Data: ‘DS’ is not defined
5th Jul 2015
swyx's site RSS Feed
Take a hard game, and make it shorter
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels,...
16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
ntietz.com blog -...
Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation
Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference!
She's...
3rd Feb 2025
Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference!
She's an anthropologist by training, and I'm a software engineer.
How'd we wind up there?
The short version is I asked her what I thought was an interesting question, and she thought it...
Irrational...
Refactoring internal documentation in Notion
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation
was the area with the second most...
5th Feb 2026
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation
was the area with the second most comments.
This is a writeup of the concrete steps I took to see how much
progress one person could make on improving the organization’s
documentation while holding myself to a high...
A Beautiful Site
Stop trying to build the next unicorn
So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy...
2nd Sep 2014
So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy office building out in the valley? That's cool. By the same odds we'll both be rich, because I'm holding tonight's winning lotto ticket.
Your idea probably won't be the next big thing...
Ink & Switch
00 · Beehive Background
Contextualizing Beehive
1st Aug 2024
Remains of the Day
Catch up
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
20th Mar 2018
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time.
While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Building a metadata database with AI agents
Rebuilding a 20 year old side project in the AI era. Some things I’ve learned about building...
31st May 2026
Rebuilding a 20 year old side project in the AI era. Some things I’ve learned about building applications where agents act as users.
A Smart Bear
More or less
You must select between three pricing strategies, and fully commit to their implications.
1st Jun 2025
You must select between three pricing strategies, and fully commit to their implications.
A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time
Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
23rd Feb 2019
Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 1
One of the things I love most about working in a community studio is hearing about other...
12th May 2024
One of the things I love most about working in a community studio is hearing about other ceramicists' experiences with new-to-me clay bodies. This has helped me feel confident in trying out many different clay bodies, and I now use a bunch of different clay bodies in my...
Liz Denys
Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps
When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and...
4th Feb 2025
When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and melting ice caps.
Trying to tackle large challenges like climate change is overwhelming in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. There are many things we can...
alexwlchan
Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python
Consider the following JSON object:
{
"sides": 4,
"colour": "red",
"sides": 5,
"colour":...
4th May 2025
Consider the following JSON object:
{
"sides": 4,
"colour": "red",
"sides": 5,
"colour": "blue"
}
Notice that sides and colour both appear twice.
This looks invalid, but I learnt recently that this is actually legal JSON syntax!
It’s unusual and discouraged, but it’s...
Engineer’s Codex
How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
4th Dec 2023
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
bt RSS Feed
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
2020-04-29
Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
29th Apr 2020
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
2020-04-29
Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible.
This is...
home automation -...
Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications
(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and...
25th Oct 2019
(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have received some criticism for their handling of voice data behind the scenes. The companies had outsourced quality control/machine learning feedback to external...
Tinloof - Blog
JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for...
1st Nov 2018
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for such a source, please check out MDN.
In general, the Map data structure is useful when we want to retrieve/add/delete values through a set of unique keys.
One of the...
A Beautiful Site
Better Buttons with color-mix() and Custom Properties
Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically....
23rd Aug 2023
Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically. For this experiment, we'll use CSS Custom Properties, color-mix(), and OKLCH to ensure that tints and shades are perceptually uniform.
To keep things simple, we'll follow today's...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Literate Vimrc
Literate ~/.vimrc
This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now.
Hold on, let me explain.
Why would anyone do a...
14th Jun 2017
Literate ~/.vimrc
This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now.
Hold on, let me explain.
Why would anyone do a thing like this?
I have tons of comments in my ~/.vimrc file. I try to
leave a lot of comments because everything in my Vim configuration is
hard-won knowledge. My ~/.vimrc is...
alexwlchan
How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights →
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the...
12th Feb 2023
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the benefits of moving our data storage and processing to the cloud.
Building out this infrastructure is a large part of what I’ve been working on for the last six (!) years.
It’s been...
markround.com
Apollo Vampire V1200 Review
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2...
21st Jul 2020
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to...
Alex Meub
Upgrading the SwarmTurret
A few years ago, I built a Wi-Fi-controlled Nerf turret, but I never got around to creating a proper...
23rd May 2025
A few years ago, I built a Wi-Fi-controlled Nerf turret, but I never got around to creating a proper build guide for it. When I finally sat down to write one, I realized just how many things I would do differently. That realization quickly snowballed into a full redesign—and the...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Barbershop multi-track: Cry
I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'Cry'
7th May 2008
I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'Cry'
Boot.dev Blog
6 Undeniable Reasons to Learn Computer Science
Is it a bit dramatic, perhaps, to say that the fate of the world rests on computer science and...
10th May 2022
Is it a bit dramatic, perhaps, to say that the fate of the world rests on computer science and that’s why you should learn computer science?
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - February 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Busy month at Chroma - including launching a case study with Mintlify who recently ...
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Grass Valley welcome arch
In 1901 visitors entered through the legs of an odd statue of a gold miner
1st May 2026
In 1901 visitors entered through the legs of an odd statue of a gold miner
Ferd.ca
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
2023/01/01
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
When I first started my forever project, a peer to...
1st Jan 2023
2023/01/01
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
When I first started my forever project, a peer to peer file sync software using Interval Tree Clocks, I wanted to build it right.
That meant property-based testing everything, specifying the protocol fully, dealing with error...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
31st Dec 2016
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
Josh Collinsworth
Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with...
27th Dec 2021
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.
Vadim Kravcenko
Aging Code
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
5th Sep 2023
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […]
The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Basta’s Notes
My friend, JT
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
22nd Feb 2025
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
Eric Migicovsky's...
10x engineers talk to users
I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers...
6th Mar 2023
I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers and founders need to deeply understand and care…
The Changelog
Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but...
3rd Jan 2024
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian. These are my reasons: Raspberry Pi OS has, for years now, specified...
Eric Bailey
Article pitch for your consideration
A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time...
8th Apr 2025
A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time publishing blog posts on your website.
Your website and contact information will be shared around on these lists, for the purpose of soliciting you for guest posts. If you’re not...
Josh Collinsworth
How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all...
17th Feb 2020
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all object keys (IDs) are unique, and how to find non-unique values.
Josh Comeau's blog
The “const” Deception
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change....
24th Apr 2023
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between...
Alex Meub
The Office Bell Ringer
At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new...
19th Feb 2020
At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new feature or receive other positive news, big or small. When we hear the large bell ring in the center of the office, we know that something good just happened. It’s been a great way...
bunnie's blog
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been...
19th Sep 2024
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe. I respectfully disagree. Our militaries...
Irrational...
Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping.
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was
from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
Of...
2nd Jan 2025
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was
from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
Of the three core strategy refinement techniques,
this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least.
Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it
highlights how...
alexwlchan
Getting the base directory of an sbt project
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project:
$...
4th Dec 2022
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project:
$ sbt --batch -error "project $PROJECT" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d "\n"
For example:
$ sbt --batch -error "project ingests_api" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d...
David Heinemeier...
Le Mans 2024
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some...
3rd Apr 2024
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a real race car, and even less time since I made participating in the world's greatest endurance race the ultimate goal. But it almost didn't...
Boot.dev Blog
Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency...
4th Jun 2020
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency functions one after the other. For example, if I have a web page that needs to request seven files from the server before it can show the page, I need to asynchronously fetch all those...
Alex Meub
Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater
I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and...
13th Dec 2021
I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and works amazingly well. It has more than enough grill space for me and is pretty minimalist on features, which I like. Last Thanksgiving, many people wished they didn’t get the...
ntietz.com blog -...
Taking a break
I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years.
I kept it...
5th May 2025
I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years.
I kept it up even when I was very sick last year with Lyme disease.
It's time for me to take a break and reset.
This is the right time, because the world is very difficult for me to move...
Maggie Appleton
A Collection of Design Engineers
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to...
11th Mar 2024
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
The History of the...
1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web
The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.
The post 1995 Was...
8th Apr 2025
The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.
The post 1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Plain Text Emails, Please
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most...
9th Sep 2019
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024
The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete!...
7th Oct 2024
The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete! We have no big plans to make serious modifications (tbh I always say this though, so idk). To be clear, that’s the first half of the track complete - the first 13 courses up to the...
Identity Designed
BERA
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
22nd Feb 2022
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
A Smart Bear
Pricing determines your business model
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
5th Nov 2014
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
Words and Buttons...
[e-book] So You Think You Know C? And TenMore Short Essays on Programming Languages
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most...
21st Apr 2020
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most productive way to create software. The journey, however, has taught me a few things so it was not a complete waste of time either.
This book is a reflection of these lessons. It...
On Life and Lisp
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture,
AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
13th May 2022
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture,
AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since
then, we’ve been
reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last
January, I rendered a triangle
with my own code, but...
charity.wtf
On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been...
8th Jun 2025
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my...
Max Schmitt
2024: Year 3 of Building Cakedesk as a Solo Developer
Read the post here.
2nd Jan 2025
David Crawshaw
Machining under a microscope
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses...
20th Jun 2016
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses spade-type end mills as small as 0.001 inch wide, although even smaller tools have been used occasionally."
www.mmsonline.com/articles/cutting-with-a-0001-inch-end-mill
Hixie's Natural Log
When complaints are a good sign
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so...
27th Sep 2024
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so explicitly, but even if you don't, you're still implicitly doing so based on your design choices.
These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud....
alexwlchan
Create space-saving clones on macOS with Python
The standard Mac filesystem, APFS, has a feature called space-saving clones.
This allows you to...
3rd Aug 2025
The standard Mac filesystem, APFS, has a feature called space-saving clones.
This allows you to create multiple copies of a file without using additional disk space – the filesystem only stores a single copy of the data.
Although cloned files share data, they’re independent – you...
Lee A Johnson
The Caretakers
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to...
8th Aug 2026
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to cover, you may have missed that BINGOS just hit 247 consecutive monthly uploads to CPAN1. This is noteworthy as it surpasses DROLSKY’s record set a while back.
That’s an upload to...
The Changelog
Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
29th May 2022
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
tonsky.me
Needy Programs
If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.
Older...
13th Nov 2025
If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.
Older programs were all about what you need: you can do this, that, whatever you want, just let me know. You were in control, you were giving orders, and programs obeyed.
But recently...
The Web Witch's Blog
Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart
I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I...
15th Apr 2020
I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I look back at the last year, I look at how much has changed in my professional and personal life. It feels like yesterday and forever ago. I did not think I would be in this spot...
The Web Witch's Blog
The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation
I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend...
18th Aug 2025
I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend rolls around. While I've enjoyed the Grey's Anatomy binge I started during this pregnancy, it feels like a work week ritual -- something to put on in the background or pay half...
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Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad
2024-07-10
I’ve always found it useful to...
10th Jul 2024
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad
2024-07-10
I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
4th Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Multitrack Video: "In My Room"
On New Years Day some friends and I recorded a multitrack video of The Beach Boys' song 'In My...
4th Jan 2010
On New Years Day some friends and I recorded a multitrack video of The Beach Boys' song 'In My Room'.
Maggie Appleton
Programmable Notes
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
18th Mar 2022
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
The Codist
Why Buying An Apple II+ In 1979 Changed My Life
After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had....
16th Mar 2026
After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had. Little did I know that everything that happened after that was not what I expected.
I went to graduate school in Chemistry, but my faculty advisor resigned after being denied...
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How To Podcast
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years....
7th Dec 2025
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them to the end - the following advice is what I strongly...
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization.
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
2nd Jan 2023
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
beep.blog
Twitter subscriptions
I don’t need anything more than human support.
9th Feb 2021
I don’t need anything more than human support.
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
2019-11-01
After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
1st Nov 2019
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
2019-11-01
After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2025
We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson...
7th Dec 2025
We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson bookmarks, and major improvements to the Training Grounds are just a few of the highlights. Thanks for learning with us, we’re gearing up the platform for a ton of new courses in...
Remains of the Day
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:
COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
15th Apr 2018
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:
COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.
If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - September 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Sep 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Launched Chroma Cloud - Had a quick trip to Colorado - Went on a first bike ride ...
Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
2nd Feb 2024
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on...
3rd Dec 2021
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like “URL forwarding” through your domain provider could work,...
Josh Comeau's blog
Styling Ordered Lists with CSS Counters
Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this...
7th Apr 2020
Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this tutorial, we'll see a handy trick using CSS counters that lets us style ordered lists without breaking proper semantics.
Josh Collinsworth
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals,...
7th Mar 2024
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.
macwright.com
Recently
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun...
1st Sep 2023
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new,
especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from
my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are...
24th Dec 2017
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great.
This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...
Chris Nicholas
Dark mode by local sunlight
Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable...
16th Jun 2021
Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable automatically?
alexwlchan
How I set up my Obsidian vaults
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve...
19th Sep 2023
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve been using it for nearly three years.
Time flies when you’re organising information!
I’ve grown to really like it, and I expect to keep using it for a while to come.
Its approach...
The Changelog
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
12th Jul 2023
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
On Test Automation
I am tired of AI
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
17th Sep 2024
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
Tom MacWright
Recently
A little late on this one, but I got around to it!
Reading
I got stuck on two books: books that I...
6th Jun 2025
A little late on this one, but I got around to it!
Reading
I got stuck on two books: books that I want to enjoy but can’t get
any momentum on. So my reading “stats” are suffering and this is a light
year for books so far. But I switched gears to read Glass Century
by Ross Barkan,...
Vadim Kravcenko
Process Debt
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even...
10th Dec 2023
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […]
The post Process Debt appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean.
Please note that while I...
Sometimes It Works...
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
¶Why and how to override...
6th Feb 2016
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
¶Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
Maybe like me you like to do things the ‘Laravel way’. So let’s say you’re still using the out-of-the-box Auth flow (can anyone recommend an...
Herman's blog
Things that work (for me)
A list of tools and items that JustWork (tm)
20th Jan 2026
A list of tools and items that JustWork (tm)
Contraption Co.
Rethinking work beyond the factory
I recently completed a two-week creative residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I split my time on...
27th Feb 2024
I recently completed a two-week creative residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I split my time on the trip between working on Booklet and exploring Japan.
The Almost Perfect residence runs continuously, with two residents at a time. Each residency concludes with a public gallery...
macwright.com
Personal tools
I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago
(oof) I wrote a habit tracking...
3rd Apr 2025
I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago
(oof) I wrote a habit tracking application,
and a keylogger that let
me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty
charts.
I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my...
A Smart Bear
Ballad of The Lean Startup
An ode to validated learning.
26th Sep 2011
An ode to validated learning.
The History of the...
The lasting influence of Netscape Time
After Netscape, the speed of software sped up beyond what anyone could have imagined. Thanks to a...
12th May 2026
After Netscape, the speed of software sped up beyond what anyone could have imagined. Thanks to a documentary crew and a ghost writer, we have a full view of the whole thing.
The post The lasting influence of Netscape Time appeared first on The History of the Web.
Maggie Appleton
The Gift Economy
Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
3rd Aug 2020
Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
blag
Snapshot Testing
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
1st Mar 2024
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large JSON value query performance
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
1st Feb 2022
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
Eric Bailey
Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days
Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much.
Like...
14th Jul 2025
Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much.
Like Marc, I am also motivated by FOMO. Trying to stay on top of things in a fast-paced industry has been made difficult on account of social media fragmentation.
RSS has its own place in...
On Life and Lisp
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux
Upgrade your Asahi Linux
systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big...
6th Jun 2023
Upgrade your Asahi Linux
systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost:
leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1!
Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0.
That means more playable games and more functioning...
Liz Denys
French onion soup redux
If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm...
2nd Jan 2012
If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm probably lying a little bit. What most people call French onion soup is mostly a thing of the past for me.
But this soup is very similar. I grew out of the big croutons and the...
A small freedom area...
Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity
A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters:
Red Alp GLSL demo in 448...
29th Sep 2025
A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters:
Red Alp GLSL demo in 448 characters
void main(){vec3 c,p,K=vec3(3,1,0);for(float...
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Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS
2024-10-21
I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on...
21st Oct 2024
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS
2024-10-21
I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on Linveo. For just $15 a year they provide:
AMD KVM 1GB
1024 MB RAM
1 CPU Core
25 GB NVMe SSD
2000 GB Bandwidth
It’s a pretty great deal and I suggest you look more into it if you’re...
The Changelog
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
8th Dec 2022
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
beep.blog
I ranked 5th in the Indie Dev Game Jam #4!
I wrote the theme tune, sang the theme tune…
20th Jul 2024
I wrote the theme tune, sang the theme tune…
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system....
30th Jul 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system. Congrats to Christian for naming it! email me for your prize. This gem of a board was gifted to me by someone at SGI back when I worked there in…I want to say 1998? I even still...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search introduces Team plan
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
18th Oct 2022
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
Alex MacCaw
A personal update
In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As...
3rd May 2021
In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As COVID started to spin out of control in the states, my girlfriend and I made the decision to stay. A ten day trip turned into a year-long adventure.
I
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: September 2024
September was incredibly busy across work and personal life. I am out of a routine and trying to...
18th Oct 2024
September was incredibly busy across work and personal life. I am out of a routine and trying to find my way back to writing regularly (among creating in general) while also making sure I spend time doing things I enjoy. As soon as I publish this I'm off to decide what to bake...
Epic Web Dev
The True Purpose of Testing (article)
Discover the true essence of automated testing and the difference between an implementation and...
8th Jan 2024
Discover the true essence of automated testing and the difference between an implementation and intention.
bt RSS Feed
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
18th Oct 2018
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website.
Nowadays companies and...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...
Liz Denys
Podcast submission notes
Getting started
Web stuff & RSS
Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
1st Feb 2019
Getting started
Web stuff & RSS
Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts.
Some specific RSS fields
<itunes:type>: You need...
Don Melton
A metastasis in America
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange...
15th Jan 2021
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange tumor in the White House next week will not be enough to affect a cure.
The malignancy has spread. It didn’t even start with the presidency. We’ve been brewing and self-dosing a...
bunnie's blog
Name that Wäre, July 2023
The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to...
31st Jul 2023
The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to him, this was fished out of a dumpster in Germany, hence “wäre” (and yes, it’s a nonsense word, but I also think it’s cute). We had a little chuckle over the ware’s construction (or...
David Gerrells
offer up is the tinder of marketplaces
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions,...
24th Oct 2023
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions, and other "gameification" make it trashier than the perception most have of the venerable Craigslist.
Charles Chen
A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET
Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
14th Jan 2024
Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
2nd Sep 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Tech Blog of the Week? Me? That's Cool.
DUNDUNDaDUHH! (that's right it's a triumphant music sound. I can use
onomatopoeia, I'm the tech blog...
1st Jun 2007
DUNDUNDaDUHH! (that's right it's a triumphant music sound. I can use
onomatopoeia, I'm the tech blog of the week!) As my five or six regular readers
may already know, there exists a fantastic website called Daily
Cup of Tech that I have featured on this website a few times (or...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL
Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL
The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of...
31st Dec 2015
Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL
The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Dan Quach Blog
Personal Newsletter 2023 Q1
Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the...
5th Apr 2023
Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the past, I used to post quite a bit, and I dare say probably 10 years ago to the point of oversharing. It seems to me that the popularity of Facebook has been dropping in my network to...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
17th Jul 2024
Liz Denys
Curried pumpkin soup
Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the...
2nd Feb 2010
Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the first thing that comes to mind in winter is creamy squash soups. In the haze of moving, Mystery Hunt, and working on writing 6.042 problems this IAP, I somehow neglected making soup...
Don Melton
That bleeping kerfuffle
After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via...
18th Jun 2017
After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via Twitter that all my colorful metaphors had been “bleeped” on the audio.
I didn’t realize that because I hadn’t listened to the recording myself. And I don’t normally listen to my own...
Alex Meub
How To Quiet Down Your 3D Printer
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent...
24th Dec 2023
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent temperature, and minimize noise. I was surprised to find that the enclosure didn’t reduce noise that significantly. I then placed a patio paver under my printer, which made it...
Charles Petzold
Interactive Graphical Arithmetic
When called upon to perform basic arithmetic these days, most of us grab the nearest device with a...
8th Apr 2024
When called upon to perform basic arithmetic these days, most of us grab the nearest device with a calculator app. On the rare occasions when the power is out and the batteries have run down, we might need to resort to doing the calculation by hand. In either case, we’re...
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
10th Sep 2017
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites.
AWS Certficate Manager
I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
Liz Denys
Why I left Instagram
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising
Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
18th Apr 2022
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising
Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
Jordan Eldredge's...
"Lazy Afternoon" Barbershop Tag
I wrote and recorded a barbershop tag for Chelsea.
29th Jun 2009
I wrote and recorded a barbershop tag for Chelsea.
Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
11th Aug 2023
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
Steve Klabnik
Why is Clojure so stable?
18th Dec 2018
Explained from First...
Email explained from first principles
7th May 2021
Paolo Amoroso's...
The faded world: my experience with cataract
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
22nd Dec 2024
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came.
In May of 2024 my ophthalmologist confirmed what I surmised: both of my eyes were affected by cataract. It came earlier than my age would suggest but that's...
Joel Gascoigne
Your startup is a rocket ship
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1st Jul 2012
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When you’re building a startup, the startup itself has a reputation and
credibility around it. The startup has tremendous power. As the startup rocket
ship takes off, the best thing you can do is...
Sedimental
Announcing CalVer
It's about time.
Technologists expect things to get better with time. Your current
laptop has more...
22nd Jun 2016
It's about time.
Technologists expect things to get better with time. Your current
laptop has more RAM than the last, your current car is safer than its
predecessor, and the latest version of your code is certainly the best
ever.
What if the same be said of versioning...
Irrational...
Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called
My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity...
8th Dec 2024
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called
My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools,
which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time:
Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learn
Instrumenting metrics...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Automating a software company with GitHub Actions
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs,...
5th Jul 2022
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
ntietz.com blog -...
My portable ergonomic setup
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
3rd Jun 2024
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids.
That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally.
One guaranteed trigger...
TokyoDev
Progress and Challenges: Reflections of a Working Mother in Japan
The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey...
7th Jul 2023
The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey 2022](/insights/2022-developer-survey) revealed that the country is still struggling to close the gender gap in the workplace in the tech industry.
As a Japanese woman and a mother of two children, I was very...
charity.wtf
From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing
I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who...
24th Nov 2025
I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who shall remain nameless and hopefully duly obscured—their identities are not the point, the point is that this is a mainstream view among engineering executives and my head is...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Trade offs in designing versatile log format
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
25th Mar 2019
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound.
I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design:
it should be simple and therefore easy to implement
it should be human-readable
it...
Liz Denys
The best-kept secret of the French press: cold brew coffee
Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of...
11th Jan 2010
Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of all forms. My hands-down favorite until a few months ago was the caffè macchiato - not to be confused with the highly commercialized latte macchiato you see in places like...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Jan-Feb '26: How PlayBook Processes User Input
The motivation and design of our input processing system
20th Feb 2026
The motivation and design of our input processing system
Evan Jones -...
Go: Functional options are slow
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a...
23rd May 2022
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a variable number of arguments, which are themselves functions (a type like ...func(*config). I think it was first introduced by Rob Pike in a 2014 blog post. It is now used by many...
Darek Kay
A guide to bookmarklets
I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to...
4th Nov 2024
I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to explain what bookmarklets are and how to use them.
In short, a bookmarklet is a browser bookmark containing JavaScript code. Clicking the bookmark executes the script in the context...
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Dinosaur Kingdom II
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
2 weeks ago
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
The Web Witch's Blog
Home Office Kit: Elgato Wave 3 Microphone
My desk setup in the UK is slowly coming together & Jhey picked out a microphone for me. I had a...
2nd Feb 2024
My desk setup in the UK is slowly coming together & Jhey picked out a microphone for me. I had a Blue Yeti microphone in the US...and I still do it's just in storage. It had issues with staying connected through a dongle after my work MacBook was upgraded and I didn't have the...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Rendering “modern” Winamp skins in the browser
Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp...
20th Nov 2024
Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
7th Aug 2018
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol.
Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Herman's blog
Grow slowly, stay small
A more sustainable way to do business
3rd Dec 2025
A more sustainable way to do business
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that live in my garage
Some thoughts about machine learning
13th Jan 2025
Some thoughts about machine learning
Evan Jones -...
Huge Pages are a Good Idea
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to...
16th Jan 2023
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has...
Boot.dev Blog
JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
Making software...
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
6th Jul 2022
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it.
This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
Words and Buttons...
Binary search
The page contains interactive plots to play with different strategies and distributions.
12th Feb 2020
The page contains interactive plots to play with different strategies and distributions.
Marc Astbury
Tools ≠ skills
A couple of years ago at Jenni we spent time breaking down retention strategies of software...
4th Aug 2025
A couple of years ago at Jenni we spent time breaking down retention strategies of software products. One pattern we found is where ability to use a tool becomes a synonym for the skill it supports (e.g. Photoshop/ Illustrator). The term we coined internally was ‘product as a...
A Beautiful Site
Why You Should Prefix Custom Events
Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event...
12th Dec 2022
Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event must also contain a dash. This removes all ambiguity between native events and custom events.
Therefore, I prefix all custom events in Shoelace with sl-. It may seem contradictory...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025
We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible...
4th Aug 2025
We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible projects come out of it. Thanks to everyone that participated, I’m excited for the next one!
alexwlchan
Creating Caddyfiles with Cog
I’m currently restructuring my site, and I’m going to change some of the URLs.
I don’t want to break...
5th Feb 2026
I’m currently restructuring my site, and I’m going to change some of the URLs.
I don’t want to break inbound links to the old URLs, so I’m creating redirects between old and new.
My current web server is Caddy, so I define redirects in my Caddyfile with the redir...
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