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...
Engineer’s Codex
4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
22nd Apr 2024
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
20th Apr 2021
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - July 2023
✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to...
1st Jul 2023
✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to Canada for Tailwind Connect, where I met some interesting people and learned some new CSS techniques....
Jordan Eldredge's...
Backyard Ukulele Session: Ukulele Videos with Chelsea
Chelsea and I recorded a few songs in our backyard with the help of Beau Lambert.
4th Nov 2011
Chelsea and I recorded a few songs in our backyard with the help of Beau Lambert.
dthompson
Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs,
version 0.1.0, has been...
5th Jan 2025
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs,
version 0.1.0, has been released! This is a library I've been working
on for quite some time and after more than one rewrite and many
smaller refactors I think it's finally ready to release publicly.
Let's...
A Beautiful Site
I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac...
7th Aug 2026
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac App Store. Today, I decided to pull it.
The app isn't a new idea, but it bakes four color tools into a single menu bar app: an eyedropper, a color picker, a palette manager, and a...
ntietz.com blog -...
What would a web app canary look like?
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...
2nd Oct 2023
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots.
Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to.
They are an essential component...
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...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - March 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups...
1st Mar 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups develop new products. For the last six months, I've unintentionally been working almost exclusively wit...
Lennart Koopmann...
Documentation Belongs in Engineering
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point,...
29th Aug 2023
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
Irrational...
Make no assumptions.
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”,
which is the idea that there...
11th Jul 2026
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”,
which is the idea that there are many distinct layers of soil, from topsoil all the way down
to bedrock, which all combine into a soil horizon.
Translating this idea into software, the ideal codebase would...
charity.wtf
Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership
Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at...
24th Jul 2024
Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at work!”, or “Trump voters are oppressed and live in fear!”, and we all get a good pained laugh over how out of touch and lacking in self-awareness they are. We hear a lot about the...
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
30th Jan 2024
David Crawshaw
2014-03-08
www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem
8th Mar 2014
www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem
ByteofDev
10 ways to speed up web image loading
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent...
19th Dec 2023
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
6th Oct 2020
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
Quentin Santos
The RP2350-USB-A cannot see devices disconnect
What’s better for New Year’s Eve than debugging some USB hardware issues? In my previous article, I...
1st Jan 2026
What’s better for New Year’s Eve than debugging some USB hardware issues? In my previous article, I explained how the design of Waveshare’s RP2350-USB-A can make the USB-A host connector incapable of detecting certain USB devices, and of any hot-plugging. The solution was to...
Writing - Andreas...
Using fewer parts
Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
26th Nov 2023
Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
Eric Bailey
Battery Status API: We need to talk
13th Jan 2016
ntietz.com blog -...
Books I Read in 2018
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and...
31st Dec 2018
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and record them as you go. This year, I got serious about it, and it was a wonderful motivational device. I set a goal of two books per month, and I just eked it out over the finish line,...
Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six...
14th May 2023
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls!
There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
Boot.dev Blog
How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search
I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops...
4th Mar 2022
I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops we do in the Boot.dev Discord group. I’m convinced that these days a developer’s GitHub profile is just as important as their resume itself. If you haven’t started your first job...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table...
24th Aug 2024
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table of contents.
Especially technical, reference documentation. As a reader you want a way to quickly navigate to a specific part of the documentation.
This article describes how I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
2nd Aug 2023
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Using global memoization in React
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a...
9th Feb 2022
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a hammer that often works well, and makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. But useMemo is not a silver bullet — sometimes it just introduces more useless work instead of making...
Boot.dev Blog
What Are the Career Options in Computer Science?
The future is bright for career options in computer science with remote work opening up doors that...
1st Aug 2022
The future is bright for career options in computer science with remote work opening up doors that weren’t present before. Trying to navigate through computer science career options can be overwhelming what with all the options at your disposal. While we won’t go through every...
MMapped blog
Square joy: trapped rainwater
15th Feb 2022
Founder's blog
How I learned to stop worrying and wrote my own memory-cache
Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly...
21st Jan 2023
Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly monitoring and investigating bottlenecks for our SaaS helpdesk webapp is my favorite thing ever. And I'm proud to say that with thousands of clients, even some really big ones, our app's...
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
3rd Jan 2024
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
blag
Recurse Center Day 1: init
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
1st Nov 2021
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
Josh Comeau's blog
Dynamic Bézier Curves
A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as...
23rd May 2018
A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as scroll-to-flatten using SVG path instructions, and how to architect our components for maximum readability and reusability.
Liz Denys
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
2nd Dec 2023
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
Confessions of a...
Live Session on CPython Virtual Machine Internals + Upcoming Posts
We are long overdue for a new live session as well as some more articles.
12th Apr 2024
We are long overdue for a new live session as well as some more articles.
Seldo.com
Databases: how they work, and a brief history
19th Nov 2019
Liz Denys
Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website,...
7th Jul 2015
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see
Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED
Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.
Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411
Registrant City: PANAMA
Registrant State/Province:...
alexwlchan
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow
I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map.
I don’t need an interactive or...
7th Mar 2025
I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map.
I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate.
I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups
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28th Aug 2011
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It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people
who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that
way, it is completely understandable...
Boot.dev Blog
Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell
While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell...
4th Jul 2023
While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell is very real.
Acko.net
Headless React
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects
Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
5th Jul 2021
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects
Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation
Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU
Live
It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
Alex Meub
Protect Your Wireless Network
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is...
12th May 2013
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is probably the single biggest security hole on any home wireless network.
About WiFi Protected Setup
WiFi Protected Setup is a security standard that comes enabled by default on many...
Alex MacCaw
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
25th Mar 2025
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible.
But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
26th Jun 2021
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […]
The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Josh Comeau's blog
A Million Little Secrets
I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in...
24th Feb 2025
I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my...
Liz Denys
Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier...
2nd Dec 2021
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier person. That said, it took a while to go from very comfortable riding a bike around the car-free loop inside Prospect Park to no longer feeling extremely anxious riding on NYC...
Matt Keeter
Automatic Panorama Generation
3rd May 2011
Matt Keeter
Automatic tracking of bounding boxes
10th Apr 2016
Boot.dev Blog
Certificates vs Diplomas in Computer Science
When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the...
2nd Dec 2020
When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the difference between a certificate and a diploma was. I was terrified that I’d have to go back to school and spend 2-4 years getting a degree in computer science before an employer would...
Joel Gascoigne
How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup
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3rd May 2014
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I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I
stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a
while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
Daniel Marino
Letting Claude Teach Me
Now that I use AI regularly to help write code and complete tasks, I find myself in a position where...
4th May 2026
Now that I use AI regularly to help write code and complete tasks, I find myself in a position where I’m not learning as much as I used to. That feels a bit crummy.
Fairly often, Claude writes code I don’t fully understand. For example: I know enough TypeScript to be dangerous,...
Epic Web Dev
Advanced Vitest Patterns (workshop)
Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster,...
6th Aug 2025
Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster, more effective test experiences.
Josh Collinsworth
Man cereal
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and,...
3rd Mar 2026
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
Liz Denys
Route: annoying insurance upsell or online shopping data aggregator?
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart...
5th Oct 2021
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart when I purchase things online:
I went partially through the checkout flow of a shop that uses Route with a $278 item I have no interest in purchasing to illustrate this...
Buttondown's blog
April updates
Another great month, with lots of updates!
4th May 2018
Another great month, with lots of updates!
Quentin Santos
Linux Pipes are Slow
Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have...
25th Aug 2024
Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have included errata, but the results might not be reliable, so take this with pinch of salt! vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster...
Nue developer blog
Apps lighter than a React button
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
1st Apr 2025
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
The Pragmatic...
How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA)
The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What...
19th Sep 2023
The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What happened and why?
Boot.dev Blog
Golang vs Java: 6 Key Comparisons
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences,...
4th Aug 2021
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences, there are also key similarities in how and where they’re used by programmers.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Changing text style for DandeGUI window output
<![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library...
12th May 2025
<![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm developing in Common Lisp. I finally got around to this and implemented the GUI:WITH-TEXT-STYLE macro which controls the attributes of text printed to a...
charity.wtf
On Engineers and Influence
(Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing...
17th Aug 2018
(Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing conversation, https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1029608573217587201) Let’s talk about influence. As an engineer, how do you get influence? What does influence look like, what is it rooted in, how do you wield it or lose it? How...
ntietz.com blog -...
Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years.
The code in...
1st Jul 2024
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years.
The code in question was not particularly complicated, and had been reviewed by multiple people.
It included a timeout, and is straightforward: allow a Websocket connection to test that the client...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco:
Contents
Federal ...
2nd Nov 2020
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco:
Contents
Federal
President & Vice President
US Representative, District 12
California State Legislature
State Senator, District 11
State Assembly, District 17
San Francisco City & County ...
David Crawshaw
log4j: between a rock and a hard place
log4j: between a rock and a hard place
2021-12-11
What does backwards compatibility mean to...
11th Dec 2021
log4j: between a rock and a hard place
2021-12-11
What does backwards compatibility mean to me?
Backwards compatibility should not have forced log4j to keep LDAP/JNDI URLs
The other side of compatibility: being cautious adding features
There is more than enough written on the...
Eric Bailey
Operating System and Browser Accessibility Display Modes
23rd Jan 2020
Patrick Kayongo
Martyr
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the...
25th Mar 2023
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the floor to catch the sweat that had started dripping from his forehead. His hand was shaking uncontrollably, jerked back and forth by the fear of getting caught again. Mukaajanga, the...
Alex Meub
Building a Removable Bike Basket for the Yepp Rack
I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my...
4th Sep 2024
I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my Yepp rear rack. I also use my rack with a child seat (the Yepp Maxi) which has a mechanism that allows it to attach and detach easily without sacrificing safety. I was thinking it...
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)" revisited
14th Feb 2018
Irrational...
How to filter out old email from inbox
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my
personal inboxes. There are simply too...
3rd May 2025
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my
personal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with,
and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email.
Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...
The Web Witch's Blog
Personal Sprint Retrospectives
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on...
21st Oct 2022
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on Fridays.
If you've never done a sprint, a sprint is a set amount of time to complete a specific set of tasks. For example, we work in two week sprints at RapidAPI. I believe we did the...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Adding unpack syntax to RCL
7th Dec 2025
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.
Boot.dev Blog
How to Recursively Traverse JSON Objects
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a...
22nd Sep 2019
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a while I need to write a function that operates on a tree of unknown depth, such as a JSON object, and that’s often best solved recursively. Even though recursion is rare, it is...
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How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit
As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
4th Feb 2022
As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
Sometimes It Works...
Stuff to do when you’re not well
Stuff to do when you’re not well
Learn new stuff!
¶Stuff to do when you’re not well
Last week I was...
13th Nov 2017
Stuff to do when you’re not well
Learn new stuff!
¶Stuff to do when you’re not well
Last week I was sick with a cold. I was basically indoors for 5 straight days (one of those actually in bed all day). I was also unable to sleep for a couple of nights.
So I had a lot of extra...
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...
the singularity is...
you can never go back
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
That Funny Feeling
I was thinking today about a disc...
31st Aug 2025
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
That Funny Feeling
I was thinking today about a disc jockey. Like one in the 80s, where you actually had to put the records on the turntables to get the music. You move the information. You were the file system.
I like the Retro Game...
Basta’s Notes
No sacred masterpieces
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
15th Sep 2023
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
Steve Klabnik
Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve
16th Jun 2014
A small freedom area...
Hacking window titles to help OBS
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a
tiny project I wrote...
6th Jun 2023
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a
tiny project I wrote the other day, WTH, or WindowTitleHack, which is
meant to force a constant window name for apps that keep changing it (I'm
looking specifically at Firefox and Krita, but there are...
Engineer’s Codex
Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized,...
23rd Feb 2024
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
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...
Patrick Kayongo
The Fruitfulness of Grunt Work
I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS...
30th Apr 2024
I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS application, doing general maintenance work, which led me down an interesting rabbit hole. I could’ve used an online knowledge tool such as the various LLM-based tools available now. But...
Words and Buttons...
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
13th Oct 2019
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
Sedimental
Awesome Python Applications
What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software.
If you're reading...
20th Dec 2018
What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software.
If you're reading this (or hearing
this), you read and write code, probably
Python. And for all the code you've shipped, you've probably had your
share of missed requirements. Somehere in the...
These Yaks Ain't...
Running Pull Requests in Github Codespaces
Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working....
23rd Oct 2025
Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working. Dev Containers are the required way to enable Github Codespaces, which was my actual goal. I finally got to something that works, so I want to document what I learned.
Dev Containers...
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, WordPress
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It...
1st Feb 2021
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It transformed my career path and enabled me to do anything I wanted at every point in my journey. So why leave it now?
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,...
David Crawshaw
Fast compilers for fast programs
Fast compilers for fast programs
Compiler author incentives
Aside: languages get caught in the...
14th Apr 2019
Fast compilers for fast programs
Compiler author incentives
Aside: languages get caught in the middle
The "medium-sized project" moment
2019-04-14
Compiler authors face a tradeoff between compiler speed and executable speed.
Take longer to build a binary and you can build a...
Ferd.ca
My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist...
2nd Sep 2024
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere.
After launching my notes section, I had to...
Josh Collinsworth
AI optimism is a class privilege
Along the vast divide between AI optimists and pessimists, the main factor in determining which side...
3rd Dec 2025
Along the vast divide between AI optimists and pessimists, the main factor in determining which side you fall on may be where you see yourself in the future: above the effects of AI, or beneath them.
Liz Denys
Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
13th Apr 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
David Heinemeier...
Coding should be a vibe!
The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire...
13th May 2025
The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire project with AI — appears partly to be based on the fact that so many development environments are deeply unpleasant to work with.
So it's no wonder that all these programmers stuck...
Buttondown's blog
Winter update
Hey, it's been a while. We missed you!
2nd Dec 2018
Hey, it's been a while. We missed you!
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.
Buttondown's blog
March updates
We have lots of great new updates in store!
2nd Mar 2019
We have lots of great new updates in store!
Tinloof - Blog
How to make your own SplitPane React component with 0 dependencies
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that...
1st Jul 2019
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that separates them. Based on its layout, a SplitPane can be horizontal or vertical. If you've ever used the Chrome dev tools, you probably came across both versions of the SplitPane. For...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Eight-Part Barbershop Tag In Parallel Fifths
Experimenting with recording every part in a barbershop tag a perfect fifth higher to create jazzy...
14th Nov 2009
Experimenting with recording every part in a barbershop tag a perfect fifth higher to create jazzy chords.
Buttondown's blog
Send teasers of premium emails
Send teasers of premium emails
3rd Jun 2022
Send teasers of premium emails
Buttondown's blog
How Jeremy Singer-Vine uses Buttondown
Jeremy publishes Data Is Plural, a "weekly journal of useful/curious datasets" that uses Buttondown...
2nd Dec 2023
Jeremy publishes Data Is Plural, a "weekly journal of useful/curious datasets" that uses Buttondown to manage subscribers and send emails
Contraption Co.
Trivet adds Google sign-in to Ghost
A free, open-source project for blogs
3rd Jan 2026
A free, open-source project for blogs
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from...
7th Mar 2025
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from scratch is just around the corner, and the TypeScript track couldn’t be closer.
Marc Astbury
More People, Less Progress: The Startup Scaling Paradox
You go for a walk reflecting on how your startup is doing and you realize you’re moving slower with...
19th Oct 2025
You go for a walk reflecting on how your startup is doing and you realize you’re moving slower with 8 people than you were with 4. It makes no sense! You’ve hired smart people, you’ve written good documentation, you’re not burdening people with meetings. Yet somehow, adding more...
Making software...
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been...
13th Aug 2020
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I've officially switched back over to Jekyll. I'm not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I'll...
blag
Using uWSGI with Python 3
Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
18th Dec 2015
Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
Jordan Eldredge's...
Mac OS X keychain fix
How to fix a corrupt keychain file on Mac OS X
29th Oct 2007
How to fix a corrupt keychain file on Mac OS X
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...
Eric Bailey
The Importance of Heading Levels for Assistive Technology
22nd Oct 2018
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was...
28th Feb 2024
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was wounded and beaten back, he escaped. We’ll be trying again later this month. Happy coding.
Eric Bailey
I’ll Make an Exception Just for You: Using the Exception Comment to Help Maintain Mature,...
30th Oct 2015
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?
A Beautiful Site
GIF, JPEG or PNG? Using images on the web
This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on...
29th Apr 2007
This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on the Web, and how to use them effectively in your websites.
JPEG #
JPEG files are compressed images that maintain a balance of size versus quality. For example: More compression =...
orlp.net - Blog...
Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay
It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes
to AI: skeptic or...
2nd Feb 2025
It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes
to AI: skeptic or fanatic. The skeptic thinks AI sucks, that it’s overhyped, it
only ever parrots nonsense and it will all blow over soon. The fanatic thinks
general human-level intelligence is just...
TokyoDev
Freedom, Risk, and Protection: What Japan’s Freelance Act Really Means for Tech Workers
Japan’s freelance IT market is worth over 100 billion yen annually, with projected demand up nearly...
7th Oct 2025
Japan’s freelance IT market is worth over 100 billion yen annually, with projected demand up nearly 30% year-on-year and a projected shortfall of 600,000 tech workers by 2030. That demand creates opportunity, but it could also leave more people stuck in shaky employment...
The History of the...
Can Directories Rise Again?
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long...
21st May 2025
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory.
The post Can Directories Rise Again? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Language-Level Toll Roads
I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post....
5th Jul 2023
I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post. Maybe by the end of writing, I’ll have figured it out.
Deno recently launched their KV storage. Being a fan of deno, I looked at it with interest. Here’s a sample:
const kv =...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Workshopping
Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.
4th Mar 2021
Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.
Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
9th Nov 2022
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
Maggie Appleton
Assumed Audiences
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
8th Jan 2022
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
Tony Finch's blog
getentropy() vs RAND_bytes()
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months:
There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
1st Oct 2024
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months:
There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of
good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy()
which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting
cryptographically secure random...
Some Bits: Nelson's...
RIP AOL Dialup
America's most popular dial-up ISP is shutting down dial-up service
10th Aug 2025
America's most popular dial-up ISP is shutting down dial-up service
bt RSS Feed
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist
2021-11-03
This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
3rd Nov 2021
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist
2021-11-03
This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door…
I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website’s CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It’s pretty amazing to see the problems...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Drawing mandalas with JavaScript and canvas
Rewriting a PHP script from 2008 in JavaScript.
2nd Jan 2015
Rewriting a PHP script from 2008 in JavaScript.
Joel on Software
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free,...
18th Jun 2020
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
Jordan Eldredge's...
Podcasts I like
A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
14th Jul 2016
A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
Coding Horror
The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high:
1GB RAM
modern, fast dual core...
17th Feb 2019
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high:
1GB RAM
modern, fast dual core CPU
speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB
I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications.
We were...
Sedimental
Plugin Systems
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon
Comparative Plugin Systems...
11th Jul 2017
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon
Comparative Plugin Systems BoF.
Update: This BoF and post inspired [a talk I gave at PyGotham 2017][pygotham2017].
Within the programming world, and the Python ecosystem in particular,
there are a lot of...
blag
Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
10th May 2015
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
Joel Gascoigne
Crafting a support network
Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
3rd Jan 2021
Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
The Web Witch's Blog
The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade
Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about...
1st Nov 2024
Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about for years. In 2019, when I was still at Microsoft, I had been working with Greg Whitworth to start evangelizing the work that was being planned for <select>, as well as the Open...
Engineer’s Codex
Everyone is a Staff Engineer Now
Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.
22nd Dec 2025
Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.
Boot.dev Blog
7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is...
4th Jan 2022
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is focusing on Python best practices. It’s really important that your code is readable, testable, and maintainable. From picking good variable names, refactoring code that gets repeated...
The Codist
I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
15th Sep 2023
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
21st Sep 2022
Founder's blog
No, Wall Street, DeepSeek is not "far superior"
I mean, it is!
But the whole story about the stock market reacting to the news about DeepSeek V3...
30th Oct 2024
I mean, it is!
But the whole story about the stock market reacting to the news about DeepSeek V3 and R1 is a fine example of the knee-jerk nature of mass consciousness in the era of clickbait economics.
Briefly, by points:
No, DeepSeek isn’t “head and shoulders...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Using Machine Learning to Generate Winamp Skins
I used thousands of screenshots of Winamp skins and StyleGAN2 to train an ML model generate more...
7th Jul 2021
I used thousands of screenshots of Winamp skins and StyleGAN2 to train an ML model generate more Winamp skins.
Writing - Andreas...
The LLM productivity puzzle
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first...
22nd Jan 2023
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex,
Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see
people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
Sometimes It Works...
On AI doomerism
So what's going on?
This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed,...
20th Jan 2025
So what's going on?
This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed, by Flavio Copes.
"I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to be. You, on the other hand, have to try any passing bandwagon, because what else have you...
Words and Buttons...
Simple image vectorization
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
7th Mar 2019
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
9th Jun 2024
Brendan Gregg's Blog
No More Blue Fridays
In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve...
21st Jul 2024
In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code.
Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of the inherent dangers of kernel programming, and has been...
Steve Klabnik
You can't "turn off the borrow checker" in Rust
14th Sep 2018
Evan Jones -...
Advice on looking for a new software engineering job
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
18th Jan 2021
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
1st Aug 2024
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
Eric Bailey
Using personas in the Product Design Sprint
4th Mar 2020
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: June 2025
April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting. I'm still recovering from our trip to...
4th Jul 2025
April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting. I'm still recovering from our trip to Seattle at the end of April.
It turns out I never posted my draft covering the month of March and April, so I will attempt to cover the highlights. The excerpt above is from my...
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.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
11th Oct 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
The Web Witch's Blog
Web We Want Progress Update - November 2020
13 November 2020
We've been driving the Web We Want for over a year now, asking developers what they...
13th Nov 2020
13 November 2020
We've been driving the Web We Want for over a year now, asking developers what they think is missing from the web platform or DevTools.
Before COVID-19, we had run 9 WWW sessions at events with plans to do more. Behind the scenes we’ve been working out a plan on...
Confused bit
Simply explained: how does GPT work?
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
4th Mar 2023
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
Liz Denys
What's in, what's out, how it tells your story, and failing to parallel Hamilton's subversive...
Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric
On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an...
11th Aug 2016
Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric
On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an embarrassingly big grin - after all, I had just experienced Hamilton. Like many others, I'd listened to the soundtrack many times before even acquiring tickets to the musical, and I'd...
Marco.org
Retreating to Safety
Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
30th May 2025
Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community.
I wrote this in response:
Both Apple and Phil Schiller...
Buttondown's blog
Fancier exports
Fancier exports
15th Aug 2022
Jordan Eldredge's...
Video: Barbershop tag taught with hand signs
I recorded a video multitrack of a barbershop tag, showing all four parts in sol-feg hand signs.
14th Jun 2008
I recorded a video multitrack of a barbershop tag, showing all four parts in sol-feg hand signs.
James Vaughan's blog
How I Keep Up With Concerts
11th Nov 2019
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events
In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle...
2nd Nov 2022
In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle persons and events on PostHog. Today, after gathering…
the jsomers.net blog
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose...
18th May 2014
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example, or sport, or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know....
Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
27th Apr 2019
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014.
Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
The Web Witch's Blog
You look tired
"You look tired."
Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent...
5th Jun 2025
"You look tired."
Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent myself from throwing up, while needing to force myself eat every 2 hours despite not really exercising and needing to sleep for what seems like 12 hours a day all totaled up, and then...
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
Joel Gascoigne
Taking time to reflect
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It’s been a...
15th Oct 2011
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It’s been a while since my last blog post, and I’ve recently been pondering why
that may be.
It’s not that I’ve been doing less than when I was regularly blogging, it’s in
fact quite
David Crawshaw
Remembering the LAN
Remembering the LAN
How it was
How it is
A dream: How it will be
2020-01-28
A memory and a dream.
I...
28th Jan 2020
Remembering the LAN
How it was
How it is
A dream: How it will be
2020-01-28
A memory and a dream.
I started programming in the 1990s living above my parent's medical practice.
We had 15 PCs for the business, and one for me.
The standard OS was MS-DOS.
The network started off...
Irrational...
Culture vs systems.
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
3rd Feb 2023
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
David Heinemeier...
Omarchy is on the move
Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed...
5th Aug 2025
Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-to-Linux enthusiasts. We have about 3,500 early adopters on the Omarchy Discord, 250...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Apr 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I published How to host web apps on a Mac Mini, a follow-up to my piece A mini dat...
Buttondown's blog
Bang paths, source routing, and how email trips were planned
Turn by turn directions, for email
2nd Jan 2026
Turn by turn directions, for email
Chris Nicholas
A new blog for 2024
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024,...
2nd Jan 2024
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024, it’s time for a complete refresh.
Grant Slatton's Blog
Claude Code
Everything I know about how to use it, so far
11th May 2025
Everything I know about how to use it, so far
Eric Migicovsky's...
The time before YC
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company....
1st Sep 2019
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company. This is us (I'm on the right), just after we got…
A Smart Bear
Ho Rudolph
Rudolph claps back.
24th Dec 2013
Steve Klabnik
Protological Control: an introduction
13th Aug 2012
Nelson's Weblog
Proxmox
Proxmox is good software
for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that
lets...
18th Jan 2024
Proxmox is good software
for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that
lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It
also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high
availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
macwright.com
Recently
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big...
1st Feb 2023
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big update about Placemark.
Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little
breather and just do the usual: what’s new!
Reading
I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
Matt Keeter
Efficiently updating implicit in-order forests
3rd Jul 2023
The Web Witch's Blog
ChatGPT Atlas isn't competing against other browsers
“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words...
22nd Oct 2025
“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that's using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say...
charity.wtf
“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the...
17th Dec 2024
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal...
Charles Chen
Nuxt 3 with SSR on Google Cloud Firebase Functions (2023)
If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no...
13th Jun 2023
If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no further!
Blog System/5
The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as...
7th Oct 2024
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”. It's time to see how any of that carried over through the 16-bit to 64-bit evolution.
Sebastian Witowski
Creating Magic Functions in IPython - Part 1
IPython magic functions #
One of the cool features of IPython are magic functions - helper functions...
1st Feb 2019
IPython magic functions #
One of the cool features of IPython are magic functions - helper functions built into IPython. They can help you easily start an interactive debugger, create a macro, run a statement through a code profiler or measure its' execution time and do many more...
A Beautiful Site
On Buttons and Links
I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea...
6th Oct 2021
I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea to unravel it.
Unpopular opinion: in a design system, a "link" and a "button" should be one component.
— Cory LaViska (@claviska) October 5, 2021
At face value, I understand why...
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Pick Up What They Put Down
> Translations welcome! (Português)
1st Jan 2020
> Translations welcome! (Português)
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
9th Apr 2022
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
Evan Jones -...
gRPC is easy to misconfigure
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think...
14th Mar 2021
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is...
Evan Jones -...
How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput?
The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
16th Jul 2023
The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
On Life and Lisp
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power.
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
28th Mar 2021
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
Daniel Immke
Manifest V3’s foibles
Beyond the wailing and gnashing of teeth
4th Mar 2023
Beyond the wailing and gnashing of teeth
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - August 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Spent almost the...
1st Aug 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Spent almost the entire month traveling. It was great to be back in LA and Denver for a bit. - For coffee on the road, I...
macwright.com
Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites
Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been
a source of entertainment and knowledge for me....
30th Jul 2024
Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been
a source of entertainment and knowledge for me. I’ll poke around
in the Chrome DevTools and figure out the basics of
how popular websites work.
Sure, it’s common to compress JavaScript
and other resources, and the HTML source of...
David Gerrells
journey before destination
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
24th Feb 2021
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
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