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charity.wtf
The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...
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The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...
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TokyoDev
Asiajin Meetup Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what...
over a year ago
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Asiajin Meetup

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what is going on in the Japanese internet space. About 20 people participated, with over half the attendees being Japanese. This surprised me, as the blog's target is English speakers,...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
a year ago
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Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Upload (short story) My first attempt at bringing back the short story in ~30 years.
a year ago
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The Upload (short story)

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
My first attempt at bringing back the short story in ~30 years.
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Making software...
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and...
over a year ago
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won't go into the post's specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
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ByteofDev
Building the fastest object and array differ How I built Microdiff and how it is faster than most other object and array diffing libraries
over a year ago
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Building the fastest object and array differ

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
How I built Microdiff and how it is faster than most other object and array diffing libraries
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PostHog's RSS Feed
We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the...
a year ago
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We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
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PostHog's RSS Feed
10 things we've learned about pricing for SaaS startups Originally published in our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping...
over a year ago
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10 things we've learned about pricing for SaaS startups

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Originally published in our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
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Yale E360
RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold. I wasn't sure what I'd...
over a year ago
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RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold. I wasn't sure what I'd write this week for the RC week 10 recap, since it's a short week. This week I didn't get a whole lot of coding done, so it's time for the trope: the Thanksgiving post. Of course,...
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Joel Gascoigne
Making money with a product: A myth? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve realised...
over a year ago
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Making money with a product: A myth?

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve realised there was a time I didn’t believe people would pay for a product. In my mind, it was a myth. As an entrepreneur, it’s so vital to overcome that. First, a coffee shop conversation I
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Nelson's Weblog
Passkey authenticators for consumers (May 2023) After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a...
over a year ago
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Passkey authenticators for consumers (May 2023)

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a consumer. Here’s what I learned. If you want to try it yourself, passkeys.io is a nice demo server. Passkeys work a lot like passwords do today. You create a different passkey for...
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Confessions of a...
Live Session: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler Learn some CPython internals, ELF file format and loading, and how remote profilers work
a year ago
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Live Session: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Learn some CPython internals, ELF file format and loading, and how remote profilers work
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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...
over a year ago
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How to make your own SplitPane React component with 0 dependencies

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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...
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Josh Collinsworth
Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make...
a year ago
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Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make that decision, and why I may or may not stick with it.
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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...
10 months ago
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My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
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...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How I learned to love feedback loops (and make better products) I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my...
over a year ago
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How I learned to love feedback loops (and make better products)

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my first two projects as a Software Engineer at PostHog…
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg I’m a fan of what Ink & Switch is doing in regards to local-first web development. I’ve got a few...
a year ago
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Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I’m a fan of what Ink & Switch is doing in regards to local-first web development. I’ve got a few harebrained ideas myself I want to build. And I’ve written notes from a talk by Peter before. Which is all a preface for this set of notes from another talk by Peter. Here’s the talk...
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A Smart Bear
Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
a year ago
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Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
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David Heinemeier...
Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereignty The recent disconnection of the ICC's chief prosecutor, at the behest of the American...
a month ago
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Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereignty

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
The recent disconnection of the ICC's chief prosecutor, at the behest of the American administration, could not have come at a worse time for Microsoft. Just a month prior, the folks from Redmond tried to assure Europe that all was well. That any speculation Europeans could get...
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bt RSS Feed
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating...
10 months ago
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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The essential tools used by product engineers Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to...
over a year ago
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The essential tools used by product engineers

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to gather insights, ideate, and deploy solutions…
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Liz Denys
Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet...
over a year ago
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Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet someone new, and you're inevitably asking and being asked three questions: Where do you work? Where do you live? How much is your rent? Okay, you don't always encounter that last one,...
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Liz Denys
Where books travel i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen...
over a year ago
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Where books travel

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen years ago, but at a higher premium," and deeply internalize my physical constraints for the next six hours. A small box outlined by my seat, the side of the plane with its tiny...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam A design jam on Crosscut-related ideas.
over a year ago
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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A design jam on Crosscut-related ideas.
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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...
over a year ago
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Setting Up a Free SSL

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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...
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TokyoDev
Progress and Challenges: Reflections of a Working Mother in Japan The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey...
over a year ago
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Progress and Challenges: Reflections of a Working Mother in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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...
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Julia Evans
Some Go web dev notes I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not...
9 months ago
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Some Go web dev notes

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not ever see the light of day, but I learned a couple of things along the way I wanted to write down. Here they are: go 1.22 now has better routing I’ve never felt motivated to learn any...
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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...
over a year ago
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[Renovated] Estimating floating point error the easy way

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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.
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Ralph Ammer
Why study Philosophy? Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy?...
over a year ago
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Why study Philosophy?

from Ralph Ammer [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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On Test Automation
Dialing down on LinkedIn Aahh… LinkedIn. I’ve been struggling with the platform for years. One the one hand, I’ve made some...
9 months ago
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Dialing down on LinkedIn

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
Aahh… LinkedIn. I’ve been struggling with the platform for years. One the one hand, I’ve made some great connections on there, and it has helped me tremendously in increasing my visibility, or, as I sometimes put it, as a platform for shameless self-promotion. On the other hand,...
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Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
7 months ago
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Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
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Epic Web Dev
Server Components (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip) Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different...
a month ago
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Server Components (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different approaches, and trade-offs.
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Keep a React component mounted The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is...
over a year ago
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Keep a React component mounted

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is remount management. Some portions of the UI can be hidden or shown — sidebars, drop-down menus, modals and draggable widgets are all prominent examples. The basic React pattern for...
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Steve Klabnik
Book review: New Programmer's Survival Manual
over a year ago
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Book review: New Programmer's Survival Manual

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over a year ago
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Ruud van Asseldonk
Global Game Jam 2015
over a year ago
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Global Game Jam 2015

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Two-factor authentication and account recovery The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and...
over a year ago
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: Two-factor authentication and account recovery

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and account recovery: Two-factor authentication and account recovery Last time we talked about strong passwords, but what if there was a better way to secure your account? We look at options...
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macwright.com
A shortcut for bash using tt by () I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new...
a year ago
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A shortcut for bash using tt by ()

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new temporary directory, moving into that, and creating a short-lived project. Finally I automated that and have been actually using the automation: I wrote this tiny zsh function...
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bt RSS Feed
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
over a year ago
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
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David Crawshaw
Compiler Bomb main[-1u]={1}; codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-compiler-bomb/69193#69193
over a year ago
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Compiler Bomb

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
main[-1u]={1}; codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-compiler-bomb/69193#69193
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 The short version: porting from Vue...
a year ago
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Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 The short version: porting from Vue to Svelte is pretty straightforward and Svelte 5 is nice upgrade to Svelte 4. Why port? I’m working on Edna, a note taking application for developers. It started as a...
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Steve Klabnik
Devise: ActionController::RoutingError (No Route Matches [GET] /users/sign_out)
over a year ago
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Devise: ActionController::RoutingError (No Route Matches [GET] /users/sign_out)

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
over a year ago
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Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022)

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
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alexwlchan
The Star-Spangled Ballad In an hour or so, Hannah Waddingham will take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and present this...
a year ago
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The Star-Spangled Ballad

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In an hour or so, Hannah Waddingham will take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and present this year’s Olivier Awards. I won’t be there, but a number of dear friends are in the audience, and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for Operation Mincemeat – a musical with which we...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.23.0 In this edition of the PostHog Array: Release 1.23 is out, and our 🔥 new PostHog.com homepage is...
over a year ago
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Array 1.23.0

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In this edition of the PostHog Array: Release 1.23 is out, and our 🔥 new PostHog.com homepage is live - amazing work from PostHoggers Cory, Lottie…
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Daniel Marino
My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
over a year ago
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My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
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Blog of Simple...
Simple Analytics: Privacy-first website analytics
over a year ago
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Simple Analytics: Privacy-first website analytics

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over a year ago
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and...
over a year ago
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Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set

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over a year ago
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and well. I'm not some crazy old fuck who thinks AngularJS is a promising new technology. Nor have I been waiting to publish this post for 3 years. It's just how things turned up for me....
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Blog of Simple...
Google loses key antitrust case
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Google loses key antitrust case

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General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
a year ago
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The Mythical Non-Roboticist

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a year ago
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
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Ink & Switch
Patchwork 06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
a year ago
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Patchwork 06 · Simple branching

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a year ago
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
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davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 6–10
6 months ago
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Advent of Code 2024: Days 6–10

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Liz Denys
Switching to Pelican Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances....
over a year ago
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Switching to Pelican

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Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances. To simplify my life, I decided to unify them into one content management system instead of keeping that somewhat unwieldly mess around. I had never really put a lot of thought into...
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bt RSS Feed
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
over a year ago
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Text Align: Justify

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over a year ago
Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
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David Heinemeier...
X marks the motivated reasoning I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down...
a year ago
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X marks the motivated reasoning

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a year ago
I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down by now. Scarcely a month goes by without some action triggering the incessant bells of doom, ringing from the bellies of bloviating ding dongs. And the ringing seemingly never stops...
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Liz Denys
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
over a year ago
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gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing

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over a year ago
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly March 2024
a year ago
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Privacy Monthly March 2024

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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
over a year ago
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How to Reverse Interview Investors

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I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
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A small freedom area...
Improving color quantization heuristics In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was improved in FFmpeg in order...
over a year ago
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Improving color quantization heuristics

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over a year ago
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was improved in FFmpeg in order to make nice animated GIF files. For some reason, to this day this is one of my most popular article. As time passed, my experience with colors grew and I ended up being...
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Evan Jones -...
Network Latencies in the Data Center Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
over a year ago
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Network Latencies in the Data Center

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over a year ago
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
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Sometimes It Works...
What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that… What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that...
over a year ago
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What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that…

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over a year ago
What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that forced big tech (and others eventually) to come to us for our data instead of just handing it to them on a plate? If we could do that, then we’d stand to benefit the most from it,...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Proving that every program halts One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely...
2 weeks ago
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Proving that every program halts

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2 weeks ago
One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely thought[1] that you cannot write a program that will, for any arbitrary program as input, tell you correctly whether or not it will terminate. This is written from the framing of...
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Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple...
over a year ago
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Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse

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over a year ago
EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple ELT contract - You handle the Extract phase, it handles the Load, and exposes a standard UI for you to do dynamic Transforms.
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David Crawshaw
2015-12-27 www.insidemetaladditivemanufacturing.com/blog/design-for-slm-topology-optimisation-of-metallic-struc...
over a year ago
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2015-12-27

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over a year ago
www.insidemetaladditivemanufacturing.com/blog/design-for-slm-topology-optimisation-of-metallic-structural-nodes-in-architecture-applications
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Epic Web Dev
Check if Custom Fonts are Properly Loaded in Your App (tip) Learn how to use DevTools to check if the correct font is being applied to your app and troubleshoot...
over a year ago
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Check if Custom Fonts are Properly Loaded in Your App (tip)

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over a year ago
Learn how to use DevTools to check if the correct font is being applied to your app and troubleshoot issues related to loading custom fonts.
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10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain 10 Principles I Learned
over a year ago
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10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain

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over a year ago
10 Principles I Learned
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Irrational...
ReadME contribution on reliability programs. I was excited to contribute an article, Move past incident response to reliability to Github’s The...
over a year ago
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ReadME contribution on reliability programs.

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over a year ago
I was excited to contribute an article, Move past incident response to reliability to Github’s The ReadME project. This topic was particularly on my mind when I wrote it towards the end of last year, when I was focused on my Infrastructure Engineering project. That project is a...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials...
2 months ago
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You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point

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2 months ago
In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials of stolen Nazi riches stored in the local salt mine. Eventually, the Americans found the mine and began exploring it, ending up at a vaulted door. Here’s the story, as told by Greg...
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Irrational...
Physics and perception. At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite...
a year ago
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Physics and perception.

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a year ago
At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite civil war. The conflict was driven by one group’s belief that Java should replace Ruby. Java would, they posited, address the ongoing challenge of delivering a quality platform in...
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MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
over a year ago
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Fungible tokens: payment flows

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over a year ago
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Steve Klabnik
Trolling is a art
over a year ago
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Trolling is a art

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over a year ago
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Tests or Types: Why Not Both? _Published on CSS Tricks as [Types or Tests: Why Not...
over a year ago
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Tests or Types: Why Not Both?

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over a year ago
_Published on CSS Tricks as [Types or Tests: Why Not Both?](https://css-tricks.com/types-or-tests-why-not-both/)_
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Charles Chen
Google Firebase with dotnet6 Find out why Google Firebase is a great platform for application development with .NET 6
over a year ago
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Google Firebase with dotnet6

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over a year ago
Find out why Google Firebase is a great platform for application development with .NET 6
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Posts on Nikita...
Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
a year ago
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Handmade Seattle 2023

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a year ago
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
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Sometimes It Works...
How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac ¶How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP...
over a year ago
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How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac

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over a year ago
How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac ¶How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac Yes, I use MAMP. Sue me (please don’t sue me). It’s actually a pretty good stack for standard web dev and I’ve found that it works fine for most of my needs, even with...
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David Crawshaw
2014-04-18 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
over a year ago
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2014-04-18

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over a year ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
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David Heinemeier...
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift...
a year ago
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Open source is neither a community nor a democracy

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a year ago
Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no...
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Steve Klabnik
Emoji licensing
over a year ago
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Emoji licensing

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over a year ago
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alexwlchan
Generating art from lattice graphs A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the...
over a year ago
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Generating art from lattice graphs

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over a year ago
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the Proms. While I was on the train home, I had an idea for a fun art project. I sketched it out on a napkin, got it working, posted a few pictures on Twitter, then put it down. On Saturday I was...
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Liz Denys
The Patriarchy as an otherworldly patron As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I...
over a year ago
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The Patriarchy as an otherworldly patron

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over a year ago
As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I feel that such figments of the imagination are well suited for becoming otherworldly patrons for Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks, so we created a variant otherworldly patron for the...
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David Heinemeier...
You're not guaranteed a spot on the team I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously...
a year ago
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You're not guaranteed a spot on the team

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a year ago
I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously not true, and it's usually cynically invoked by management to entice an undue obligation of sacrifice. Implying that you should give it all to The Company -- constantly working...
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Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of...
a year ago
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Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI

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a year ago
We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of unicorns for key cities.
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alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
a year ago
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Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step…

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a year ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
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Blog System/5
Demystifying secure NFS My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and...
8 months ago
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Demystifying secure NFS

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8 months ago
My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and various Linux and FreeBSD clients.
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Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
over a year ago
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Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship

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over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
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Eric Bailey
A year at GitHub I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its...
a year ago
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A year at GitHub

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a year ago
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its design system. The hope here is that the work done there eventually makes its way to the site itself. It still feels surreal to have this job. I still vividly remember learning that...
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A Smart Bear
Brittle Points: How to make companies robust Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for...
7 months ago
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Brittle Points: How to make companies robust

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7 months ago
Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.
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Blog of Simple...
The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water
4 months ago
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The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water

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4 months ago
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TokyoDev
Visas for Software Engineers in Japan Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in...
over a year ago
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Visas for Software Engineers in Japan

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over a year ago
Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) is relatively easy compared to other countries. It costs a company almost nothing to sponsor your visa, there aren't any quotas on the number of visas issued, and the...
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: September 2023
a year ago
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Privacy Monthly: September 2023

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a year ago
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2023 The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me...
a year ago
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Name that Ware, August 2023

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a year ago
The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me several wonderful photos, and the whole thing is actually pretty neat to look at. However, for better or for worse the parts in the ware are so unique that most of them resolve to an...
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Liz Denys
Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced...
over a year ago
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Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry

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over a year ago
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
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macwright.com
Recently Reading I don’t think you should focus on the failure of others, or even the success of others. What...
a year ago
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Recently

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a year ago
Reading I don’t think you should focus on the failure of others, or even the success of others. What you do need to do—and what is surprisingly hard—is to define success for your own part of the world, and work towards that. Non-monetary success, because again, money lags. I’ve...
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Jibran’s Perspective
State machines - Why and how to use them in web development. What is a state machine? I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine. A...
over a year ago
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State machines - Why and how to use them in web development.

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over a year ago
What is a state machine? I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine. A finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: automata), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract...
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Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: deterritorialization
over a year ago
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Deleuze for developers: deterritorialization

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over a year ago
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware November, 2022 The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most...
over a year ago
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Name that Ware November, 2022

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over a year ago
The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most sensitive analog traces; I would love it if someone could teach me why the soldermask is removed for these guard rings. I imagine there must be some motivation to retain this motif...
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A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
over a year ago
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Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual

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over a year ago
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
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37signals Dev
Mission Control — Jobs As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a...
a year ago
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Mission Control — Jobs

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a year ago
As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a dashboard and set of extensions to operate and observe background jobs, that we’ve been using for over a year, in the beginning with Resque only, and later with both Resque and...
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Maggie Appleton
Programmable Notes Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
over a year ago
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Programmable Notes

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over a year ago
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
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Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2 Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
a year ago
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State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2

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a year ago
Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
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macwright.com
On Placemark Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really...
over a year ago
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On Placemark

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over a year ago
Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really given an update on Placemark, the product and business, in a while. Writing about an operating business is a different thing that writing feature announcements or essays about...
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EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
6 months ago
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Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
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Liz Denys
Sometimes, the outside is inside Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
over a year ago
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Sometimes, the outside is inside

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over a year ago
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
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Vadim Kravcenko
Managing difficult software engineers In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every...
a year ago
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Managing difficult software engineers

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a year ago
In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every project, every failure, and […] The post Managing difficult software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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bt RSS Feed
Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
over a year ago
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Plain Text Emails, Please

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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...
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Steve Klabnik
Beware subclassing Ruby core classes
over a year ago
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Beware subclassing Ruby core classes

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over a year ago
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Tinloof - Blog
How to dynamically create a sitemap with Sanity and Remix In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and...
over a year ago
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How to dynamically create a sitemap with Sanity and Remix

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and Remix. We’ll learn by following an existing example of a sitemap built for Heavybit’s website, a San Francisco-based VC whose website is built with both technologies. Remix is a React...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines

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over a year ago
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
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Steve Klabnik
Against Names
11 months ago
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Against Names

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11 months ago
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Ink & Switch
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
a year ago
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Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans

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a year ago
Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
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blag
Recurse Center Day 9: Papers We Love I learnt a few things about Dynamo
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 9: Papers We Love

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over a year ago
I learnt a few things about Dynamo
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from “An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture” by Devine... I am interested in computers as a way to do more than consume. That’s how Devine starts their talk...
a year ago
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Notes from “An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture” by Devine LuLinvega

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a year ago
I am interested in computers as a way to do more than consume. That’s how Devine starts their talk from Strangeloop. I’ve linked to them before, as they have an interesting perspective on computing in the 21st century (given, in part, their environment of living on a boat). I...
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37signals Dev
Demo of page refreshes with morphing We published a demo showing how Page Refreshes with morphing work in Turbo 8: Comparing code...
a year ago
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Demo of page refreshes with morphing

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a year ago
We published a demo showing how Page Refreshes with morphing work in Turbo 8: Comparing code helps a lot in software discussions, so I thought it would be valuable to show how the new feature compares to Turbo stream actions for performing partial updates and broadcasts....
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Epic Web Dev
Implicit Assertions (article) Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
a year ago
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Implicit Assertions (article)

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a year ago
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
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Yale E360
The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong. With...
a year ago
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The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong. With great logs, you can see what your application is doing. And without them? Things can be broken left and right without you ever finding out. Instead, you wonder why your customers...
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Sometimes It Works...
Stop. Now. Stop. Now. ¶Stop. Now. Stop sharing little bits of junk about your life on social media. Stop...
over a year ago
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Stop. Now.

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Stop. Now. ¶Stop. Now. Stop sharing little bits of junk about your life on social media. Stop reposting other people’s junk. Get your ideas clear in your head and write them down properly, in full and beautiful prose. Take the time to be creative and make something that’s worth a...
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bt RSS Feed
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
over a year ago
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn’t the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Can we useRef, but without the .current? Let's try! Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've...
over a year ago
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Can we useRef, but without the .current? Let's try!

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've used it instead of useState to optimize re-renders. But typing ref.current over and over is just annoying. Come on, Vladimir, startX.current is just the same as this.startX in a...
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2023 The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware!...
a year ago
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Name that Ware, December 2023

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a year ago
The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware! Unfortunately this image does have an exact hit on Google images, as it is already in Cedric’s social media feed — but I think the ware itself is functionally interesting, yet simple...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.24.0 Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP...
over a year ago
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Array 1.24.0

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP 🏆 This release cycle's Community MVP goes to…
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Maggie Appleton
Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
over a year ago
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Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
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Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
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Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers

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over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life: Content warning: abuse, rape Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
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A Beautiful Site
Icon Finder: an awesome search engine for icons I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything...
over a year ago
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Icon Finder: an awesome search engine for icons

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over a year ago
I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything about it. If you're a web designer or developer who always has use for quality icons — especially ones with GPL or similar licenses — this is the website for you. It's essentially a...
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Irrational...
Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping. The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of...
6 months ago
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Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
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...
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Maggie Appleton
Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place Mary Douglas defined dirt as matter out of place – the crossing of boundaries
over a year ago
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Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place

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over a year ago
Mary Douglas defined dirt as matter out of place – the crossing of boundaries
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In

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over a year ago
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
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A Beautiful Site
The next version of PHP may very well be 7 We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact,...
over a year ago
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The next version of PHP may very well be 7

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over a year ago
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact, the project was so plagued with problems that in 2010, it was abandoned. It almost felt like PHP would be perpetually stuck at version 5. Except now there's talk about another major...
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Evan Jones -...
Postgres large sub-string query performance Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on...
over a year ago
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Postgres large sub-string query performance

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on large variable-length strings. I wanted to check if sub-string queries might be faster than HSTORE or JSONB key lookups. I tested both binary (BYTEA) and Unicode text (TEXT)....
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A Smart Bear
How to select your first marketing channel When you're brand new, how do you select your first marketing channel?
4 months ago
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How to select your first marketing channel

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4 months ago
When you're brand new, how do you select your first marketing channel?
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Alex Meub
Upgrading the Weber Q Grill I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up...
over a year ago
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Upgrading the Weber Q Grill

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over a year ago
I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up to a 15 lb propane tank at home where it gets regular use. It is small, but it heats up quickly and cooks food better than any other grill I’ve tried. However, I recently noticed...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components: An Example In my article on HTML web components, I said: But the unique power of web components (in the...
a year ago
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HTML Web Components: An Example

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a year ago
In my article on HTML web components, I said: But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React components cannot do this — full stop. There’s a lot in there I wanted to explain more in-depth, but I just never go to it. Then...
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A Beautiful Site
Smaller volume increments in macOS Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You...
over a year ago
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Smaller volume increments in macOS

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over a year ago
Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You already know you can increase and decrease your Mac's volume with the keyboard, but sometimes the intervals are a bit too much. I usually end up adjusting my external speakers just to...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
2025-06-25 Wed: Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and...
2 weeks ago
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2025-06-25 Wed: Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup

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2 weeks ago
In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and files on disk. This allows editing files in dev tools and having those changes saved to a file, which is handy. Early in 2025 they’ve added a way to automatically configure this...
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Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to...
over a year ago
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Like anything else, we need to practice startups

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * 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...
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Making software...
Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
over a year ago
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Open Source Typeface Pairings

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over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I've...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.8.0 What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If...
over a year ago
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Array 1.8.0

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over a year ago
What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If you're self hosting and want these features - update…
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A Better Way to Get Data > Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
over a year ago
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A Better Way to Get Data

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over a year ago
> Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
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Steve Klabnik
How to not rely on rubygems.org for development
over a year ago
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How to not rely on rubygems.org for development

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over a year ago
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A Beautiful Site
Downloading a list of URLs automatically I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to...
over a year ago
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Downloading a list of URLs automatically

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over a year ago
I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to the bucket — I only had a list of URLs. There were too many to fetch one by one, so I wanted to fetch them automatically. Here are a couple ways I found to do that. Using curl # Curl...
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Liz Denys
Hardbrücke, Zürich The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite...
over a year ago
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Hardbrücke, Zürich

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite a captivating neighborhood. It's literally quite colorful, and home to Freitag's flagship store.
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Contraption Co.
Having a TJ The importance of a passionate first customer
8 months ago
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Having a TJ

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8 months ago
The importance of a passionate first customer
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Quentin Santos
Linux always toggles DTR & RTS In my previous article, I explained how Arduino makes the life of its users easier by automatically...
2 months ago
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Linux always toggles DTR & RTS

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2 months ago
In my previous article, I explained how Arduino makes the life of its users easier by automatically resetting the board when the UART pin DTR (or RTS) transitions from electrically high to low. This exploits the fact that this transition happens automatically when someone or...
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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...
over a year ago
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A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed

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over a year ago
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...
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Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
over a year ago
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Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
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David Crawshaw
2016-01-04 typedef int (*WTF[1])[x = x * 77]; twitter.com/whitequark/status/683692712374190081
over a year ago
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2016-01-04

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over a year ago
typedef int (*WTF[1])[x = x * 77]; twitter.com/whitequark/status/683692712374190081
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Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't write Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most...
a year ago
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Don't write

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a year ago
Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most people. We don’t need more good quality, niche, carefully crafted content. So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, a Substack, a Twitter account or something similar, please know...
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Making software...
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts

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over a year ago
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it's relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
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A Day In The Life...
A comprehensive list of failed projects A comprehensive list of failed projects
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A comprehensive list of failed projects

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over a year ago
A comprehensive list of failed projects
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Yale E360
A confusing lifetime error related to Rust's lifetime elision Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while...
over a year ago
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A confusing lifetime error related to Rust's lifetime elision

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over a year ago
Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while working on my Lox interpreter. It took me a little while to figure out, and it's an instructive situation. Here's a reduced-down version of what I was working on. It's an interpreter,...
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Vadim Kravcenko
As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed? First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the...
a year ago
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As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed?

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a year ago
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the process of product development, feeling […] The post As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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blag
Recurse Center Day 10: Learning Distributed Systems How does one start learning to build distributed systems?
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Recurse Center Day 10: Learning Distributed Systems

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over a year ago
How does one start learning to build distributed systems?
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The Changelog
Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them This is a complex tale I will attempt to make simple(ish). I’ve (re)learned more than I cared to...
over a year ago
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Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them

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over a year ago
This is a complex tale I will attempt to make simple(ish). I’ve (re)learned more than I cared to about the details of pipes, signals, and certain system calls – and the solution is still elusive. For some time now, I have been using NNCP to back up my files. These backups are...
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Darek Kay
Style your RSS feed RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech...
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Style your RSS feed

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over a year ago
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech users. However, many people do not know what RSS feeds are or how to use them. Most browsers render RSS as raw XML files, which doesn't help users understand what it's all about: In...
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Words and Buttons...
A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
a year ago
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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of

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a year ago
An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
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markround.com
AmigaGuide Reference Library As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k...
a week ago
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AmigaGuide Reference Library

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a week ago
As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k branch for the gory details and my total noob-like C flailing around), I’ve made heavy use of documentation in the AmigaGuide format. Despite it’s age, it’s a great Amiga-native...
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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...
2 months ago
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How to filter out old email from inbox

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2 months ago
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...
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Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 million ARR - July update
a year ago
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Road to 1 million ARR - July update

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a year ago
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eventually consistent plain text accounting .title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past...
8 months ago
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Eventually consistent plain text accounting

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8 months ago
.title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past six months, I’ve tracked my money with hledger—a plain text double-entry accounting system written in Haskell. It’s been surprisingly painless. My previous attempts to pick up...
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Irrational...
How to integrate Stripe's acquisition of Index? (2018) While discussions around acquisitions often focus on technical diligence and deciding whether to...
4 months ago
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How to integrate Stripe's acquisition of Index? (2018)

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4 months ago
While discussions around acquisitions often focus on technical diligence and deciding whether to make the acquisition, the integration that follows afterwards can be even more complex. There are few irreversible trapdoor decisions in engineering, but decisions made early in an...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Shortcodes vs MDX Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
over a year ago
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Shortcodes vs MDX

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over a year ago
Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
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Making software...
Never Do Spec Work for Free Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let...
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Never Do Spec Work for Free

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over a year ago
Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let me say that again for the people in the back: your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Time is the most precious commodity we have as human beings, so never waste...
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somenice
Post-Twitter Every so often I’m motivated to move my online content in-house. With todays purchase of Twitter my...
over a year ago
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Post-Twitter

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over a year ago
Every so often I’m motivated to move my online content in-house. With todays purchase of Twitter my intent to “own” my content has been renewed. I’m going to clean up my old Feedly RSS subscriptions and try posting here a bit more frequently.You can subscribe if you like –...
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Eric Bailey
Free idea: design token ugly mode A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every...
a year ago
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Free idea: design token ugly mode

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a year ago
A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every other page or view. It’s just good design. Smaller, newer experiences tend to be more uniform than not. This makes sense in that the bulk of the experience is created at the same...
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Steve Klabnik
Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
over a year ago
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Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?

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over a year ago
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A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
over a year ago
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The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method

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over a year ago
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
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David Crawshaw
Atom Feed
over a year ago
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Atom Feed

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over a year ago
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Epic Web Dev
Automatic Browser Request Cancellation (tip) Discover how automatic browser request cancellation works and its implications for web development.
a year ago
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Automatic Browser Request Cancellation (tip)

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a year ago
Discover how automatic browser request cancellation works and its implications for web development.
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TokyoDev
There’s No Place Like Home: Finding an Apartment in Japan What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor...
10 months ago
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There’s No Place Like Home: Finding an Apartment in Japan

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10 months ago
What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor give a moving-in quote of 600,000 yen for an apartment that costs 80,000 yen a month to rent? Why does my apartment not have lights, curtains, or even a stove? Am I getting ripped...
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Cognitive...
Uncensored Models I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
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Uncensored Models

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over a year ago
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
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Yale E360
Personnel update This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt...
9 months ago
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Personnel update

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9 months ago
This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt coldly impersonal for such a deeply personal event, so I imagined what it would be like if the same approach were taken to other deeply personal events. * * * Subject: Personnel...
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A Smart Bear
The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but...
over a year ago
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The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager

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over a year ago
According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
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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...
5 months ago
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Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps

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5 months ago
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...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Snapshot At the end of Phase 2 of our “Ongoing Ink” project, we shared a handful of small progress reports.
a year ago
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Snapshot

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a year ago
At the end of Phase 2 of our “Ongoing Ink” project, we shared a handful of small progress reports.
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Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
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Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev

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over a year ago
wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for...
over a year ago
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Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition

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over a year ago
It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for Hacktoberfest again. I am in the middle of buying…
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Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
over a year ago
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The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

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over a year ago
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
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Ink & Switch
Ambsheets 02 · Filtering scenarios Using spreadsheet formulas to choose scenarios to focus on
4 months ago
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Ambsheets 02 · Filtering scenarios

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4 months ago
Using spreadsheet formulas to choose scenarios to focus on
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still...
3 months ago
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Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures

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3 months ago
Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still being simple and intuitive?
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Miguel Carranza
Technical debt isn't evil Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the...
over a year ago
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Technical debt isn't evil

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over a year ago
Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. There are multiple interpretations of what technical debt is, but I am going to focus on the financial debt metaphor. Like financial debt, technical debt is something...
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Irrational...
Layers of context. Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each...
a year ago
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Layers of context.

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a year ago
Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each time he suggested an approach, his team agreed with him, but his peers in the organization disagreed and pushed back. He wanted advice on why his peers kept undermining his...
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Making software...
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side...
over a year ago
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Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer

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over a year ago
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I'm writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
over a year ago
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Getting Closure on React Hooks

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over a year ago
Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
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Maggie Appleton
Speaking the GraphQL Query Language Illustrated notes on the basics of the GraphQL query language
over a year ago
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Speaking the GraphQL Query Language

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over a year ago
Illustrated notes on the basics of the GraphQL query language
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
over a year ago
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How I write blog posts every month

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over a year ago
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write one…
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Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
a year ago
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Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect

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a year ago
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy. I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy, and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
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HTMHell
Preventing form submission with zero Javascript Want to trigger an action? Use a button element. They’re great. Want to also prevent form submission...
over a year ago
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Preventing form submission with zero Javascript

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over a year ago
Want to trigger an action? Use a button element. They’re great. Want to also prevent form submission when someone clicks that button? Put down the JavaScript, friend. I have a better suggestion: <button type="button"> Button action goes here </button> And that’s it! No ...
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Maggie Appleton
How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different? Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
over a year ago
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How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

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over a year ago
Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
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Alex Meub
Building the DataToaster 3000 Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local...
9 months ago
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Building the DataToaster 3000

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9 months ago
Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local computer recycling store. The idea of a computer with the design of a home appliance was really appealing and so was the absurdity of it. It occurred to me that this would be a fun...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Estimating projects sells them short (and that's okay) Recently, I read a blog post about doing software project estimates. It's a reasonable post with a...
6 months ago
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Estimating projects sells them short (and that's okay)

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
Recently, I read a blog post about doing software project estimates. It's a reasonable post with a reasonable method. But it does what all estimates do: it sells projects short. I don't mean in the sense of underestimating a young promising project's potential, relegating it to...
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Blog of Simple...
Web analytics for publishers
11 months ago
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Web analytics for publishers

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11 months ago
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Joel Gascoigne
Raising funding as a first-time founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
over a year ago
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Raising funding as a first-time founder

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I can really feel the passion and determination...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Found-Money Startups 'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
over a year ago
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Found-Money Startups

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over a year ago
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
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alexwlchan
A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian &rarr; I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed...
over a year ago
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A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian &rarr;

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over a year ago
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too. To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin. When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
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Steve Klabnik
Ember.js and accessibility
over a year ago
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Ember.js and accessibility

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over a year ago
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The Pragmatic...
An explosion in software engineers using AI coding tools? GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the...
over a year ago
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An explosion in software engineers using AI coding tools?

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over a year ago
GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the results and add context on how the survey was conducted.
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David Heinemeier...
Air purifiers are a simple answer to allergies I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many...
4 months ago
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Air purifiers are a simple answer to allergies

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4 months ago
I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many miserable days in the throes of sneezing, headache, and runny eyes. I tried everything the doctors recommended for relief. About a million different types of medicine, several bouts...
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Tinloof - Blog
How to create an accessible React modal A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the...
over a year ago
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How to create an accessible React modal

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the user can’t interact with the rest of the application. Creating a modal in React is fairly easy. There are dozens of resources that explain how to do so, including the React...
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Epic Web Dev
Text and Image Clipping Effects (tip)
a year ago
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Text and Image Clipping Effects (tip)

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a year ago
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Coding Horror
Let's Talk About The American Dream A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of...
4 months ago
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Let's Talk About The American Dream

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4 months ago
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Frontend filters & backend SQL - A chat with Eric Duong, Sam Winslow, James Greenhill, and Buddy... By: Engineering @ PostHog Eric: I'll just do it on my computer, upload it, and then toss it later....
over a year ago
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Frontend filters & backend SQL - A chat with Eric Duong, Sam Winslow, James Greenhill, and Buddy Williams

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
By: Engineering @ PostHog Eric: I'll just do it on my computer, upload it, and then toss it later. Cool. I guess actually, a good way to start would…
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on The Psychology of Money A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral...
over a year ago
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Notes on The Psychology of Money

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral finance
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Making software...
Chasing Performance Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
over a year ago
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Chasing Performance

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over a year ago
Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I'm keeping this article up as a point of reference. So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag's Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
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blag
Accepted to the Recurse Center! I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
over a year ago
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Accepted to the Recurse Center!

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over a year ago
I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
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Stephen Wolfram...
When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation Updated and expanded from a post for the eclipse of August 21, 2017. Preparing for April 8, 2024 On...
a year ago
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When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation

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a year ago
Updated and expanded from a post for the eclipse of August 21, 2017. Preparing for April 8, 2024 On April 8, 2024, there’s going to be a total eclipse of the Sun visible on a line across the US. But when exactly will the eclipse occur at a given location? Being able to predict...
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Liz Denys
The 'doing good' framework: a manifesto against saying 'good people' and 'bad people' I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I...
over a year ago
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The 'doing good' framework: a manifesto against saying 'good people' and 'bad people'

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I grew up with, Boy Meets World. The main characters, who've now come of age, speak with the teacher that has been with them through every phase of their educations and lives: Mr....
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
2025-06-21 Sat: Thoughts on C/C++ killer There are several programming languages that are “better C/C++”: zig, odin, jai, D. The problem is...
3 weeks ago
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2025-06-21 Sat: Thoughts on C/C++ killer

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
There are several programming languages that are “better C/C++”: zig, odin, jai, D. The problem is adoption: it’s hard to break from all the code already written in C/C++. It’s too expensive to rewrite large code bases in new language. My idea on how to improve adoption: perfect...
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Eric Bailey
SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them
over a year ago
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SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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Tony Finch's blog
C is Turing complete Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing...
11 months ago
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C is Turing complete

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

11 months ago
Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing complete. The consensus in the StackOverflow question is, no, because the C abstract machine is a (large) finite state machine, or maybe yes, if you believe that unaddressable local...
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Julia Evans
New zine: How Git Works! Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It...
a year ago
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New zine: How Git Works!

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, or get an 14-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table...
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Words and Buttons...
Yet another alternative to floating point numbers This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input...
over a year ago
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Yet another alternative to floating point numbers

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input error but keep computational error under control as well.
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HTMHell
The hidden depths of the input element by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the...
a year ago
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The hidden depths of the input element

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the same way regardless of their attributes, the type attribute of the <input> element can take 1 of 22 different values that gives it not only different behaviour, but a different...
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Ink & Switch
Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of...
6 months ago
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Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev

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6 months ago
A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of version control for game dev.
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A Beautiful Site
Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript....
over a year ago
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Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript. Sometimes, you'd write the same code in two or three different ways to support various browsers. Code such as that shown below allowed webpages to work in browsers like Netscape...
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A Smart Bear
The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good"...
a year ago
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The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good" when they really mean "No, I'm not buying."
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A Beautiful Site
Web Components Are Not the Future — They’re the Present It’s disappointing that some of the most outspoken individuals against Web Components are framework...
9 months ago
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Web Components Are Not the Future — They’re the Present

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9 months ago
It’s disappointing that some of the most outspoken individuals against Web Components are framework maintainers. These individuals are, after all, in some of the best positions to provide valuable feedback. They have a lot of great ideas! Alas, there’s little incentive for them...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023 The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware December 2023

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
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Irrational...
Advancing the industry. Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious...
a year ago
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Advancing the industry.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious opportunity and paid more, I took it. As I got further, and my personal obligations grew, I started to think about navigating a 40-year career, where a given job might value pace...
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Engineer’s Codex
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
a year ago
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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

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a year ago
Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
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A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple...
over a year ago
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Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple dimensions to evaluate, even when those dimensions cannot be compared to each other. People often reach for the “rubric” for such puzzles, but rubrics often do not clearly identify a...
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Liz Denys
Sea strands V60-style coffee cone, 2024 Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
a year ago
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Sea strands V60-style coffee cone, 2024

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
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The Changelog
O, Sunlight! “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in...
over a year ago
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O, Sunlight!

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in this world, much hope, much life. All we need to do is pause, breathe, and take a moment to see it. It might be as simple as the gift of sunlight. I hope you all have … Continue...
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A Beautiful Site
Redirecting to and from the www subdomain with .htaccess Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to...
over a year ago
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Redirecting to and from the www subdomain with .htaccess

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to example.com or vice versa.  There are a number of similar methods out there, but I prefer these as you don't need to modify anything between development and production. #...
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Patrick Kayongo
Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
over a year ago
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Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
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Yale E360
Making progress on side projects with content-driven development It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the...
10 months ago
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Making progress on side projects with content-driven development

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the bright future of the project. Then somewhere in the middle, we get stuck in lists of tasks to do, a long way in and still a long way from the finish line. This happens to me as much as...
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Eric Bailey
These three links spell out a big uh oh for where things are headed when placed in context with each... Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal - 404 Media Thread by...
11 months ago
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These three links spell out a big uh oh for where things are headed when placed in context with each other

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

11 months ago
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal - 404 Media Thread by stillorangecrushed - Thread Reader App AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense - Nature
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Irrational...
Friction isn't velocity. When you’re driving a car down a road, you might get a bit stuffy and decide to roll your windows...
a year ago
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Friction isn't velocity.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
When you’re driving a car down a road, you might get a bit stuffy and decide to roll your windows down. The air will flow in, the wind will get louder, and the sensation of moving will intensify. Your engine will start working a bit harder–and louder–to maintain the same...
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charity.wtf
The Cost Crisis in Observability Tooling Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on January 24th, 2024 The cost of services is on everybody’s...
a year ago
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The Cost Crisis in Observability Tooling

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on January 24th, 2024 The cost of services is on everybody’s mind right now, with interest rates rising, economic growth slowing, and organizational budgets increasingly feeling the pinch. But I hear a special edge in people’s voices when...
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bt RSS Feed
CSS Character Unit CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
over a year ago
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CSS Character Unit

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
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bt RSS Feed
Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
over a year ago
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
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A Smart Bear
The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
over a year ago
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The "Talk vs Walk" framework

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over a year ago
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
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Josh Comeau's blog
Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator” In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do...
over a year ago
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Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator”

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
OOP for FP lovers: Simplistic Dependency Injection With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the...
over a year ago
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OOP for FP lovers: Simplistic Dependency Injection

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the concepts whose names remind us of object-orientation. We throw constructors, methods and classes out of the window because they seem to smell of bank cubicles, water coolers and...
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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 ...
over a year ago
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What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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 ...
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Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
a year ago
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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
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MMapped blog
When Rust hurts
over a year ago
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When Rust hurts

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over a year ago
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Epic Web Dev
How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
a year ago
22

How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster

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a year ago
Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
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A Smart Bear
"ROI" is the wrong way to sell your product Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't...
a year ago
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"ROI" is the wrong way to sell your product

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a year ago
Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't convince them. Here's what to do instead.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
over a year ago
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
over a year ago
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Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips

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over a year ago
I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
a year ago
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A case for stacked patches 📚

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, git@vger.kernel.org Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
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HTMHell
Reading the meter The <meter> element is a little known and rarely used semantic element. It's a non-interactive form...
over a year ago
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Reading the meter

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The <meter> element is a little known and rarely used semantic element. It's a non-interactive form element that renders as a partially filled horizontal bar. Browsers provide user-agent styles, but the <meter> element can also be styled. <meter min="10" max="200"...
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Yale E360
Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control...
over a year ago
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Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control Performance Modeling" by Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey, and Miron Livny. It was 46 pages, and I had a little trouble finding the whole paper—many of the Google Scholar links had...
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Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
over a year ago
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SIGCSE 2018 notes

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric design to...
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A Beautiful Site
Lessons from a failed Kickstarter Last week, I launched Particle on Kickstarter. Today, I pulled the plug and canceled the campaign....
over a year ago
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Lessons from a failed Kickstarter

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over a year ago
Last week, I launched Particle on Kickstarter. Today, I pulled the plug and canceled the campaign. We had 50 backers and were 5% funded. So why would I do this with 25 days left to go? The fact is, this campaign failed before it started, and it was all my fault. I became so...
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Josh Collinsworth
Let's Learn CSS Variables! CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
over a year ago
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Let's Learn CSS Variables!

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over a year ago
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
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The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for...
over a year ago
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The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets

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over a year ago
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance...
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Making software...
Billing for One CSS Change Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed...
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Billing for One CSS Change

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over a year ago
Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed back to the client. A simple button color change? Bill them. Additional links added to an existing menu? Send that invoice over. Some basic typeface changes? Don't do it for...
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Confessions of a...
Recording: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler Yesterday, we did the live session on the internals of remote sampling profilers.
a year ago
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Recording: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler

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a year ago
Yesterday, we did the live session on the internals of remote sampling profilers.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some...
a year ago
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Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason

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a year ago
I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some of my highlighted excerpts and notes. It’s always hard reading a book like this because I highlight so much and have so many thoughts that I could spend hours and hours rehashing...
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alexwlchan
Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example,...
over a year ago
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Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule

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over a year ago
At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example, we have a staging version of our website, where we test new changes before they’re deployed to the live site. We’re only making changes during UK office hours, so running the...
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Alex Meub
Indeterminate Checkboxes While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can...
over a year ago
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Indeterminate Checkboxes

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over a year ago
While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can actually have up to four different visual states: checked, unchecked, disabled and indeterminate. What is indeterminate? It’s defined by the W3C this way: If the element’s...
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Blog - Bitfield...
Slow, flaky, and failing Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and...
5 months ago
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Slow, flaky, and failing

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5 months ago
Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and dangerous: one day it might fail for real, and you won’t notice. Here’s what to do.
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A Smart Bear
The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren't fallacies A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
8 months ago
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The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren't fallacies

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8 months ago
A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
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The Product-Market Fit Game In a startup, the only objective that matters before you have product-market fit, is finding ...
over a year ago
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The Product-Market Fit Game

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over a year ago
In a startup, the only objective that matters before you have product-market fit, is finding product-market fit. Knowing when you've found it…
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Using Novela by Narative (updated) With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
over a year ago
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Using Novela by Narative (updated)

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over a year ago
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
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Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
over a year ago
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We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May

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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
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Steve Klabnik
Goals for 2011
over a year ago
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Goals for 2011

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over a year ago
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A small freedom area...
Figuring out round, floor and ceil with integer division Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to make it bit-exact....
over a year ago
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Figuring out round, floor and ceil with integer division

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over a year ago
Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to make it bit-exact. Preserving the precision as best as possible was way more challenging than I initially though, which forced me to go deep down the rabbit hole. During the process I realized I had...
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Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
over a year ago
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Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse

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over a year ago
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
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The Computer History Museum YouTube Channel I have been enjoying the CHM's YouTube Channel.
over a year ago
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The Computer History Museum YouTube Channel

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over a year ago
I have been enjoying the CHM's YouTube Channel.
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davidyat.es
Review: The Lost Room
a year ago
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Review: The Lost Room

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a year ago
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Blog of Simple...
How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level
5 months ago
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How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level

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5 months ago
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Alex Meub
Material Rewards for Motivation Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term...
over a year ago
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Material Rewards for Motivation

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over a year ago
Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term goals. This isn’t a new idea but I’ve found it to be really helpful in keeping me on track and giving me that extra push to follow through on my goals. Set SMART Goals In order to...
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Josh Comeau's blog
Making Sense of React Server Components This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official...
a year ago
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Making Sense of React Server Components

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a year ago
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial,...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink deformation You can think of informal ink as a superset of formal ink: it starts out with less structure, but...
a year ago
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink deformation

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a year ago
You can think of informal ink as a superset of formal ink: it starts out with less structure, but structure can be added over time, by the sketcher or the system.
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Tony Finch's blog
BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be...
a year ago
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BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices

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a year ago
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be useful in my previous blog posts, but which some readers might find informative. Some of them I learned the hard way, so I hope I can make it easier for others! contents of key...
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Quentin Santos
The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
a week ago
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The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit

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a week ago
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
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Making software...
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software...
over a year ago
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Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software

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over a year ago
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software has no business in any school environment. Educational institutions lean heavily on Windows systems in the name of "security" or "easier platform management". This approach forces...
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Steve Klabnik
Porting steveklabnik.com to Workers Sites and Zola
over a year ago
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Porting steveklabnik.com to Workers Sites and Zola

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over a year ago
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Nerding out about heaters Keeping warm in the winter
a month ago
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Nerding out about heaters

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a month ago
Keeping warm in the winter
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Basta’s Notes
Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
over a year ago
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Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza

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over a year ago
A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
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ByteofDev
The 6 JavaScript Projects to watch in 2023 We look over some of the JavaScript projects to watch in 2023.
over a year ago
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The 6 JavaScript Projects to watch in 2023

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over a year ago
We look over some of the JavaScript projects to watch in 2023.
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Founder's blog
Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver...
over a year ago
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Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database

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over a year ago
Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver bullet The problem Our SaaS is powered by a huge multi terabyte "multi tenant" relational database cluster. Some tables are more than 200 GB - this is crazy, to be honest. And for the...
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Making software...
Faking 3D Elements with CSS Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
over a year ago
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS

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over a year ago
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...
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
over a year ago
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts

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over a year ago
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Errors Aren’t All Bad Adam Silver wrote “Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit” which...
a year ago
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Errors Aren’t All Bad

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a year ago
Adam Silver wrote “Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit” which seems like one of those obvious things that needn’t be said, but I’m glad he says it. Have you heard of the “error prevention” heuristic? It means “do everything you can so users...
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Alex Meub
Craigslist Alerts with Python I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously...
over a year ago
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Craigslist Alerts with Python

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over a year ago
I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive. I wanted a simple way to be alerted immediately when an item I was looking for was posted. Craigslist Search Alerts I tried using Craigslist’s built in Search Alert...
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Eric Bailey
Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars In the spirit of “everything old is new again,” browsers are once again supporting the ability to...
over a year ago
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Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars

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over a year ago
In the spirit of “everything old is new again,” browsers are once again supporting the ability to style the scrollbar. Much like custom CSS mouse cursors, I feel this is also a mistake. When you style things on the web, you get control over almost the entire experience. From ten...
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JAMstack for Indie Hackers _This article was [published on Indie...
over a year ago
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JAMstack for Indie Hackers

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over a year ago
_This article was [published on Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/jamstack-for-indie-hackers-b07f7a943d)!_
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Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
over a year ago
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Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer

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over a year ago
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
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Blog of Simple...
Google Settles in $5B Incognito Mode Lawsuit
a year ago
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Google Settles in $5B Incognito Mode Lawsuit

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a year ago
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alexwlchan
Upward assignment in Ruby Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it...
over a year ago
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Upward assignment in Ruby

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over a year ago
Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it added rightward assignment (4 => x). Then at RubyConf 2021, Kevin Kuchta explained how to abuse Ruby features to build a downward assignment operator (yes, this really...
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Notes on RSI for Developers I'm starting to feel some RSI in my left hand. It's a matter of time. I decided to collect some...
over a year ago
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Notes on RSI for Developers

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over a year ago
I'm starting to feel some RSI in my left hand. It's a matter of time. I decided to collect some information about it to make improvements now rather than later.
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Perspectives June 2024
a year ago
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Privacy Perspectives June 2024

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a year ago
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood...
a year ago
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LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers

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a year ago
I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood out: For the best [prompt] results, combine: Domain knowledge of the thing you're working on Understanding how the models work Intuition gained from playing around with them a lot I am...
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Oxide Computer...
Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees),...
2 months ago
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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?

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2 months ago
How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees), and we knew that we needed many more people to execute on our audacious vision. While we had had success hiring in our personal networks, those networks now felt tapped; we needed...
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tonsky.me
Logo: Squint Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is...
11 months ago
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Logo: Squint

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11 months ago
Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is that when you squint, it still looks like CLJS”.
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Array 1.43.0: Massive performance improvements! Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
over a year ago
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Array 1.43.0: Massive performance improvements!

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over a year ago
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Need to update a self-hosted instance…
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Ink & Switch
2024 Unconf Los Angeles Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
8 months ago
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2024 Unconf Los Angeles

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8 months ago
Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
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Maggie Appleton
Paleolithic Nostalgia Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
over a year ago
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Paleolithic Nostalgia

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over a year ago
Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
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Eric Bailey
How to make an ineffective 404 page 404 pages are what a server will show you if you request something that isn’t there. Another way to...
over a year ago
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How to make an ineffective 404 page

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over a year ago
404 pages are what a server will show you if you request something that isn’t there. Another way to say this: 404s are a last-ditch effort to help visitors get what they want if a webpage isn’t there anymore. There’s plenty of articles out there about how to make entertaining,...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on ShopTalk Show #605 Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all...
a year ago
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My Guest Appearance on ShopTalk Show #605

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a year ago
Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all things web. The conversation was fun and casual, mostly around topics I’ve written about recently — which is good, since those are topics I should (presumably) be able to speak on at...
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David Heinemeier...
The curing value of creation It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a...
a year ago
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The curing value of creation

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a year ago
It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a product, an organization, or a community, or all three at once. Like exercise, it's one of those rare avenues of human endeavor that almost invariably will make anyone feel better....
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Max Countryman
Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can...
over a year ago
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Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It

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over a year ago
Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can dramatically improve your odds of hiring exceptional software engineers.
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Marco.org
Retreating to Safety Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
a month ago
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Retreating to Safety

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a month ago
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...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools After reading an article, I ended up on HackerNews and stumbled on this comment: The most...
2 months ago
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Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
After reading an article, I ended up on HackerNews and stumbled on this comment: The most frustrating thing about dipping in to the FE is that it seems like literally everything is deprecated. Lol, so true. From the same comment, here’s a description of a day in the life of a...
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Irrational...
Executive
a year ago
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Executive

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
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A Beautiful Site
Cory's amazing dot paper In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in...
over a year ago
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Cory's amazing dot paper

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in my corner holding this old fashioned pencil and a stack of dot paper. Sorry, but for me, these primitive tools do the same thing and I find them easier to use. I don't know. I guess...
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Eric Bailey
Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size
11 months ago
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Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size

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11 months ago
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Vadim Kravcenko
Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return Question: Answer: The post Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
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Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Question: Answer: The post Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Making software...
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux...
a year ago
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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It's been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it's nice to use...
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