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Steve Klabnik
The secret to Rails OO design
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Books I can remember 📚 The best part of reading is forgetting. This is why I struggle with book reviews—it’s hard to...
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📚 The best part of reading is forgetting. This is why I struggle with book reviews—it’s hard to know how valuable a book is until later. But sometimes you find yourself declaiming a book’s key point long after you’ve forgotten most of it. That’s when you know a book is...
Hixie's Natural Log
Deciding which bugs to fix Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it...
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a year ago
Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it makes the most sense to optimize for people-happiness per unit bug fixing time, maximizing how much our effort improves the product for our users. To put it in mathematical...
beep.blog
.io considered harmful The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
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a year ago
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
A Smart Bear
You can have two Big Things, but not three No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
What is a Superset (in programming?) (article) Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency,...
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Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
Max Countryman
Data for Decisions Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our...
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a year ago
Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our businesses. That said, the value of data is rarely the data itself but instead the insights we derive from it. In order to ensure these insights are meaningful and impactful it's...
A Beautiful Site
Why You Should Prefix Custom Events Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event...
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over a year ago
Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event must also contain a dash. This removes all ambiguity between native events and custom events. Therefore, I prefix all custom events in Shoelace with sl-. It may seem contradictory...
A Smart Bear
Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy...
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People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy customers, even when you mess up.
ntietz.com blog -...
Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An...
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2 months ago
We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An election just finished in the US, which means that half the country lost and has to face the coming changes. In particular, this is a scary time for many folks who have been targets in...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is user segmentation? User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it mean? In this article we'll explain what user…
David Heinemeier...
Be less precious The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best...
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10 months ago
The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best to couch employee performance feedback in overly gentle language, you end up confusing the message, and cheating the recipient out of the clarity they desperately need to improve –...
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three months Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago (...
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over a year ago
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).
Joel Gascoigne
Why you should continue working on your bad idea * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are...
Making software...
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
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over a year ago
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
Jibran’s Perspective
My knowledge management system This is a follow-up on my previous notes about Zettelkasten; Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a follow-up on my previous notes about Zettelkasten; Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box. Since then, I’ve had a chance to read and think more about the problems I listed out with trying to adapt a Zettelkasten style slip box for my knowledge management system. I’ve...
Acko.net
On Headaches and Aspirin "A computer is an educational device. It is in fact a direct reflection of your own imagination,...
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over a year ago
"A computer is an educational device. It is in fact a direct reflection of your own imagination, your own intelligence. Once you're given the freedom in which to create things and see the immediate response on the screen, then it becomes a very enjoyable experience. You go on to...
Confessions of a...
Substack has Failed Indian Creators Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the...
6 months ago
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Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the problems I (and many other Indian writers) have faced in monetizing their writing on Substack, even after being here for years, bringing in thousands of new readers and producing...
Quentin Santos
On-Die ECC This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory....
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This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory. So, I looked around for DDR5 ECC memory. Surprisingly, DDR5 memory sticks that mentioned ECC was not significantly more expensive than other DDR5 memory sticks. Sometimes, they were...
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” Turns out, this is incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If you have an incorrect model, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here...
alexwlchan
My custom <picture> plugin for Jekyll About seven months ago, I did a complete rewrite of how I handle images on this site. It’s working...
a year ago
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a year ago
About seven months ago, I did a complete rewrite of how I handle images on this site. It’s working well and nothing seems to have broken, so I thought it might be good to explain what I’m doing. For readers: I want images to load quickly and look good. That means looking sharp on...
A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
a year ago
Kagi Blog
Introducing the Kagi Family Plan We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the power of Kagi Search together.
Nelson's Weblog
Class action employment suits Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to the plaintiffs, suing your employer is a difficult and stressful thing. But while the $118M headline looks big it works out to only $7600 per employee, less after the lawyers'...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Humble Link I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is...
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4 months ago
I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is revealing itself: an acronym which merely drops letters. The Next Big Thing™ is clearly going to be “A”. 2010: Everyone needs an "API" 2020: Everyone needs "AI" 2030: Everyone needs...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.35.0: Introducing SAML, world map view and new plugins PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are coming from with the World Map. Additionally we now support organization-level SAML login on both Cloud and Self-Hosted instances. Plus check out your Project Homepage for a few...
Joel Gascoigne
Raising funding as a first-time founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
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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...
Acko.net
React - The Missing Parts Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a popular library's patterns is that you can experiment with all sorts of changes. In my case, I have a React-clone, Live, which includes all the familiar basics: props, state and...
A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App. If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
Steve Klabnik
SF
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Dreams come true > Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David...
over a year ago
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> Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David Thoreau [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau] I can distinctly remember that for the month of December in 2010, and for much of January 2011, I did a lot of dreaming.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Manifest V3’s foibles You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need...
a year ago
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a year ago
You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need to know: Google has been developing a new…
Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Screen Readers (article) Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough....
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Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough. Create genuinely accessible web apps that work for everyone
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prompting the Wrong Question So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so...
2 months ago
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So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so I ask AI, “Hey, this piece of code is not working in Safari, what’s wrong?” The issue might be related to how Safari handles keyboard events, especially for certain keys… It gives...
Charles Chen
React is the New IBM You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get...
a year ago
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a year ago
You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and joyless every step of the way.
PostHog's RSS Feed
We just made PostHog Open Source 1000x more scalable via ClickHouse We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few weeks, our team have been hard at work moving over…
Alice GG
Plaid Layoffs and beyond Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my termination agreement, which makes this week my last week as part of Plaid’s infrastructure team. Kelly Sikkema Moving forward While being laid off and having to leave a very talented...
Max Countryman
Is Deno Ready for Primetime? Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin...
a year ago
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a year ago
Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin TypeScript and a support for existing Node modules. However when it comes to using it in a real application, does it live up to its promises?
Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
11 months ago
On Test Automation
First things first - automate the execution of your tests “Well, it works on my machine” I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in...
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2 months ago
“Well, it works on my machine” I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in our career, and we all roll our eyes at them in response. It clearly doesn’t work on your machine… We would do well to apply that exact same philosophy of ‘it shouldn’t just run on...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Group Analytics is now available in PostHog Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale /...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale / Enterprise users and those on PostHog Cloud…
samwho.dev
API Design: Optional Parameters When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases. There are good ways and bad ways of doing it, and this post is going to explore them. › Guiding principles API design is hard. A good API needs to be: Easy to change without...
Paolo Amoroso's...
How to build Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[Although online access to Medley Interlisp is convenient and prebuilt binaries are...
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<![CDATA[Although online access to Medley Interlisp is convenient and prebuilt binaries are available for all major operating system, it's also possible to compile it from source. I first built Medley from source when I wanted to run it on my Raspberry Pi 400 and no ARM64...
Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Keyboard (article) Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all...
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Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all users, including those using assistive technologies.
Cognitive...
GPT-4's rebuttal to Uncensored Models I asked GPT-4 to respond to my previous article "Uncensored Models" because it is more likely to...
a year ago
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a year ago
I asked GPT-4 to respond to my previous article "Uncensored Models" because it is more likely to provide civil discourse rather than the shrill demagoguery that my human opponents have tended to employ. I found it interesting and both sides have validity. But my argument is...
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Supervised Learning: Computational Learning Theory What's the big O of machine learning? Lets put some formal theory around HOW we learn!
over a year ago
orlp.net - Blog...
Taming Floating-Point Sums Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them. You might naively think...
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Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them. You might naively think you can simply add them, e.g. in Rust: fn naive_sum(arr: &[f32]) -> f32 { let mut out = 0.0; for x in arr { out += *x; } out } This however can easily...
Irrational...
Building your executive network. In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along...
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In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along well with your manager, your peers’ perspective will usually be closer to yours than your manager’s. Once you transition into an engineering executive role, you’ll still have peers,...
Steve Klabnik
I'm quitting Hacker News
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
What does it mean to be an RCU implementation? The other day, Paul McKenney posted an article on LiveJournal about different flavours of RCU,...
a year ago
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a year ago
The other day, Paul McKenney posted an article on LiveJournal about different flavours of RCU, prompted by a question about couple of Rust RCU crates. (There are a few comments about it on LWN.) McKenney goes on to propose an RCU classification system based on the API an...
TokyoDev
Tech Meetups in Tokyo Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into...
a year ago
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a year ago
Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into attending tech meetups. Tech meetups are events held online and offline, and attending them is a great way to form connections and establish yourself in the tech community. It...
Steve Klabnik
A break with the past
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Five things I've learned about taking risks I had a cush job at a university with great benefits, decent pay, and normal hours. Five years ago,...
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I had a cush job at a university with great benefits, decent pay, and normal hours. Five years ago, I took a risk and gave it all up to start a company. Here are the five most important lessons I've learned about risk-taking. 1. There are good risks and bad risks # People that...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Four It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three...
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over a year ago
It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three years of my journey as a first-time technical founder. 2021 was not an exception, and my role as RevenueCat’s CTO kept evolving quite a lot. As expected, my job did not get any...
Max Countryman
Three Years to Shake Your Head There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the...
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There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the shakuhachi, "It takes three years to learn to shake your head." This is in reference to the difficulty of mastering even seemingly simple techniques. The only way around this is to...
ntietz.com blog
Where is the source code for ping? Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to deepen my knowledge of networks. I'm just going for a super basic utility here, nothing fancy, not even all the features of ping. But since the language is new to me and my...
The Changelog
For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a...
a year ago
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Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a PCMCIA slot, or, heck, sound. Nowadays, mostly new hardware means things get a bit faster or less crashy, or I have some more space for files. It’s good and useful, but sorta… meh....
ntietz.com blog
The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices for statement terminators. . is very appealing, or !. Ultimately, I might make the "boring" choice of using either ; or significant whitespace. But that had me asking: why is it...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Docker Deployment Best Practices Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use...
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Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use self-hosted gitlab.Goal: Both initial and subsequent automated deployments to different environments (staging and production). Rejected ApproachesMost existing blog articles and...
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
over a year ago
Marco.org
Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
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over a year ago
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him. But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world. He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
Renegade Otter
I am not your Cloud person Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Our simpler goal: Help engineers to be better at product One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We...
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One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We simplified our strategy recently. This post…
A Beautiful Site
Hashing Passwords with Node.js and bcrypt The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're...
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The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're coming from a PHP background, these are roughly equivalent to password_hash() and password_verify(). Bcrypt is the de facto way to hash and store passwords. For a brief explanation of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on 'Metaphysics and JavaScript' _[Slides...
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_[Slides here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_aeM_UkwS9qaSzHDz87zC9bmtvbuLbPof7RnN96SJKE/edit?usp=sharing)_
swyx's site RSS Feed
Learn In Public The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
I used to think you don't need product people. I was wrong. When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii)...
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over a year ago
When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii) talk to customers. Hiring a product person felt…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Iterative Building and Decision Making Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This...
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Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This decision is much easier to make if you’ve been traveling that road for the last hour and you’re sitting there in your truck facing the reality of the decision. You can see the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Embeds and Quotations in Writing Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and quotations in my writing. A lot of my blogging is quoting other people. I remember debating the use of social embeds on my blog because I quoted a lot of things on Twitter. But I...
Chris Nicholas
How to use Sandpack for code demos Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every...
over a year ago
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Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every JavaScript framework.
Vadim Kravcenko
Getting your Idea to the MVP This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Getting your Idea to the MVP appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
the singularity is...
the tiny corp raised $5.1M Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank. What is the tiny corp? The...
a year ago
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Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank. What is the tiny corp? The tiny corp is a computer company. We sell computers for more than they cost to make; I’ve been thinking about this one for a while. In the limit, it’s a chip company, but there’s a...
Cognitive...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
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With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
The Pragmatic...
Google Domains to shut down The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t...
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The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t notify customers just yet. When could this happen, and why is Google silent?
Code Of Honor
HandmadeCon 2015 interview transcript In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey...
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In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey Muratori about game development. The event included five speakers: Tommy Refenes, Mike Acton, Jonathan Blow, Ron Gilbert, and myself. The event was hosted at the Seattle Public Library,...
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Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
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You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website. Scroll to a specific element # Here's how to...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search features *New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and...
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*New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and May 23 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements ).
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Let's Make Software Better My previous post, a classic rant, how-bad-software-is-these-days kind, attracted unexpected and...
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My previous post, a classic rant, how-bad-software-is-these-days kind, attracted unexpected and probably even unreasonable attention. This time I'm in for something different — I'm going to preach. Behold, and open your eyes, and open your hearts, and open your minds, as I am...
bt RSS Feed
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn’t mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
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Array 1.15.0 Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has...
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Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has the largest changelog to date, with 175 PRs merged…
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Writing summaries is more important than reading more books One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries...
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One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next book on your list. Reading is not about page count or...
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Announcing the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint...
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I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint a picture of what life is like for international developers here, both to help people considering making the move here, and also for those already living here to better understand...
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Adobe Firefly Express (beta) whatever “Text to Image” takes the old Colab Notebooks to a new refined level.However it’s still easy to cherry-pick “good” images for every 10 mediocre or just plain wrong images. Don’t trust the robots. PEACE. T.AKE IT IT ELASY! * All images...
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I'm sure you can chain promises with doBefore().then(() => doAfter()) and even run multiple promises in parallel using Promise.any. However, chaining an unknown count of homogenous promises is trickier. Let me teach you to serialze promises like a pro! Suppose we want a list of...
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In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is creating a centralized process to curate technical changes: Curate technology change using architecture reviews, investment strategies, and a structured process for adopting new tools....
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Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go. The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
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NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
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2018: A year in review It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I...
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It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I didn’t, as well as what I can do better next…
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I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software engineer’s life. Not only […] The post Database Migrations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
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Super Easy Automated Scraping with AWS Amplify A tutorial on data scraping with AWS Amplify
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Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
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Array 1.14.0 Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of...
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Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of interviews with users and had a lot of discussions with…
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If I actually wrote about XOXO 2018 last weekend like I had intended to do, I would have tried to write an article titled "XOXO strives to be what the internet should strive to be," and I probably would have never finished it. It's not that I don't still think XOXO tries to be...
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In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot CMS, Webflow, and similar tools, to a headless CMS setup.
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Google Shutting down Firebase Dynamic Links Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS,...
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Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS, Android, and the web. Now after 7 years, Google is shutting down this product. But why? I asked the Big Tech giant for details.
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key values at Buffer [http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter, not...
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Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
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Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very often, but you can set multiple background images on a single element. Example: .element { background: url('image_path') center repeat, linear-gradient(transparent 0%, #000...
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Building accessible toggle buttons (with examples for Svelte, Vue, and React) Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them...
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Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them right, for all users, in any (or no) framework.
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Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes, [Eric Ries](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/). While talking to him, I realized one of the pitfalls of [the...
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Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in...
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The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.
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Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
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Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
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Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel...
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The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to…
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Programming is fun I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about...
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I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about writing and teaching Go. Here’s a transcript of our chat.
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I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s great and has been working well for me. Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games (?) and then acquired...
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No matter how much I run, or how much I lift weights, it never gets easier. There's always a part of me that wants to stop, and there's always another part of me fighting to push through. This is how I deal with that internal battle.
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor’s suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
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Winning from the back - late mover advantage We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to...
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We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
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Some not-so-secrets of my kitchen I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some...
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I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some of the secrets of my kitchen. Actually, they're not so secret to anyone who's had a peek around my kitchen. Oven thermometer(s) For about five dollars, you can ensure your cookies...
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The Beginning of Infinity It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just...
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It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just look up. There are a hundred billion stars in a hundred billion galaxies (that we know of!). What are we but a spec of dust? And don'
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Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users...
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The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users who get confused when events of the same name are emitted from different components. Take <sl-details>, <sl-dialog>, and <sl-dropdown>, for example. They all emit sl-show and...
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How to split equity fairly between founders? It’s easy to think of equity as being valuable in and of itself, but that’s not exactly true. Equity...
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It’s easy to think of equity as being valuable in and of itself, but that’s not exactly true. Equity is […] The post How to split equity fairly between founders? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Summer reading list 2024 Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or...
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Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or be useful at a fundamental level.
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Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I've become obsessed with trying to see what I can create using only HTML and CSS (besides websites of course). Since playing with the concept of faking 3D elements, I wanted to circle back around to an older CodePen I...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
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Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed checkout clerk, you...
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Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed checkout clerk, you soon realize that half the patrons leave without actually checking out their books! This leaves everyone else scratching their heads when the catalog doesn’t match the shelves....
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As a Postgres reliability consultant and SRE, I’ve spent many hours being a rubber duck. Now I outperform even the incisive bath toy. “Rubber duck debugging” is a widespread, tongue-in-cheek term for the practice of explaining, out-loud, a difficult problem that you’re stumped...
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Supporting macOS Mojave’s Dark Mode on the web macOS Mojave adds a Dark Mode for native apps that makes you look approximately 78 percent cooler...
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macOS Mojave adds a Dark Mode for native apps that makes you look approximately 78 percent cooler when using the computer. In Safari Technology Preview 68, it’s now available on webpages too! Here’s how I added support to this website. Download video Using the...
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Why we go on international retreats 3 times a year with our startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most exciting parts of the culture we’ve developed at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] for me is our international retreats. It’s also potentially something we’ve not shared that much...
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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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In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I used to build the TNFS site. In this (much shorter) part, I’d like to take a step back from the hardcore geekery, and wrap up with my thoughts on the whole thing. Other Sites But...
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In software engineering, there are two principles that often come into conflict. The first one is the principal of least surprise. The second one is doing the right thing. These come into conflict when the usual thing that people do is in fact the wrong thing. A particular...
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As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin their morning song earlier into the fourth watch of the night, calling the sun to come out to play; as new flowering greens shoot out of chronic brown branches; urban nature dances to...
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Reactions to my post on cancelling the Replit subscription <![CDATA[A few days ago I blogged on why I cancelled my paid plan to Replit. It was a short...
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<![CDATA[A few days ago I blogged on why I cancelled my paid plan to Replit. It was a short personal note to record my decision as I often do to document my experiences with tools and products, possibly of interest to the few dozen regulars per day who read my blog. A day on...
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When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not 5’4” Google, please take this misinformation seriously before you end up in a very large libel suit. This is not on a site you are linking to, this is first party misinformation...
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Fuck It, We'll Do It Live How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time...
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How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time internals are implemented, which drive Use.GPU. Some pre-existing React and FP effect knowledge is useful. I have written about Live before, but in general terms. You may therefor have...
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on...
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don't style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
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All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
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Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
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The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
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The Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination: My Experience Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country....
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Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country. I started studying the Japanese language and began to wonder what it would take for me to move there and work as a software developer. While still at university, I had an...
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Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
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A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
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Should we cool it with the historical present? On podcasts it's pretty common to hear something like this: So Alexander Hamilton has just finished...
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On podcasts it's pretty common to hear something like this: So Alexander Hamilton has just finished law school, and he's trying to make a name for himself. He's only been in New York a few years. So he takes on this case... The problem with the past tense ("Hamilton had just...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eternal shell history 🐢 XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
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XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash history: $ wc -l < ~/.muh_history 763075 My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history. $...
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Let It Fail I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I...
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I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
TokyoDev
Living with a disability in Japan This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last...
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This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last 16 years. Even though I do not have a mobility disability, I have also included notes about mobility accessibility because I also have some awareness of those through relatives. I...
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
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If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
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Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling...
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Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling and implementing my own custom dropdowns far more often than I’d like. So, I recently created a very simple and clean component using just pure CSS. Check out the CodePen below...
Greg Brockman
Stellar board I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their...
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I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their board. Digital currencies are still nascent, and my hopes for them remain unchanged. Particularly, we need digital currency protocols like Stellar that work with the existing...
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But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
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Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
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My Common Lisp setup on Linux <![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment...
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<![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment too. But to code in Common Lisp also on my Crostini Linux system, the Linux container of chromeOS I use on a Chromebox, I'm setting up a suitable development environment. In addition...
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Just Build Websites Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of...
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Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of golf-related brands on social media as a guilty pleasure. The other day an image surfaced on Taylormade’s account which showcases Tommy Fleetwood playing some of their newest...
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How I name my computers I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the...
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I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the setup, and this blog post is one of the first things I’ll make with it. I’m quite pleased with how quickly I can get up and running with a new machine. There’s one hard part of...
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Should open source projects track you? Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking...
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Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking is horrible. It's usually buried deep in the…
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8 Landing Page Tips from Rob Hope I submitted my book's landing page for Rob Hope's review and he obliged! Brutal feedback incoming.
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YC adds PostHog to top valued companies for July 2021 Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits...
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Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits as of July 2021. "Um… what?" I know, I know. You…
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Winner, Name that Ware November 2022 The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how...
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The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how he knew it was the -240 version; I did not expect someone to discern the line voltage rating from the photos! Also, thank you Ian Mason for the lucid explanation of the exposed...
Tinloof - Blog
Figma for developers: all you need to know If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma. This...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma. This quick read highlights some of the goodies that I personally use to speed up my workflow. A word of caution
Elad Blog
When Executives Break When your company is scaling rapidly due to product market fit, one of the biggest impediments (or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When your company is scaling rapidly due to product market fit, one of the biggest impediments (or boosters) to growth will turn out to be the composition of your executive team. If your executives are not able to scale with the company, entire functions may be thrown into...
Josh Collinsworth
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
bunnie's blog
IRIS (Infra-Red, in situ) Project Updates A goal of mine is to give everyday people tangible reasons to trust their hardware. Betrusted is a...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A goal of mine is to give everyday people tangible reasons to trust their hardware. Betrusted is a multi-year project of mine to deliver a full-stack verifiable “from logic gates to Rust crates” supply chain for security-critical applications such as password managers. At this...
Vadim Kravcenko
🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and the […] The post 🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee ☕ Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher...
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a year ago
Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher explains to Walter White how to make the perfect cup of coffee. And it all sounds so plausible—there’s a perfect coffee, and science will magic it for us. That whole idea, scene,...
Steve Klabnik
About Crows
over a year ago
37signals Dev
Solid Cache We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and HEY. Solid Cache uses a SQL database as its cache store. We get a much larger cache at a fraction of the storage costs of memory caches like Redis or Memcached. For us, that’s a...
Alex MacCaw
The Toad
over a year ago
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Collapsing Layers As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another look at our full stack for continued gains in efficiency, reliability and security.
Florian Bellmann |...
How to switch from Tmux to WezTerm Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
a year ago
Seldo.com
Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users’ operating...
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 3 This is day 3 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
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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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...
Nelson's Weblog
Back to Goodreads I’m back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use Goodreads please add me as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use Goodreads please add me as a friend. After Goodreads lost my account I was furious and of course intended to never use it again. But to their credit, Goodreads did some extra work and managed to get me a copy of...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
Epic Web Dev
Adding a Shadow to an SVG Icon with Tailwind CSS (tip) Learn how to add a shadow that follows the edges of an SVG icon using Tailwind CSS DropShadow,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn how to add a shadow that follows the edges of an SVG icon using Tailwind CSS DropShadow, giving your icons a smoother and more visually appealing look.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours... On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
over a year ago
Darek Kay
Countercheck unit tests Test-driven development (TDD) is a good technique for making sure that our code matches the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Test-driven development (TDD) is a good technique for making sure that our code matches the requirements. With frontend unit tests, it is often necessary to countercheck our requirements. In this post I will use React and testing-library, but the underlying problem can be applied...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on comments For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a good blog post without a relevant discussion to accompany it? You might find it strange to learn that Postleaf doesn't ship with comments. This is by design, and I'll explain why...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.1 now available Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually two features: It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation. It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
The Changelog
The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a desire to get this down for my kids, I figure it’s time to write a bit about living through the PC and Internet revolution where I did: outside a tiny town in rural Kansas. And, as...
alexwlchan
A script to verify my Netlify redirects I’ve changed the URL design on this website a couple of times. The current structure seems to be...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’ve changed the URL design on this website a couple of times. The current structure seems to be working fairly well, but I made some dubious decisions when I started out that really didn’t scale. (Like having a single folder for all of my /images/ – of which there are now over...
Alex Meub
Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266 Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s pretty cool to order pizza, turn on a light, send a tweet, or even run a custom script at the press of a physical button. But I recently tried to use one of my dash buttons and couldn’t...
TokyoDev
The English Paradox: Four Decades of Life and Language in Japan For more than forty years, I have been trying to understand the role of English in Japan. Over my...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
For more than forty years, I have been trying to understand the role of English in Japan. Over my first two decades in this country, I went from one extreme to the other: from seeing English as important here, to regarding it as a niche, inessential aspect of Japanese life. My...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of not being considered […] The post How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
blag
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
a week ago
TokyoDev
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
Julia Evans
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed. This hasn’t been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a few minutes while it restarts, and it only happens once a day at most, so I’ve...
A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck. It's not that strategy and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck. It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
Steve Klabnik
We forget that open source is made of people
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Against Names
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Documentation Levels People can't use your code without docs. People might get overwhelmed with too many docs. How can we...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People can't use your code without docs. People might get overwhelmed with too many docs. How can we match the maturity of docs to the maturity of the project?
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"...
9 months ago
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9 months 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."
Jibran’s Perspective
Cookie Based Auth for Django and NextJS If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the code here. I’m currently working on my first project after deciding that I needed to fail more and practice finishing projects instead of abandoning them midway once they got...
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The McClusky Curve - Viral vs Evergreen Content An insightful discussion on how to trade off aiming for viral or permanent posts.
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC. Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411 Registrant City: PANAMA Registrant State/Province:...
Oxide Computer...
How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that percentage will likely rise to 3-4% by the end of the decade. According to Goldman Sachs research, that rise will include a doubling in data center carbon dioxide emissions. As the...
alexwlchan
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that there’s a maximum size for a PDF document: Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381...
The History of the...
Beware the cloud of hype We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
A Smart Bear
Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine Blogger with tens of thousands of subscribers launches a new venture… and gets only 2 signups. Not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Blogger with tens of thousands of subscribers launches a new venture… and gets only 2 signups. Not the advantage you thought it was.
macwright.com
Placemark is now open source Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions welcome Placemark is the map editor software-as-a-service that I built for several years. It’s a website where you can import, create, edit, export, publish, and visualize geospatial data. I’m...
Greg Brockman
My path to OpenAI I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
Chris Nicholas
Integrate Twitter newsletters with API Routes Last week newsletters started popping up on Twitter profiles, using their recently purchased...
over a year ago
Remains of the Day
Revisionist commentary I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a sucker for the union of political and film satire as embodied in alternate film commentaries. I was reminded of it when seeing The People's History of Tattooine which was first one...
Joel Gascoigne
The undervalued advantages of being a small startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I remember when...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I remember when I was 12, I was desperate to grow up. I think most of us are when we’re young. Similarly, when you’re getting your startup off the ground, it can be easy to wish ourselves ahead
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.27.0 PostHog 1.27.0 is here! Completely redesigned funnels experience will help you dive deeper to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog 1.27.0 is here! Completely redesigned funnels experience will help you dive deeper to understand why your users aren't converting. Plus 400+ improvements & fixes.
James Vaughan's blog
Tote bag
5 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Simple image vectorization Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
alexwlchan
Getting an Important Internet Checkmark to follow your cursor Are you an Important Brand? Do you have an Internet Presence? Do you worry about being Impersonated...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Are you an Important Brand? Do you have an Internet Presence? Do you worry about being Impersonated Or Parodied Online? Then I may have something for you. On your social media, you can bask in the warmth of an Important Internet Checkmark which tells your users that they’re...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It’s no secret that I’m passionate about open...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It’s no secret that I’m passionate about open source software, but I’m also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
HTMHell
Starting off right: Where autofocus shines by Kilian Valkhof Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to...
a month ago
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a month ago
by Kilian Valkhof Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to navigate your site with the keyboard or other assistive technologies, and it's how a browser knows which form element you're typing in. It's vital to get right if you want to build good...
Joel Gascoigne
What it&#x27;s really like to grow a team when you&#x27;re focused on culture-fit * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s often...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s often interesting to look back and think about how much I’ve learned in the past year or two. Especially areas where I almost had no understanding at all. Company culture is one of those...
On Test Automation
2024 - A year in review Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon,...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon, and since I’m deliberately slowing down this week and will be away from work for two weeks after that, this to me is a great time to look back on 2024 and what it has brought me...
TokyoDev
Japanese vs International Schools: Which Will Work for Your Children? The surprise is usually plain on their faces. “Oh! Your kids go to Japanese schools?” This is also...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The surprise is usually plain on their faces. “Oh! Your kids go to Japanese schools?” This is also usually another surprise, whether I’m speaking to a Japanese person or a foreigner. Often the conversation ends there, or with a hopeful note of, “Well, if they’re young, it’s easy...
MMapped blog
Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
ChatGPT == Google News? ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of...
a year ago
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a year ago
ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of the model, is almost exactly the same like Google ingesting news and presenting it on the search results page. Actually, it’s worse, because it gives absolutely no attribution to...
Joel on Software
Making the web better. With blocks! You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
A Smart Bear
More money if you do, more money if you don't A business always takes more money than you expect, even when you take this fact into account....
a year ago
Florian Bellmann |...
How to get in shape with a Raspberry Pi A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used...
a year ago
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a year ago
A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used for a variety of projects. This blog post will discuss some of the reasons why I think every coder should have one!
The Pragmatic...
Apple: The Only Big Tech Giant Going Against the Job Cuts Tide Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can...
a year ago
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a year ago
Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can we now expect it to follow suit by shedding workers?
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Another Week with Bad Software In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why —...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why — probably because I could. I had a hotel booked via booking.com, but once I arrived there the receptionist told me it was the first time he's heard of my booking, and he told me that...
Blog System/5
BazelCon 2024 recap Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events of last week: BazelCon 2024 and the adjacent Build Meetup. There is A LOT to cover, but everything is here in just one article!
TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
a year ago
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a year ago
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples) Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
HTMHell
The Ghosts of Markup Past by Thomas A. Powell As a well-seasoned web developer, a clear euphemism for my age, I reminisce...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Thomas A. Powell As a well-seasoned web developer, a clear euphemism for my age, I reminisce about the early days of markup through the haze of strong emotional glasses. I see the past from an extreme nostalgic fondness for the simplicity of the time when a basic text editor...
swyx's site RSS Feed
On Grind - from Investor to Creator to Founder Sarah asks a provoking question that has been on my mind a lot as I transition from part time...
a year ago
Irrational...
Using systems modeling to refine strategy. While I was probably late to learn the concept of strategy testing, I might have learned about...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
While I was probably late to learn the concept of strategy testing, I might have learned about systems modeling too early in my career, stumbling on Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primer before I began my career in software. Over the years, I’ve discovered a number of...
alexwlchan
Writing a Mac app to review my photos I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures...
a year ago
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a year ago
I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures in the hope of getting at least one that’s good – and then my camera roll is full of similar images. I always intend to go back and clean up my pictures afterwards – pick the best...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono February Update Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is very much appreciated. Here is a quick update on the progress: Website - Berkeleygraphics.com It is already up: https://berkeleygraphics.com but does not have the Berkeley Mono pages...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website” The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. But...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The chaotic beauty of street art I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up groceries, feels more delightful because of the organic gallery that is my city. Especially when a new piece of art pops up on a previously unremarkable stretch of street. What a...
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The Part Time Creator Manifesto Why we need more people creating Part Time and how you can do it too.
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML vs TypeScript: comparing their type systems A type is a labeled set of constraints that can be imposed on a value. A type system analyses values...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A type is a labeled set of constraints that can be imposed on a value. A type system analyses values in a piece of code, and validates them against their types. JavaScript has a type system, but it’s dynamic. This is one of the key advantages of using the language, providing an...
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Why You Should Pre-Sell My thoughts on preselling, from having done it successfully exactly one time.
over a year ago
Confused bit
Teaching the Rust Borrow Checker Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be...
a year ago
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a year ago
Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be expressible in safe Rust, but is beyond the understanding of the borrow checker. Although its use cases are probably rather niche, I still found it potentially useful. Anyway, it’s a good...
Joel Gascoigne
The exercise habit * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This morning, my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This morning, my alarm sounded at precisely 5:50am. Within a few minutes, I was up and had my running shoes, shorts and a t-shirt on. Minutes later at 6am, I opened my MacBook Air, switched to the...
Chris Nicholas
Quick UI: Rotating text mask I came across an appealing text effect on the Adobe XD home page, and thought I'd recreate it here,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I came across an appealing text effect on the Adobe XD home page, and thought I'd recreate it here, and give it a quick colourful retouch.
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Open source (and self-hosted) alternatives to Hotjar & FullStory Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture....
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Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture. What else do you need to do? Talk to users ? Sure…
Making software...
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested...
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
Darek Kay
Fixing long start-up times of the Eleventy dev server Recently, I've encountered a peculiar issue with Eleventy. The development server stopped...
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Recently, I've encountered a peculiar issue with Eleventy. The development server stopped working: eleventy --serve [11ty] Wrote 92 files in 0.48 seconds (5.2ms each, v1.0.2) [11ty] Watching… There were no errors. Everything seemed fine, except for the dev server not being...
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CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
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CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let's just jump...
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
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macwright.com
Recently Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
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Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories. Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
Alex MacCaw
Unshackling Artificial Minds Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product...
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Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product of Entropy, the law of nature that dictates it is easier to destroy than to create. And here we are, on the cusp of creating not just something new, but
Joel Gascoigne
Work and rest in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m writing this...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m writing this from Javea, Spain [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=javea,+spain&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Javea,+Province+of+Alicante,+Valencia,+Spain&gl=uk&t=h&z=12] . I arrived here a couple of days...
ntietz.com blog
We deserve to know if something was generated by AI We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on...
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We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on that. What portion of the text you read each day was generated fully or partially by a human, or by an LLM? We don't know, and probably can't know, and that brings about some...
Liz Denys
Intent! It's eldritch magic! or: house rules for warlocks who mean well As we all know, intent is an ancient eldritch power! Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks enter into pacts...
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As we all know, intent is an ancient eldritch power! Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks enter into pacts with otherworldly patrons who grant them such ancient magics in the form of pact boons. From page 107 of the Player's Handbook (5e, 2014): At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2024 The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of...
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The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of reporting both wind speed and direction. Thanks again to FETguy and Renew Computers for the contribution! The coil on the left hand side is a brushless resolver, which determines...
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Array 1.40.0: Interface improvements and more! Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
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Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Running a self-hosted instance? Check…
TokyoDev
The "No, I Don't Live In Tokyo" Series: Developing in Kansai There’s more to Japan than Tokyo and its Kanto region! Would you consider living and working in...
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4 months ago
There’s more to Japan than Tokyo and its Kanto region! Would you consider living and working in Kansai instead? The Kansai region of Japan most famously encompasses the prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara—Osaka being Japan’s second-largest city after Tokyo, and Kyoto and Nara...
Steve Klabnik
Random Ruby Tricks: Struct.new
over a year ago
HTMHell
The UX of HTML by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
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by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
Patrick Kayongo
Play “I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their...
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“I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their backs from the lazy sloth on the paved ground outside of his garage. All the kids in the conformant townhouse complex regularly gravitated towards his house during the school...
ntietz.com blog
Avoid multitasking to write better code Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a...
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Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a second thing done? Why not fill those five seconds while your code compiles with reading an article about the latest web frameworks? In fact, multitasking is hiding everywhere in...
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Skip to Content Button Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility...
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Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility is the “keyboard-only” audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
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How to run Python and Portray on Netlify How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs and Naming Things In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard...
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a year ago
In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard problems in computer science: 1) cache invalidation and 2) naming things. Then he unapologetically says the “naming things” problem is solved with LLMs. Here’s Simon: [When asking...
Code Of Honor
Stay Awhile and Listen Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for...
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Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for blogging as I’ve started creating a new game. After a two-year stint helping other folks publish their games I’m back to coding and game design full-time and having a wonderful time. But...
Making software...
Super Mario Blocks in CSS Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let's make a quick demo on how to build...
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let's make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks. What our final product will look like: Live CodePen Example The HTML The set of Mario blocks doesn't require a huge...
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible? Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email,...
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Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
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How we’re making PostHog deployments easier When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a...
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When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a PostgreSQL datastore. Troubleshooting was easy, while…
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Cancer and revenue - the latest board meeting It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with ...
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It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with retinoblastoma - a fairly rare form of cancer that…
HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
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This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development: 🔥 the close button. 🔥 In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
Steve Klabnik
Devise: ActionController::RoutingError (No Route Matches [GET] /users/sign_out)
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook (Part 1) This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1...
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This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook. In this first part, we will use the scroll event to achieve that. Here’s a preview of what we will achieve by the end of the article:
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Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Building Molecule Reader in one day Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when there are notifications coming in or even just other content on the screen1. I have a reMarkable tablet (RM), which I love dearly2 and much prefer to read on. But it's annoying...
A Smart Bear
You're a real company when… What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
a year ago
Ferd.ca
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
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I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating. I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Remote job sites need a "Timezone overlap" filter There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a...
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a year ago
There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a timezone. (n often seems to be 2). But I have not come across a remote job site that has a filter that supports this. Most allow you to choose your timezone and then filter jobs...
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Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
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If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
David Heinemeier...
Dare to connect a server to the internet The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest...
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11 months ago
The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest things are too dangerous to even attempt by yourself these days. That without their rarified expertise, you’ll be left vulnerable. So best just to leave ever-more of your burdens to...
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Remote companies can be too asynchronous Even when Tim (my cofounder) and I were doing a Y Combinator (YC) batch in 2020, we realized we...
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Even when Tim (my cofounder) and I were doing a Y Combinator (YC) batch in 2020, we realized we got more work done when we worked asynchronously…
The Changelog
Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
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over a year ago
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
37signals Dev
Solid Queue 1.0 released We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version...
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We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version has come a long way since we published the first version, 0.1.1, back in December 2023, with 132 merged pull requests and 126 closed issues, and the help of multiple...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Get You Some Practical Accessibility Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for...
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Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for pre-order right now. I’ve never met Sara in person, but have been an online follower for some time. She is one of those people who has the discipline and eye to make everything they...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Can you tell an assembly language when you see one? An interactive quiz featuring several obscure high-level languages and assembly variants.
over a year ago
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...
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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...
A Smart Bear
A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization...
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It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization consultants want us to believe?
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Date me if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
a week ago
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How to seed, grow, and scale Developer Relations (and how we're doing it at PostHog) Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer Relations journey at PostHog has just begun, and…
ntietz.com blog
Distractions Cause Bad Code We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our digital society now is set up to allow us to focus for mere minutes at a time, since we are in an attention economy and the sole objective of companies is to capture more of our time....
Tony Finch's blog
exponential rate limiting Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets without the buckets, I reviewed...
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4 months ago
Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets without the buckets, I reviewed my old notes on rate limiting for Exim. I thought I should do a new write-up of the ideas that I hope will be more broadly interesting. Exponential rate limiting uses an...
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
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over a year ago
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.