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Irrational...
Uber's service migration strategy circa 2014. In early 2014, I joined as an engineering manager for Uber’s Infrastructure team. We were...
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In early 2014, I joined as an engineering manager for Uber’s Infrastructure team. We were responsible for a wide number of things, including provisioning new services. While the overall team I led grew significantly over time, the subset working on service provisioning never grew...
Epic Web Dev
Your code style does matter actually (article) You may be babysitting JavaScript syntax. It's annoying and you don't have to. Fix your formatter!
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Pivot Points Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point"...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point" grapples with the same reality, but more constructive and useful.
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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a year ago
Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
Steve Klabnik
The Hackety Manifesto
over a year ago
David Gerrells
all the ways to css I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was bunches of fun doing but recently I looked back on the code and work and had to come to terms with something....my code was bad...really bad.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2024 The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited....
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited. Their sales part number is ES-P2-I, but the silkscreen says DCHY-P2-6464-1515-VP. The seller is just the name slapped on the box; like most commodity wares, there’s likely multiple...
Oxide Computer...
A Tool for Discussion At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design decisions. They document the processes, APIs, and tools that we use. The workflow for the RFD process is based upon those of the Golang proposal process, Joyent RFD process, Rust...
Blog System/5
20 years of blogging A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a...
a year ago
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a year ago
A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a newsletter using Substack.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2024 The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
11 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds ---
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Where do you start measuring distance from when the origin is the bottom of a block of text? To frame this post, I’d like to share a tweet by Irina Bednova: Apparently everyone in our team...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To frame this post, I’d like to share a tweet by Irina Bednova: Apparently everyone in our team interpreted "lgtm" in Github reviews differently. The interpretation were: - Lets get this merged - Looks good to me - Legitimate — Irina Bednova (@jafrog) February 1, 2019 This is...
On Life and Lisp
Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
a year ago
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a year ago
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf –refresh upgrade. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on when to incorporate * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Update: I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Update: I originally posted this article with the title “Incorporate your startup only when you’re forced to” and I had amazing feedback, particularly from Andrew Payne [http://blog.payne.org/]...
Confessions of a...
How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens
a year ago
Making software...
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...
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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...
A Beautiful Site
On Using Web Component Libraries We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has components, Vue has components, Angular has components…it's just how we've always used them. Because of that, people tend to refer to Lit and FAST Element as frameworks, but they’re not....
macwright.com
Recently I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element and browser abstractions I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html (at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org link). The post is about a...
Yale E360
RC Week 2: Pairing is Awesome The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going too quickly. My batch is twelve weeks long, so I'm 17% through. Only ten weeks left! This is a precious time, so I'm trying to make the most of it, but also trying to not increase...
alexwlchan
Cats, cross-stitch, and copyright I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually lived with) is the cheetah. This probably goes back to a school project about cheetahs I did when I was nine years old – I had to write about an endangered species for science...
Epic Web Dev
Good Code, Testable Code (article) Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for effective testing.
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential PostHog apps for new users PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
blag
Recurse Center Day 12: Isolation Anomalies Anomalies which define transaction isolation levels
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
Charles Chen
A Conceptual Model of State in Vue 3.4 A guide to understanding how to think about state and components in Vue with the game changing...
a year ago
Marco.org
Overcast summer update Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features. But first, I need to set low...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features. But first, I need to set low expectations for iOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina updates this fall. Halfway through the summer, I’ve made much less progress than expected, having been overwhelmed by the required...
Liz Denys
Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I would absolutely dread the 15 minutes every hour that I couldn't stay in the pool known as adult swim - until I headed over to the pool's snack shop and grabbed a...
macwright.com
Year in Review The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old...
a year ago
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a year ago
The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old writing is nostalgic and horrific. By the numbers, 2023 was pretty normal: I read around 20 books, ran around 400 miles. It’s funny how the statistics even out to the same numbers...
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop Test Tab Demo (tip)
10 months ago
On Test Automation
On ditching hourly and productizing my services In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely these days, for clients both in the Netherlands and abroad. And I like it that way. Don’t get me wrong, I like to drive, but commuting takes up a lot of time, time I would rather...
Nelson's Weblog
Obsidian Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task, Obsidian is my current favorite. In the past I’ve used a text file, SimpleNote, Standard Notes, Joplin. I never used emacs org-mode nor Evernote. Obsidian works reliably and is simple...
Alex MacCaw
The AI is coming May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in artificial-intelligence, especially image-generation, are putting that curse to the test. In the last year we’ve seen some incredible breakthroughs in image-generation with the release of...
A Beautiful Site
Adding and removing virtual hosts on Ubuntu 14.04 Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume you're not logged in as the root user. Change example.com to your own domain/subdomain. Adding a virtual host # Create the directory for your new site and grant permissions. If your...
MMapped blog
Book summary: Building a Second Brain
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Type parameters in Go Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll...
a year ago
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a year ago
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll find out why we need type parameters, how we write them, and how we can use them to create generic functions in Go.
Tony Finch's blog
PCG64 DXSM random number generator Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It mentioned a new-ish flavour of PCG random number generator which I had not previously encountered, called PCG64 DXSM. This blog post collects what I have learned about it. (I have...
Yale E360
If it never breaks, you're doing it wrong When the power goes out, most people are understanding. Yet the most livid I've seen people is when...
a year ago
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a year ago
When the power goes out, most people are understanding. Yet the most livid I've seen people is when web apps or computers they use have a bug or go down. But most of the time, it's a really bad sign if this never happens1. I was talking to my dad about this recently. For most of...
Epic Web Dev
Stop Lying to Your Users
a year ago
Elad Blog
Startups are an act of desperation Startups are hard. For the first few years of a company, forward momentum is largely due to founders...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Startups are hard. For the first few years of a company, forward momentum is largely due to founders pushing every day. The weight of the company rests on their shoulders - including the financial well being and success of everyone they hired and the promises they made to their...
tonsky.me
Logo: Squint Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is that when you squint, it still looks like CLJS”.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Add Monaco Editor to a Next.js app ## Bottom Line Up Front
over a year ago
Dan Cowell
"balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet. I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency. Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast,
David Heinemeier...
Google's sad ideological capture was exactly what we were trying to avoid The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the smartest acquisitions in tech when they bought DeepMind in 2014. They helped set the course for the modern AI movement with the Transformer paper in 2017. They were poised to be right...
Blog of Simple...
How to Import Google Analytics Data to Simple Analytics
over a year ago
Daniel Marino
Gamedev.js Jam 2021 Retrospective Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can run on the Web in a browser without extra plugins. This year’s theme for the competition was “mirror”, which could interpreted however participants chose. I had an itch I wanted to...
Don Melton
Cranking up the blogging machine again For whatever reason I started blogging again last week. Not knowing why isn’t due to a lack of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For whatever reason I started blogging again last week. Not knowing why isn’t due to a lack of introspection on my part. Maybe the nauseating weight of the Trump administration was suppressing my desire to write for the previous three-and-a-half years? Or maybe I’m just arbitrary...
Blog - Bitfield...
Generics in Go Generics what now? This friendly, down-to-earth tutorial series explains how Go’s generic...
a year ago
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a year ago
Generics what now? This friendly, down-to-earth tutorial series explains how Go’s generic functions and types work, why we need them, and where we can use them.
Joel on Software
Strange and maddening rules There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work. Read more "Strange and maddening rules"
orlp.net - Blog...
Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more... Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random. This “deterministic randomness” is incredibly useful for a variety of purposes, such as hash...
Tony Finch's blog
The unix69 keyboard layout: nerdy and nice A proper Unix keyboard layout must have escape next to 1 and control next to A. Compared to the...
a year ago
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a year ago
A proper Unix keyboard layout must have escape next to 1 and control next to A. Compared to the usual ANSI layout, backquote is displaced from its common position next to 1. But a proper Unix keyboard should cover the entire ASCII repertoire, 94 printing characters on 47 keys,...
Letters of Note
I miss you so very much, Ryan In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during a contaminated treatment for hemophilia, a blood condition with which he had lived since birth. By June of 1985, keen to resume as normal a lifestyle as possible, Ryan attempted...
Steve Klabnik
Rubinius is awesome
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Beautiful motivations Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A...
a year ago
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a year ago
Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A thin sheen of flashy marketing design covering up for a rotten or deficient product. Something that looks good from afar, but reveals itself to be a disappointing imitation up...
David Heinemeier...
Why I retired from the tech crusades When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
a year ago
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a year ago
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
Tinloof - Blog
Website migration 101: transitioning to a headless CMS In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot CMS, Webflow, and similar tools, to a headless CMS setup.
Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics data collection
over a year ago
Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
Maggie Appleton
Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born? A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive
3 months ago
Ralph Ammer
Bergson — Why we live in the past Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson claims that this is not even possible. 1. Perception is physical First of all: How do we perceive the “current moment” anyway? Bergson suggests that the whole point of perception is...
Computer Things
Unusual basis types in programming languages TLA+ Workshop TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you...
a year ago
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a year ago
TLA+ Workshop TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you start building them. I've been saying the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT gives $50 off, but that's wrong because I actually set it up for $100 off. Enjoy! Unusual basis types in...
A Smart Bear
The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly...
a year ago
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a year ago
We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly find "insights" that are actually noise. Here's how to fix that.
A Beautiful Site
Revisiting FOUCE It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I think is worth a post. This approach is similar to hiding the page content and then fading it in, but I've noticed it's far less distracting without the fade. It also adds a two...
Yale E360
The bittersweet end of a year of independence Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
A Beautiful Site
Democratizing publishing One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is excellent. But the very same article states another objective is to "capture the 75 percent of the internet that WordPress doesn't already manage." In my opinion, these goals conflict...
Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
Irrational...
Who gets to do strategy? If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just...
bt RSS Feed
Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 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...
HTMHell
#10 <section> is no replacement for <div> Bad code <section id="page-top"> <section data-section-id="page-top" style="display:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <section id="page-top"> <section data-section-id="page-top" style="display: none;"></section> </section> <main> <section id="main-content"> <header id="main-header"> <h1>...</h1> <section class="container-fluid"> <section class="row"> ...
TokyoDev
Working as a Filipino Software Developer in Japan It felt like a fever dream when I got the job offer to move to Japan. *This was it*, I thought. *My...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It felt like a fever dream when I got the job offer to move to Japan. *This was it*, I thought. *My chance to rebrand myself and seek better opportunities*. I was twenty when I left my entire life behind in my hometown in the municipality of Kalibo to get a shot at working for...
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise.  It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers. After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
Blog - Bitfield...
Best Go books for 2024 What are the best Go books for 2024? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go...
a year ago
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a year ago
What are the best Go books for 2024? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go books you should absolutely buy and read right now, whether you’re a beginner or expert Gopher.
Ognjen Regoje •...
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview? From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview? To qualify the choices a bit: Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure. A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
Maggie Appleton
The Cultural Anthropology of React An anthropological look at the cultural norms of the React community
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Managing Tinloof-powered websites If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide. We...
a year ago
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a year ago
If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide. We wrote this article just to make sure you're not missing out on any feature that helps you manage your website more effectively. Navigating the CMS
HTMHell
#28 alert level 1 Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues and how to fix them The element is used for communicating status updates, not to structure the page. A div with a role of status or alert is more suitable than a h1. The heading is...
Joel Gascoigne
When creating new habits, let yourself be sloppy * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Don’t let...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good" - Gretchen Ruben [http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2012/12/secret-of-adulthood-dont-let-the-perfect-be-the-enemy-of-the-good/] One...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike owners, they could face the risk of their bikes being bricked if they don't take prompt action.
Grant Slatton
Nobody Cares A rant about caring
9 months ago
Irrational...
Executive
a year ago
Daniel Marino
How to Process Customer Criticism Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?! Design is super subjective, and everyone is a critic! Regardless of your education or how sharp your design eye is, you’ll never be able to please everyone. This is especially true...
Darek Kay
Git explained: Commit ranges Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
Maggie Appleton
The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
over a year ago
macwright.com
awesome-codemirror by () I started another “awesome” GitHub repo (a list of resources), for CodeMirror, called...
a year ago
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a year ago
I started another “awesome” GitHub repo (a list of resources), for CodeMirror, called awesome-codemirror. CodeMirror has a community page but I wanted a freewheeling easy-to-contribute-to alternative. Who knows if it’ll grow to the size of awesome-geojson - 2.1k stars as of this...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Width and Height in CSS In his video “Secret Mechanisms of CSS”, Josh explains (among other things) how width and height...
a year ago
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a year ago
In his video “Secret Mechanisms of CSS”, Josh explains (among other things) how width and height work in CSS. I loved his explanation so much, I am going to re-write it here for my own benefit. Hopefully the next time I have to explain it — to someone else, or to myself in my...
Computer Things
[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth...
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My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth playing if you've never enjoyed a video game before. Patreon notes here. (April Cools is a project where we write genuine content on non-normal topics. You can see all the other April...
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Annual Review 2024 Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the...
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Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the cool 15 degree climate. This year, I’m in freezing cold Sapporo drinking a carton of the delicious local milk. For simplicity, I’m largely sticking to the format from my 2023 annual...
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The Nuance of “Domain” I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links...
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I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye. What is a “Domain”? Let’s say you have a URL like this: https://example.com Put it in the URL constructor and...
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A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
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Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A...
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Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price data, which leads to technical analysis often being perceived as similar to astrology. In this article, I will try to see if...
Charles Chen
Server Sent Events with .NET 7 An HTTP alternative to web sockets that makes it easy to push events from the server.
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A Beautiful Site
SSH failing on macOS Sierra For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel...
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For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a handful of other apps. In fact, it seems to break any app that uses an SSH key with a passphrase. 🤔 The solution I found was to tell SSH to use the MacOS keychain. Simply...
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So you think you know everything about React refs React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you...
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React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you can access the current DOM node for that component in your JS. This is one of those great APIs that work just the way you'd expect, so you don't even think about how, exactly, it...
Darek Kay
A guide to bookmarklets I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to...
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I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to explain what bookmarklets are and how to use them. In short, a bookmarklet is a browser bookmark containing JavaScript code. Clicking the bookmark executes the script in the context...
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Open source starter pack for JS devs So you've decided to open-source your project. Amazing! Bad news first: writing code is only the...
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So you've decided to open-source your project. Amazing! Bad news first: writing code is only the beginning. The information for library authors on the web is surprisingly fragmented, so I've decided to put together a list of things to keep in mind when open-sourcing a JS...
Founder's blog
SQL is the most long lasting skill in tech In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front...
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In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front page: "Which technology is worth learning in 2020?" And the most "upvoted" answer was: Learn how to really use a relational database, relational data modeling, and SQL Well,...
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The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...
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First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...
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The Roaring 2020's Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea...
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Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea about.
Engineer’s Codex
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How to allow popups in dynamically created webviews in Electron.js My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of...
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My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of sub browser windows for chat. For the last couple months I've had an issue with the SSO popups in this, namely that they just don't work at all, presumably because Electron blocks...
A Smart Bear
Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to...
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Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to adjust your approach.
HTMHell
#32 almost a proper close button Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13"...
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Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="15px" width="15px" fill="#000" name="close"> <title>Close dialog</title> <path d="…"> </path> </svg> </button> Issues and...
alexwlchan
Generating art from lattice graphs A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the...
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A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the Proms. While I was on the train home, I had an idea for a fun art project. I sketched it out on a napkin, got it working, posted a few pictures on Twitter, then put it down. On Saturday I was...
Steve Klabnik
New blog: Words
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Josh Comeau's blog
Statements Vs. Expressions One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of...
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One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us...
Nelson's Weblog
GAS I’ve been listening to the same music every night when I go to sleep 10+ years now. Weird...
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I’ve been listening to the same music every night when I go to sleep 10+ years now. Weird endorsement; I’ve listened to it with more attention plenty of times too. But it’s particularly good for going to sleep; calm, interesting, and comfortably familiar. That music is GAS,...
A Beautiful Site
Getting localized month and day names in the browser JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
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JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app. I've...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
2025-06-21 Sat: Thoughts on C/C++ killer There are several programming languages that are “better C/C++”: zig, odin, jai, D. The problem is...
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There are several programming languages that are “better C/C++”: zig, odin, jai, D. The problem is adoption: it’s hard to break from all the code already written in C/C++. It’s too expensive to rewrite large code bases in new language. My idea on how to improve adoption: perfect...
The History of the...
Where did mainstream media come from? The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an...
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The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web. The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Tinloof - Blog
How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's...
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We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's portfolio companies into their Jobs page.
Maggie Appleton
A Collection of Design Engineers Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to...
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Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
A Beautiful Site
Bulletproof Components Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book...
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Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book Bulletproof Web Design. I purchased it during my first trip to An Event Apart in 2007. This book meant a lot to me back then, and almost 15 years later, many of its concepts still hold...
Yale E360
Unpacking some Rust ergonomics: getting a single Result from an iterator of them Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my...
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Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my favorites. It's a little nugget in the standard library that makes handling possible failures a lot easier. And it's not even baked in—it just falls out from the type...
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Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
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Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
bunnie's blog
A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
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This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the focus stage, light source, and methodology used to...
Epic Web Dev
Hamburger Menu Animation (tip) Learn how to create an engaging hamburger menu animation with Tailwind CSS, improving user...
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Learn how to create an engaging hamburger menu animation with Tailwind CSS, improving user experience and adding a touch of fun flair.
Vadim Kravcenko
🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round Startup founders have a lot of fears. Some are afraid they won’t find a technical co-founder or...
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Startup founders have a lot of fears. Some are afraid they won’t find a technical co-founder or attract angel investment. […] The post 🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app back to my personal weight lows!
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Blog of Simple...
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Yale E360
Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we...
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I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we have in place and something clicked for why they feel so wrong despite being so prevalent. I'm not sure what any solutions look like yet, but outlining a problem is the first step,...
TokyoDev
僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
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Epic Web Dev
Tailwind CSS Color Tokens (tutorial)
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Making software...
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk's post, How to Create...
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RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk's post, How to Create a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box and loved the simplicity of it. I'm a sucker for using pseudo elements in creative ways but still managing to make them useful. Of course, this got me...
Blog System/5
A CLI text editor? In my Windows? It’s more likely than you think!
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The really important job interview questions engineers should ask (but don't) Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from...
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Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from this? It's normal for candidates not to ask harder…
Steve Klabnik
The culture war at the heart of open source
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Darek Kay
Delaying asset requests in Eleventy While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading...
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While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading behavior. One technique is to provide a visual fallback as long as the images are still loading. First, a static background color included in the markup is displayed. As soon as a...
alexwlchan
My Python snippet for walking a file tree I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and...
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I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and they often involve iterating over a folder full of files. The key function for doing this is os.walk in the standard library, but it’s not quite what I want, so I have a wrapper...
David Heinemeier...
Beware the leviathans I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for...
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I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for years now. Especially with those awful app store monopolies that have been choking out developers left, right, and center. But now that something finally looks to be happening, I'm...
Eric Bailey
Websites, politics, and preferences A website is a manifestation of an organization’s politics. Its setting page is a manifestation its...
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A website is a manifestation of an organization’s politics. Its setting page is a manifestation its priorities.
Grant Slatton
Quasirandom sequences Cool method to generate non-clumping random points
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somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
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Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
James Vaughan's blog
Introducing: json-space-analyzer
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Ralph Ammer
J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson...
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A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist. The post J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
David Crawshaw
Sharp-Edged Finalizers in Go Sharp-Edged Finalizers in Go 2018-04-05, David Crawshaw For background, see my last post on why in...
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Sharp-Edged Finalizers in Go 2018-04-05, David Crawshaw For background, see my last post on why in general .finalizers do not work We cannot use an object finalizer for resource management, because finalizers are called at some unpredictable distant time long after resources need...
The Pragmatic...
Bun: lessons from disrupting a tech ecosystem If you use JavaScript or TypeScript for backend development, Node is the most popular choice of...
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If you use JavaScript or TypeScript for backend development, Node is the most popular choice of framework. A new runtime called “Bun” is taking this space by storm. Lessons from this sudden rise.
Irrational...
Grab bag of random thoughts. A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a...
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A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a bit to braindump the numerous loose threads in my head as I transitioned from Calm to the past month of full-time writing, and then into this new role. This isn’t really a job...
Making software...
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
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Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
HTMHell
Dear developer, your assumptions are wrong As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught. So, for example,...
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As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught. So, for example, we may think it would be a good idea to put some restrictions in an input field for a name: <label for="name">First name:</label> <input type="text" minlength="3" maxlength="20"...
Epic Web Dev
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Ink & Switch
Universal version control and rich text on Automerge In this dispatch we're sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Ruthless Edit Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s...
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Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s say] We’ve recorded twenty-five songs. We think the album is going to have ten. Instead of picking our favorite ten, we limit it to: “What are the five or six we can’t live...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Brian Regan Helped Me Understand My Aversion to Job Titles I like the job title “Design Engineer”. When required to label myself, I feel partial to that term...
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I like the job title “Design Engineer”. When required to label myself, I feel partial to that term (I should, I’ve written about it enough). Lately I’ve felt like the term is becoming more mainstream which, don’t get me wrong, is a good thing. I appreciate the diversification of...
Kagi Blog
Towards conceptual generalization in the embedding space (This is a whitepaper published in the early days of Kagi AI research) A neural network in a...
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(This is a whitepaper published in the early days of Kagi AI research) A neural network in a self-driving car may properly react in most situations based on billions of images it has seen.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog uses Wren to offset carbon emissions during offsites Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team...
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Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team members travelled from America, Estonia, The…
Blog System/5
The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's
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HTMHell
Back to Basics: 5 HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience by Daniela Kubesch In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the...
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by Daniela Kubesch In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the latest frameworks, libraries and cutting-edge technologies. But sometimes, the most impactful improvements come from revisiting the fundamentals. In this blog post, I'll guide you...
Steve Klabnik
When should I use String vs &str?
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Eric Bailey
Don’t forget to localize your icons Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing...
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Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing a v-for-victory hand gesture at the assembled crowd. It wasn’t received the way he intended. What he failed to realize is that this gesture means a lot of different things to a...
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Signs that a Startup is Going Bad All rocketship startups are alike, but every fading startup is fading in its own way.
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80/20 is the new Half-Ass Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look...
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Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look back and wonder why you never hit 100% on anything.
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Arduino’s Automatic Reset As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am...
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As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am doing a series of shorter articles to lay the groundwork. This is one of these “short” articles; this one about how Arduino uses UART. Of course, I still went way too deep in this...
The Pragmatic...
Mentoring software engineers or engineering leaders Great mentors are useful for professional growth, and have benefitted both informal and formal...
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Great mentors are useful for professional growth, and have benefitted both informal and formal mentorship from experienced engineers and managers. A collection of free and paid resources where you can find mentors to help with your professional growth.
alexwlchan
Cosmetic updates to this site As well as changing the way I organise my writing, last year I made some cosmetic improvements to...
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As well as changing the way I organise my writing, last year I made some cosmetic improvements to this site. I design everything on this site myself, and I write the CSS by hand – I don’t use any third-party styles or frameworks. I don’t have any design training, and I don’t do...
Alex MacCaw
A personal update In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As...
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In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As COVID started to spin out of control in the states, my girlfriend and I made the decision to stay. A ten day trip turned into a year-long adventure. I
Making software...
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....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood...
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I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood out: For the best [prompt] results, combine: Domain knowledge of the thing you're working on Understanding how the models work Intuition gained from playing around with them a lot I am...
Elad Blog
Substack: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 2) This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
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This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
Tony Finch's blog
Some subtleties of keycaps There’s plenty of material online about the bewildering variety of keycaps, eg, eg, but I learned a...
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There’s plenty of material online about the bewildering variety of keycaps, eg, eg, but I learned a few things that surprised me when working on Keybird69. nightfox I found out that the remaining stock of Matteo Spinelli’s NightFox keyboards were being sold off cheap because of...
Tinker, Tamper,...
On The End of Bitcoin [This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date...
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[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date was May 24th, 2022. I have not added new content.]Is there some scientific literature/scenario planning on the End of Bitcoin? With the next two halvings mining income will shift...
Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel (part 1) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first article, we provide a comprehensive...
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This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project. In the second part, we'll focus on the development approach, walking you through...
Eric Bailey
#WorstWorkWednesday This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a...
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This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a conversation how people don’t share negative things on social media, especially in the context of a professional account. #WorstWorkWednesday, the title of this post, is a hashtag coined...
Ink & Switch
Inkbase: Programmable Ink What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.11.0 Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many...
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Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many bugfixes. It's all in this PostHog update. If you're…
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...
Irrational...
Notes on The Software Engineer's Guidebook The Software Engineer’s Guidebook by Gergely Orosz is a broad reference book for software engineers...
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The Software Engineer’s Guidebook by Gergely Orosz is a broad reference book for software engineers that will be particularly valuable for new software engineers and those who’ve worked most of their career in a small number of companies. It doesn’t go deep everywhere, but leaves...
Epic Web Dev
Fixing a form validation bug in the Epic Stack (tip) Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step...
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Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step guide and find out how they addressed the issue.
Ink & Switch
Summit 010 Berlin Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
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Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
dthompson
Optimizing Guile Scheme Guile is a rather niche language that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features...
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Guile is a rather niche language that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features an advanced optimizing bytecode compiler, a JIT compiler, and a modest set of developer tools for inspecting and debugging. Through my time spent developing Chickadee, a...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Improving my productivity in 2018 2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
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2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
Words and Buttons...
Programmer's introduction to linear equations [republished in Ukrainian] The same as https://wordsandbuttons.online/programmers_introduction_to_linear_equations.html only in...
over a year ago
Daniel Marino
Self-avoiding Walk I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
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I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky hexagonal teacups, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
Thoughts on Qutebrowser
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Simple Analytics AI
a year ago
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4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js A quick book review of the new Mongoose.js book from Val Karpov
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on travelling with your startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] has been a crazy ride since I first had the idea back in October 2010. As we’ve grown the startup from nothing to 250,000 users, a $600,000 annual revenue run rate...
Josh Collinsworth
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel...
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Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.
Steve Klabnik
Node
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
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Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
Vadim Kravcenko
As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup? As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you...
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As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you want to […] The post As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Eric Bailey
Let’s Talk About Speech CSS
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
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over a year ago
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
Irrational...
Talks
a year ago
Making software...
Sharing The Things We Use Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
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Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a "uses" page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
Yale E360
In Defense of the Midwest As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the...
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As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the heart of the software industry. With this in mind, in my final semester at Kent State, I joined a Silicon Valley startup as their third engineer1. The staff at that time was split:...
Patrick Kayongo
A New Dog “What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
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“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
Chris Nicholas
How to animate multiplayer cursors Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real-world conditions are...
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Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real-world conditions are taken into account.
dthompson
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
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over a year ago
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...
Maggie Appleton
Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors Explaining React through visual metaphors
over a year ago
macwright.com
On Placemark Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really...
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Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really given an update on Placemark, the product and business, in a while. Writing about an operating business is a different thing that writing feature announcements or essays about...
macwright.com
The one about AI Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big...
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Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big thing, crypto, wasn’t. I don’t think it’ll become generalized AI - I think the AI winter cycle is the base case and human-like intelligence is qualitatively different than LLM, no...
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built!...
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I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built! We’ll examine the tech stack and see how all of the pieces fit together, as well as dig into some of the details to see how they work.
TokyoDev
自営業している開発者の事例 ![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVz...
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Julia Evans
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve...
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I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve gotten a few times is – why does the x86 architecture use 8-bit bytes? Why not some other size? With any question like this, I think there are two options: It’s a historical accident,...
beep.blog
Rolumns 1.3 & Recompose 1.0 I built them, and now you're going to hear about it.
a year ago
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Five It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter...
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It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter of weeks, RevenueCat will become the company where I have worked the longest in my career. As Jason Lemkin says, it’s important to continuously reinvent the company and oneself...
Steve Klabnik
Rust has finally outgrown me
over a year ago
Irrational...
2024 in review. A lot happened for me this year. I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta, which...
7 months ago
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A lot happened for me this year. I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta, which is likely the most complex product domain I’ve worked in. My third book was published, and I did a small speaking tour to support it. We started the unironically daunting San...
Steve Klabnik
Book review: New Programmer's Survival Manual
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Accessibility preference settings, information architecture, and internalized ableism I have a lightning talk I deliver internally at my job. It is intentionally delivered to...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I have a lightning talk I deliver internally at my job. It is intentionally delivered to non-accessibility practitioners, so mainly engineers, designers, project managers, and product folk. The talk is about exploring macOS' Accessibility system preferences. It points out...
David Heinemeier...
Apple approves the HEY Calendar I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s...
a year ago
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I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s own history as a preview for people who don’t have an account. And I didn’t give the gambit better than 30% odds of succeeding, but lo and behold, it did! Apple has approved our...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The two ways to estimate your monthly event usage When talking through our editions and pricing options with potential customers I'm often asked "How...
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When talking through our editions and pricing options with potential customers I'm often asked "How can I estimate my event count?" If you're not…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Life and Death the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition > Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
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> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/from-startup-to-scaleup-what-were-changing-as-we-make-the-transition/] . In the past couple of months, I’ve had a number of thoughts around the growth Buffer has experienced in the last year and some...
MMapped blog
Effective Rust canisters
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work. And work, they do. Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
Sometimes It Works...
No No ¶No Hi, We are looking for a Sponsored post written by you to match your website...
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over a year ago
No ¶No Hi, We are looking for a Sponsored post written by you to match your website builtwithbootstrap.com. The post would need to contain a minimum of 2 paragraphs relating to online casinos and a link to one of our client’s websites. We can pay directly into your paypal account...
The Pragmatic...
Apple cracking down to enforce its RTO policy Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office...
over a year ago
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Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office at least 3 days per week. I talked with engineers on how they see the policy being enforced.
markround.com
Haiku Package Management Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
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Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
David Heinemeier...
Could Apple leave Europe? Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case, and Epic...
a year ago
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a year ago
Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case, and Epic Sweden's plans to introduce an alternative App Store in the EU have all been laced with a surprising level of spite and obstinacy. Even when Steve Jobs was pulling power moves...
37signals Dev
Basecamp code runs 18% faster with YJIT Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT. In this post I’ll share our setup, and the performance...
a year ago
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a year ago
Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT. In this post I’ll share our setup, and the performance improvements we achieved. Our setup Basecamp is currently running Ruby 3.3.0-preview3 and Rails Edge (master branch). We configure YJIT in our servers via RUBYOPT=--yjit-disable...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we do customer support at our open source devtool company Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the feedback loop between your customers and your product…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sept 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)" revisited
over a year ago
Computer Things
What Mob Programming is Bad At Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has...
a year ago
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a year ago
Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has been part of the programming milleau since at least the 90's (with extreme programming), while mobbing is more of a 10's thing. I'm going to use them interchangeably from here on out...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we do meetings at PostHog Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do...
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Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do nothing but hop into one meeting after another? Even…
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Size textarea to content To size textarea to content: textarea { field-sizing: content; min-height: 8rem; max-height:...
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To size textarea to content: textarea { field-sizing: content; min-height: 8rem; max-height: 70vh; } Using tailwindcss: <textarea class="min-h-[8rem] max-h-[70vh] field-sizing-content"></textarea> Needs Chrome 123+, Firefox 126+
Eric Bailey
Formative posts Blogs are good at communicating what you’re thinking about a specific topic, but not so great at the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Blogs are good at communicating what you’re thinking about a specific topic, but not so great at the larger framework of how someone came to be in the headspace that lead to the posts they share. Because of that, I’ve set up a formative posts page. This page is a list of blog...
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5
7 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Bright & Early Podcast with Brian Rhea I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above, and see more details here.
Eric Bailey
Websites are like bridges An incomplete list: Most of them are made to make it easier for someone to get to where they want to...
a year ago
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a year ago
An incomplete list: Most of them are made to make it easier for someone to get to where they want to go. Some are purely utilitarian, a few are completely decorative, and most are a combination of both. Some are built by governments, some are built by organizations, and some are...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Quadratic to Discover Newsletter Links I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way...
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a year ago
I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way to discover new people, blogs, and newsletter that I didn’t know existed. I recently saw links to my blog from the tldr newsletter but didn’t know which posts specifically they were...
swyx's site RSS Feed
[Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine upload I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python...
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Looking at images in a spreadsheet I’ve had a couple of projects recently where I needed to work with a list that involved images. For...
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I’ve had a couple of projects recently where I needed to work with a list that involved images. For example, choosing a series of photos to print, or making an inventory of Lego parts. I could write a simple text list, but it’s really helpful to be able to see the images as part...
The Pragmatic...
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.
Basta’s Notes
Matt Basta: purveyor of fake news A story about how I accidentally duped the Bay Area press in 2013
over a year ago
HTMHell
Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what...
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over a year ago
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what we intended. This is especially true on the web, where there are many ways to consume content. The language, browser type, device model, using a screen reader, navigating with or...
A Beautiful Site
DaFont: an excellent free font resource I came across an excellent website for free fonts online. No annoying pop-ups, minimal banner ads,...
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I came across an excellent website for free fonts online. No annoying pop-ups, minimal banner ads, and the best feature of all — custom previews for all their fonts. Check 'em out at dafont.com.
Eric Bailey
Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media have come up in conversation a few times with...
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over a year ago
Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media have come up in conversation a few times with different groups in the past week, so I want to talk about it. Explicit norms are the parameters the social media platform sets for you. Tweets are predominately text and images,...
Coding Horror
The Rise of the Electric Scooter In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are...
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over a year ago
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it's not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right? On an
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
Evan Jones -...
Advice on looking for a new software engineering job I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
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over a year ago
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive introduction to iterative algorithms An interactive explanation of how iterative algorithms work. This explains convergence and the exit...
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An interactive explanation of how iterative algorithms work. This explains convergence and the exit condition problem on an oversimplified linear system solver.
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential tips for Customer Success teams on PostHog While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can do for other teams too — including customer…
General Robots
Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no...
over a year ago
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A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no profit for me I guess). Check it out!
Maggie Appleton
July 2022
over a year ago
macwright.com
Remix notes Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some...
a year ago
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a year ago
Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some reflections: The Remix versioning scheme is a joy. They gradually roll out features under feature flags, so you have lots of time to upgrade. Compared to what seems like chaos over in...
A Smart Bear
Sometimes never compete on price The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon,...
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3 months ago
The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon, Costco, IKEA, Vanguard) is in leveraging intentional weaknesses.
Eric Bailey
Maralinga bomb test On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing...
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On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing program was codenamed One Tree, and utilized a payload comparable to the horrific Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. The test was part of Operation...
The Changelog
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
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For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
Tony Finch's blog
getopt() but smaller The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically...
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The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically simple command line argument parser. Most argument parsers are declarative: you tell them what to parse, and they do it. This one provides you with a stream of options and values and...
Joel Gascoigne
Experimenting with a 7 day work week * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two weeks of last month, I religiously tried to follow a new routine I created for myself: a 7 day work week routine. The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7
Eric Bailey
Making content-aware components using CSS’ <code>:has()</code>, grid, and quantity queries
9 months ago
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...
over a year ago
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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....
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2024 The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS...
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The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS terminal myself, so it was pretty interesting to see all the anti-tamper traces built into the product (thank you jackw01 for sharing it!). I wonder how effective these are, and...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink deformation You can think of informal ink as a superset of formal ink: it starts out with less structure, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
You can think of informal ink as a superset of formal ink: it starts out with less structure, but structure can be added over time, by the sketcher or the system.
Irrational...
Developing leadership styles For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
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a year ago
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
bunnie's blog
Bypassing Windows 11 Account Setup I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a...
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I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a mandatory Microsoft account. I can’t concisely explain why being forced to create an account bothers me so much, but generally when a vendor tries this hard to get you to do something,...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of...
a year ago
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a year ago
We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of unicorns for key cities.
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...
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over a year ago
This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and over-specification, direct and iterative solvers. The guide should give you enough knowledge to find a proper solution for your task but not enough to implement one efficiently yourself.
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
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Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
Liz Denys
Why I left Instagram Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
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over a year ago
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
A Smart Bear
JIT selection from independent streams: An alternative to the “big backlog” of work We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of...
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over a year ago
We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of the future, however this confuses “prioritization” with “work-planning,” and forces the comparison of un-comparable things. Here’s how to solve those problems.
MMapped blog
Rust at scale: packages, crates, and modules
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Power of Fast Feedback Cycles I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position...
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I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position on the (controversial?) steps Svelte is taking to move off Typescript in favor of types-via-JSDoc comments. First off, I love how Rich prefaces his comments by basically saying,...
Writing - Andreas...
Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m sorry Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Rare words in common phrases, and how to avoid getting them wrong A running list of uncommon, strange, and/or archaic words embedded in common idioms, to help you...
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A running list of uncommon, strange, and/or archaic words embedded in common idioms, to help you type them correctly next time you use them.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to turn your engineers into product people Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our...
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Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our engineers are encouraged to think about the what and…
David Heinemeier...
Automattic is doing open source dirty Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to...
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Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to WordPress is a wanton violation of general open source ideals and the specifics of the GPL license. Automattic is completely out of line, and the potential damage to the open source world...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I don&#x27;t shield my team from bad news I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite...
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I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and other negative aspects that are inevitable on
Making software...
RSS Hacks With XSLT RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the...
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RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website[^0] script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you're interested, I wrote about it on the official...
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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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,...
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts...
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I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories. I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
The Pragmatic...
Github Copilot and ChatGPT alternatives There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other...
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There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other popular, promising options.
Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics...
a year ago
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a year ago
I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics of Programming Languages”. It’s a fascinating look at how a small OSS project like Elm has to compete in a world where many of the expectations around developer experience for a...
A Beautiful Site
Creating stylesheets for handheld devices It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at...
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over a year ago
It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at least, trying to. Unfortunately, portable technologies still have a long way to go before they conquer the web with their tiny screens. The good news is that, with a little help from...
the jsomers.net blog
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's...
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over a year ago
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: &quot;working in waves&quot; * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer. I’d like to share some of my reflections...
Alex Meub
S3 Website Out Of Memory Error I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it. Everything...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it. Everything worked out-of-the-box extremely well until I wanted to actually run the s3_website push command to deploy my site to the live S3 bucket. The command would hang for a really long...
Stephen Wolfram...
Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram...
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This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin KitThe New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram LanguagePrompts for Work & Play:...
Remains of the Day
Catch up It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
over a year ago
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It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time. While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
alexwlchan
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
a year ago
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Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Daylight confusion week Time is a river. A violent current of events. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Here we are again:...
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Time is a river. A violent current of events. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Here we are again: Daylight Confusion Week. Much of Europe ends Daylight Savings Time today. But North America will neglect their clocks for another week. And for us remoties, that means next week’s...
Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
a year ago
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a year ago
When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
Liz Denys
Bridges 4 People Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation...
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over a year ago
Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn, North Brooklyn, and Manhattan activist committees. Bridges 4 People reimagines what the bridges that connect Brooklyn and Manhattan would look like if they...
Acko.net
The Case for Use.GPU Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird. In this post I will explain why, because it's a microcosm of the issues that lead me to build Use.GPU, a WebGPU rendering...
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for Developers: will smooth space/open source suffice to save us?
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Against Namespacing Personal Sites I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm calling "URL Architecture". In true fashion, I'm blogging about it.
Coding Horror
Hacker, Hack Thyself We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default,...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Estimating floating point error the easy way Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go unpredictably. The bugs that don't reproduce on unit-tests and lay low through the integration phase only to be seen by your most important customer.
Liz Denys
A very MIT signals problem I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there. Signals and systems can be used to describe many different problems because it is simply an abstraction which describes a physical, mathematical, or computational system by the way...
bt RSS Feed
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated,...
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Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated, but I have finally started to port over all my personal open-source projects to sourcehut.org. I’ll get into the why and how momentarily, but first let’s take a look at all the...
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
a year ago
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If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight upgrade this month. I’ve been publishing a lot of content in the /micro/ section, and I update my /reading/ list once or twice a month when I finish books, but these proper...
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
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over a year ago
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post: On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
Joel Gascoigne
How an investor who turned me down ended up sleeping on my couch * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had the great pleasure of grabbing dinner with Jon Bradford [http://twitter.com/jd], and having him stop over at my place on his way to speak on a panel at an event in Jerusalem. The...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Router Design A small detour into Router Hardware!
over a year ago
charity.wtf
Every Achievement Has A Denominator One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure...
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over a year ago
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure their own status, rank or value by the number of teams and people “under” them. Everyone knows you aren’t supposed to do this, but most of us secretly, sheepishly do it anyway to some...
Tony Finch's blog
sudon't My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the practices and security processes...
a year ago
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a year ago
My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the practices and security processes that use and recommend sudo, the reasons for using it are mostly bullshit. When I started my career in the late 1990s, I was already aware of really(8) and userv because one of my...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
6 months ago
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Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
Making software...
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS. The Demo Live CodePen Example The...
bt RSS Feed
Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
Yale E360
RC Week 3: Returning to Math The third week of my batch at Recurse Center is finished. It is still flying by too quickly. Nine...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The third week of my batch at Recurse Center is finished. It is still flying by too quickly. Nine weeks left! This week was a whirlwind and really busy. I think I pushed myself too hard. I had just recovered from my cold and was a little drained, and then got my COVID booster and...