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Checking for True or False How do you check if something is True in Python? There are three ways: One "bad" way: if variable ==...
1st Oct 2020
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Checking for True or False

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2020
How do you check if something is True in Python? There are three ways: One "bad" way: if variable == True: Another "bad" way: if variable is True: And the good way, recommended even in the Programming Recommendations of PEP8: if variable: The "bad" ways are not only frowned upon...
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Halloween Nerd Projects 👻 Last year I got 229 trick-or-treaters at my house. Candy, yo! The previous year it was 194. The...
30th Oct 2018
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Halloween Nerd Projects 👻

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

30th Oct 2018
Last year I got 229 trick-or-treaters at my house. Candy, yo! The previous year it was 194. The year before that it was 176. The year before that I lived in a duplex that was roughly two blocks from my current house; that year I didn’t think to track how many trick-or-treaters...
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A Web Components Primer On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple...
4th Feb 2022
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A Web Components Primer

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

4th Feb 2022
On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple thought quickly turned into a series of tweets that folks seem to find useful. I've adapted the thread and I'm posting it here for prosperity. Overview # Shadow DOM? Light DOM? Slots?...
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Wireheading City I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line: There’s a fine line...
11th Apr 2023
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Wireheading City

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Apr 2023
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line: There’s a fine line that defines civilization. Several beggars approached me on the street, and I didn’t give them anything. I suspect they would be surprised to learn that we have worse beggars in...
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What I'm up to - February 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2024
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What I'm up to - February 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Hello from Tokyo! I'm here doing a creative residence at Almost Perfect. If you're in...
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Find programming work by increasing luck surface area Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote...
29th Jun 2022
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Find programming work by increasing luck surface area

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

29th Jun 2022
Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote a response centered around increasing luck surface area. This essay expands on it because I’ve seen this a few times now: good developers asking how to find work while botching...
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?? "" is a Code Smell Defaulting to empty string is a lie we tell our type checker.
12th Apr 2022
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?? "" is a Code Smell

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Apr 2022
Defaulting to empty string is a lie we tell our type checker.
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Intervention ≠ good Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite...
3rd Feb 2024
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Intervention ≠ good

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2024
Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite consulting doctors and trying different treatments, nothing worked. Resigned to his fate, the friend finally gave up all treatments and stopped eating. Surprisingly, this led to an...
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Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
16th Apr 2020
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Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes

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

16th Apr 2020
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
7th Sep 2023
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore

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

7th Sep 2023
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
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Name that Ware, October 2025 The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I...
30th Oct 2025
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Name that Ware, October 2025

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

30th Oct 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I really can’t get enough of how the whole device is integrated with a multi-layer stacked PCB. I imagine that inside the middle of the stack there could be some interesting circuitry...
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Name that Ware, July 2024 The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last...
31st Jul 2024
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Name that Ware, July 2024

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

31st Jul 2024
The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last two images might be killer clues that give away the ware, but they are also so cool I couldn’t not include them as part of the post.
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Stay Gold, America We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the...
7th Jan 2025
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Stay Gold, America

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2025
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
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On Progress The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
18th Jan 2022
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On Progress

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jan 2022
The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason,...
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Huge under-the-hood upgrade to Animations in Kidz Fun Art One of the absolutely coolest features of Kidz Fun Art is the ability to create Animations. This...
2nd Jul 2026
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Huge under-the-hood upgrade to Animations in Kidz Fun Art

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2026
One of the absolutely coolest features of Kidz Fun Art is the ability to create Animations. This was initially inspired by watching my nieces creating an animation on another Android app, so I focused purely on the creation case. This worked well, where most animations were...
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thinking around a pen Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that...
1st Sep 2020
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thinking around a pen

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

1st Sep 2020
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that has annoyed me was that over time they have limited features more and more behind a pay wall for a pro account...
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Futureproof
28th Dec 2020
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Futureproof

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Dec 2020
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Moats: Durable competitive advantage Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
7th May 2022
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Moats: Durable competitive advantage

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

7th May 2022
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
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What I'm up to - December 2022 ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of...
1st Dec 2022
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What I'm up to - December 2022

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of signups, which was more than I expected. Overall, a great start! - Did a smaller launch for The Cont...
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Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4: A Major Update for Power Users We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release...
23rd Oct 2025
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Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4: A Major Update for Power Users

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

23rd Oct 2025
We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release brings powerful new features that make managing support tickets on the go faster and more efficient than ever. Edit Tickets Without Leaving the App One of our most requested...
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A designer developing for Android
8th Nov 2018
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A designer developing for Android

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

8th Nov 2018
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Building Custom Elements With a Library I often get asked why I use Lit to build web components. Hands down, it's become my preference after...
28th Mar 2024
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Building Custom Elements With a Library

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

28th Mar 2024
I often get asked why I use Lit to build web components. Hands down, it's become my preference after years of working with various libraries and tools. Here's why I use it. Libraries offer a better DX # This seems like a selfish answer for a developer to lean on, but there are...
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Hiring Employee #1 If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down,...
12th Dec 2011
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Hiring Employee #1

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

12th Dec 2011
If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down, and identify someone who is going to work well in your company?
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Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and...
3rd Dec 2023
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Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't

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

3rd Dec 2023
Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and exhausting. Manage it with kindness.
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Either your estimates suck or your job does This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
19th Sep 2023
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Either your estimates suck or your job does

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

19th Sep 2023
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to estimate.
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Quality is a trap Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to...
25th Jun 2025
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Quality is a trap

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

25th Jun 2025
Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to periodically erupt on social media. Also like cicadas, these articles are as predicable as they are irritating. I can’t count the amount of Medium thinkpieces I’ve seen come and go where an...
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
18th Jul 2026
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors

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

18th Jul 2026
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
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Community Versions for Rust
23rd Aug 2015
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Community Versions for Rust

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

23rd Aug 2015
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Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
8th Dec 2020
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Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error

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

8th Dec 2020
Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
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Class action employment suits Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to...
12th Jun 2022
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Class action employment suits

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

12th Jun 2022
Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to the plaintiffs, suing your employer is a difficult and stressful thing. But while the $118M headline looks big it works out to only $7600 per employee, less after the lawyers'...
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How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all...
17th Feb 2020
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How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript

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

17th Feb 2020
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all object keys (IDs) are unique, and how to find non-unique values.
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The Fidelity Trap If you hang out on Twitter, you’ll realize that every designer, PM, and their dog are now...
3rd Jul 2025
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The Fidelity Trap

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2025
If you hang out on Twitter, you’ll realize that every designer, PM, and their dog are now engineers.  LLMs have dramatically reduced the barrier to building something and designers who’ve never been able to go beyond a spaghetti Figma prototype suddenly feel like Superman. But...
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I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired...
6th Jan 2024
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I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned

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

6th Jan 2024
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired 10 people into our team. It's been extremely tiring: around 80 hours of active interviewing, plus writing interview reports, plus screening CVs and take-home assignments, plus...
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Hypermedia FizzBuzz
2nd May 2014
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Hypermedia FizzBuzz

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

2nd May 2014
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the...
25th Feb 2022
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer

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

25th Feb 2022
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
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The only Permanent Underclass are the ones who believe it is permanent
20th Oct 2025
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The only Permanent Underclass are the ones who believe it is permanent

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

20th Oct 2025
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The "Opposite Test" Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft...
6th Apr 2008
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The "Opposite Test"

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

6th Apr 2008
Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft compelling, unique features.
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Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
13th Feb 2025
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Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2025
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
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How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
2nd Oct 2023
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How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2023
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
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Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When...
4th May 2020
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Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2020
Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When a message is sent, particularly using an untrusted medium, data integrity provides us with confidence that the message wasn’t tampered with. For example, the SSL signature of...
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PHP: Avatar Hack A php script that generates an image for use as an avatar.
9th Oct 2008
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PHP: Avatar Hack

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Oct 2008
A php script that generates an image for use as an avatar.
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Navigation updates You asked, and we listened. We've updated the navigation to be more usable.
17th Oct 2020
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Navigation updates

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

17th Oct 2020
You asked, and we listened. We've updated the navigation to be more usable.
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Questionable Advice: “What Should I Say In My Exit Interview?” I recently received this gem of a note:: Hi Charity, I really enjoy your writing and a lot of it has...
16th Apr 2021
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Questionable Advice: “What Should I Say In My Exit Interview?”

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

16th Apr 2021
I recently received this gem of a note:: Hi Charity, I really enjoy your writing and a lot of it has directly contributed to me finally deciding to leave a company with a toxic management culture. I’ll also be leaving many great IC friends that will have lost a strong voice. My...
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What is Bun, and does it live up to the hype? Bun is a new JavaScript runtime that claims to offer more features and performance compared to...
16th Aug 2022
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What is Bun, and does it live up to the hype?

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2022
Bun is a new JavaScript runtime that claims to offer more features and performance compared to Node.js and Deno. But is it as good as it is hyped up to be?
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AI's effects on programming jobs
17th Mar 2025
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AI's effects on programming jobs

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

17th Mar 2025
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Winner, Name That Ware November 2025 The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It...
25th Dec 2025
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Winner, Name That Ware November 2025

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

25th Dec 2025
The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It was on the fritz, and when the repair person came and replaced it, Sam asked for the old module and brought it to me as a name that ware entry. Here’s the other circuit board that...
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Mission Control — Web You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s...
9th May 2024
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Mission Control — Web

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2024
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web. Today I’m pleased to announce that we are open sourcing Mission Control — Web and you can find it on...
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The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
8th Jun 2022
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The "Talk vs Walk" framework

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

8th Jun 2022
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
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Chickadee 0.10.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
24th May 2023
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Chickadee 0.10.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2023
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. This release is on the smaller side...
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Recently Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but it didn’t yield much content. I...
2nd Nov 2025
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Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2025
Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but it didn’t yield much content. I ran a second half-marathon, this time with much less training, but only finished a few minutes slower than I did earlier this year. Next year I’m thinking about training at a...
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Questionable Advice: Can Engineering Productivity Be Measured? I follow you on Twitter and read your blog.  I particularly enjoy this...
7th Jul 2020
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Questionable Advice: Can Engineering Productivity Be Measured?

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

7th Jul 2020
I follow you on Twitter and read your blog.  I particularly enjoy this post: https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/ I’m reaching out looking for some guidance. I work as an engineering manager for a company whose non-technology...
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Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
6th Nov 2021
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Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances

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

6th Nov 2021
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
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Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM) If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a...
1st Jul 2020
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Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM)

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2020
If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a Go scratchpad in the browser. Want to show someone a code snippet? Want to quickly test some syntax? Browser-based code pads are helpful. On that note, I created a new playground....
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Privacy Monthly: November 2023
7th Nov 2023
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Privacy Monthly: November 2023

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Nov 2023
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f.lux, but for your house Artificial lighting is omnipresent in contemporary society with disruptive consequences for human...
17th Oct 2022
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f.lux, but for your house

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

17th Oct 2022
Artificial lighting is omnipresent in contemporary society with disruptive consequences for human sleep – Sarah L Chellappa, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsaa214 Night & Day – 🌛 left-side is 18:14 MDT (light color @ 2600 K); 🌞 right-side is 15:20 MDT (light color @ 4900...
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close...
7th May 2007
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief

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

7th May 2007
Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close to home (for me anyway) needs more attention than it's getting. My fear is that the Greensburg tornado will fade from the public mind just as quickly as it came. I would like to...
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Books Read (so far) in 2016 The goal here is to hit 2 books a month, so 24 for the year. I’m on track as of now....
20th Aug 2016
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Books Read (so far) in 2016

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

20th Aug 2016
The goal here is to hit 2 books a month, so 24 for the year. I’m on track as of now. Perilous. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Black Hole by Charles Burns Fun Home by Alison Bechdel The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Starship Troopers by Robert A....
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Fave New Podcasts in 2021 My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
2nd Dec 2021
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Fave New Podcasts in 2021

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

2nd Dec 2021
My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
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How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle...
2nd Nov 2022
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How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2022
In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle persons and events on PostHog. Today, after gathering…
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A software engineer's guide to A/B testing As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired...
13th Jul 2023
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A software engineer's guide to A/B testing

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jul 2023
As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired impact. Track user metrics and run A/B tests to verify…
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On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been...
8th Jun 2025
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On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not

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

8th Jun 2025
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my...
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Don't use Tailwind for your Design System
4th Mar 2021
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Don't use Tailwind for your Design System

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2021
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Singapore H1B1 Tips ## much of the original piece below is outdated. this is my remaining 2023 updates for fellow...
1st Aug 2018
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Singapore H1B1 Tips

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

1st Aug 2018
## much of the original piece below is outdated. this is my remaining 2023 updates for fellow singaporeans.
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Dictionary Comprehension Apart from the list comprehension method, in Python, we also have dictionary comprehension - a...
19th Jan 2023
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Dictionary Comprehension

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jan 2023
Apart from the list comprehension method, in Python, we also have dictionary comprehension - a little less known but very useful feature. It's a perfect tool for creating a dictionary from an iterable. Let's see how we can use it and if it's faster than other methods. About the...
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5 Ways of Debugging with IPython There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am...
23rd Dec 2019
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5 Ways of Debugging with IPython

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Dec 2019
There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am a puts debuggerer", that I enjoyed when I played with Ruby. The gist of it is to show you that, in many cases, you don't need a full-fledged debugger. Don't get me (or Tenderlove)...
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How I obtained a J-FIND visa in Japan The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business...
13th Feb 2024
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How I obtained a J-FIND visa in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2024
The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business startup, and other income-generating endeavors within Japan — opportunities that were previously inaccessible to do so. I was one of the first recipients of this visa, which provided me...
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2026 is the year of fine-tuned small models
26th Oct 2025
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2026 is the year of fine-tuned small models

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

26th Oct 2025
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Ballad of The Lean Startup An ode to validated learning.
26th Sep 2011
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Ballad of The Lean Startup

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

26th Sep 2011
An ode to validated learning.
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RFD 1 Requests for Discussion One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
24th Jul 2020
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RFD 1 Requests for Discussion

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jul 2020
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet… …and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it! The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
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Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming....
4th Nov 2019
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Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2019
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming. Let’s take a look at what they are, when to (maybe) use them, and when not to.
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025 Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children...
2nd Jan 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
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Vibe Coding and the Existential Dread of Progress Does anyone else hate the term vibe coding? I’ve been pretty resistant to incorporating AI directly...
19th Jul 2025
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Vibe Coding and the Existential Dread of Progress

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

19th Jul 2025
Does anyone else hate the term vibe coding? I’ve been pretty resistant to incorporating AI directly into my development workflow. I use it all the time to clean up emails, Slack messages, and blog posts (including this one). It’s helped me plan vacations, write my cover letter...
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JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
28th Dec 2019
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JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

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

28th Dec 2019
Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
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The McPhee method When I first started writing professionally, for the Atlantic’s website, I taught myself “reporting”...
17th Aug 2025
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The McPhee method

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2025
When I first started writing professionally, for the Atlantic’s website, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles. The first two pieces I wrote from my head, with reference to things I already knew or to books I’d read....
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
7th Sep 2017
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors

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

7th Sep 2017
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I’ve most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome. But that all changes...
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agents, ai, and software engineering People are limited in the number of decisions they can make in a day. Most people do not experience...
24th Feb 2026
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agents, ai, and software engineering

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

24th Feb 2026
People are limited in the number of decisions they can make in a day. Most people do not experience this limit as day to day, the decision volume is pretty low. The day to day of an executive? It is generally a non-stop firewall of decisions.
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What I'm up to - January 2023 ✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a...
1st Jan 2023
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What I'm up to - January 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest - Published "Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to s...
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Beaglebone Black Setup on Debian 8 Flash eMMC with latest Debian image Download Debian image...
1st Apr 2016
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Beaglebone Black Setup on Debian 8

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

1st Apr 2016
Flash eMMC with latest Debian image Download Debian image [whatever].img.xz http://beagleboard.org/latest-images unxz bone-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-01-4gb.img.xz Insert microSD card and make sure that it is unmounted lsblk fdisk -l Copy the img to the microSD...
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Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I...
23rd Oct 2016
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Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects

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

23rd Oct 2016
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data. Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application. It uses modern,...
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Compare to None How do we check if something is None? With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you...
23rd Feb 2023
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Compare to None

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2023
How do we check if something is None? With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you would write is literally the same as the above question: if something is None: It reminds me of this joke: - How do you turn pseudocode into Python? - You add .py at the end of the...
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Go fix your bugs An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
4th May 2023
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Go fix your bugs

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2023
An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
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How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
1st Mar 2020
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How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg

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

1st Mar 2020
A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
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ZRH Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
22nd Aug 2012
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ZRH

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

22nd Aug 2012
Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
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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...
31st Dec 2024
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Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL

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

31st Dec 2024
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
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Understanding Bazel remote caching A deep dive into the Action Cache, the CAS, and the security issues that arise from using Bazel with...
5th Sep 2025
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Understanding Bazel remote caching

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Sep 2025
A deep dive into the Action Cache, the CAS, and the security issues that arise from using Bazel with a remote cache but without remote execution
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I did an interview for the Changelog Podcast I talked about Winamp2-js on the Changelog Podcast.
6th Apr 2018
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I did an interview for the Changelog Podcast

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2018
I talked about Winamp2-js on the Changelog Podcast.
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a whippet waypoint Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language...
9th May 2025
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a whippet waypoint

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2025
Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
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Rhythms of Order Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous...
5th Oct 2023
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Rhythms of Order

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

5th Oct 2023
Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous generations could never have dreamed of. Whether it’s bypassing traffic jams on the outskirts of hills of Kampala, or it’s determining your public transport route from your hotel to your...
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Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
28th Apr 2023
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Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Apr 2023
Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
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Boot.dev Beat. December 2022 I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from...
6th Jan 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. December 2022

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2023
I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from writing code, which I haven’t done in a long time. It’s good to be back though, and I can’t wait to see you around the Discord community.
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The Illusion of Free Will One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
19th Mar 2023
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The Illusion of Free Will

from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Mar 2023
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
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Silly fach generator I created a website that will generate silly fach names.
2nd Jan 2013
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Silly fach generator

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2013
I created a website that will generate silly fach names.
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One year of dependable software Today I'm introducing a new part of Contraption Company: Essays covering thoughts and opinions on...
10th Nov 2023
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One year of dependable software

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Nov 2023
Today I'm introducing a new part of Contraption Company: Essays covering thoughts and opinions on online work, dependability, tools, and craft. My name is Philip, and I'm the founder and owner of Contraption Company. I started this company as an idea in February 2020. I tinkered
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My ZSH (and bash) prompt Junkfood theme in git directory In order to become a card-carrying Linux user, I feel like you need...
18th Dec 2012
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My ZSH (and bash) prompt

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

18th Dec 2012
Junkfood theme in git directory In order to become a card-carrying Linux user, I feel like you need to have spent a truly astounding amount of time fiddling with your dotfiles. Me? I’ve gone way beyond the point of diminishing returns. Past the point where anyone who loves me...
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Kagi for Teams To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams...
5th Dec 2024
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Kagi for Teams

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2024
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams ( https://kagi.com/teams ) - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide.
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Non-alcoholic apéritifs I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage...
31st Jan 2025
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Non-alcoholic apéritifs

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

31st Jan 2025
I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage to mark the start of the evening. Something complex and maybe bitter, not like a drink you’d have with lunch. I found some good options. Ghia sodas are my favorite. Ghia is an NA...
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What I'm up to - November 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2024
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What I'm up to - November 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...
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moka pot notes In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti...
1st Jun 2025
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moka pot notes

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

1st Jun 2025
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti Moka Express. Recently when I got it going again after a winter of disuse, it took me a couple of attempts to get the technique right, so here are some notes as a reminder to my...
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How can I contribute to Ruby on Rails?
5th Jul 2012
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How can I contribute to Ruby on Rails?

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

5th Jul 2012
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Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS 2024-10-21 I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on...
21st Oct 2024
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Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS

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

21st Oct 2024
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS 2024-10-21 I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on Linveo. For just $15 a year they provide: AMD KVM 1GB 1024 MB RAM 1 CPU Core 25 GB NVMe SSD 2000 GB Bandwidth It’s a pretty great deal and I suggest you look more into it if you’re...
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Introduction
29th Apr 2018
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Introduction

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

29th Apr 2018
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Laying myself off from Amazon
16th Nov 2022
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Laying myself off from Amazon

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

16th Nov 2022
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
4th Aug 2020
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2020
I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
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How to Get a Software Developer Job in Japan I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby...
22nd Jun 2016
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How to Get a Software Developer Job in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2016
I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby developer](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan) at a Japanese startup. At the time, options for English speaking developers in Japan were few and far between: I could only find two...
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Why do many web developers hate jQuery? Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an...
22nd Nov 2016
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Why do many web developers hate jQuery?

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

22nd Nov 2016
Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an answer I originally posted to the above question posed over on Hashnode, the developer community. Thought it was worth sharing :) When jQuery was the new thing, people loved it....
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The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
8th Aug 2023
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The complex simplicity of my static websites

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

8th Aug 2023
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
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Building less, tinkering more, and walking away sooner I'm back from my vacation to Japan, slowly adjusting to California time. It was a fun and inspiring...
5th Dec 2025
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Building less, tinkering more, and walking away sooner

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2025
I'm back from my vacation to Japan, slowly adjusting to California time. It was a fun and inspiring trip – I'm thinking about it now while listening to the Eric Dolphy album Out There on vinyl, which I bought after hearing it at the Eigakin jazz kissa
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The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time,...
12th Mar 2024
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The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2024
How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time, and is it still relevant half a century on – or does it belong in a museum, alongside floppy discs?
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Staying Ahead of Amazon, in Amazon Treasure Hunt Contest With a simple Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, I tried to cheat(?) one of Amazon India’s contest.
31st Oct 2015
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Staying Ahead of Amazon, in Amazon Treasure Hunt Contest

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Oct 2015
With a simple Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, I tried to cheat(?) one of Amazon India’s contest.
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Every product needs an architecture vision Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
5th Feb 2024
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Every product needs an architecture vision

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2024
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
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Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of...
23rd Dec 2024
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Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev

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

23rd Dec 2024
A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of version control for game dev.
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Things nobody taught me about money When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
2nd Jun 2023
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Things nobody taught me about money

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2023
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
6th Jan 2025
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2025
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
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I’m (re-)starting a newsletter Just a quick update to let those of you who bookmarked this blog or who have subscribed to my RSS...
11th May 2026
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I’m (re-)starting a newsletter

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

11th May 2026
Just a quick update to let those of you who bookmarked this blog or who have subscribed to my RSS feed know that I have (re-)started a newsletter. Why a newsletter? As you might know (or not), while I’ve been pretty active on LinkedIn over the years, I do have a love-hate (or...
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Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
19th Apr 2020
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Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2020
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
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Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
31st Dec 2016
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Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL

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

31st Dec 2016
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
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Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
1st Jul 2023
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Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
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Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint’s no-constant-binary-expression I contributed a rule to ESLint that catches a surprisingly wide variety of logic bugs.
20th Jun 2022
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Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint’s no-constant-binary-expression

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jun 2022
I contributed a rule to ESLint that catches a surprisingly wide variety of logic bugs.
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Embed your subscribe form in the middle of your writing Use {{ subscribe_form }} to let folks subscribe faster!
8th Mar 2022
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Embed your subscribe form in the middle of your writing

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

8th Mar 2022
Use {{ subscribe_form }} to let folks subscribe faster!
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Play the card game "War" in my avatar I programed a dynamic avatar that plays the card game war.
12th Nov 2008
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Play the card game "War" in my avatar

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2008
I programed a dynamic avatar that plays the card game war.
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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭 .title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here,...
1st Jan 2024
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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭

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

1st Jan 2024
.title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README Git bundles handy tools along with its source repo. They live in a directory named contrib—short for contributed...
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Why You Should Prefix Custom Events Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event...
12th Dec 2022
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Why You Should Prefix Custom Events

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

12th Dec 2022
Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event must also contain a dash. This removes all ambiguity between native events and custom events. Therefore, I prefix all custom events in Shoelace with sl-. It may seem contradictory...
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Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
9th Oct 2023
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Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023

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

9th Oct 2023
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
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Haunt 0.3.0 released Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many...
19th Feb 2024
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Haunt 0.3.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2024
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many fixes and improvements have been accumulated so this is long overdue! About Haunt Haunt is a static site generator that uses the Guile Scheme as its configuration language. It...
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How to hire people who are better than you If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you...
19th Apr 2026
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How to hire people who are better than you

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

19th Apr 2026
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you hire for something you don't understand?
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Catching grace Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying...
12th Mar 2025
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Catching grace

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2025
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.
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Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
3rd Nov 2023
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Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer.

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

3rd Nov 2023
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
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The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
4th Mar 2022
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The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2022
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
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Backyard Ukulele Session: Ukulele Videos with Chelsea Chelsea and I recorded a few songs in our backyard with the help of Beau Lambert.
4th Nov 2011
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Backyard Ukulele Session: Ukulele Videos with Chelsea

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2011
Chelsea and I recorded a few songs in our backyard with the help of Beau Lambert.
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Happy Pride! Have Some Updates! This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big...
4th Jun 2024
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Happy Pride! Have Some Updates!

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2024
This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big update for Mail. Plus Wayland is here, there’s a new way to manage Drivers, and we’re shipping Flathub by default! And don’t forget Platform 8 is now ready for developers. Read ahead...
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Documentation Belongs in Engineering Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point,...
29th Aug 2023
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Documentation Belongs in Engineering

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Aug 2023
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
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Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design
2nd Jun 2016
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Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design

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

2nd Jun 2016
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How I program with LLMs How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using...
6th Jan 2025
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How I program with LLMs

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

6th Jan 2025
How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming to learn about them. The result...
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Intentional Creation Reliably tap into your creativity with the 4 Cs: Consume, critique, curate, create. This is one of...
4th Jan 2023
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Intentional Creation

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2023
Reliably tap into your creativity with the 4 Cs: Consume, critique, curate, create. This is one of my oldest ideas, finally published on the GitHub ReadME Project blog, along with a profile, in June 2022. For more like this, follow me on Twitter or Mastodon. (You can also read it...
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Changing the Tires on a Moving Codebase 2020 was a year of reckonings. And for all that was beyond one’s control, as the year went on, I...
10th Mar 2021
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Changing the Tires on a Moving Codebase

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2021
2020 was a year of reckonings. And for all that was beyond one’s control, as the year went on, I found myself pouring more and more into the one thing that felt within reach: futureproofing of the large enterprise web application I helped build, SimpleLegal. Now complete, this...
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Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication? I’m sure that some pictures are worth a thousand words, but others trigger a whole lot of...
3 weeks ago
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Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication?

from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
I’m sure that some pictures are worth a thousand words, but others trigger a whole lot of puzzlement. Such was the case with the cover of a book I recently bought entitled Calculating with Tones: The Logarithmic Logic of Music: ... more ...
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Colophon Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the...
1st May 2015
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Colophon

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2015
Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the archive. This convention makes a colophon the King's Pawn Game of web authorship; there's no better place to showcase certain implementation details than the first post of a...
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Punctuated Excitement Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new...
27th May 2016
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Punctuated Excitement

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

27th May 2016
Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?” So I...
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How I write blog posts every month What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
17th Feb 2018
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How I write blog posts every month

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

17th Feb 2018
What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025 We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI...
10th Jun 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jun 2025
We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
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My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia. It sure...
24th Oct 2023
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My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze

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

24th Oct 2023
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia. It sure seems like a long time ago.
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I doubled-down on RSS Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the...
6th Mar 2023
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I doubled-down on RSS

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

6th Mar 2023
Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the mall. The quarter that is its imminent demise is revolving faster and faster and will probably drop out of sight sooner than later. Part of mourning the communities I once had there...
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
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October 2021
1st Oct 2021
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October 2021

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

1st Oct 2021
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference? Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
26th Dec 2018
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity

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

26th Dec 2018
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
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Buying a House in Portland After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically...
13th Oct 2016
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Buying a House in Portland

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Oct 2016
After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically toured more than 70 houses, put in 13 offers and looked over hundreds of listings in nearly every neighborhood in the city. I thought it might be a good time to reflect on the...
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PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020 Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 ....
1st Oct 2020
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PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2020
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an…
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Announcing Rust Contributors
12th Jan 2017
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Announcing Rust Contributors

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

12th Jan 2017
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The Federation Fallacy Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air:...
3rd Mar 2019
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The Federation Fallacy

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2019
Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air: mistrust of large corporations, mistrust of governments, and of course, mistrust of proprietary software. Each mistrust is connected by a critical thread: centralisation. Thus,...
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Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can...
29th Sep 2015
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Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure

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

29th Sep 2015
Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can create opportunities for everyone involved.
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3D Rotation Design
22nd Jun 2017
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3D Rotation Design

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2017
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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...
4th Jan 2025
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Annual Review 2024

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2025
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 significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have...
30th Jul 2024
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The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media

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

30th Jul 2024
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have introduced support for Bluesky in Buffer. This is an important moment for us as a company, and there are a number of reasons that adding Bluesky is personally meaningful for me. With...
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Overcast 4.2: The privacy update Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast...
27th Apr 2018
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Overcast 4.2: The privacy update

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2018
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
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Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website,...
7th Jul 2015
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Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy

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

7th Jul 2015
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC. Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411 Registrant City: PANAMA Registrant State/Province:...
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Overkill Objects for Everyday Life I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
30th May 2021
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Overkill Objects for Everyday Life

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th May 2021
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability...
10th Apr 2025
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability tools help them do this by capturing LLM provider…
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Modern CSS patterns in Campfire Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live...
4th Apr 2024
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Modern CSS patterns in Campfire

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Apr 2024
Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live walk through the app’s CSS code. Campfire was built with vanilla CSS, fully #nobuild without compiling or preprocessors, and uses the latest web platform features available in...
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What if typing on phones was fast?
27th Nov 2024
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What if typing on phones was fast?

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Nov 2024
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Self-documenting Makefiles Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
10th Jan 2025
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Self-documenting Makefiles

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2025
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
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Visual Sum of Cubes
8th Aug 2022
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Visual Sum of Cubes

from Jaz's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2022
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Box combinators
1st Jun 2025
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Box combinators

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2025
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WTF is operations? #serverless I just got back from the very first ever @serverlessconf in NYC.  I have a soft spot for...
31st May 2016
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WTF is operations? #serverless

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

31st May 2016
I just got back from the very first ever @serverlessconf in NYC.  I have a soft spot for well-curated single-track conferences, and the organizers did an incredible job.  Major kudos to @iamstan and team for pulling together such a high-caliber mix of attendees as well as...
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What I'm up to - August 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2024
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What I'm up to - August 2024

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in late June + July - Been working hard on Find AI - rolling out lots of feature and updates, st...
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Finding active GitHub forks from the command line I maintain SumatraPDF on GitHub. People fork it and make their own changes. I want to know which...
18th Jun 2026
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Finding active GitHub forks from the command line

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

18th Jun 2026
I maintain SumatraPDF on GitHub. People fork it and make their own changes. I want to know which forks are active and what they’re working on. GitHub has a Network tab for this. I find it lousy. It’s hard to see active forks at a glance. Panning and zooming the UI is slow and...
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The future of the App Store After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC...
13th Sep 2021
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The future of the App Store

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Sep 2021
After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC announcement, and the Apple v. Epic decision, I think the most likely long-term outcome isn’t very different from the status quo — and that’s a good thing. Allowing external...
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Folding the DOM In this post, we'll explore a technique we can use to "fold" a DOM node, like folding a letter in...
19th May 2019
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Folding the DOM

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

19th May 2019
In this post, we'll explore a technique we can use to "fold" a DOM node, like folding a letter in real-life. On that journey, we'll learn a lot about 3D transforms and CSS animation techniques!
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What I'm up to - April 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a...
1st Apr 2024
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What I'm up to - April 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...
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Leaving Stripe I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
6th May 2015
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Leaving Stripe

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2015
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup. Startups # Throughout college, I...
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<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)...
31st Oct 2022
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<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell

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

31st Oct 2022
The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) standard. It allows a property/value declaration in HTML as a way of providing an accessible name for an interactive element. Accessible names Accessible names use text to identify...
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Podcasts I like A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
14th Jul 2016
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Podcasts I like

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jul 2016
A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
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Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
1st Jun 2024
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Lisp: Icing or Cake?

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2024
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached...
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What are passkeys? That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are...
18th May 2023
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What are passkeys?

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

18th May 2023
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
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Array 1.0.10 Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features....
1st Apr 2020
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Array 1.0.10

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2020
Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Release notes Users in Trend Graphs Whilst we have…
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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated… The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a...
16th Mar 2023
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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Mar 2023
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a human could do. But then ChatGPT burst onto the scene. And suddenly we realized that an AI could write a passable human-like essay. So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this...
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Grass Valley welcome arch In 1901 visitors entered through the legs of an odd statue of a gold miner
1st May 2026
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Grass Valley welcome arch

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1st May 2026
In 1901 visitors entered through the legs of an odd statue of a gold miner
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
29th Aug 2007
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php

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

29th Aug 2007
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
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The agent principal-agent problem The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code...
7th May 2026
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The agent principal-agent problem

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

7th May 2026
The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code review process, review-then-commit, was a straightforward mechanism that allowed a relatively low-trust group of engineers to collaborate. It appears to have been initially developed...
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[Original Song] "Our Love Will Last As Long" I wrote and recorded a novelty love song for Chelsea.
4th Jul 2009
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[Original Song] "Our Love Will Last As Long"

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jul 2009
I wrote and recorded a novelty love song for Chelsea.
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Dips and Wiggles Modern infrastructure generates a heck of a lot of data, and it all has to go somewhere. Here’s...
26th Feb 2022
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Dips and Wiggles

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Feb 2022
Modern infrastructure generates a heck of a lot of data, and it all has to go somewhere. Here’s how to connect your Checkly data to Prometheus and Grafana, as part of an integrated observability pipeline.
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Spring 2021 We have some great new features launching in the next few weeks.
18th Aug 2021
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Spring 2021

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

18th Aug 2021
We have some great new features launching in the next few weeks.
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x86 Addressing Modes, Part 2: Indirect, Indexed, and Offset-based Modes In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing...
9th Aug 2026
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x86 Addressing Modes, Part 2: Indirect, Indexed, and Offset-based Modes

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

9th Aug 2026
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing modes along with some interesting examples and exercises.
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What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plants Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
10th Apr 2021
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What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plants

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

10th Apr 2021
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
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Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little...
2nd Jul 2025
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Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS

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

2nd Jul 2025
After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL doesn’t match the order in which they are displayed on screen. Why’s this happening? I have a bunch of links in my HTML document,...
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All about QA Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years...
15th Oct 2024
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All about QA

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Oct 2024
Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years ago, and Gabriel, who joined the team in 2022. Together, we have a hand in projects across all of our products, from kickoff to release. Our goal is to help designers and...
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Jazz Ukulele "Love Is a Song" from Bambi I arranged and recorded 'Love Is a Song' from Walt Disney's Bambi on my new ukulele.
6th Feb 2010
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Jazz Ukulele "Love Is a Song" from Bambi

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2010
I arranged and recorded 'Love Is a Song' from Walt Disney's Bambi on my new ukulele.
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Boot.dev Beat. February 2023 I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back...
1st Mar 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. February 2023

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2023
I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back writing code, writing courses and filming videos.
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poached eggs A few weeks ago I was enjoying a couple of boiled eggs (in the shell, with plenty of salt and...
14th Mar 2026
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poached eggs

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

14th Mar 2026
A few weeks ago I was enjoying a couple of boiled eggs (in the shell, with plenty of salt and pepper, and buttery fingers of toast to dunk into the runny yolk) and pondering how fiddly it is to cut off one end of the shell after boiling compared to eating a poached egg. And I was...
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What is Backend-as-a-Service? Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made...
5th Dec 2022
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What is Backend-as-a-Service?

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2022
Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made available by a third party over the internet. Think Salesforce, WordPress, or MailChimp. And most people know what a “backend developer” is, that is, someone who is responsible for things...
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AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
7th Mar 2025
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AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?

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

7th Mar 2025
This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
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I'm an introvert and I gave a conference talk I gave my first conference talk at Design It Build It conference in September this year. After my...
19th Oct 2019
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I'm an introvert and I gave a conference talk

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Oct 2019
I gave my first conference talk at Design It Build It conference in September this year. After my talk, an attendee invited me to connect on LinkedIn and in his message to me, asked how I had overcome being an introvert to give my talk. And while I understood the sentiment, I...
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An Intriguing Triangle
18th Aug 2020
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An Intriguing Triangle

from Jaz's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Aug 2020
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Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was...
1st Oct 2019
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Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2019
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was testing it in the interactive Python REPL, the first version turned out to have some bugs (the second and third ones also did 😉). That's fine - I thought - I will just fix the module...
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My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter...
21st Nov 2023
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My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Nov 2023
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter the country, such as a working holiday visa, English teaching, or getting hired by one of the [many wonderful companies](http://www.tokyodev.com/companies), posting jobs on...
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Visit for a surprise Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility...
1st Sep 2022
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Visit for a surprise

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

1st Sep 2022
Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Success Criterion 2.4.4: Link Purpose (In Context) instructs us to ensure that a link’s accessible name makes sense when separated from its surrounding context. It’s why...
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On finding clients as an independent consultant I’ve been a freelancer / independent consultant for some 11 years now, and until recently, keeping...
27th Nov 2025
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On finding clients as an independent consultant

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

27th Nov 2025
I’ve been a freelancer / independent consultant for some 11 years now, and until recently, keeping myself occupied has been fairly smooth sailing. There has always been a lot of demand for people with the technical skills that I have gathered over the years, so finding new...
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Bumpy
17th Dec 2014
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Bumpy

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Dec 2014
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IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020 Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
13th May 2020
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IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020

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

13th May 2020
Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
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A reality check about cloud native DevOps Wojtek Cichoń from Semaphore speaks with John Arundel, consultant and author of ‘Cloud Native...
3rd Feb 2020
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A reality check about cloud native DevOps

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2020
Wojtek Cichoń from Semaphore speaks with John Arundel, consultant and author of ‘Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes’, about how adopting DevOps destroys walls, builds bridges, and influences company cultures for the better. “Sometimes all it takes to put the light back in...
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