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Acko.net
Sub-pixel Distance Transform High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited...
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High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support. For the full experience, use Chrome on Windows or Mac, or a developer build on other platforms. In this post I will describe Use.GPU's text rendering, which uses...
The Changelog
Flying Joy Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a...
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Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too! Moments like this make me smile at being a pilot dad. A week ago, I also got to give 8 children and one adult their first ever ride …...
A Beautiful Site
Prefers Reduced Motion By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not...
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By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not a user prefers, well, reduced motion. You can use this to tone down (or turn off) transitions and animations in your stylesheet to accommodate users with vestibular motion...
The Changelog
Asynchronous Email: Exim over NNCP (or UUCP) Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with...
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Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with modern encryption and onion routing, here is the first of my posts showing how to put it into action. Email is a natural fit for async; in fact, much of early email was carried by...
Liz Denys
Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich....
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I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich. Don't get me wrong - I like chocolate - but that's just it, I like chocolate, not a pinch of cocoa flavor. Chocolate chip cookies always tasted better to me with the chips on the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Keyboard First I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast...
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I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast today](https://art19.com/shows/intercom-on-product/episodes/10ee6fbe-13ef-48c6-af5e-3477bdbe87e3). They discussed the rise of the `cmd+K` UI paradigm in apps like:
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Stripe Goes No-Code — Stripe Payment Links Explained Stripe has entered the No Code market in a big way! I take a crack at explaining what it's doing and...
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Honeycomb texture generator It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if...
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It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if you need more, there is some changeable code too. If you need more freedom, just get this thing on Github.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The two kinds of writing There are two kinds of writing. Writing for yourself, and writing for others. Both of these can,...
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There are two kinds of writing. Writing for yourself, and writing for others. Both of these can, naturally, be broken down into various subcategories. For example: Personal Journaling Note-taking Poetry (although this can be public) Public Blogging Academic papers Letter...
Liz Denys
A simple summer salad of fennel, edamame, and onion I went most of my life without having fennel. Then one day I had it roasted, the next raw, and I was...
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I went most of my life without having fennel. Then one day I had it roasted, the next raw, and I was in love. Surprising, given that I'm not very partial to anise flavoring. While fennel is very versatile to cook with - you can boil, braise, fry, grill, roast, sauté, or steam it...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Hello, I am making a modern fullstack JS tutorial livestream. What questions do you have for me? ---
over a year ago
TokyoDev
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...
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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...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
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The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
Civic Hax
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Super Mario Blocks in CSS Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build...
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks. What our final product will look like: Live CodePen Example The HTML The set of Mario blocks doesn’t require a huge...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
The things we do to ship desktop software I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in...
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I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in under a second. It might surprise you that I spent more time on things that are not related to core functionality. Let’s call it a tax of shipping desktop software. Here are some of...
Tinloof - Blog
Why most CMSes suck We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS...
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We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS (e.g. WordPress, Hubspot) Modern website builder (e.g. Framer, Webflow)
Marco.org
Developer relations Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial...
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Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple. That any portion of our customers came to our apps from our own marketing or reputation, rather than the App...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And...
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Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love this stuff. While some apps made this transition fun (and further infused their brand with character), others did not. They did...
macwright.com
Open charter companies and relicensing A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL...
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A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL license. The BSL license was created by the people at MariaDB in 2017 to give companies a way to release software as open source but prohibit their competitors from re-hosting that...
macwright.com
Recently Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
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Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines, and guest-starred on the enormous Chapo Trap House podcast. Reading It’s been a slow few weeks for books, but since I skipped Recently in May, I can still talk about Achieving...
Tony Finch's blog
Slower DNS name decompression In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this...
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In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this diagram so that we do less of it: names < pointers < labels < bytes Last week I had a bright idea about that leftmost step, moving per-pointer work to per-name, using some...
A Smart Bear
AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous...
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The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
macwright.com
Recently Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
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Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you. Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
David Heinemeier...
Apple’s new extortion regime to keep big app makers Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a...
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Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a big, revealing moment to a lot of people. Folks who perhaps didn’t think Apple would be “that kind of company”. That they wouldn't so blatantly threaten developers into compliance...
A Beautiful Site
Creating a printable website using print stylesheets I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean...
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I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean version of the webpage that I'm looking at. These little icons are indeed a beautiful sight from the user's perspective. No more having to modify printer settings or copy and paste...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
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...
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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...
blag
Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
over a year ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
Global Game Jam 2015
over a year ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
A language for designing slides
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Intro to Node-RED I dipped into [my automation repo](https://github.com/sw-yx/automation/blob/master/README.md) today...
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I dipped into [my automation repo](https://github.com/sw-yx/automation/blob/master/README.md) today and explored Huginn. It didn't really appeal so I looked for alternatives and found [Node-RED](https://nodered.org/). It uses a much more familiar toolchain (JS) and is...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Genius of Apple's Name An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
over a year ago
Founder's blog
I really wanted to like Tailwind CSS TL;DR Nobody: Absolutely no one: Me: Here's what I think about Tailwind CSS! First, a...
a year ago
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TL;DR Nobody: Absolutely no one: Me: Here's what I think about Tailwind CSS! First, a tip of the hat Let's get one thing out of the way: Tailwind CSS is great. For starters, Tailwind is a very polished and well-thought-out product. As a fellow bootstrapper - I...
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
ntietz.com blog
Affirmations for bloggers Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of...
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Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated. It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you. But there are also some common issues that block people...
A Beautiful Site
Know When To Draw The Line One-off variations aren't uncommon, but they don't belong in your design system. You're design...
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One-off variations aren't uncommon, but they don't belong in your design system. You're design system isn't solving for every possible use case — it's encouraging visual consistency and efficient development. Use custom styles for one-offs. This came up recently on my team. We...
TokyoDev
Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
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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...
Cognitive...
dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b I get a lot of questions about...
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https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b I get a lot of questions about dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b and I wanted to address some of them on my blog. Dolphin got a nice video review from Prompt Engineering What's this about? Friday December 8, MistralAI released a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Deploying on Netlify with Apple’s Shortcuts Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I...
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Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I host my personal websites on Netlify. I’ve got a few websites that aren’t the traditional model of: commit to git, push, build triggers on Netlify, website goes live. Sometimes I...
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
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Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
A case for socks with toes Yes, I wear toe socks. Yes, they're amazing. I've exclusively been wearing toe socks for the past...
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Yes, I wear toe socks. Yes, they're amazing. I've exclusively been wearing toe socks for the past 8-ish years. Every now and again (say I enter a house which has a no-shoe rule), someone will spot them and find the concept strange, commenting on how weird they look, and if the...
Steve Klabnik
Better Ruby Presenters
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Solving the search problem I recently wrote about using an ORM and how it allowed me to support five different database...
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I recently wrote about using an ORM and how it allowed me to support five different database platforms with minimal effort. There is, however, one feature that even Sequelize couldn't tackle for me: full-text search A full-text search is typically a database feature that lets you...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
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Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
samwho.dev
I finally figured out how to take notes! I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking...
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I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking software, odds are I’ve tried it. I’ve even tried going old school with pen and paper. Nothing sticks. Until recently. Some time ago, I learned about Apple’s Shortcuts app. It’s...
The Changelog
Consider Security First I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly...
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I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly can, including my Raspberry Pi devices, to Debian. I will write about that later. But for now, I wanted to comment on something I think is often overlooked and misunderstood by...
bt RSS Feed
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to...
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to user Achraf JEDAY for putting these instructions together on Stack Overflow (although his comments were targeting an older version of Ruby). This post is more for my own personal...
davidyat.es
The many (bad) interfaces of Substack
9 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2024 Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification)...
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Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification) to perform a fast and sensitive detection of nucleic acid sequences. Thanks again to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware for me to take apart and photograph! Nobody had...
General Robots
ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
a year ago
HTMHell
Past HTML, Future HTML? by Jens Oliver Meiert Consider the following HTML document: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML...
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by Jens Oliver Meiert Consider the following HTML document: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 1996-01//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p class="Author"> <h1></h1> <P> <P> <H2></H2> <P> <UL> <LI> <LI> ...
wingolog
fedi is for losers Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in...
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Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in common. We all left Twitter, or refused to join in the first place. Many of us are technologists or tech-adjacent, but generally not startuppy. There is a pervasive do-it-yourself...
bt RSS Feed
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of...
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
Making software...
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
ntietz.com blog -...
Making Rust builds fail from YAML config mistakes I was talking to a friend recently, and zie1 lamented that a Rust web framework uses YAML for its...
2 months ago
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I was talking to a friend recently, and zie1 lamented that a Rust web framework uses YAML for its configuration. I'm far from one to defend YAML2, but dug in a little to understand zir issues with it: is it the trauma here, or is it something else? Ultimately, zie wanted...
bt RSS Feed
ET-Jekyll Theme ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which...
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ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which takes it’s style and inspiration from the wonderful book and handout designs of Edward Tufte. The differences are subtle when comparing my variation to Tufte CSS, but these...
Computer Things
Why I prefer rST to markdown I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on...
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I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on constraint solving and formal specification, and more! Get it here. This is my second book written with Sphinx, after the new Learn TLA+. Sphinx uses a peculiar markup called reStructured...
Vadim Kravcenko
Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return Question: Answer: The post Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
8 months ago
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
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There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values. The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
Epic Web Dev
Replace Remix's unstable_parseMultipartFormData with @mjackson/form-data-parser (tip) Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or...
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Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or @mjackson/form-data-parser with custom file size validation.
Steve Klabnik
Rust is more than safety
over a year ago
Charles Chen
React is the New IBM You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get...
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You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and joyless every step of the way.
37signals Dev
Turbo 8 released We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
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We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board. Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8: Morphing...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 2: The type system
5 months ago
James Vaughan's blog
Movie Director Genders
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
A clean fade-in effect for webpages Here's a nice way to fade your pages in using CSS and a bit of JavaScript. The solution is clean and...
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Here's a nice way to fade your pages in using CSS and a bit of JavaScript. The solution is clean and smooth, with no flickering on load. If JavaScript is disabled, the page will still load but the fade effect will not occur. How it works # This trick works by adding the fade-out...
ntietz.com blog -...
Debugging my wife's alarm clock My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately. Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't...
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My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately. Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't blare in the morning at the set time. Instead, when it was supposed to go off it would... reset itself. The time would start flashing in that "I'm confused because the power went...
the singularity is...
High Trust Society I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think...
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I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think this gets fixed? Is Kamala going to restore trust in government? Is Trump going to restore trust in government? Despite what Western media might have you believe about how the...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I&#x27;m going to Hawaii with my co-founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My co-founder...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] and I are headed to Hawaii tomorrow morning for a 10 day trip. I just emailed the team, and I thought in line with one of our core...
TokyoDev
Working as a Filipino Software Developer in Japan It felt like a fever dream when I got the job offer to move to Japan. *This was it*, I thought. *My...
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a year ago
It felt like a fever dream when I got the job offer to move to Japan. *This was it*, I thought. *My chance to rebrand myself and seek better opportunities*. I was twenty when I left my entire life behind in my hometown in the municipality of Kalibo to get a shot at working for...
bt RSS Feed
My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a...
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over a year ago
My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
a month ago
Liz Denys
Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
8 months ago
Blog System/5
Revisiting the NetBSD build system I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system...
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I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system image with minimal boot times and NetBSD was the best choice for it. Let's look at why its build system helps.
Daniel Marino
How to Process Customer Criticism Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?! Design is super subjective, and everyone is a critic! Regardless of your education or how sharp your design eye is, you’ll never be able to please everyone. This is especially true...
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m finishing university, scared about future career prospects Question: Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be...
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9 months ago
Question: Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be a software engineer. But, I keep hearing the job market's tough. Been reading online that lots of devs are struggling to find steady gigs. Is your company looking for any devs?...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Getting Senpai To Notice You How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting the leaders of that field to at least read your writing and know your name.
Steve Klabnik
Rescuing Resque (again)
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we found our Ideal Customer Profile Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog....
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over a year ago
Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog. You can see it in our revenue growth: I wish we…
swyx's site RSS Feed
The $100b Bull Case for Temporal Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
over a year ago
Making software...
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I've become obsessed with trying to see...
over a year ago
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Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I've become obsessed with trying to see what I can create using only HTML and CSS (besides websites of course). Since playing with the concept of faking 3D elements, I wanted to circle back around to an older CodePen I...
Making software...
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
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Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple's Keynote, etc....
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
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This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
James Vaughan's blog
Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
over a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
Creating my own Field Desk
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Blog System/5
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
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swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
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TokyoDev
Visas for Software Engineers in Japan Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in...
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Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) is relatively easy compared to other countries. It costs a company almost nothing to sponsor your visa, there aren't any quotas on the number of visas issued, and the...
Daniel Marino
Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found...
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After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found some complicated fixes. After some noodling around, here’s a simple way to fix it with Homebrew: First, figure out which version of PHP you’re running. You can do this by opening up...
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80/20 is the new Half-Ass Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look...
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Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look back and wonder why you never hit 100% on anything.
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How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours Grabbing the audio
over a year ago
Alex Meub
The Holy Grail of IE Testing I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This...
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I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This setup allows you to test authentic versions of IE6, IE7, and IE8 without the need to boot up virtual machines. It also allows you to have a debug bar in each of these versions so...
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How I Approach First Principles Thinking An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on...
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Building Molecule Reader in one day Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when...
over a year ago
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Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when there are notifications coming in or even just other content on the screen1. I have a reMarkable tablet (RM), which I love dearly2 and much prefer to read on. But it's annoying...
The Pragmatic...
Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no...
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Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no signup or other throttling in place. Two approaches: but there will likely be only one winner.
ntietz.com blog
Topologies of Remote Teams When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some...
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over a year ago
When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some point: will we all be in the same office, or will we do this "remote work" thing? There are a lot of factors that go into whether or not remote work will work for your team, like...
James Vaughan's blog
Joining Arcol
over a year ago
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100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere Simple grab and go upgrade to the base user agent stylesheet to make for readable sites
over a year ago
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Why Tailwind CSS Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
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Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
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Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
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Neil Panchal
ZFS RAIDZ2 - Achieving 157 GB/s Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the...
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Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the --filename option. Actual bandwidth is approximately 22 GB/s, which is still mighty impressive. I built a new server that's also going to serve as a NAS. It
Alex Meub
My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out,...
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I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created. Finding Campsites My wife...
Neil Panchal
Isomatic Typeface Rev 6 WIP This is a ton of work. But not many things in the world could be more satisfying. Isomatic Type Rev...
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This is a ton of work. But not many things in the world could be more satisfying. Isomatic Type Rev 6 WIP Also added Western and Central European language support. Stay tuned. This concept has been brewing for a few years now. I'll post some lower case specimens
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
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over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it. Why website speed matters
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Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds ---
over a year ago
TokyoDev
A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
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over a year ago
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
Coding Horror
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...
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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
Basta’s Notes
What have I been up to lately? Just a little update, because I've been quiet
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer: Cyber Monday Deals It's Cyber Monday: and I'm offering one-day, one-off discounts on my ebooks, as well as on The...
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It's Cyber Monday: and I'm offering one-day, one-off discounts on my ebooks, as well as on The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. Here they are: The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter: 20% off, for the first year, for annual subscriptions. Claim it here. See more details, and read reviews...
Alex MacCaw
The Illusion of Free Will One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
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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.
Making software...
Styling Empty Table Cells Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you're bound to come...
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Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you're bound to come across empty pockets of data. These will be rendered as "blank" table cells, which isn't always the intended outcome. Let's take a quick look at how to target and style empty table...
Greg Brockman
How I became a machine learning practitioner For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little...
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For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but not impossible, and I think most...
macwright.com
Playing with bikeshare data, part one Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a...
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Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric. It’s a long-term project that combines my...
Paolo Amoroso's...
The downside of adding a File Manager type to Femtounit <![CDATA[I integrated Femtounit with the File Manager by defining the new type TESTS for Femtounit...
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a year ago
<![CDATA[I integrated Femtounit with the File Manager by defining the new type TESTS for Femtounit tests and redefining DEFTEST in terms of it. It turns out it's not a good idea as the tests get duplicated. The DEFTEST macro expands into a DEFINEQ function definition and the...
Words and Buttons...
Using logical operators for logical operations is good A folow up on a guessing game with C++ operators. Let's redo a few rounds. The benchmark is the...
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A folow up on a guessing game with C++ operators. Let's redo a few rounds. The benchmark is the same, the questions are the same. The compiler is the same. The only thing that changes is the platform. This is now CHIP with ARMv7.
Making software...
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web...
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I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to “React components”. JSX had <MyComponent> and now the web had <my-component>. But when you try building web components...
somenice
The Micro One-Armed Bandit Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython...
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a year ago
Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython using the Adafruit 5×5 NeoBFF Led Matrix. A micro switch, or limit switch is used to ‘pull’ the slot machine arm. A Piezo buzzer bleeps and bloops familiar tones and may signal a win....
Making software...
Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } ...
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Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } .box-container, .box-container-depth { background: white; box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); border: 1px solid #eee; border-radius: 10px; margin: 2rem auto; ...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2024 The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it...
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The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it because I had trouble searching for a recent example at an image quality sufficient to make out most of the part numbers. Maybe this can help someone else in a similar fix! Warm...
macwright.com
Recently 2024 Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be...
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Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be able to remember and carve out the time around New Years to write this, so here’s some end-of-year roundup, ahead of schedule! Running This was my biggest year for running on...
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Compile Svelte in Your Head by Tan Li Hau Linking to a blogpost I was too lazy to do
over a year ago
Quentin Santos
Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one...
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8 months ago
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a...
A Beautiful Site
Browser makers: where’s the new tab + homepage option? Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful...
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over a year ago
Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful of tabs open in my web browser at any time. Whether I'm developing, checking email, or just surfing around, I can never seem to have enough tabs! But there's one thing about this...
Liz Denys
Understanding GNU Screen's captions I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does everything I really need. One of the things I (possibly mistakenly) want is lots of windows. The problem with having lots of windows is they quickly become hard to keep track of,...
Josh Collinsworth
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
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A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Logical Properties and Ease I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party. The purist in me loves the idea because it...
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a year ago
I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party. The purist in me loves the idea because it makes CSS more internally consistent with its design to be a language-agnostic framework for uni-directional layout. Chris gets at this in his recent post, “Why aren’t logical...
37signals Dev
Demo of page refreshes with morphing We published a demo showing how Page Refreshes with morphing work in Turbo 8: Comparing code...
a year ago
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a year ago
We published a demo showing how Page Refreshes with morphing work in Turbo 8: Comparing code helps a lot in software discussions, so I thought it would be valuable to show how the new feature compares to Turbo stream actions for performing partial updates and broadcasts....
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, July 2024 The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last...
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5 months ago
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.
Julia Evans
New playground: memory spy Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs and...
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a year ago
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs and see how their variables are represented in memory. It’s designed to be accessible to folks who don’t know C – it comes with bunch of extremely simple example C programs that you can...
Alice GG
Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A...
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a year ago
Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price data, which leads to technical analysis often being perceived as similar to astrology. In this article, I will try to see if...
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Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Has Baby Yoda been engaging in Twitter 'platform manipulation?' and the broad brush of Twitter's... Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and...
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Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and spam" according to their Instagram. Twitter's policy on platform manipulation and spam allows for "using Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account," as...
David Heinemeier...
One happy Rails World Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the...
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a year ago
Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the coolest conference venue possible in Amsterdam was epic. Safe to say, Rails World was a roaring success. Which is deeply satisfying to conclude, because it really wasn't a given outcome...
37signals Dev
Exploring server-side diffing in Turbo We did a lot of exploratory work before coming up with the Turbo improvement we presented in Rails...
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a year ago
We did a lot of exploratory work before coming up with the Turbo improvement we presented in Rails World. One of those experiments included diffing in the server instead of in the client. The idea The inspiration for this idea came, again, from Phoenix Live View, a library I find...
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What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome) Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this...
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over a year ago
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are a…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Organizing Developer Writing Retreats One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS |...
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One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT** in Miami!
Steve Klabnik
ActiveRecord considered harmful
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The Pragmatic...
Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere From learning to code in Australia, to launching Chronosphere in Silicon Valley: cofounder and CEO...
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From learning to code in Australia, to launching Chronosphere in Silicon Valley: cofounder and CEO Martin Mao shares his story.
Joel Gascoigne
Creating order from chaos in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I wanted to share my experiences and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Randomness, Serendipity, and an “I Wouldn’t Recommend This” Algorithm Sean Voisen has a great post about 1) how we as humans think of randomness, 2) how computers...
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Sean Voisen has a great post about 1) how we as humans think of randomness, 2) how computers simulate randomness, and the difference between the two. He puts forth an intriguing thought: in a world increasingly driven by computation, how does that affect randomness in our lives?...
Joel Gascoigne
50 books that transformed my business and my life As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books completely. I even remember...
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As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books completely. I even remember a time where I couldn't imagine reading books at all. After I graduated and started to be interested in business and startups, I realized the immense power and knowledge contained...
Writing - Andreas...
Summer reading list 2024 Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or...
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Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or be useful at a fundamental level.
James Vaughan's blog
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Stop saying "fail" Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations...
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Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations and to suggest the next step.
Vadim Kravcenko
What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
5 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Aren't Cheap Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
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Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they tend to be much more involved. In a post by Nathan Curtis entitled And you thought buttons were easy?, he demonstrates how costs can quickly skyrocket to $1,000,000 when one arm of...
37signals Dev
Introducing Solid Queue We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about...
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We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about 1/3 of our roughly 18 million jobs per day. We’ll be moving more jobs in the coming days until we run HEY exclusively using Solid Queue. Besides regular job enqueuing and processing,...
alexwlchan
A bookmarklet to show which responsive image was chosen I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better...
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I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better than when I started. I’ve read a bunch of articles on responsive images, and I’ve sprinkled the <picture> and <source> tags everywhere to offer images in a variety of sizes and...
A Smart Bear
Being who you are, while becoming better We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means...
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We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means striving to become better? What is "yourself?"
HTMHell
Table Like It's 2023 In this article: Hello, Website Builders! A little history What is a table? Who benefits from...
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In this article: Hello, Website Builders! A little history What is a table? Who benefits from tables? What does a table look like? What does a table sound and feel like? (Re)learning tables (1994 - 2022) WCAG levels unlocked When tables get complicated Go forth, and make good...
Nelson's Weblog
Liftmaster 87504-267 This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
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This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door! Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
TokyoDev
Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple...
a year ago
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a year ago
At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple Japan’s online store. Thanks to me not bothering to set up Find My, it’s now a worthless brick. To add insult to injury, I had paid ¥77,619 (500 USD) to have said brick returned to...
dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
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I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign function interface. New bindings in this...
ntietz.com blog
Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March. It's been an interesting...
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I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March. It's been an interesting experience, and one that I realized I have to change. Using Copilot nearly full time has had some positive and negative impacts on me, and it's time to take control of how I interact with...
A Beautiful Site
A Web Components Primer On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple...
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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?...
Jake Zimmerman
A trick for invariant generics in Sorbet
7 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
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Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App. If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 1.0 I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top...
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I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top for our situation. If they hadn't reached for those million-dollar contracts, we'd probably be stuck in enterprise vendor hell forever, buying over-priced consulting services for...
Writing - Andreas...
Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
a year ago
Julia Evans
Some notes on NixOS Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
Vadim Kravcenko
As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup? As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you...
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over a year ago
As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you want to […] The post As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
Business cards VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist...
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VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist playing with them. I decided to go conservative with the design, relying a bit on curiosity to draw attention to the business. Nevertheless, I am pleased with the way they turned...
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
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A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
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HTMHell
There can be only one: Options for building “choose one” fields When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field types and too many. This is especially true when it comes to having users choose an option from a pre-defined list, also known as “choose one” fields. This article will take you on a...
A small freedom area...
Deconstructing Bézier curves Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics professionals and...
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Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics professionals and enthusiasts are often working with Bézier curves. They're popular, extensively documented, and used pretty much everywhere. That being said, I find them being explained almost exclusively...
The Codist
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Estimates In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the 1980s when there was no estimating because no one had any idea how to do it to my last job where estimation was always demanded but never actually relevant. In
Epic Web Dev
Support Responsive Favicons for a Professional Look (tip) Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Are you interested? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "You can make...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie Earlier this week I...
Epic Web Dev
Auto Layout in Figma (tip) Figma's Auto Layout feature makes designing layouts feel more like building with Flexbox.
5 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
tolower() small string performance I’m pleased that so many people enjoyed my previous blog post on tolower() with AVX-512. Thanks for...
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I’m pleased that so many people enjoyed my previous blog post on tolower() with AVX-512. Thanks for all the great comments and discussion! One aspect that needed more work was examining the performance for small strings. The previous blog post had a graph for strings up to about...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My Pardot landing page starter kit Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I think landing pages are a really…
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swyx.io 2023 rewrite Discussing the 2023 migration of swyx.io to the SvelteKit 1.0 and the swyxkit template
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn’t as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
Chris Nicholas
A reactive framework in 40 lines In this article I'll be explaining one method to create a basic reactive framework (in just 40 lines...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article I'll be explaining one method to create a basic reactive framework (in just 40 lines of code).
Ink & Switch
08 · History and diffs with Automerge Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT...
9 months ago
Remains of the Day
Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
HTMHell
Get that marquee ✨AeStHeTiC✨ With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are having a revival this year. Many brands are jumping onto the boat by creating websites with an “old-school” vibe. SEPRONIC WORLD by Thea Wood on Behance The marquee element is an old...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
General Robots
Writing Libraries for AIs to Use Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers...
a year ago
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a year ago
Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” but in the future we have a third category. I think that programs and libraries (and programming languages?) that lend themselves to effective AI assistance will win...
Alex MacCaw
Nothing matters I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn't
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Dinner Conversation Read more about RSS Club. I love following the blogs of people in tech who have interesting,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Read more about RSS Club. I love following the blogs of people in tech who have interesting, insightful things to say about the industry and their craft. I also really enjoy when those same people post little insights into their personal lives. I love seeing the human side...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I use Roam Research I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot of notes, mobile-first note taking apps (e.g. Google’s Keep) are of no interest to me. To me most important thing is: lowest possible friction in adding new notes fast way of...
Epic Web Dev
Be S.M.A.R.T. About Flaky Tests (article) Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw...
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6 months ago
Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw away, to manage and fix them effectively.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2024 The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS...
4 months ago
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The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS terminal myself, so it was pretty interesting to see all the anti-tamper traces built into the product (thank you jackw01 for sharing it!). I wonder how effective these are, and...
alexwlchan
flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for experimenting with the Flickr API &rarr; I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a couple of command-line tools to make a simple tool for exploring the API. They’re not meant for building “proper” apps, more for quick experiments and seeing what API responses...
Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
a year ago
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a year ago
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
Remains of the Day
Why Information Grows It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting messages. We infuse messages with meaning automatically, fooling ourselves to believe that the meaning of a message is carried in the message. But it is not. This is only an...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity Berkeley Mono Typeface Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Berkeley Mono Typeface Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley Mono Typeface. I am truly humbled by the feedback, interest and people that have keen interest in typography. Berkeley Mono Font Variants Quick update on people asking what's the...
The Pragmatic...
Should you optimize for all-cash compensation, if possible? Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how...
a year ago
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Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how much of their total compensation is stock. What are the approaches to take?
Alex MacCaw
The Beginning of Infinity It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just look up. There are a hundred billion stars in a hundred billion galaxies (that we know of!). What are we but a spec of dust? And don'
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Switching Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
over a year ago
The Changelog
This Is How Tyrants Go: Alone I remember reading an essay a month or so ago — sadly I forget where — talking about how things end...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I remember reading an essay a month or so ago — sadly I forget where — talking about how things end for tyrants. If I were to sum it up, it would be with the word “alone.” Their power fading, they find that they had few true friends or believers; just others that were greedy …...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Switching to Android after 13 years of iOS I have used iPhone/iOS for the longest time. Last month I switched to OnePlus 6T/Android. Here are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have used iPhone/iOS for the longest time. Last month I switched to OnePlus 6T/Android. Here are my impressions.
Seán Barry
Understanding TypeScript Generics TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and when to use them.
A Beautiful Site
Finding the Closest Element Through Shadow Roots A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is Element.closest(). // Starts at el and walks the DOM until it finds a parent element // that matches the selector. In this case, it will return the // <body>...
Chris Nicholas
A new blog for 2024 It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024,...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024, it’s time for a complete refresh.
Josh Comeau's blog
The styled-components Happy Path styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”.
Tinloof - Blog
Why we prefer Sanity over Contentful In this article, we'll explain 5 reasons why we prefer Sanity over Contentful Headless CMS.
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Outperforming everything with anything It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language outperforming C and C++ solutions. Originally published in mid 2018, now completetly rewritten.
Joel Gascoigne
Questions I ask myself about working as distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a CEO I often...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a CEO I often ponder how I can help the team be as productive and happy as possible. As part of our decision to be a distributed team at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], there have been a number...
ntietz.com blog
Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in question was not particularly complicated, and had been reviewed by multiple people. It included a timeout, and is straightforward: allow a Websocket connection to test that the client...
Miguel Carranza
Effective code review Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most tech companies1. However, it is not always implemented as well as it should. In this post, I will describe some practices that I try to follow when opening pull requests, and that...
alexwlchan
Mountaintop moments Last weekend, I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe, and I’m so glad I went. I met new people, hung out...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Last weekend, I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe, and I’m so glad I went. I met new people, hung out with some Internet friends in-person, and saw some great theatre. It was fun, but also exhausting. By the final day, I was worn out and ready to sleep in my own bed – but now I’m...
elementary Blog
One Last Bug Fix Update Before The Big One It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few...
a year ago
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a year ago
It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few small features. We’re hard at work resolving your reported issues to make this release as smooth and shiny as it possibly can be! So read ahead and find out what was new last...
Irrational...
How to create software quality. I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a memo discussed in the Zero Defects chapter: You can improve the quality of your code, and if you do, the rewards for yourself and for Microsoft will be immense. The hardest part is...
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love. The marled combinations of oranges, pinks, blues, and purples were calling to me, so I ordered a kit right away. Other knitters commented that while they loved the pattern, the...
TokyoDev
個人のブログから利益を生むビジネスへ:TokyoDevのストーリー This article is also available [in...
a year ago
Liz Denys
Chemistry at its finest: inverted sugar syrup for cocktails Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily enough. Simple syrup is traditionally made by dissolving white sugar into water on a stove and then cooling before use, but sometimes, in a pinch, people will shake superfine sugar...
Joel Gascoigne
Make progress faster by cooperating: 4 tips to try with your co-founder or co-worker * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For a number of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For a number of years now, I’ve found that I generally always had a “training partner” for my entrepreneurial goals. A few years ago, this was my great friend Khuram...
Jake Zimmerman
Why don’t constructors have override checking?
a year ago
A Smart Bear
A life-changing challenge guided by Pascal's Wager Applying Pascal's Wager: Humility wins, arrogance loses.
a month ago
Epic Web Dev
Unleash the Designer in You (with Tailwind CSS) (article) Explore how Tailwind CSS fosters collaboration between developers and designers, enhancing UI design...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Explore how Tailwind CSS fosters collaboration between developers and designers, enhancing UI design skills with utility classes and shared principles.
Vadim Kravcenko
🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for the […] The post 🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Julia Evans
Some notes on nix flakes I’ve been using nix for about 9 months now. For all of that time I’ve been steadfastly ignoring...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been using nix for about 9 months now. For all of that time I’ve been steadfastly ignoring flakes, but everyone keeps saying that flakes are great and the best way to use nix, so I decided to try to figure out what the deal is with them. I found it very hard to find simple...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The secrets of PostHog query performance We want PostHog to become the first choice for product analytics at any scale. To do that, users...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We want PostHog to become the first choice for product analytics at any scale. To do that, users should have a smooth experience exploring their…
Ink & Switch
02 · Tracking provenance Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
4 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Complex numbers and conformal mapping This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱. Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
A Beautiful Site
Downloading a list of URLs automatically I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to the bucket — I only had a list of URLs. There were too many to fetch one by one, so I wanted to fetch them automatically. Here are a couple ways I found to do that. Using curl # Curl...
Basta’s Notes
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?) My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
11 months ago
Steve Klabnik
A eulogy for my 20s
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 5: Wrapping up projects and starting a new one Another week of my RC batch wraps up. I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left! Time is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Another week of my RC batch wraps up. I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left! Time is still flying by, and I've hit an inflection point. I have gotten what I want out of the two projects I've worked on so far, so I'm going to wrap them up and move on to one new...
ntietz.com blog
You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not universal. They should be universal, though. Hackdays help you get great new ideas that are both impactful and feasible. They're probably the best thing you can do to improve your product and...
HTMHell
#12 accessible poll yes/no Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div> <div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup"> <div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title"> <input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Is autocapture ‘still’ bad? Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a blogpost by Product Evangelist Adam Greco. Yes, he…
the singularity is...
Tech Heroin Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell cocaine. Techno-Optimism is cocaine. Atlas Shrugged is cocaine. Futurism is cocaine. I am a progressive. A liberal. I believe in progress. I am not a conservative. Conservatives lose....
Darek Kay
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, which might lead to inconsistencies between different environments. In this post I will present the behavior of npm 7.15.1 and Yarn...
Epic Web Dev
Fluid Hover Cards with Tailwind CSS (tutorial)
11 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
You Already Use Types _[Published on Freecodecamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/you-already-use-types/)_
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Should open source projects track you? Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking is horrible. It's usually buried deep in the…
HTMHell
Security Headers using &lt;meta&gt; by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the request-response cycle. Some of these HTTP response headers sent by the server to the browser help enhance the security and privacy of the website's users. These sets of headers are...
On Test Automation
I am tired of AI Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without using any third-party library (except React). The notification component has the following requirements: Four color variations: info (blue), success (green), warning (orange),...
Alex Meub
How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6. This means that visitors won’t be able to access your content with IPv6-only enabled which is not good. On top of that, I think its important to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
Evan Jones -...
Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
Steve Klabnik
We forget that open source is made of people
over a year ago
TokyoDev
From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using [Paperclip](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) to [Active Storage](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html) for storing and processing uploaded files. The approach we took was a bit...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't write Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most...
a year ago
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a year ago
Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most people. We don’t need more good quality, niche, carefully crafted content. So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, a Substack, a Twitter account or something similar, please know...
Ferd.ca
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops 2023/06/20 Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops This post contains a transcript of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
2023/06/20 Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops This post contains a transcript of the talk I wrote for and gave at QCon New York 2023 for Vanessa Huerta Granda's track on resilience engineering. The official talk title was "Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prompting the Wrong Question So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so I ask AI, “Hey, this piece of code is not working in Safari, what’s wrong?” The issue might be related to how Safari handles keyboard events, especially for certain keys… It gives...
A Beautiful Site
Find a name for almost any hex color Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your Less/Sass variables something like gray, light gray, lighter gray, etc. Here's a tool that will give you more reasonable names for all those colors. Name that Color lets you enter a hex...
The Pragmatic...
Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now? Tech companies are building their cloud development environments (CDEs) and dozens of vendors are...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tech companies are building their cloud development environments (CDEs) and dozens of vendors are launching their offerings. But why now?
Evan Jones -...
Advice on looking for a new software engineering job I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However, they often do not clearly identify a winner, nor do they result in an explanation of the decision that is easily communicated to others, especially those whose favorite option was...
Liz Denys
A better grumpy fuzzball cake: just one of the many reasons I love buttercream more than fondant Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted...
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Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted primarily with rolled fondant, a dough-like frosting that is made with gelatin, food-grade glycerine, and the usual frosting suspects. But I don't love the taste or texture of fondant....
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
a year ago
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a year ago
The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
Liz Denys
Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet...
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You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet someone new, and you're inevitably asking and being asked three questions: Where do you work? Where do you live? How much is your rent? Okay, you don't always encounter that last one,...
Making software...
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero 2022-03-14 For the past few years, I've been using a set of...
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over a year ago
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero 2022-03-14 For the past few years, I've been using a set of Eero routers as my home mesh network. It's worked fairly great in that time and even seamlessly transitioned without any hiccups when my family moved house. During the initial setup,...
Steve Klabnik
Your startup is not a platform
over a year ago
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
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ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
Julia Evans
git branches: intuition & reality Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from people that they find...
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Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from people that they find the way git branches work to be counterintuitive. It got me thinking: what might an “intuitive” notion of a branch be, and how is it different from how git actually works? So in...
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Enablement vs Ownership Roles Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Clever Code Considered Harmful As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we...
Making software...
Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
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Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Few Details About My Notes Website A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a...
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a year ago
A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a little more about some of my favorite parts of the site. First: It’s Really a Page, Not a Site I’m not sure I should call it a “website”, as I think of a website as a collection...
MMapped blog
Extending HTTPS outcalls
8 months ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Building software to last forever I recently received the following email regarding Bear: Hi, I am a huge fan and love the service as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently received the following email regarding Bear: Hi, I am a huge fan and love the service as it is. However, I am curious how the continuation of the service is guaranteed. - Joe This is a great question, and one I have put a lot of thought into, even going so far as...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python We are due for our next live session.
2 months ago
macwright.com
codemirror-continue by Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and you hit “Enter”, this intelligently adds a * on the next line. Most likely, your good editor (Neovim, VS Code) already has this behavior and you miss it in CodeMirror. So I wrote...
David Heinemeier...
Joining the Shopify board of directors I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he...
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I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he was building Snowdevil, which eventually became Shopify, to sell snowboards online. Here's his first commit to Rails from 2004, which improved the ergonomics of controller testing....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from “Weathering Software Winter” by Devine Lu Linvega I watched this talk[1] where the presenter details their experience trying to use modern digital...
a year ago
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a year ago
I watched this talk[1] where the presenter details their experience trying to use modern digital devices while living on a boat with little to zero connectivity. It soon became obvious that all the technology [we planned to use] was not designed to leave the western world. It was...
Blog System/5
Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128 pixels, a D-pad, and 3 other buttons. I will cover the prerequisite work to make the port possible, dig into the GPIO and SPI...
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Private Conversations are Private I recently made a mistake. I make many, but this involved someone important to me and to people I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently made a mistake. I make many, but this involved someone important to me and to people I know, so it stands out among the general cacophony of my many other failures. I wanted to own up to what I did, explain how I handled it, and in general take ownership of the...
bunnie's blog
Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip “Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus, it piqued my interest when an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy. This blog post explains my reasoning...
Remains of the Day
The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from structural ossification in the music, film, and publishing businesses, to name the most prominent. One of the ways this manifests is in the one-way broadcast nature of much of our...
Charles Chen
Using useMemo and useCallback to Save the Past from React Langoliers If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s sci-fi? You came to the right place!
Irrational...
Grab bag of random thoughts. A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a...
a year ago
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a year ago
A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a bit to braindump the numerous loose threads in my head as I transitioned from Calm to the past month of full-time writing, and then into this new role. This isn’t really a job...
A Beautiful Site
Web standards are just "minor details" A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He obtained a position as a junior project manager for a web consulting firm in Atlanta. Their work is very professional and their designs are great, but it was immediately evident...
the singularity is...
p(doom) Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of the debate is whether AIs will look more like formal systems or like inscrutable weight matrices. I think it’s the latter, and I think it’s the something like the latter forever....
Cognitive...
Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat....
a year ago
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a year ago
At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat. Now three projects (that I know of!) aim to give everybody the ability to create their own ChatGPT clone. The basic components of a ChatGPT clone are: large language model as its...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cold-blooded Software Patrick Duboy has an interesting post making the rounds titled, “Cold-blooded Software”. He...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Patrick Duboy has an interesting post making the rounds titled, “Cold-blooded Software”. He analogizes the idea of warm-blooded software: projects that are warm-blooded: everything is great when there’s constant motion on the project, generating heat. But put warm-blooded...
Kagi Blog
Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Examples of Great URL Design Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010): URLs are universal. They work...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010): URLs are universal. They work in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, cURL, wget, your iPhone, Android and even written down on sticky notes. They are the one universal syntax of the web. Don’t take...
Joel Gascoigne
An invitation to come and hack on Buffer * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two years have been truly incredible. What started in my bedroom in the UK has taken us across the world [https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] to...
TokyoDev
How I Obtained a Business Manager Visa in Japan Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa and thus my permission to stay in Japan as well. I was in my late 40s and, although I had significant work experience, I had no university degree. I wanted to remain in Japan but I...
A Beautiful Site
Introducing Surreal CMS 7 Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage...
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over a year ago
Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage static (and mostly static) websites. Last week, I soft launched Surreal CMS 7. This new version is a complete rebuild from scratch using Node.js + Vue.js. I worked on this new...
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The Power of Personal Podcasting Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
The most useful programming language Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly work with JS — solid choice, but everyone and their dog learns JS these days, so it might be time to add some diversity. I'm curious — which single programming language covers the...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2023 The Ware for March 2023 is shown below: Thank again to spida for submitting this ware. I was...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for March 2023 is shown below: Thank again to spida for submitting this ware. I was certainly stumped when I first saw it! Again, some very big “clues” are not shown, which I will add to the post later if it turns out to be too difficult to guess.
Liz Denys
Inbox by Gmail's accidentally abusive algorithm The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up. Inbox by Gmail is no exception. Inbox has a concept of "speed dial" - an algorithmically determined set of "frequent" contacts that appears when hovering over the compose button: In...
Julia Evans
Some tactics for writing in public Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such...
a year ago
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a year ago
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such assholes!” I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years,...
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My Raspberry Pi Desktop My Raspberry Pi Desktop 2020-09-02 I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it’s...
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over a year ago
My Raspberry Pi Desktop 2020-09-02 I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it’s pretty great. I know these types of devices tend to be used for smaller pet-projects or fun experiments, but I thought I would share my experience using one as my main computer....
Words and Buttons...
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
Nelson's Weblog
The Transcantábrico Train We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
a year ago
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a year ago
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in 2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here. The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
Alex Meub
A Great Bumper Sticker I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing: It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland): If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Local-first Codebase Opens the Door to More Collaborators I thought this was interesting: Dax Raad on the local-first podcast observes how a local-first model...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I thought this was interesting: Dax Raad on the local-first podcast observes how a local-first model drastically simplifies the experience of building an app, both as an individual and as a team. He talks about how his wife is not an engineer but she learned to be more hands on...
charity.wtf
Every Achievement Has A Denominator One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure their own status, rank or value by the number of teams and people “under” them. Everyone knows you aren’t supposed to do this, but most of us secretly, sheepishly do it anyway to some...
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How to Design Almost Any Backend and Deploy It to AWS with No Code With the Amplify Sandbox, it is really easy to model and think through any app backend scenario
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples) Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
a year ago
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a year ago
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
Julia Evans
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a...
a month ago
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a month ago
I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a build system, and it took FOREVER to figure out how to import it because...
The Pragmatic...
Did Automattic commit open source theft? The maker of WordPress took 2M customers from its biggest rival: has a red line been crossed?
2 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Developers are on edge It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are dragging on. The industry has shed more jobs in a shorter period than any time since the dot-com bust over twenty years ago. Seasoned veterans who used to have recruiters banging on...
Seldo.com
On AI, ML, LLMs and the future of software
a year ago