The Pragmatic...
The Big Tech Hiring Slowdown Is Here and it will Hurt
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this...
over a year ago
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this impact the rest of the tech industry?
davidyat.es
The many (bad) interfaces of Substack
8 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript
2019-01-28
Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice...
over a year ago
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript
2019-01-28
Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice in web design, but many times it requires JavaScript to properly implement. Fortunately it is possible to create tabbed content with only using CSS.
Live CodePen...
The Pragmatic...
Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs?
Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline...
over a year ago
Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline possible options and give my opinion on the likelihood of layoffs in the coming months.
Dan Slimmon
Outliers carry information. Don’t leave them on the table
Over a decade ago, I saw this talk by John Rauser. Only recently, though, did I come to realize how...
a year ago
Over a decade ago, I saw this talk by John Rauser. Only recently, though, did I come to realize how incredibly influential this talk has been on my career. Gosh what a great talk! You should watch it. If you operate a complex system, like a SaaS app, you probably have a dashboard...
Blog - Bitfield...
Constraints in Go
Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a
powerful way to build...
a month ago
Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a
powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type
sets. Let’s geek out.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 4 best HIPAA-compliant analytics tools
Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal...
over a year ago
Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal requirements for securing and handling health…
Tinloof - Blog
Figma variables: tips from 3 scenarios
Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of...
a year ago
Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of manually updating each instance of a design element, you can set a variable, like a color or padding, and apply it across your project.
If you want to make a change, you update the...
Vadim Kravcenko
🏆 Promotion-based development
While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies...
over a year ago
While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies do promotions, I stumbled […]
The post 🏆 Promotion-based development appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Charles Chen
Vue 3x3 - A Mental Model for Building Fast
A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
a year ago
A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
Joel Gascoigne
Maximize your excitement
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over a year ago
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I’m a huge believer of the lean startup movement and the concept of validating
ideas as quickly as possible. I think wasted time and resources are disastrous
and no matter how much you love an...
blag
PSA: SQLite does not do checksums
SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
a month ago
SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
A Beautiful Site
Reflection and Custom States in Web Components
In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both...
6 months ago
In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property.
A...
HTMHell
DOM Clobbering
Motivation
When thinking of HTML-related security bugs, people often think of script injection...
over a year ago
Motivation
When thinking of HTML-related security bugs, people often think of script injection attacks, which is also known as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). If an attacker is able to submit, modify or store content on your web page, they might include evil JavaScript code to modify...
Ink & Switch
Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
over a year ago
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
Liz Denys
Denim coffee pitcher, 2024
Blue jeans / well worn leather / rows of cornflowers along a dirt path
8 months ago
Blue jeans / well worn leather / rows of cornflowers along a dirt path
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Kubit
Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built...
a year ago
Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built primarily for engineers. In this article we’ll…
samwho.dev
Getting an Autism Diagnosis
On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son,
Max, has Autism...
a year ago
On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son,
Max, has Autism Spectrum Disorder. The letter was the end result of a long
process. I’m going to talk about that process from start to finish, in as much
detail as I can.
This post would not have...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data)
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks...
10 months ago
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
over a year ago
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth!
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
over a year ago
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
Cognitive...
Playing with ChatGPT API
I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code...
a year ago
I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code is located here:
I wanted it to be conversational, so it will remember your conversation history as you type.
Similar to chatgpt-wrapper. ...
Alex Meub
My Favorite Web Apps and Tools
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
over a year ago
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Next.js as a Static Site Generator for Netlify
How to deploy a Static Next.js Site to Netlify, and then upgrade it to use Dynamic Route Segments to...
over a year ago
How to deploy a Static Next.js Site to Netlify, and then upgrade it to use Dynamic Route Segments to become a full fledged Static Site Generator!
Alex MacCaw
The six principles of lifestyle businesses
Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
over a year ago
Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
David Heinemeier...
Multi-tenancy is what’s hard about scaling web services
Computers have gotten so ridiculously fast that there is scarcely any organization in the world that...
11 months ago
Computers have gotten so ridiculously fast that there is scarcely any organization in the world that can overwhelm a web-based information system running on a single server. All the complexity and sophistication required to run web services today stem from multi-tenancy. From...
James Vaughan's blog
Introducing: json-space-analyzer
a year ago
Florian Bellmann |...
Time to market for personal projects
How I created my blog in just 2 days.
a year ago
How I created my blog in just 2 days.
Paolo Amoroso's...
A fix for duplicate definitions in Femtounit
<![CDATA[I finally fixed a longstanding duplicate definitions issue with Femtounit, my Interlisp...
9 months ago
<![CDATA[I finally fixed a longstanding duplicate definitions issue with Femtounit, my Interlisp unit test framework.
Femtounit creates a new File Manager type for unit tests, TESTS. DEFTEST, which defines a test, adds an entry of type TESTS and expands into an internal function...
Paolo Amoroso's...
System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint: first impressions
<![CDATA[I'm writing this on my new desktop computer.
It's a Linux system I chose after deciding to...
5 months ago
<![CDATA[I'm writing this on my new desktop computer.
It's a Linux system I chose after deciding to migrate from ChromeOS back to Linux: a System76 Merkaat short case mini PC with a 5 GHz 13th gen Intel Core i7 processor, Intel Iris Xe graphics, 32 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, 2.5 G...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The chaotic beauty of street art
I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up...
a year ago
I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up groceries, feels more delightful because of the organic gallery that is my city. Especially when a new piece of art pops up on a previously unremarkable stretch of street. What a...
Daniel Marino
Don’t Overthink Remote Working
The coronavirus is here, and as a result a lot of employers are asking employees to work remotely if...
over a year ago
The coronavirus is here, and as a result a lot of employers are asking employees to work remotely if possible. I’ve seen a fair share of tips for remote working blog posts this past week. I figured I’d cash in on the action and share my thoughts.
Don’t Overthink It
Most of the...
bunnie's blog
Control and Autofocus Software for Chip-Level Microscopy
This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through...
8 months ago
This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through non-destructive IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) inspection. Here’s the previous posts: This post will discuss the control software used to drive IRIS. Above is a screenshot of the IRIS machine...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
@levelsio and survivorship bias
Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software.
He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s...
over a year ago
Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software.
He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s close to making $1.5 million a year from his business, almost all of it profit.
Almost all of it is his profit since for most of the time he was a sole developer / marketer / copy...
Jake Zimmerman
Inheritance in Ruby, in pictures
12 months ago
Charles Chen
AI Startup Moats: The Difference Between Bakers and Ovens
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
a month ago
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
Steve Klabnik
"The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Introducing Notez
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
over a year ago
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Vadim Kravcenko
Exit. Selling your SaaS
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
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alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step…
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024.
This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
9 months ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024.
This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”.
I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance.
This...
TokyoDev
A Proposal for the Translation of RubyKaigi
[RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org/) and more recently [Sapporo Ruby...
over a year ago
[RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org/) and more recently [Sapporo Ruby Kaigi](http://sapporo.rubykaigi.org/2012/en/) have been providing realtime translation services. The way this has worked is that volunteers listen to the speakers presentation, and simultaneously translate it to...
Steve Klabnik
The hardest decision I've ever made
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Cloud Distros
The next step in the evolution of the Cloud is specialized distros.
over a year ago
The next step in the evolution of the Cloud is specialized distros.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Reading Recursion via Pascal
<![CDATA[I read the book Recursion via Pascal by Jeffrey S. Rohl, Cambridge University Press, 1984....
9 months ago
<![CDATA[I read the book Recursion via Pascal by Jeffrey S. Rohl, Cambridge University Press, 1984. I discovered this rare, little known gem by chance and, although it's available online, I also bought a cheap printed copy.
The book Recursion via Pascal.
What makes this short...
Joel Gascoigne
Expert of nothing
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over a year ago
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One of the most interesting and simultaneously challenging realizations I’ve had
is that as a founder, especially the CEO, you essentially have chosen to never
become an expert of anything. Oh,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant.
Rather than failing completely when encountering...
11 months ago
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant.
Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax.
For someone who is...
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
over a year ago
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites.
AWS Certficate Manager
I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
General Robots
How to Pick a Problem
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually...
a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually it’s going to do all kinds of things. But right now it doesn’t do anything. What do you try first? In this post we’ll talk about the various pitfalls to avoid when choosing your...
Blog System/5
The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost
A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's
12 months ago
A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's
Steve Klabnik
For science: I'm killing my cell phone
over a year ago
Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back
“We was robbed…”
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
a year ago
“We was robbed…”
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to
improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the
nine unmonetized glances.
An...
macwright.com
Web technology optimism hour
It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology.
Between the developer...
over a year ago
It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology.
Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced
negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and
the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter
and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Use class instead of className with Preact and TypeScript
## Bottom Line Up Front
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions
We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's...
over a year ago
We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's portfolio companies into their Jobs page.
Letters of Note
I have the best mother in the world
Few people have fought harder for the plight of African-Americans than Martin Luther King Jr., a...
over a year ago
Few people have fought harder for the plight of African-Americans than Martin Luther King Jr., a minister and activist who spent most of his all-too-brief life leading the civil rights movement only to be stopped by a bullet in Memphis in 1968. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
7 months ago
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn.
His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS.
His post actually...
Vadim Kravcenko
Build vs Buy: age old dilemma
The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch...
a year ago
The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch or buy some off-the-shelf solution? […]
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Alice GG
A love letter to Apache Echarts
In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”.
It’s a place...
10 months ago
In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”.
It’s a place where you can find Javascript libraries that make great promises only to disappoint you once you actually import them.
I know this because I even wrote one.
When you find a gem...
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...
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...
Chris Nicholas
Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
over a year ago
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
Max Countryman
Indie Web Stack of the Future
You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a...
a year ago
You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a few things that make indie development different and we should design our stack around our unique goals. Let's explore an ideal web stack we can build the future on.
A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
over a year ago
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...
samwho.dev
A Commitment to Art and Dogs
.dog-line {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
flex-direction: row;
width: 100%;
height:...
6 months ago
.dog-line {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
flex-direction: row;
width: 100%;
height: 10rem;
margin-top: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 2rem;
}
.dog-line img {
flex-grow: 1;
height: auto;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
object-fit: contain;
}
.dog-grid {
display:...
Paolo Amoroso's...
How to build Medley Interlisp
<![CDATA[Although online access to Medley Interlisp is convenient and prebuilt binaries are...
3 months ago
<![CDATA[Although online access to Medley Interlisp is convenient and prebuilt binaries are available for all major operating system, it's also possible to compile it from source.
I first built Medley from source when I wanted to run it on my Raspberry Pi 400 and no ARM64...
Making software...
February 2022 Update
February 2022 Update
2022-02-23
It's been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my...
over a year ago
February 2022 Update
2022-02-23
It's been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my wife gave birth to our third child last Thursday. Her name is Harmony and she was born in the late afternoon weighing in at 7 pounds 8 ounces.
Besides the lack of sleep, everything...
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
a year ago
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions.
I had no idea what that...
bt RSS Feed
Disabling Comments in WordPress
Disabling Comments in WordPress
2020-12-28
I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
over a year ago
Disabling Comments in WordPress
2020-12-28
I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down.
Back...
ntietz.com blog
A systematic approach to debugging
I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger.
It's a frequent occurrence that the weird...
a year ago
I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger.
It's a frequent occurrence that the weird stuff lands on my desk1 after it goes through another skilled engineer or two.
To say my job is substantially "debug the weird shit" would not be an understatement and I'm here...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Web Components on My Icon Galleries Websites
I recently redesigned my icon gallery sites.
The goal: create a layout that allows you to customize...
a year ago
I recently redesigned my icon gallery sites.
The goal: create a layout that allows you to customize the view around the collection of icons you’re looking at by changing the size and spacing of the grid — sort of like the thumbnail view on macOS finder.
I’m happy with how it...
macwright.com
patch-package can bail you out of some bad situations by
Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your...
a year ago
Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your dependencies. It’s all deployed, lots of people are seeing the downtime, but you can’t just push an update because the bug is in something you’ve installed from npm.
Remember patch-package....
ntietz.com blog
Consider Part-Time Work
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and...
over a year ago
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and have more leisure time, but we continue to fall short of that promise. In many ways, we're working harder and longer, with more stress, than previous generations did. I think that...
Nelson's Weblog
Overhead shower drips
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you
when you’re not using it? It...
a year ago
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you
when you’re not using it? It may be water trapped in the pipes and a
plunger will temporarily fix it.
We have a fancy shower with an overhead rain shower and a ordinary
wall sprayer both controlled by the...
A Beautiful Site
How to remove box shadows from input controls on iOS
Those default box shadows that appear inside of your input elements on iOS can be pretty annoying,...
over a year ago
Those default box shadows that appear inside of your input elements on iOS can be pretty annoying, especially if you're going for a flat or subtle look. Here's how to remove them.
Unfortunately, it's not as simple as setting the box-shadow property to none. Instead, you have to...
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Dwell and the Tools for Thought Hackathon
I worked on a little hackathon project at AGI House with Sasha. We won!
a year ago
I worked on a little hackathon project at AGI House with Sasha. We won!
alexwlchan
A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian →
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it.
It’s already absorbed...
over a year ago
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it.
It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too.
To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin.
When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
David Gerrells
a perfect blog editor
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
over a year ago
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I always wrap Context.Provider and useContext
React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container...
over a year ago
React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container / child component APIs (think <RadioGroup /> + <RadioButton />). Unfortunately, out of the box Context comes with a limiting and not very convenient API. In most cases, I choose...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.5.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile that is built on top
of SDL2 and OpenGL. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that
parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games
in...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Medley as a Common Lisp development environment
<![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp...
a year ago
<![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp is a project for preserving, reviving, and modernizing the Interlisp-D software development environment of the Lisp Machines Xerox created at PARC.
Nine months later I know...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why you Might Want to Extend React Components
Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs....
over a year ago
Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs. Use state managers (and their connector HOCs). Use render props. Do not inherit. Remember, composition over inheritance! Obey your guru. Once upon a time, a developer extended his...
Julia Evans
New microblog with TILs
I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called
TIL (“today I learned”).
the goal: save...
a month ago
I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called
TIL (“today I learned”).
the goal: save interesting tools & facts I posted on social media
One kind of thing I like to post on Mastodon/Bluesky is “hey, here’s a cool
thing”, like the great SQLite repl litecli, or
the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
To Understand Concurrent React, Look Outside React
## Table of Contents
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Taking regular screenshots of my website
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks...
8 months ago
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks associated with their long-term preservation.
What formats need urgent attention before they’re lost forever, what mediums are already being well-preserved, and so on.
For example,...
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...
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Thoughts from “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing”
I just watched Apple’s “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” where they talk about how Safari works on...
a year ago
I just watched Apple’s “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” where they talk about how Safari works on the new visionOS and what you can do to make your web pages look great on Apple’s new device.
tl;dr just keeping doing what responsive web design and accessibility experts have...
Confessions of a...
CPython Garbage Collection: The Internal Mechanics and Algorithms
A detailed code walkthrough of how CPython implements memory management, including reference...
6 months ago
A detailed code walkthrough of how CPython implements memory management, including reference counting and garbage collection
blag
Learning C
Some resources for learning C
9 months ago
Some resources for learning C
ntietz.com blog
Getting people to tell you you're wrong
One of the challenging things about being a staff+ engineer is that people trust you.
They trust you...
a year ago
One of the challenging things about being a staff+ engineer is that people trust you.
They trust you a lot, and there might be less pushback on ideas than there should be.
This makes sense.
To become a staff+ engineer, you usually need to be really good at this intersection of...
Maggie Appleton
New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Market Yourself
Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market...
over a year ago
Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market Yourself in Public + at Work.
bt RSS Feed
Introducing PageRoast
Introducing PageRoast
2021-03-11
Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
over a year ago
Introducing PageRoast
2021-03-11
Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask?
Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
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
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...
Maggie Appleton
Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
A senior engineer/EM job search story
avidson Fellipe, a software engineer with 15 years’ experience, based in New York, was recently let...
a year ago
avidson Fellipe, a software engineer with 15 years’ experience, based in New York, was recently let go. After 350 applications and 85 first-round interviews in 4 months, he secured 3 offers, and has now started his new job. He shares first-hand learnings about navigating the jobs...
bt RSS Feed
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles
2021-11-09
This website almost exclusively uses the...
over a year ago
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles
2021-11-09
This website almost exclusively uses the browser’s (whichever one that might be) default styling to render it’s HTML. I firmly believe, and have stated in a previous post, that the default HTML styling across all browsers...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
On being a great gift-giver
I received a great gift that I love
2 months ago
I received a great gift that I love
orlp.net - Blog...
Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more...
Hash functions are incredibly
neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small...
a month ago
Hash functions are incredibly
neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size
output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random.
This “deterministic randomness” is incredibly useful for a variety of purposes,
such as hash...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why TurboRepo Will Be The First Big Trend of 2022
TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on,...
over a year ago
TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on, bringing 85% faster build speeds and great architecture/docs/marketing.
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Seldo.com
On AI, ML, LLMs and the future of software
a year ago
the singularity is...
Influence Agents
Check 1, 2 is the mic on?
Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving...
a month ago
Check 1, 2 is the mic on?
Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving in a way no humans want never made sense to me, only to Hollywood who doesn’t know all that much about computers.
Paul Christiano has one of my favorite takes, that the creation...
Computer Things
I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
6 months ago
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go.
The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
Liz Denys
Triggering videos, thoughtful content warnings, and responsible feature release policies
Content warning: police murder of black people
We need to talk about potentially triggering videos...
over a year ago
Content warning: police murder of black people
We need to talk about potentially triggering videos and social media.
Social media is nearly unavoidable. There's a lot of upsides to using it, such as keeping up with family and friends you can't see frequently and reaching out to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Congestion Control
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
over a year ago
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Subversive Hyperlink
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
I send you a link and as long as you have an...
10 months ago
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link.
This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build a community around your SaaS
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post How to build a community around your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Steve Klabnik
Seriously: numbers: use them!
over a year ago
David Gerrells
How not to use box shadows
So you think you know box shadows huh? I bet you didn't know they could do this.
5 months ago
So you think you know box shadows huh? I bet you didn't know they could do this.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and...
over a year ago
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and well. I'm not some crazy old fuck who thinks AngularJS is a promising new technology. Nor have I been waiting to publish this post for 3 years. It's just how things turned up for me....
elementary Blog
OS 8 Now Available in Early Access
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now...
10 months ago
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable! While we highly recommend you don’t run these experimental builds in production, they’re perfect for trying in a virtual machine or a spare computer. Early Access is a...
Liz Denys
Cancel Like Everything
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
over a year ago
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance:
The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's:
I've made an A4...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky Brutalist planter with attached drip tray, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
7 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
A Beautiful Site
Get comfortable with abstraction
I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly...
over a year ago
I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly because it's something I tend to have a problem with.
You see, I have this thing where I try really hard to understand exactly how something works—all the way down to the last nut and...
Irrational...
2022 in review.
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
over a year ago
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak.
The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large sub-string query performance
Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on...
over a year ago
Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on large variable-length strings. I wanted to check if sub-string queries might be faster than HSTORE or JSONB key lookups. I tested both binary (BYTEA) and Unicode text (TEXT)....
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...
a year ago
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...
Writing - Andreas...
The siren call of wrong-way dependencies
Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and
most costly design...
3 months ago
Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and
most costly design mistakes one can make.
Ink & Switch
Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux
A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
5 months ago
A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection model.
Elad Blog
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment...
over a year ago
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
Julia Evans
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS
periodically runs out of...
a month ago
I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS
periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed.
This hasn’t been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a few
minutes while it restarts, and it only happens once a day at most, so I’ve...
HTMHell
#33 make me one (input) with everything
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more.
Bad...
3 months ago
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more.
Bad code
<label for="textinput">First name</label>
<input type="text" id="textinput" aria-label="First name" placeholder="First name" title="First name">
Issues and how to fix them
The...
the jsomers.net blog
More people should write
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the...
over a year ago
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
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....
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…
Kagi Blog
The Age of PageRank is Over
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
over a year ago
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hacker News Clones
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I...
a month ago
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views.
What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
Irrational...
Eng org seniority-mix model.
One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company...
a month ago
One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company maintains their current margin
and grows revenue at 25-30%, or they instead grow slower and increase their free cash flow year over year.
In many organizations, engineering costs have a...
the singularity is...
Imitation Learning
7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea.
Gather tons of human driving data, state action...
a year ago
7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea.
Gather tons of human driving data, state action pairs: (S_t, A_t)
Train a supervised model f(S_t) -> A_t
Drive cars with that model.
The exact original formulation was a model that predicts steering angle from image, then used a...
A Beautiful Site
New shortcut keys in Windows 7
I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects...
over a year ago
I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects of window management right out of the box. They're pretty easy to remember too:
Win + Up - Maximize the current window
Win + Down - Restore a maximized window, otherwise minimize...
Vadim Kravcenko
As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed?
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the...
a year ago
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the process of product development, feeling […]
The post As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bt RSS Feed
Styling Empty Table Cells
Styling Empty Table Cells
2019-07-17
Often when designing tables on the web you’re bound to come...
over a year ago
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...
Ink & Switch
00 · Beehive Background
Contextualizing Beehive
4 months ago
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers Update
I spent the early week recovering and the later week working on Logic for Programmers ([init]...
6 months ago
I spent the early week recovering and the later week working on Logic for Programmers ([init] [update]) because I have a self-imposed deadline of mid-July, backed up by a $1000 toxx clause. Here's where I currently am:
1: The book is now 14k words. About 4k are "basics", covering...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Notebooks for PostHog
Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog...
a year ago
Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog dramatically. You can read all about what’s…
Ognjen Regoje •...
Using robots.txt to discover hidden content
I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed.
It’s...
11 months ago
I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed.
It’s interesting because some sites use it as access control, which, of course, is silly. Just because robots won’t index it doesn’t mean people won’t find it. Plus, by specifying it in...
Alice GG
Atlas: Declarative schemas for SQL databases
Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases.
In many...
a year ago
Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases.
In many cases, teams end up keeping a bunch of timestamped .sql files and automatically running them in order.
While this work, it doesn’t scale well: the more developers you have working...
ntietz.com blog
Functional Programming and Big Data
Update: I wrote this while preparing a talk for the Columbus Functional Programmers meetup. You can...
over a year ago
Update: I wrote this while preparing a talk for the Columbus Functional Programmers meetup. You can find the talk on YouTube. It has more humor than these words, but then you'd have to listen to my voice.
This post is a long one, so here’s a brief roadmap. We’ll start with a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Mixpanel
Want to know how PostHog and Mixpanel are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these...
over a year ago
Want to know how PostHog and Mixpanel are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two points: Mixpanel is a product analytics tool…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Avoiding Flash of Unthemed Code
If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before...
over a year ago
If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before JavaScript loads. Here is the solution.
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop Diff Tab Demo (tip)
3 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The importance of dogfooding - Why product managers should use their product as much as their users
Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction...
over a year ago
Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction which build up over time and frustrate your users…
Seldo.com
What I've learned about data recently
over a year ago
Making software...
Skip to Content Button
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website's accessibility...
over a year ago
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website's accessibility is the "keyboard-only" audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono February Update
Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is...
over a year ago
Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is very much appreciated.
Here is a quick update on the progress:
Website - Berkeleygraphics.com
It is already up: https://berkeleygraphics.com but does not have the Berkeley Mono pages...
Paolo Amoroso's...
My ChromeOS to Linux migration: requirements and setup
<![CDATA[I'm going back to Linux after nine years of ChromeOS.
In 2015 I had been using Linux for a...
5 months ago
<![CDATA[I'm going back to Linux after nine years of ChromeOS.
In 2015 I had been using Linux for a couple of decades. Exasperated by the frequent maintenance issues, that year I migrated to ChromeOS. I was living in the browser anyway and ChromeOS seemed like a stable...
Patrick Kayongo
Substack vs Africa
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
4 months ago
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
over a year ago
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Liz Denys
Impostor syndrome, an ancient arcane magic
Dealing with impostor syndrome isn't fun, but playing Dungeons & Dragons is! Here's a quick little...
over a year ago
Dealing with impostor syndrome isn't fun, but playing Dungeons & Dragons is! Here's a quick little 5e spell combining the two:
Impostor syndrome
5th-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You create an...
Julia Evans
Introducing "Implement DNS in a Weekend"
Hello! I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on for a long time:
a free guide to...
a year ago
Hello! I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on for a long time:
a free guide to implementing your own DNS resolver in a weekend.
The whole thing is about 200 lines of Python, including implementing all of the
binary DNS parsing from scratch. Here’s the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cool URIs Don’t Change — But Humans Do
Here are two ideas at odds with each other:
You should have human-friendly URIs
Cool URIs don’t...
5 months ago
Here are two ideas at odds with each other:
You should have human-friendly URIs
Cool URIs don’t change
If a slug is going to be human-friendly, i.e. human-readable, then it's going to contain information that is subject to change because humans make errors.
If “to err is human”...
A Smart Bear
The fundamental forces of scale
These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective...
a year ago
These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective when harnessed and leveraged.
bt RSS Feed
The Death of Personality
The Death of Personality
2017-11-01
On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
over a year ago
The Death of Personality
2017-11-01
On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it’s fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple’s iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
Making software...
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-03-18
An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
over a year ago
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-03-18
An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Please put units in names
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of
An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
7 months ago
An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
Making software...
Introducing PageRoast
Introducing PageRoast
2021-03-11
Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
over a year ago
Introducing PageRoast
2021-03-11
Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask?
Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
ntietz.com blog
Throw away your first draft of your code
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then...
a year ago
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all.
Just throw it away.
I'm serious.
And you should probably have some of your best engineers doing this throwaway work.
It's going to save you time in the long run.
The...
A Beautiful Site
An Event Apart, Boston
The plane took off from Orlando as I sat half asleep in my seat. With my laptop at my feet, I...
over a year ago
The plane took off from Orlando as I sat half asleep in my seat. With my laptop at my feet, I wondered what kind of intriguing things I would learn at the web conference I had signed up for. I anticipated this day for months now and it was finally here. I was on my way to An...
ntietz.com blog
Rust's iterators optimize nicely—and contain a footgun
I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list...
7 months ago
I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list twice, while the foreach loop iterates only once."
The author continued that "Haskell can fuse maps together as an optimization but I don't think you safely fuse arbitrary map/filters?...
Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
a year ago
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification.
Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then?
One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Measuring Developer Relations
DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective...
over a year ago
DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor.
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs
About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs.
I wrote...
a year ago
About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs.
I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing.
There’s a lot of spam in the...
Engineer’s Codex
3 predictions on the future of software after AI
Key takeaways: a multi-model strategy's necessity, emerging AI infra, LLMs as abstractions.
a year ago
Key takeaways: a multi-model strategy's necessity, emerging AI infra, LLMs as abstractions.
Making software...
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
over a year ago
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be "injected" via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one's hands. So, the least I can do is...
Julia Evans
Some blogging myths
A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides)
about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was...
a year ago
A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides)
about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was chatting with a friend
about blogging the other day and it made me want to write up that talk as a
blog post.
here are the myths:
myth: you need to be original
myth: you need to...
Vadim Kravcenko
🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round
Startup founders have a lot of fears. Some are afraid they won’t find a technical co-founder or...
over a year ago
Startup founders have a lot of fears. Some are afraid they won’t find a technical co-founder or attract angel investment. […]
The post 🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into...
over a year ago
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files:
for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done
I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog
The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
The reasons why I started blogging.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Amazing Athletes of the 21st Century
Read more about RSS Club.
Content warning: wherein I talk about sports. If that’s not your...
5 months ago
Read more about RSS Club.
Content warning: wherein I talk about sports. If that’s not your thing, feel free to skip this one.
I’m not a rabid sports fan. I don’t have a team, though I do have teams I hate (or rather, like to hate on). But I do enjoy following sports.
I’ve...
Maggie Appleton
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI
over a year ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 3: Related work
5 months ago
macwright.com
Recently
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and
will write about some retrospectives...
a year ago
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and
will write about some retrospectives on how the business and such
have gone, but for now, let’s keep this traditional, a good old-fashioned
Recently.
Reading
This month’s theme, looking back on it, was feminism, and...
Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
10 months ago
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
Code Of Honor
Stay Awhile and Listen
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for...
over a year ago
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for blogging as I’ve started creating a new game. After a two-year stint helping other folks publish their games I’m back to coding and game design full-time and having a wonderful time. But...
bunnie's blog
Automated Stitching of Chip Images
This is the final post in a series about non-destructively inspecting chips with the IRIS...
8 months ago
This is the final post in a series about non-destructively inspecting chips with the IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. Here are links to previous posts: This post will cover the software used to stitch together smaller images generated by the control software into a single...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.29.0
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
over a year ago
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
ntietz.com blog
Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship
This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
a year ago
This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together.
It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends.
But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
Patrick Kayongo
Play
“I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their...
a year ago
“I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their backs from the lazy sloth on the paved ground outside of his garage. All the kids in the conformant townhouse complex regularly gravitated towards his house during the school...
ntietz.com blog
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time?
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers.
In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000...
a year ago
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers.
In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers.
That is just mind boggling scale to me.
It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in.
They are paying a lot of engineers.
Some of them do very...
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
Chris Nicholas
Which blend mode?
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for...
over a year ago
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for use in the wild.
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Logic programming in C++
When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one...
over a year ago
When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one is the invisible Prolog. If written properly, the second program is helpful. However, if being neglected, it turns your code into an untangleable mess of incomprehencibles...
Making software...
Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD
Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD
2023-06-13
It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor...
a year ago
Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD
2023-06-13
It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor battery performance on laptops. Although not as impressive as something like Alpine Linux or FreeBSD, you can tweak OpenBSD just enough to squeeze more life out of your machine's...
Ink & Switch
Tablet Platform Showdown
Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
over a year ago
Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
Daniel Marino
Building a Random Music Sequencer with Preact
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of...
over a year ago
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of randomly generating music. Not that this is a new concept, but I was curious to see what I could come up with. Go ahead and check out the RMG-2021.
Design
I love how sequencers look...
Making software...
Cut Your Forms in Half
Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-09
Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-09
Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don't pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible.
Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
TokyoDev
Safari bug with ruby tag
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
over a year ago
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.*
Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
which renders as
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
If you control click...
bt RSS Feed
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
2019-09-28
I recently began working on a small side...
over a year ago
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
2019-09-28
I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I’m writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.13.0
Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a...
over a year ago
Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a mountain of bug fixes and refactoring this week. We…
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
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...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
7 things you may not know about useState
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some...
over a year ago
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some awesome features (and nasty pitfalls) useState offers. Since it's one of my favourite hooks, I decided to help spread a word. Don't expect any huge revelations, but here're the 7 facts...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL: Implementing a typechecker in Rust
5 months ago
Neil Panchal
Eternal Robustness
"Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take...
a year ago
"Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take great care to provide you with excellence year after year. Your involvement with us will be predictable and stable."
ntietz.com blog
My portable ergonomic setup
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
6 months ago
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids.
That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally.
One guaranteed trigger...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Feature Selection
Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality!!
over a year ago
Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality!!
Elad Blog
Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?)
Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what...
over a year ago
Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Gist That Keeps On Giving
I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo.
Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local...
7 months ago
I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo.
Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local branch with all my work and there’s no backup on GitHub.
“This is git. There has got to be a version of this things still on my computer somewhere, right? RIGHT?!”
So I start...
Steve Klabnik
Update GitHub Pages with Travis CI
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam
Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam...
over a year ago
Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam bots post comments on someones blog, guestbook, or wiki for the sole purpose of boosting traffic and promoting better search engine rankings for their site. Like email spam, it can be...
The Codist
Twitter Was An Awesome Idea But Never A Viable Business
Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry...
a year ago
Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry communications in real-time to people worldwide, creating self-organizing circles of common interests, allowing for easy discovery, and supporting an instant source of information. But, there...
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
over a year ago
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Confessions of a...
Disillusioning the Magic of the fork System Call
How the kernels implement the fork system call
3 weeks ago
How the kernels implement the fork system call
Dan Slimmon
Why transaction order matters, even if you’re only reading
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET...
11 months ago
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET TRANSACTION statement. They are: This last guarantee is one against serialization anomalies. A serialization anomaly is any sequence of events that produces a result that would be...
Julia Evans
How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other
day, and I found...
a year ago
Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other
day, and I found myself getting confused.
What went wrong was: I thought that git cherry-pick was basically applying a
patch, but when I tried to actually do it that way, it didn’t work!
Let’s talk...
PostHog's RSS Feed
An engineer's guide to picking a cofounder
What could be worse than handing out 50% of your company's equity to a co-founder who doesn't...
over a year ago
What could be worse than handing out 50% of your company's equity to a co-founder who doesn't understand the product as much as you do, and all they…
Nelson's Weblog
GAS
I’ve been listening to the same music every night when I go to sleep
10+ years now. Weird...
a year ago
I’ve been listening to the same music every night when I go to sleep
10+ years now. Weird endorsement; I’ve listened to it with more
attention plenty of times too. But it’s particularly good for going to
sleep; calm, interesting, and comfortably familiar.
That music is GAS,...
David Heinemeier...
Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
We had originally planned to go all-in on passkeys for ONCE/Campfire, and we built the early...
3 months ago
We had originally planned to go all-in on passkeys for ONCE/Campfire, and we built the early authentication system entirely around that. It was not a simple setup! Handling passkeys properly is surprisingly complicated on the backend, but we got it done. Unfortunately, the user...
blag
Recurse Center Day 4: B Tree fill factor
Q: How do I have a same B Tree fill factor across all nodes?
over a year ago
Q: How do I have a same B Tree fill factor across all nodes?
Vladimir Klepov as a...
10 Design Rules for Programmers
For some reason, many developers disdain design. We are programmers, we are smart and rational, and...
over a year ago
For some reason, many developers disdain design. We are programmers, we are smart and rational, and we think technically. Designers are weird and artistic, they wear black sweaters and long scarves, they are no match to us. I never quite understood how you can ignore design if...
Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
over a year ago
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
A Smart Bear
Pick one and own it
What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will...
10 months ago
What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger.
Tony Finch's blog
libc delenda est
Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C
library are terrible,
especially if...
a year ago
Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C
library are terrible,
especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring
into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a
setjmp which is fun in a
more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Grateful: Colors in console.log()
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every...
2 months ago
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values.
I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50%...
Epic Web Dev
Improve UX and Security with Time-based One Time Passwords (TOTPs) (tip)
Watch Kent show you the improved user experience, security, and the implementation of Time-based One...
a year ago
Watch Kent show you the improved user experience, security, and the implementation of Time-based One Time Passwords in the Epic Stack.
Founder's blog
Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database
Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver...
a year ago
Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver bullet
The problem
Our SaaS is powered by a huge multi terabyte "multi tenant" relational database cluster. Some tables are more than 200 GB - this is crazy, to be honest. And for the...
ntietz.com blog
Betraying vim for the IDEs of March
vim is my text editor soulmate1.
But I've gone and done a Brutus by betraying vim and using a...
a year ago
vim is my text editor soulmate1.
But I've gone and done a Brutus by betraying vim and using a different editor.
And I did it on March 15th2, the Ides of March.
Or is it the IDEs of March?
The betrayal happened slowly, then all at once.
For the past few weeks I've been ruminating...
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (tip)
a year ago
Ferd.ca
Counting Forest Fires
2024/01/26
Counting Forest Fires
Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought...
11 months ago
2024/01/26
Counting Forest Fires
Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought I'd re-publish one of my favorite short blog posts written over there, Counting Forest Fires, which has become my go-to argument when discussing incident metrics when asked to count...
bt RSS Feed
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS
2024-10-21
I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on...
2 months ago
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS
2024-10-21
I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on Linveo. For just $15 a year they provide:
AMD KVM 1GB
1024 MB RAM
1 CPU Core
25 GB NVMe SSD
2000 GB Bandwidth
It’s a pretty great deal and I suggest you look more into it if you’re...
Seán Barry
Getting Started With Docker (Part 1)
What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
over a year ago
What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the...
over a year ago
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean.
Please note that while I...
Making software...
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
over a year ago
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren't great (and still aren't perfect) but they represented a...
macwright.com
Focus
For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig
yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013,
in...
over a year ago
For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig
yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013,
in JavaScript. It’s the first time in a while I’ve made
a project just for kicks. If you look at the number of
GitHub repositories I’ve committed to since 2013, the
number is decreasing. Same...
Making software...
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...
a year ago
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...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 9, 2016
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. On today's commutes to and from work:
A Fine Frenzy's "Rangers" is a much more poetic song than Taylor Swift's awkwardly similar "I Know Places." A hunted...
Blog System/5
Links: November 2023 edition
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
a year ago
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
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
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...
A Beautiful Site
Swapping variables with JavaScript
Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I...
over a year ago
Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I told you there was an easier way to do this with JavaScript?
Traditional method #
The goal is to swap the values of a and b. The textbook method for doing this looks something like...
macwright.com
Recently
The weather is starting to get better.
Listening
Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands
I am still...
a year ago
The weather is starting to get better.
Listening
Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands
I am still really loving the constellation of bands around
Mammal Hands. They just released
a new album, “Gift from the Trees”, and it’s really excellent.
RETURN by tAKX
Their guitarist,...
ntietz.com blog
Reflecting on 2022, Looking Ahead to 2023
This is one of those cliched posts:
Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals...
a year ago
This is one of those cliched posts:
Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals and whatnot for next year.
They're cliche, but they're also useful.
The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other people can come along and...
Charles Chen
Nuxt 3 with SSR on Google Cloud Firebase Functions (2023)
If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no...
a year ago
If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no further!
PostHog's RSS Feed
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...
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…
Paolo Amoroso's...
Early experience with Medley on the Raspberry Pi 400
<![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the...
a year ago
<![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the AArch64 version on the Raspberry Pi OS desktop:
SDL version of Medley Interlisp on a Raspberry Pi 400 under Raspberry Pi OS.
The online version of Medley runs well and smoothly...
Maggie Appleton
Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks
over a year ago
Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
a year ago
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 1)
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user...
over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS.
In the second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
James Vaughan's blog
Micro reviews: Bun, Cursor, Cloudflare Pages, and more
a year ago
TokyoDev
Service Introduction: Forkwell
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending...
over a year ago
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
swyx's site RSS Feed
What if Stripe is the next Google?
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
over a year ago
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
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
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...
Alex Meub
The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to...
5 days ago
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to create products that provide real value, products that didn’t exist before I designed them. On top of that, it’s satisfied my desire to ship products, even if the end-user is just...
ntietz.com blog
Scheduling visits from the muse
Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog.
For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively...
a year ago
Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog.
For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively inactive.
And then, I just started pumping out a lot more blog posts in 2022 while attending the Recurse Center.
What changed?
I stopped relying on visits from the muse, and started...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Third Age of JavaScript
A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now...
over a year ago
A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now will look totally unrecognizable
Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
6 months ago
David Heinemeier...
You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
a year ago
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
bt RSS Feed
February 2022 Update
February 2022 Update
2022-02-23
It’s been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my...
over a year ago
February 2022 Update
2022-02-23
It’s been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my wife gave birth to our third child last Thursday. Her name is Harmony and she was born in the late afternoon weighing in at 7 pounds 8 ounces.
Besides the lack of sleep, everything...
David Heinemeier...
Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit
I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over...
8 months ago
I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over how calling the default branch in Git repositories "master" was PrObLEmAtIC, I thought, fine, what skin is it off anyone's or my back to change? If this is really important, can...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Tailwind CSS
Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
over a year ago
Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
Remains of the Day
Catch up
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
over a year ago
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time.
While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
ntietz.com blog
Why I kept my startup job for seven years (and counting)
Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long.
If you're not moving, you're losing...
5 months ago
Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long.
If you're not moving, you're losing out on opportunities1.
And yet, I've made the choice to join and stay at one company for seven years.
That's more than half my career to date.
Why did I do that?
And would I do it...
macwright.com
Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by ()
This took way too long to figure out.
The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
a year ago
This took way too long to figure out.
The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which aren’t mentioned on MDN. So, assuming you’re in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like:
const body = await...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Counting to Ten
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to...
a year ago
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to the subject of counting to ten.
Realizing everyone in the family can count to ten in a language unique to them at this moment in their life, we go around the table to do it...
A Smart Bear
Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation
Erica Douglass sold her company for $1M, yet still struggles with self-worth; why driven people...
4 weeks ago
Erica Douglass sold her company for $1M, yet still struggles with self-worth; why driven people can't escape Impostor Syndrome.
Daniel Marino
Deploying My Eleventy Site to GitHub Pages
I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of...
over a year ago
I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of switching my site to Eleventy was getting deployments to GitHub pages set up. I suppose I could have built my site locally, and then push that to the gh-pages branch, but that felt...
ntietz.com blog
TIL: testing in the future using the faketime command
Last week's blog post accidentally got published a few hours early1.
One of the keen-eyed among you...
5 months ago
Last week's blog post accidentally got published a few hours early1.
One of the keen-eyed among you even submitted it to the orange site before it was officially up, since it was in my RSS feed briefly and was picked up by various RSS readers.
Resolving that issue led me to...
Acko.net
Minds of Its Own
A tale from the loop
Simon Stålenhag
Key
Human
AiDungeon.io's...
over a year ago
A tale from the loop
Simon Stålenhag
Key
Human
AiDungeon.io's Dragon model.
TLDR: AI sandbox escape, any% run. You won't believe what happens next.
You are GPT3, an advanced text predictor. Some people consider you a general AI. Your stateless nature...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Novels as Prototypes of the Future
Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine):
A novel…is a prototype...
6 months ago
Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine):
A novel…is a prototype of the future. And if the ideas that the tech industry is pursuing feel stagnant…maybe it points to a shortage of compelling fictions for what the world could be.
I love that...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2024
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a...
9 months ago
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a gizmo I picked out of a junk bin in Akihabara. Personally, I could not figure out the grabby motion until I actuated the central plunger manually: So, I was impressed that Ian...
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal...
over a year ago
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol’ Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
bt RSS Feed
Easy Toggle Switches
Easy Toggle Switches
2019-02-18
Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches
2019-02-18
Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles.
This is overkill. You can...
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Array 1.14.0
Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of...
over a year ago
Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of interviews with users and had a lot of discussions with…
Elad Blog
Hiring Executives & Bad Advice
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of...
over a year ago
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at...
A Beautiful Site
Social sharing buttons are ineffective
Back in 2012, I wrote an article called Down with the "Share" Widget. In it, I talked about why...
over a year ago
Back in 2012, I wrote an article called Down with the "Share" Widget. In it, I talked about why plastering social sharing buttons all over your website is completely ineffective. This morning, Smashing Magazine all but confirmed my theory.
In today's Smashing Newsletter, they...
Founder's blog
System.Drawing vs SkiaSharp benchmark
This is a ridiculously short post for .NET devs looking to compare System.Drawing with SkiaSharp...
a year ago
This is a ridiculously short post for .NET devs looking to compare System.Drawing with SkiaSharp (the fastest open-source alternative).
I'm currently building a new pet project - a free tool, that will allow bloggers and webmasters generate open-graph "cover images" via...
A small freedom area...
Improving color quantization heuristics
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was
improved in FFmpeg in order...
a year ago
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was
improved in FFmpeg in order to make nice animated GIF files. For some
reason, to this day this is one of my most popular article.
As time passed, my experience with colors grew and I ended up being...
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
over a year ago
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be “injected” via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one’s hands. So, the least I can do is...
HTMHell
Getting Oriented with HTML Video
by Scott Jehl
A couple years back, I was in a window seat on a flight from Amsterdam to New York....
3 days ago
by Scott Jehl
A couple years back, I was in a window seat on a flight from Amsterdam to New York. The weather was gray and drizzly as the plane took off, but as it punched through the clouds a very different scene revealed itself. Out my window, it looked like a Maxfield Parrish...
Liz Denys
Early one morning
The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
over a year ago
The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
ntietz.com blog
[Review] "The Circle" by Dave Eggers
Surveillance has gotten a lot of media attention lately (and a bit of attention on this very blog),...
over a year ago
Surveillance has gotten a lot of media attention lately (and a bit of attention on this very blog), and for good reason. So, it should be no surprise that it's also turning up in our dystopian novels!
"The Circle" is a dystopian novel by Dave Eggers. While fiction, it is set in a...
A Beautiful Site
CSS Parts Inspired by BEM
In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...
over a year ago
In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few restrictions in what you can call them. The purpose of that deep dive was to help identify a pattern for naming parts that lets me expose states and subparts, or parts exported as a...
Irrational...
Culture vs systems.
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
a year ago
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
macwright.com
Hacker News
Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s
the only JavaScript on most pages, which are...
over a year ago
Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s
the only JavaScript on most pages, which are otherwise
pretty minimal.
try {
if (document.referrer) {
const ref = new URL(document.referrer);
if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') {
window.location.href =...
Ferd.ca
My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist...
3 months ago
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere.
After launching my notes section, I had to...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
over a year ago
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2022
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping...
a year ago
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping detailed records.
I don’t set reading goals, but I’m pleased with that.
Nearly a third of those books came from my local library; both books I knew I already wanted to read, and books...
alexwlchan
CSS formatting in the console
I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service)...
a year ago
I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service) and I was mildly surprised by what I saw in the developer tools console:
Code that runs in the dev console can be very powerful, so I can understand why they want to...
David Heinemeier...
We need a Right To Compute
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If...
11 months ago
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you ought to have the right to...
Programming in the...
Writing Video Games in a Functional Style
When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games...
over a year ago
When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games be written in a functional style?" These are programs heavily based around mutable state. They evolve, often drastically, during development, so there isn't a perfect up-front...
A Beautiful Site
I'm taking "startup" back
The word "startup" has taken on a very unfortunate meaning over the years. I used to think of my own...
over a year ago
The word "startup" has taken on a very unfortunate meaning over the years. I used to think of my own business as a startup, but as its definition evolved, I quickly realized I didn't fit that description at all.
The word "startup", by definition, means the act or instance of...
Epic Web Dev
The True Purpose of Testing (article)
Discover the true essence of automated testing and the difference between an implementation and...
11 months ago
Discover the true essence of automated testing and the difference between an implementation and intention.
Making software...
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested...
over a year ago
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
bt RSS Feed
Perspective
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
4 months ago
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
Computer Things
An idea for teaching formal methods better
I was recently commissioned by a company to make a bespoke TLA+ workshop with a strong emphasis on...
4 months ago
I was recently commissioned by a company to make a bespoke TLA+ workshop with a strong emphasis on reading specifications. I normally emphasize writing specs, so this one will need a different approach.
While working on it, I had an idea that might make teaching TLA+— and other...
TokyoDev
My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter...
a year ago
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter the country, such as a working holiday visa, English teaching, or getting hired by one of the [many wonderful companies](http://www.tokyodev.com/companies), posting jobs on...
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Automated Data Scraping with Github Actions
A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers
over a year ago
A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers
alexwlchan
Drawing repetitive radial artworks
I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook.
I’d just...
6 months ago
I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook.
I’d just had a text from a friend about an upcoming trip to Ireland, and she’d sent me the four-leafed clover emoji (🍀), so I was sketching some petal-like shapes.
These are a few of my...
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