Liz Denys
Trashy Holidays from [the rats of] New York City!
This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most...
16th Nov 2021
This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most iconic images:
The back of the card explains why this problem is so commonplace on NYC's streets and says how we could fix it:
Piles of trash blocking sidewalks and bike lanes are as...
A Beautiful Site
Parsing a JSON string results in an 'Invalid Label' error
Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred...
17th Jul 2008
Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred server-side language. I use JSON whenever I can to pass data between JavaScript and PHP. After all, $.get and $.post both process JSON easily, so it's my data type of choice.
Sometimes,...
The Changelog
Martha the Pilot
Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our...
3rd May 2023
Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our airplane in short flights to a nearby restaurant and long ones to Michigan and South Dakota. All this time, she’s been riding in the back seat next to Laura. Martha has been talking...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Apr 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in March - Published Software in the AI era and updated my personal website. - Wrote Agent experience abo...
Julia Evans
How do Nix builds work?
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
3rd Mar 2023
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds
work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here.
I started by complaining on Mastodon:
are there any guides to nix that...
The History of the...
The Website that Predicted AI
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in...
13th Nov 2024
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995.
The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
HTMHell
#21 Legendary legend!
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button...
24th Jul 2020
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button class="panel-heading" tabindex="0" href="#collapse0" aria-expanded="true">
<legend> Industries Served </legend>
</button>
Issues and how to fix them
legend is not allowed as a child of any other...
elementary Blog
It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and...
3rd Jul 2024
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and plenty of OS 8 news.
Disability Pride Month
It’s disability pride month, which means making space to talk about how we can build communities and systems that better accommodate...
Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
29th Mar 2022
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
Jordan Eldredge's...
Why linting errors should cause tests to fail
Making the case against allowing linting errors in master.
16th Sep 2016
Making the case against allowing linting errors in master.
Eric Bailey
The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing
12th Sep 2018
Julia Evans
Standards for ANSI escape codes
Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes.
For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI...
7th Mar 2025
Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes.
For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make
text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understanding of where they were
supposed to be defined or whether or not there were...
Steve Klabnik
The culture war at the heart of open source
26th May 2019
Dan Slimmon
Is ops a bullshit job?
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A...
11th Feb 2025
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Graeber defines a bullshit job as, a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence...
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2
We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last...
23rd Apr 2025
We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last year. The update has several key improvements, bug fixes, and more API consistency between platforms. And we’ve created all new iOS and Android demo apps to show it off!
A web-first...
David Crawshaw
Compiler Bomb
main[-1u]={1};
codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-compiler-bomb/69193#69193
14th Oct 2016
main[-1u]={1};
codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-compiler-bomb/69193#69193
Jordan Eldredge's...
Silly fach generator
I created a website that will generate silly fach names.
2nd Jan 2013
I created a website that will generate silly fach names.
A Smart Bear
"I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough
This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups...
2nd Mar 2025
This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups that fail. But it's a start.
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
13th Feb 2025
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
Sometimes It Works...
How I Update and Deploy this Site
I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and...
5th Sep 2023
I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and even a rapid CMS can cause an unprepared server to grind to a halt.
I used to love running my own servers, but I don't have the time to do it for my personal site - I just want it to...
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love....
24th Apr 2020
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love. The marled combinations of oranges, pinks, blues, and purples were calling to me, so I ordered a kit right away. Other knitters commented that while they loved the pattern, the...
Maggie Appleton
Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors
Explaining React through visual metaphors
1st May 2020
Explaining React through visual metaphors
Boot.dev Blog
Is Computer Science Really that Hard?
Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science...
5th Apr 2023
Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science is hard. You want to know if it’s too hard. You want to know if having to learn computer science is going to be a real obstacle in your way to achieving your goal.
A Smart Bear
The "Opposite Test"
Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft...
6th Apr 2008
Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft compelling, unique features.
David Crawshaw
2015-10-13
"So OpenSSL has optional code to reject attempts to use weak DES keys. It, sanely, is not enabled...
13th Oct 2015
"So OpenSSL has optional code to reject attempts to use weak DES keys. It, sanely, is not enabled by default; if you want it you have to compile with DEVP_CHECK_DES_KEY.Last Thursday it was reported to the openssl-dev mailing list by Ben Kaduk that there was a defect in this...
somenice
Autumnal equinox 2023
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using...
24th Sep 2023
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
Blog System/5
Bazel and action (non-) determinism
A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of...
21st Jul 2025
A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of actions.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Book Review: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin
"Ahra", the Eaten One, the high priestess of the Tombs of Atuan
belongs to the Nameless Ones. She...
8th Oct 2016
"Ahra", the Eaten One, the high priestess of the Tombs of Atuan
belongs to the Nameless Ones. She is, herself, nameless. Her name along
with her family and future were taken from her in a ceremony on which
the novel opens. At the beginning of the novel, her 6-year-old life...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system....
30th Jul 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system. Congrats to Christian for naming it! email me for your prize. This gem of a board was gifted to me by someone at SGI back when I worked there in…I want to say 1998? I even still...
Liz Denys
Knitted curtain tiebacks
I wanted curtain tiebacks that were functional for my curtains hung inside window frames, but...
21st Nov 2020
I wanted curtain tiebacks that were functional for my curtains hung inside window frames, but unfortuantely, the current trends are designed around curtains mounted outside window frames with large, bulky metal tiebacks - not so great for my craftsman framed windows in tiny NYC...
Oxide Computer...
Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?
How it started
Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23
employees),...
1st May 2025
How it started
Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23
employees), and we knew that we needed many more people to execute on our
audacious vision. While we had
had success hiring in our personal networks, those networks now felt tapped;
we needed...
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
1st Jul 2023
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
7th Jun 2023
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
A Beautiful Site
Why developers hate being interrupted
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that...
8th Jan 2015
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that I had written it myself. Many of the points in it hit home, so I hope it helps people better understand how developers think and what they go through when interruptions arise.
One...
charity.wtf
How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy”
Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it...
20th Jan 2022
Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it was founded by two engineers and our mission involves building an engineering product for other engineers. We are never going to stop being engineering-driven in the sense that we...
Liz Denys
Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced...
24th Feb 2015
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
31st Dec 2015
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
bt RSS Feed
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
2020-11-09
I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about...
9th Nov 2020
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
2020-11-09
I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It’s a very good article overall, and I suggest...
Contraption Co.
Digital product studios
I describe Contraption Company as a digital product studio. Many people ask what that means. "Is it...
28th Jan 2024
I describe Contraption Company as a digital product studio. Many people ask what that means. "Is it a startup?" (not exactly). "Is it an agency?" (ideally, no). "Do you make apps to spin them out into new companies?" (no).
I envision a digital product
A Beautiful Site
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
10th Nov 2009
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
Joel Gascoigne
How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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It’s an exciting...
5th Dec 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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It’s an exciting time for Buffer. Toby Osbourn [https://twitter.com/tosbourn]
just joined and we’re now 16 people. Toby joined us as a Backend Hacker
[http://jobs.bufferapp.com/backend-hacker],...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Reese the Cat
Reese the Cat (Jan 2018)
My good friend Reese the Cat died on the last day of May 2019. She
was 13...
5th Jun 2019
Reese the Cat (Jan 2018)
My good friend Reese the Cat died on the last day of May 2019. She
was 13 years old – still a young cat, by cat standards. She had a tumor
on her tongue and couldn’t swallow and couldn’t eat or drink. We took
her to a vet clinic within walking distance...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Alphabet as Technology
Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words:
Thinking of a language as a technology...
16th Mar 2023
Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words:
Thinking of a language as a technology or a product is strange at first but the more you look at them the more they resemble microwaves or dishwashers; incredibly complicated under the hood but also sort of boring on...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - I've started publishing on Contraption Company every Friday. My posts last month: I...
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,...
16th Sep 2015
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...
ByteofDev
How to use ESM on the web and in Node.js
ES (ECMAScript) Modules is a modern module format with many advantages over previous formats like...
3rd Sep 2022
ES (ECMAScript) Modules is a modern module format with many advantages over previous formats like CommonJS. How do you switch to it?
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
1st Aug 2024
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
A Beautiful Site
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
22nd Jan 2010
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website.
Scroll to a specific element #
Here's how to...
Steve Klabnik
"C is not how the computer works" can lead to inefficient code
25th Oct 2019
Liz Denys
Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io.
Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames...
31st Mar 2014
Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames than PGP and verified account linking to popular sites such as Twitter and GitHub. This is awesome because "PGP for humans" is long overdue and because I snatched up the namespace...
orlp.net - Blog...
Magical Fibonacci Formulae
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating...
6th Feb 2023
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating point arithmetic:
f=lambda n:(b:=2<<n)**n*b//(b*b-b-1)%b
It really does:
>>> [f(n) for n in range(10)]
[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34]
How does it work? As a teaser, look at...
Tony Finch's blog
PCG64 DXSM random number generator
Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2
for Golang’s standard library. It...
21st Jun 2023
Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2
for Golang’s standard library. It mentioned a new-ish flavour
of PCG random number generator which I had not previously encountered,
called PCG64 DXSM. This blog post collects what I have learned about
it. (I have...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
30th Dec 2022
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
Remains of the Day
The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity
I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from...
7th Jan 2020
I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from structural ossification in the music, film, and publishing businesses, to name the most prominent.
One of the ways this manifests is in the one-way broadcast nature of much of our...
wingolog
the value of a performance oracle
Over on his excellent blog, from
having ported a bytecode virtual machine to .
He finds that his...
7th Apr 2026
Over on his excellent blog, from
having ported a bytecode virtual machine to .
He finds that his tail-calling interpreter written in Rust beats his
switch-based interpreter, and even beats hand-coded assembly on some
platforms.Matt Keeter posts some
resultstail-calling
style
He...
Jordan Eldredge's...
I gave a talk: Finding Creativity Through Constraints
In which I discuss how constraints have inspired my creative process as a musician and programmer.
25th Sep 2015
In which I discuss how constraints have inspired my creative process as a musician and programmer.
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Japanese Glory Hole
Funny Onion gag
2nd Mar 2026
Josh Comeau's blog
Promises From The Ground Up
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it...
3rd Jun 2024
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Take a hard game, and make it shorter
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels,...
16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
Basta’s Notes
Read every error. You can't read every error.
System stability is a steady state, not a goal
18th Aug 2023
System stability is a steady state, not a goal
Liz Denys
A geek feminism anecdote
Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't...
19th Dec 2013
Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't intended to be about a specific topic - it's just full of what I feel like writing at the time. Perhaps, more technical things will follow in the future.
Some friends and I randomly...
Maggie Appleton
Humanity's Last Exam
Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
20th Feb 2025
Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
1st Mar 2019
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
Computer Things
Software books I wish I could read
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with...
6th Aug 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with a new chapter on code proofs, three chapter overhauls, and more! Full release notes here.
Software books I wish I could read
I'm writing Logic for Programmers because it's a book...
The Changelog
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
12th Jul 2023
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
bt RSS Feed
Designers Need Thicker Skin
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
10th Jul 2017
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
Words and Buttons...
Simple image vectorization
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
7th Mar 2019
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
Boot.dev Blog
JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
Eric Bailey
How accessible is your website for the disabled? Consider doing an audit to find out
14th Nov 2017
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now...
5th Sep 2024
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work.
And work, they do.
Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
blag
What I want to do at Recurse Center
Projects I want to work on at RC
24th Oct 2021
Projects I want to work on at RC
Quentin Santos
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s...
24th Feb 2024
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
15th Oct 2023
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library.
I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space.
(My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
The History of the...
Where did mainstream media come from?
The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an...
10th Dec 2024
The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web.
The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Josh Comeau's blog
Partial Keyframes
CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial,...
10th Jun 2025
CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial, I’ll show you something that completely blew my mind, a technique that makes our keyframe animations so much more reusable and dynamic! 🤯
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
9th Jun 2024
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Jobs
As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a...
30th Jan 2024
As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a dashboard and set of extensions to operate and observe background jobs, that we’ve been using for over a year, in the beginning with Resque only, and later with both Resque and...
bt RSS Feed
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
5th Jul 2019
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...
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we designed the PostHog mascot
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
7th Oct 2021
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5
In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left...
11th Jun 2025
In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left navigation element is only visible when you’re moving the mouse or when mouse is over the element.
Here’s UI hidden:
Here’s UI visible:
The thinking is: when writing, you want...
The Web Witch's Blog
Browser font rendering inconsistencies
22 June 2020
I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different...
22nd Jun 2020
22 June 2020
I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different browsers against my personal website when I opened up Safari and noticed how drastically different the title of my page was rendering. It was extremely bold in Safari compared to...
HTMHell
#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0">
<div alt="Browser...
9th Feb 2020
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0">
<div alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" aria-label="Browser Wars: The Last Engine">
<div>
<img alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" src="thumbnail.jpg">
</div>
</div>
</a>
Issues and...
Nue developer blog
Hyper: Standards first React alternative
Hyper is a standards first markup language for building user interfaces. It enables developers (and...
8th May 2025
Hyper is a standards first markup language for building user interfaces. It enables developers (and AI models) to generate complex UIs with amazingly clean syntax.
Irrational...
Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty.
Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts...
17th Jul 2024
Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts here. Although I covered some parts of this in Your first 90 days as CTO (understanding product analytics, shadowing customer support, talking to customers, and talking with your...
Hixie's Natural Log
How big is the Flutter team?
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter.
It's a hard question to answer because...
3rd Feb 2024
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter.
It's a hard question to answer because "contribute" is a very vague concept. There's tens of thousands of packages on pub.dev, all of which are written by contributors to the community. There's over 100,000 of issues...
dthompson
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary
The Spring Lisp Game Jam
2023 submission
deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
5th Jun 2023
The Spring Lisp Game Jam
2023 submission
deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a
co-host of the jam alongside
technomancy but he did all the real
work setting everything up. There were 30
submissions
this time around, which I believe is a new record...
Vadim Kravcenko
Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering
As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned...
6th Jan 2023
As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting […]
The post Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Jordan Eldredge's...
Barbershop Happy Birthday For Amanda
I multitracked 'Happy Birthday' for my friend Amanda Ortmayer's birthday.
14th Mar 2009
I multitracked 'Happy Birthday' for my friend Amanda Ortmayer's birthday.
Charles Chen
.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels
Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
4th Oct 2023
Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
Tom MacWright
Recently
A little late on this one, but I got around to it!
Reading
I got stuck on two books: books that I...
6th Jun 2025
A little late on this one, but I got around to it!
Reading
I got stuck on two books: books that I want to enjoy but can’t get
any momentum on. So my reading “stats” are suffering and this is a light
year for books so far. But I switched gears to read Glass Century
by Ross Barkan,...
orlp.net - Blog...
Taming Floating-Point Sums
Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them.
You might naively think...
25th May 2024
Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them.
You might naively think you can simply add them, e.g. in Rust:
fn naive_sum(arr: &[f32]) -> f32 {
let mut out = 0.0;
for x in arr {
out += *x;
}
out
}
This however can easily...
Sedimental
The Many Layers of Packaging
The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store.
Update: I turned this post into a talk. The...
9th May 2017
The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store.
Update: I turned this post into a talk. The video from PyBay is
here, the slides are available here. The
long-cut video from BayPiggies is coming, but the
"Extended Edition" slides are here.
One lesson threaded...
The Changelog
KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE
I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a...
7th Feb 2022
I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a path of trying out some different options before finally landing at an unexpected place: KDE. I say “unexpected” because I find tiling window managers are just about a necessity....
Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
6th Jan 2012
Elad Blog
AI Regulation
There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
18th Sep 2023
There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
Ognjen Regoje •...
Green flags for investable founders
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
2nd Jan 2024
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication.
Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline
A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will:
a) be for their company, not for them
b) be the sales pitch, not a...
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Learning Gears
> Translations welcome! (Português)
19th Apr 2019
> Translations welcome! (Português)
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Abstract Syntax Trees by example
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples...
5th Jan 2021
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples of how to use it for parsing, generating, and manipulating abstract syntax trees, I'm collecting some here from my own usage of it.
Blog System/5
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than...
9th Sep 2024
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
Steve Klabnik
Porting steveklabnik.com to Workers Sites and Zola
26th Sep 2019
Alyssa Rosenzweig
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture,
AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
13th May 2022
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture,
AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since
then, we’ve been
reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last
January, I rendered a triangle
with my own code, but...
Copper • A blog...
How good is Claude, really?
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant.
So much has happened in the...
4th Mar 2026
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant.
So much has happened in the time I was busy carving wooden spoons, that I felt it simpler to just ignore the hype.
One morning, in this seemingly never ending winter, a friend told me excitedly how his employer...
Joel on Software
Making the web better. With blocks!
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which...
27th Jan 2022
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
The Web Witch's Blog
Home Office Kit: Elgato Wave 3 Microphone
My desk setup in the UK is slowly coming together & Jhey picked out a microphone for me. I had a...
2nd Feb 2024
My desk setup in the UK is slowly coming together & Jhey picked out a microphone for me. I had a Blue Yeti microphone in the US...and I still do it's just in storage. It had issues with staying connected through a dongle after my work MacBook was upgraded and I didn't have the...
Alex Meub
Vibe Coding Tools are a BattleMech
Using modern AI coding tools feels like jumping into the cockpit of a BattleMech. My co-worker used...
7th Apr 2026
Using modern AI coding tools feels like jumping into the cockpit of a BattleMech. My co-worker used this analogy recently and I love it. It perfectly sums up the feeling of vibe coding for me. I can move faster, jump higher and it feels like a there is a whole new world of...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eternal shell history 🐢
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5)
Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
25th Feb 2024
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5)
Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash
history:
$ wc -l < ~/.muh_history
763075
My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all
saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history.
$...
Marco Bambini
The Cloud vs Edge Debate Is Over
Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
26th May 2026
Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
elementary Blog
Getting in shape for summer
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
2nd Jun 2023
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot!
Calculator
Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
home automation -...
On the Security of AES in HomeMatic
HomeMatic is a line of home automation devices that are popular in Germany and use a proprietary...
15th Sep 2015
HomeMatic is a line of home automation devices that are popular in Germany and use a proprietary radio protocol (BidCoS, Bidirectional Communication Standard) on a frequency of 868MHz. Some devices allow optional use of “AES signing” for message authentication. When enabled, the...
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Workshopping
Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.
4th Mar 2021
Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.
HTMHell
#22 the good ol’ div link
Context: A link to another page.
Bad code
<div>About us</div>
<div...
14th Oct 2020
Context: A link to another page.
Bad code
<div>About us</div>
<div onClick="location.href='about.html'">
About us
</div>
<div data-page="aboutus" data-url="index.php">
About us
</div>
…or any other variation of this pattern where an element other than <a> is used to link to a...
Sometimes It Works...
Why do many web developers hate jQuery?
Why do many web developers hate jQuery?
¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery?
The following is an...
22nd Nov 2016
Why do many web developers hate jQuery?
¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery?
The following is an answer I originally posted to the above question posed over on Hashnode, the developer community. Thought it was worth sharing :)
When jQuery was the new thing, people loved it....
Ruud van Asseldonk
Model facts, not your problem domain
7th Jun 2020
Blog System/5
BazelCon 2025 recap
It has been just over two years since I started Blog System/5, and that means it’s time for the...
24th Nov 2025
It has been just over two years since I started Blog System/5, and that means it’s time for the now-usual(?) BazelCon 2025 trip report!
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - "I created a chatbot with my dog" was a presentation I gave at a meetup. (Here's t...
The Web Witch's Blog
2023 Book Roundup
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up...
1st Jan 2024
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up on whether or not I met my goal unless it's really abysmally off target. I ended up reading many 700+ page fantasy books this year so when I average that out, that's nearly 3...
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How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of...
1st Nov 2022
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - June 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jun 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - On Contraption Company, I published An app of one's own about building a personal ...
Sometimes It Works...
Stuff to do when you’re not well
Stuff to do when you’re not well
Learn new stuff!
¶Stuff to do when you’re not well
Last week I was...
13th Nov 2017
Stuff to do when you’re not well
Learn new stuff!
¶Stuff to do when you’re not well
Last week I was sick with a cold. I was basically indoors for 5 straight days (one of those actually in bed all day). I was also unable to sleep for a couple of nights.
So I had a lot of extra...
bunnie's blog
Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus,...
19th Dec 2022
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus, it piqued my interest when an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy. This blog post explains my reasoning...
James Vaughan's blog
How To Make HTTP Requests In Elm
12th Dec 2018
bt RSS Feed
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
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...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Refresh Cannon
I turned my forum avatar image into an interactive projectile aiming game.
5th May 2009
I turned my forum avatar image into an interactive projectile aiming game.
Liz Denys
Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song
Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities."
Apologies for the...
29th Nov 2013
Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities."
Apologies for the clefs, but it was the least nasty way to span the piano.
You can grab a full copy of the score.
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2025 TokyoDev Developers Survey
The 2025 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living...
4th Sep 2025
The 2025 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please take a few minutes to participate. All questions are optional, and it should take less than 10 minutes to complete. The survey will remain open until September...
markround.com
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the...
30th Aug 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
On Test Automation
On working and contributing to conferences abroad
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want...
6th Feb 2025
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want my career to go’ series. I will get back to writing technical and automation blog posts soon, but I need to finish my contract testing course first.
One of the things I like to do...
Explained from First...
Email explained from first principles
7th May 2021
The History of the...
The Gift of Code
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time...
4th Sep 2024
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript
The post The Gift of Code appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Naked Emperors in Tech
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
6th Nov 2020
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
A Smart Bear
Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
4th Feb 2024
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
charity.wtf
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in...
7th Aug 2024
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
tonsky.me
I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient...
15th Oct 2025
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient yourself in a large file.
Like any tool, it can be used correctly or incorrectly. Let’s see how to use syntax highlighting to help you work.
Christmas Lights Diarrhea
Most color themes...
home automation -...
Docker Deployment Best Practices
Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use...
1st Aug 2024
Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use self-hosted gitlab.Goal: Both initial and subsequent automated deployments to different environments (staging and production). Rejected ApproachesMost existing blog articles and...
Project: LAKE.app -...
LAKE.app
Following a recent weekend trip, I wrote a simple little app that plays a recording of waves on Lake...
31st Aug 2021
Following a recent weekend trip, I wrote a simple little app that plays a recording of waves on Lake Michigan crashing at the shore. It’s around 14~15 minutes long, and it loops perfectly. The app’s “artwork,” such as it is, consists of two
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Pick Up What They Put Down
> Translations welcome! (Português)
1st Jan 2020
> Translations welcome! (Português)
Lennart Koopmann...
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips,...
3rd Feb 2023
In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked
on a journey of my own: I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn
more about it and why I’ll do it again on...
bt RSS Feed
Improving Github's New Design
Improving Github’s New Design
2020-07-07
Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
7th Jul 2020
Improving Github’s New Design
2020-07-07
Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine.
Sigh.
I was planning on recreating the...
Greg Brockman
The Defender's Window
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek...
16th Aug 2026
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months. I’ve spoken with many organizations over the past few weeks, and one theme is clear: they know they...
Liz Denys
Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023
Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
13th Sep 2023
Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
Basta’s Notes
The imminent risk of vibe coding
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
30th Jan 2026
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
dthompson
Chickadee 0.5.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development...
8th Apr 2020
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...
Eric Bailey
Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design
2nd Jun 2016
Making software...
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
28th Jun 2016
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
A Beautiful Site
Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were...
10th Jan 2009
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were rotating on a page in the form of a slideshow, fading in and out for a nice, smooth transition. One problem, though: in Internet Explorer 7 (and 6, as it turned out), one of the images...
SOS
How to clean up after your NextJS dev server
Sometimes you need to modify files when building a web application that must be reverted before...
10th Nov 2023
Sometimes you need to modify files when building a web application that must be reverted before committing. In my case I’m building a Chrome extension that reads from a NextJS based web service, and when I’m working on the browser extension it reads from http://localhost:3005, so...
Alex Meub
Making a Retro Dock for the Playdate Console
I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a...
27th Jul 2025
I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a miniature version of the Super Famicom and I love how it makes the Playdate look like a little game cartridge when it’s charging.
Making one yourself is pretty straight-forward, you’ll...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
6th Jan 2019
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
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Why I'm not a VC (yet)
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
8th Aug 2021
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
Maggie Appleton
The Best Illustration Books and Courses
My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
6th Jul 2019
My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time...
1st Oct 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time 🐻 - Shipped an archive page, social sharing improvements, and a showcase of customer websites for P...
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...
21st Apr 2023
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...
SOS
Fast Linear Gradient Fills with OffscreenCanvas
TLDR: Demo is here, Code is here, App is here
In Kidz Fun Art, the web app for tablets I’ve built...
27th May 2024
TLDR: Demo is here, Code is here, App is here
In Kidz Fun Art, the web app for tablets I’ve built for my kids and hopefully yours, I recently added a nice little feature where you can fill in any area with a linear gradient. It’s highly responsive to the user moving their...
David Gerrells
a perfect blog editor
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
11th May 2020
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
A Beautiful Site
Most Software Was Already Slop
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
a week ago
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
Brendan Gregg's Blog
eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools
eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is...
27th Apr 2023
eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is and using them for security monitoring would be like driving your car into the ocean and expecting it to float.
Observability tools are designed have the lowest overhead possible so...
Words and Buttons...
Rational interpolation
Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines....
5th Mar 2024
Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines. With rational interpolation, you can build functions that run through a set of points and also have vertical asymptotes whenever you want. With this capability, you can now model...
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Learn In Public
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
19th Jun 2018
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
Blog System/5
Kyua graduates
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
2nd Aug 2024
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
Cognitive...
Uploading CSV to DynamoDB with Node JS
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB.
Easy right?
Not so fast.
It turns out, you have to obey...
26th Mar 2017
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB.
Easy right?
Not so fast.
It turns out, you have to obey your provisioned write capacity.
Unlike S3, "Simple Storage Service" where you simply upload a file, DynamoDB isn't "Simple". There's no "upload CSV" button. You have to write a...
TokyoDev
Writing Developer Job Postings
When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a...
28th Aug 2015
When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a developer hears about your company. Despite the posting being the first step in the hiring flow, companies put little effort into them, often having it be little more than a list of...
MMapped blog
Square joy: trapped rainwater
15th Feb 2022
David Gerrells
A lazy dark mode
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
20th Jun 2020
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
Sometimes It Works...
How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac
How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac
¶How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP...
9th Aug 2017
How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac
¶How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac
Yes, I use MAMP. Sue me (please don’t sue me). It’s actually a pretty good stack for standard web dev and I’ve found that it works fine for most of my needs, even with...
Eric Bailey
Insulin dump
My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type...
12th Oct 2021
My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.
The student is allowed to keep a small purse with her at all times, as it contains a smartphone that runs an app that talks to, and controls her insulin pump. The...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - August 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Back to eating solid foods after my jaw surgery. - Playing with gpt-oss on my com...
Elad Blog
AI Market Clarity
A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for...
22nd Jul 2025
A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for the next year or two suddenly clear
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2024
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative...
31st Dec 2024
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing.
The backlog is brimming, however.
Targets for 2024
❌ Publish at least 40 posts
11
❌ Reach at least 200k readers
Don’t have an...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children...
2nd Jan 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
somenice
Hummingbird at the feeder
With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not...
10th Apr 2024
With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not 30 seconds later, this fella showed up.
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
30th Jan 2024
Epic Web Dev
Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article)
When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is...
4th Jun 2024
When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.
General Robots
Dimension Hopper Part 1
2D Platformer using Stable Diffusion for live level art creation
12th Jun 2023
2D Platformer using Stable Diffusion for live level art creation
A Beautiful Site
A better way to write config files in PHP
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file?
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_name...
2nd May 2016
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file?
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'somedb';
$db_user = 'someuser';
$db_pass = 'somepass';
Then, of course, it gets included and the variables are referenced as globals:
include('config.php');
echo $db_host; //...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
On the software supply-chain doom spiral
.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;}
Hackers are pwning...
24th Apr 2026
.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;}
Hackers are pwning packages at an exhausting clip.
But the hacks are hackneyed. What’s new is the doom cycle: Code that
steals keys to publish code to steal more keys.
A zombie army of infected code. And AI...
ByteofDev
A Quick(ish) Introduction to Tuning Postgres
Learn some of the most important elements of tuning Postgres for performance and get a better...
21st Jul 2025
Learn some of the most important elements of tuning Postgres for performance and get a better understanding of Postgres fundamentals along the way.
Sometimes It Works...
My Wild Security Head-Fiction
My Wild Security Head-Fiction
¶My Wild Security Head-Fiction
I’m not a security expert. I...
15th Mar 2019
My Wild Security Head-Fiction
¶My Wild Security Head-Fiction
I’m not a security expert. I confidently believe I don’t have the kind of mind it takes to ‘always expect the worst’. I couldn’t be a threat analyst, defence strategist or CIA agent because I think you need a drastic...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 3
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first...
1st Feb 2022
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
Daniel Immke
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
2nd Sep 2022
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
Max Schmitt
Next.js: How to add a Contact Form (Pages Router)
Read the post here.
1st Mar 2024
Some Bits: Nelson's...
The Residents - Commercial Album
Videos for many brilliant one minute songs
2nd Nov 2025
Videos for many brilliant one minute songs
wingolog
whippet in guile hacklog: evacuation
Good evening, hackfolk. A quick note this evening to record a waypoint
in my efforts to improve...
11th Jun 2025
Good evening, hackfolk. A quick note this evening to record a waypoint
in my efforts to improve Guile’s memory manager.
So, I got Guile running on top of the
API. This API can be
implemented by a number of concrete garbage collector implementations.
The implementation backed...
Chris Nicholas
How to write exceptional documentation
Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to...
4th Mar 2025
Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to crafting holistic, comprehensive documentation.
sancho.dev
Snapshot tests for your own ppx
1st Jan 2025
Josh Collinsworth
The Five Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me as a Design Student
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not...
21st Feb 2016
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git Advice
Git can be
confusing.
It’s more confusing fumbling with git under pressure. As a release
engineer...
31st Jul 2018
Git can be
confusing.
It’s more confusing fumbling with git under pressure. As a release
engineer fumbling with git under pressure is a appreciable chunk of my
job; as such, I’ve learned a trick or two.
Recently I added some general git
advice to our shared wiki page for...
Identity Designed
BERA
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
22nd Feb 2022
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Cross-Browser JavaScript Scrollbar Detection
I recently contributed a fix to the bootstrap
framework that detects on-screen scrollbars to...
12th Jul 2014
I recently contributed a fix to the bootstrap
framework that detects on-screen scrollbars to determine whether or
not the body should be padded when a modal window is opened to prevent
shifting of background contents. Detecting on-screen scrollbars turned
out to be a bit more...
Ferd.ca
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
2023/01/01
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
When I first started my forever project, a peer to...
1st Jan 2023
2023/01/01
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
When I first started my forever project, a peer to peer file sync software using Interval Tree Clocks, I wanted to build it right.
That meant property-based testing everything, specifying the protocol fully, dealing with error...
macwright.com
Recently
If you’re reading this on macwright.com,
you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
1st Jun 2024
If you’re reading this on macwright.com,
you might have noticed that the website got a very slight upgrade
this month. I’ve been publishing a lot of content in the
/micro/ section, and I update
my /reading/ list once
or twice a month when I finish books, but these proper...
A Smart Bear
Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund
People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy...
1st Sep 2024
People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy customers, even when you mess up.
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