Tinker, Tamper,...
How To Use PyJWT With Django In A Resource Server And Still Keep Parts Of Your Sanity
The OAuth2 spec cleanly separates the role of Authorization Server (AS) from that of Resource Server...
4 months ago
The OAuth2 spec cleanly separates the role of Authorization Server (AS) from that of Resource Server (RS). The role of the AS, and the whole OAUTH2 dance, is to get an access token that will be accepted by a RS.It’s puzzling. It should be easy, nay, trivial, to implement the...
Ognjen Regoje •...
User-Agent: ChatGPT Disallow: *
Edit: It’s happening!
ChatGPT et. al. are bots and as such should obey robots.txt.
User-Agent:...
a year ago
Edit: It’s happening!
ChatGPT et. al. are bots and as such should obey robots.txt.
User-Agent: ChatGPT
Disallow: *
User-Agent: ChatGPT Disallow: * was originally published by Ognjen Regoje at Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io on March 26, 2023.
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible...
over a year ago
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do...
A Beautiful Site
Code can change
As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me,...
over a year ago
As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me, you might get stressed out about the thought of people looking at your work and critiquing or criticizing your app's design.
Take a deep breath, recenter, and remember that code...
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization.
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
a year ago
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
ntietz.com blog
A few weird ways of displaying git hashes
I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement.
While talking...
a year ago
I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement.
While talking about why hashes are often represented in hexademical, the author states (emphasis mine):
There are other ways to encode binary data for human consumption, but the two most widely...
blag
About
Some Stuff About Me
over a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering Q3 2024
Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently...
a month ago
Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently featured Sander Schulhoff, one of the authors of a comprehensive research paper on prompt engineering. This meta-study reviews over 1,600 published papers, with co-authors from...
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Software 3.0 and the AI Engineer Landscape (talk notes & slides)
Everyone has gone AI mad, and there is a lot of noise, hype, and demos, but not a lot of guidance on...
a year ago
Everyone has gone AI mad, and there is a lot of noise, hype, and demos, but not a lot of guidance on practical usecases. We will go over a mental model of who is doing what and explain both where the opportunities are and where the non-AI developer can start going down the rabbit...
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Your Site's Calling Card
> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added...
over a year ago
> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added too much time to my builds
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,...
a year ago
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...
Tony Finch's blog
A qp-trie for BIND
In 2021, I came up with a design for a new memory layout for a
qp-trie, and I implemented a...
a year ago
In 2021, I came up with a design for a new memory layout for a
qp-trie, and I implemented a prototype of the design in
NLnet Labs NSD (see my git repo or github).
Since I started work at ISC my main project has been to adapt the
NSD prototype into a qp-trie for use in BIND. The...
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one.
I had two accounts...
10 months ago
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one.
I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories.
I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
Alex Meub
The Office Bell Ringer
At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new...
over a year ago
At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new feature or receive other positive news, big or small. When we hear the large bell ring in the center of the office, we know that something good just happened. It’s been a great way...
Civic Hax
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
over a year ago
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
Basta’s Notes
Microwaves piss me off
If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about...
a year ago
If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about microwaves.
David Heinemeier...
Merchants of complexity
It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course,...
4 months ago
It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't.
This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s...
over a year ago
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s sometimes useful to see the actual SQL queries that Django emitted, which is surprisingly hard. I assumed that that would be such an obvious and common need, that a simple switch...
The Changelog
Rehabilitating Asynchronous Communication with NNCP: A Cross Between Tor, ssh, and UUCP
Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was...
over a year ago
Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was saturating the terrible wifi you had access to? Maybe you’d wish the upload to pause until you get somewhere else, but then pausing syncing on your Nextcloud/Syncthing/Dropbox would...
bt RSS Feed
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
2020-12-08
I recently published a new open source...
over a year ago
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
2020-12-08
I recently published a new open source project, Flexbox Bar Graphs, and wanted to share a simple breakdown of how it was built. It isn’t anything mind-blowing, but I like the idea of placing bar graphs in a web page...
blag
Recurse Center Day 13: Why 'Raft'?
I started re-reading Raft and I learned why it is called so!
over a year ago
I started re-reading Raft and I learned why it is called so!
Vadim Kravcenko
Why software projects fail
Question:
Answer:
The post Why software projects fail appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
9 months ago
Question:
Answer:
The post Why software projects fail appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
the singularity is...
the tiny corp raised $5.1M
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank.
What is the tiny corp?
The...
a year ago
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank.
What is the tiny corp?
The tiny corp is a computer company. We sell computers for more than they cost to make; I’ve been thinking about this one for a while. In the limit, it’s a chip company, but there’s a...
the singularity is...
The Collective Marshmallow Test
Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test.
Instead of a single person, imagine 100...
a month ago
Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test.
Instead of a single person, imagine 100 people in a room. One marshmallow is placed on a table. If everyone can leave it alone for 15 minutes, everyone gets 2 marshmallows. But if just one person eats it, everyone gets...
Oxide Computer...
Building Big Systems with Remote Hardware Teams
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to
be a centralized,...
a year ago
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to
be a centralized, integrated product because that’s what our customers need.
This requirement and the design choices we’ve made to meet this need
create some daily efficiency challenges for our team....
Maggie Appleton
The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Why I retired from the tech crusades
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
6 months ago
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved feature flag persistence and much more!
Kagi Blog
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).
a year ago
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).
PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog uses Wren to offset carbon emissions during offsites
Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team...
over a year ago
Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team members travelled from America, Estonia, The…
Engineer’s Codex
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
a year ago
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations
CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this...
over a year ago
CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this deep-dive tutorial, we'll learn how CSS keyframes work from the ground up, and see how to use them to build high-quality animations.
PostHog's RSS Feed
HostHogs - free drinks, free pizza and frequently asked questions
As you may have heard, we’ll soon host our first ever meet-up for anyone who uses or is interested...
over a year ago
As you may have heard, we’ll soon host our first ever meet-up for anyone who uses or is interested in finding out more about PostHog. It’ll take place…
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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This is the...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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This is the second article in my achieving overnight success
[https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel
the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is ONCE #1
With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second...
11 months ago
With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second big launch of the new year: ONCE #1. And... drumroll... it’s a rebirth of Campfire! The original web-based chat system we built back in 2006. Brought back to the future as...
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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!
The Changelog
It’s More Important To Recognize What Direction People Are Moving Than Where They Are
I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an...
a year ago
I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an EV, you’re part of the problem. You’re advancing car culture and are actively hurting the planet. The only ethical thing to do is ditch your cars and put all your effort into...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley...
over a year ago
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley Mono Typeface. I am truly humbled by the feedback, interest and people that have keen interest in typography.
Berkeley Mono Font Variants
Quick update on people asking what's the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The two ways to estimate your monthly event usage
When talking through our editions and pricing options with potential customers I'm often asked "How...
over a year ago
When talking through our editions and pricing options with potential customers I'm often asked "How can I estimate my event count?" If you're not…
Irrational...
Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales
One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s...
7 months ago
One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s continuity. I call it a conceit, but I do mostly agree with it: I’ve felt literally sick after hearing about some peer’s unexpected departure, but I’m continually amazed at how resilient...
tonsky.me
Local, first, forever
So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught...
6 months ago
So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught my attention:
Specifically, this part:
But first, some context.
What is local-first?
For the long version, go to Ink & Switch, who coined the term. Or listen for Peter van...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Deploy a Django App to Render.com
Messing around learning Django and deploying
over a year ago
Messing around learning Django and deploying
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency
I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it!
He talks about...
a year ago
I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it!
He talks about changing the paradigm we’re currently in where a program runs in the cloud and we look at it when we’re online, to one where the program runs on the device in our hands and we...
A Beautiful Site
My Commitment to Accessibility
I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to...
a year ago
I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to the websites and applications that are created with it. This is an important goal of my projects.
Oftentimes, people will ask "is it accessible?" I'm reluctant to answer because...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How I learn (making games for the Playdate)
I (finally) received my Playdate, after about a year and a half of waiting. To be honest, I'd kinda...
11 months ago
I (finally) received my Playdate, after about a year and a half of waiting. To be honest, I'd kinda forgotten that I'd ordered it and was pleasantly surprised when it showed up.
For those who don't know, the Playdate is a niche handheld gaming console, similar to a Gameboy. It...
somenice
Mammoth Mountain Logo
Ooof. Hard to believe this would have passed all the checks and balances to get appropriated...
a year ago
Ooof. Hard to believe this would have passed all the checks and balances to get appropriated approved. It’s not a stretch to say that a California ski resort has naively combined two M’s to form a crown but to outright copy a symbol used repeatedly by one of the highest selling...
Vadim Kravcenko
What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks
Question:
Answer:
The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
5 months ago
Question:
Answer:
The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware August 2023
The Ware for August 2023 is a viewfinder from a JVC Super VHS Camcorder, model number GR-SXM915U....
a year ago
The Ware for August 2023 is a viewfinder from a JVC Super VHS Camcorder, model number GR-SXM915U. I’ll give the prize to Jin because of the correct identification of the SOIC as the BA7149F. Congrats, email me for your prize! The exact model number of the originating camera...
MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
over a year ago
On Test Automation
First things first - automate the execution of your tests
“Well, it works on my machine”
I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in...
2 months ago
“Well, it works on my machine”
I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in our career, and we all roll our eyes at them in response. It clearly doesn’t work on your machine…
We would do well to apply that exact same philosophy of ‘it shouldn’t just run on...
Alex MacCaw
Lifestyle business FAQ
I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger...
over a year ago
I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger business. Lifestyle businesses are intriguing to people, they sound too good to be true but the reality is they are imminently doable.
Since I get quite a lot of questions...
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences...
over a year ago
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning...
A Beautiful Site
Generate random passwords in PHP
Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
over a year ago
Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
David Gerrells
all the ways to css
I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was...
over a year ago
I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was bunches of fun doing but recently I looked back on the code and work and had to come to terms with something....my code was bad...really bad.
ntietz.com blog
What's "good" code and does it matter?
I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back...
over a year ago
I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back and ask: what does that even mean? And does it matter?
At a high level, "good code" is code that is suitable for its purpose and achieves its goals. That definition is pretty...
ntietz.com blog
How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft...
over a year ago
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Sanding UI
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks,...
3 months ago
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done.
The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a page transition, that means going back...
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Mimicry vs Reflexivity
Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.
over a year ago
Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.
Ink & Switch
00 · Beehive Background
Contextualizing Beehive
4 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
The styled-components Happy Path
styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've...
over a year ago
styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app
back to my personal weight lows!
9 months ago
back to my personal weight lows!
ntietz.com blog
Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them
People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but...
over a year ago
People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but inefficient state. For example, the taxicab industry: there was little innovation going on in it, and it was stable, but it seemed like it was far from ideal. Along came Uber, intent to...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
2019: Lessons learned
It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end...
over a year ago
It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end of year blog post last year so I…
A Smart Bear
Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools
How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But...
9 months ago
How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But these guiding questions can help.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.1.0
Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like...
over a year ago
Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your…
Steve Klabnik
I'm making it dead simple to contribute to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Porting steveklabnik.com to Workers Sites and Zola
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Git-Centric Workflow
_Published on [the Netlify...
over a year ago
_Published on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/09/26/git-centric-workflow-the-one-api-to-rule-them-all/)_
A Beautiful Site
Shoelace.style — A back to the basics CSS starter kit
I spent some time last week working on a free CSS boilerplate I'm calling Shoelace.css. It's kinda...
over a year ago
I spent some time last week working on a free CSS boilerplate I'm calling Shoelace.css. It's kinda like Bootstrap, but a lot leaner and pure CSS. You don't need a preprocessor like Sass or Less to use it, but it's still highly customizable with CSS variables.
I'm calling Shoelace...
Making software...
Browser History Sucks
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-20
Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
over a year ago
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-20
Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not.
Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn't changed in years....
Stephen Wolfram...
The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in...
11 months ago
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in the cloud. See also more detailed information on Version 13.1, Version 13.2 and Version 13.3. Building Something Greater and Greater… for 35 Years and Counting Today we celebrate...
Writing - Andreas...
Why I don’t give investment advice
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are
either looking for...
a year ago
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are
either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually
not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which
doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
Blog - Bitfield...
Generic types in Go
Golang generics open up a lot of exciting new possibilities for us as
programmers. In this...
a month ago
Golang generics open up a lot of exciting new possibilities for us as
programmers. In this tutorial, we’ll look at ways we can use type
parameters to define customised generic types.
Julia Evans
"Rules" that terminal programs follow
Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal
is some combination...
a week ago
Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal
is some combination of:
Your operating system’s job
Your shell’s job
Your terminal emulator’s job
The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat)
The first three (your...
Alice GG
Stuff I've been working on
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a...
2 months ago
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on.
Meme...
Liz Denys
Chemistry at its finest: inverted sugar syrup for cocktails
Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily...
over a year ago
Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily enough. Simple syrup is traditionally made by dissolving white sugar into water on a stove and then cooling before use, but sometimes, in a pinch, people will shake superfine sugar...
The Changelog
This Is How Tyrants Go: Alone
I remember reading an essay a month or so ago — sadly I forget where — talking about how things end...
over a year ago
I remember reading an essay a month or so ago — sadly I forget where — talking about how things end for tyrants. If I were to sum it up, it would be with the word “alone.” Their power fading, they find that they had few true friends or believers; just others that were greedy …...
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Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify
This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
over a year ago
This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
alexwlchan
How we do bulk analysis of our Prismic content
At work, we use Prismic as a headless CMS for our public website.
If you see images or text that...
over a year ago
At work, we use Prismic as a headless CMS for our public website.
If you see images or text that aren’t part of the catalogue, they’re probably managed through Prismic.
To help us manage our growing Prismic library, we’ve built a number of tools and scripts to analyse our content...
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...
TokyoDev
From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach
I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using...
over a year ago
I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using [Paperclip](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) to [Active Storage](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html) for storing and processing uploaded files. The approach we took was a bit...
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine
One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and when?
Vladimir Klepov as a...
The most useful programming language
Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly...
11 months ago
Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly work with JS — solid choice, but everyone and their dog learns JS these days, so it might be time to add some diversity. I'm curious — which single programming language covers the...
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The Case for the React Native Web Singularity
There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice...
over a year ago
There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice for developing for the mobile web than `react-dom`. If this speculation comes true, this would be gamechanging.
ntietz.com blog
You should make a new programming language
Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple.
Few of us make programming...
4 months ago
Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple.
Few of us make programming languages.
This makes sense, because the work we need to get done can typically be done just fine in the languages that exist.
Those already have people making them better.
Let's...
Making software...
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
over a year ago
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please...
Google has created one of the best operating systems...
David Heinemeier...
We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines
Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it...
7 months ago
Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it takes our remote BuildKite-based continuous integration setup about 5m30s to verify a code change is ready to ship for HEY. My Intel 14900K-based Linux box can do that in less than...
Engineer’s Codex
How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer
How Fireship wins YouTube
2 months ago
How Fireship wins YouTube
Dan Slimmon
Podcast: Small Batches with Adam Hawkins
I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We...
4 months ago
I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We discussed a huge variety of topics. Here is the full episode, and on that page you’ll find meticulously timestamped links to specific topics. Check out the rest of Adam’s podcast, it’s...
Tinloof - Blog
Why we charge daily: Tinloof’s pricing model explained
This article explains why Tinloof bills on a daily basis instead of a fixed rate.
a year ago
This article explains why Tinloof bills on a daily basis instead of a fixed rate.
Irrational...
How to create software quality.
I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a...
6 months ago
I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a memo discussed in the Zero Defects chapter:
You can improve the quality of your code, and if you do, the rewards
for yourself and for Microsoft will be immense.
The hardest part is...
HTMHell
Landmarks and where to put them
Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're...
over a year ago
Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're important for SEO, make your pages more readable and, of course, also help people that use assistive technologies navigate through your page. Somewhat less known are landmark...
A Beautiful Site
Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote...
over a year ago
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote webpage.
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/");
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data =...
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...
Steve Klabnik
The next iteration of my blog
over a year ago
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Essential Plugins for Gatsby Remark
Gatsby-Remark is one of those fun plugins that have their own plugins - but there are a lot of them....
over a year ago
Gatsby-Remark is one of those fun plugins that have their own plugins - but there are a lot of them. Here's a list I wrote down a few months ago of plugins I think everyone should use.
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HogMail #20: Why do startups fail?
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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JAMstack or 'Pilha de Atolamento'? i18n in Gatsby + Netlify
_Originally published on...
over a year ago
_Originally published on [Scotch.io](https://scotch.io/@sw-yx/jamstack-or-pilha-de-atolamento-let-your-user-decide-i18n-in-gatsby-netlify)_
Irrational...
Lessons not worth learning.
A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team...
over a year ago
A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team kept getting distracted by interesting work, and was avoiding the most important work to move the business forward. Was it possible to build a team that simply does the important work...
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Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning
My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker...
over a year ago
My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669762) came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into [blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider...
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Frontend filters & backend SQL - A chat with Eric Duong, Sam Winslow, James Greenhill, and Buddy...
By: Engineering @ PostHog Eric: I'll just do it on my computer, upload it, and then toss it later....
over a year ago
By: Engineering @ PostHog Eric: I'll just do it on my computer, upload it, and then toss it later. Cool. I guess actually, a good way to start would…
Elad Blog
Index Companies
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example,...
over a year ago
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example, ecommerce, genomics, crypto are all markets which were clearly going to compound over time. It might have been tough to call the winners of each market early, but it was clear the markets...
TokyoDev
Paternity Leave in Japan
If you're an expectant father in Japan, you may be considering taking paternity leave. Compared to...
a year ago
If you're an expectant father in Japan, you may be considering taking paternity leave. Compared to many places in the world, Japan's policy is generous, on paper at least: you're legally entitled to take up to a year off, and be compensated during that time.
However, you'll...
somenice
The Micro One-Armed Bandit
Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython...
a year ago
Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython using the Adafruit 5×5 NeoBFF Led Matrix. A micro switch, or limit switch is used to ‘pull’ the slot machine arm. A Piezo buzzer bleeps and bloops familiar tones and may signal a win....
somenice
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
a year ago
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard?
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
8 months ago
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
blag
Scraping Javascript page using Python
Simple code example to illustrate scraping a javascript driven website, using Python and Dryscape.
over a year ago
Simple code example to illustrate scraping a javascript driven website, using Python and Dryscape.
Seldo.com
There's no such thing as the fundamentals of web development
a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Setting up Medley for TableBrowser development
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Nuance of “Domain”
I love visualizations like this:
That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links...
a year ago
I love visualizations like this:
That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye.
What is a “Domain”?
Let’s say you have a URL like this:
https://example.com
Put it in the URL constructor and...
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...
over a year ago
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,...
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Netlify Environment Variables
We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally...
over a year ago
We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally configure your environments as well?
A Beautiful Site
Don't Do Magic
We recently had a design for an "alert" component with an actions slot. In the spec, only secondary...
over a year ago
We recently had a design for an "alert" component with an actions slot. In the spec, only secondary buttons were allowed in it.
Dev: "Design only wants secondary buttons in the actions slot, so I'm forcing it."
The developer was listening for the slotchange event and applying the...
Evan Jones -...
Go: Functional options are slow
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a...
over a year ago
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a variable number of arguments, which are themselves functions (a type like ...func(*config). I think it was first introduced by Rob Pike in a 2014 blog post. It is now used by many...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2024
Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s...
6 months ago
Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s some photos that give a better idea of what the device is about. Above are the main parts of the device. The construction is simple and straightforward: big battery, screen with...
Making software...
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-10
Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
over a year ago
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-10
Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
A Beautiful Site
Anchoring Software to Major Versions
In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see...
7 months ago
In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see software projects anchor themselves to major versions for long periods of time, usually with the promise of stability.
We all know how frustrating it is to upgrade a package and run...
Joel Gascoigne
Does location really matter for your startup?
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over a year ago
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Some of you may know that I just left everything behind in the UK and together
with my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] arrived in San Francisco to base
ourselves and Buffer...
The Changelog
Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
over a year ago
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
Epic Web Dev
Use Fetcher Keys for Registering Remix Fetchers (tip)
Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve...
a year ago
Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve user experience and eliminate network delays.
Steve Klabnik
git, history modification, and libuv
over a year ago
37signals Dev
Introducing Solid Queue
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about...
a year ago
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about 1/3 of our roughly 18 million jobs per day. We’ll be moving more jobs in the coming days until we run HEY exclusively using Solid Queue. Besides regular job enqueuing and processing,...
Steve Klabnik
Book review: New Programmer's Survival Manual
over a year ago
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The state of plugins on PostHog
Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part...
over a year ago
Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part of PostHog, as it is responsible for event…
The Codist
I Learned How To Program 50 Years Ago
In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer...
a year ago
In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer programming. This class was rare for its time, as there were few computers in the world accessible for students, and most people had no idea what they could do other than seeing HAL
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Instant GraphQL with OneGraph
Here's a recorded screenshare chat I had with Sean Grove (https://twitter.com/sgrove), Cofounder of...
over a year ago
Here's a recorded screenshare chat I had with Sean Grove (https://twitter.com/sgrove), Cofounder of OneGraph! We swapped out the Next.js API Routes that I manually set up in my livestreaming, to the premade GraphQL integration that OneGraph has with Dev.to. As a bonus, this takes...
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Array 1.20.0
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
over a year ago
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
Dan Quach Blog
The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would...
9 months ago
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would cut my hair? My Asian hair is a bit funky where it is similar to Wolverine in X-men. After a couple weeks the sides get really pointy and uncomfortable so I would go to the barber...
Steve Klabnik
Beware subclassing Ruby core classes
over a year ago
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How to Contribute to Open Source Frameworks
One of the best ways to level up in programming is to contribute to a high quality open source...
over a year ago
One of the best ways to level up in programming is to contribute to a high quality open source project, especially a framework.
Liz Denys
When you don't have chocolate chips...
But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate...
over a year ago
But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate chip cookies? Turns out that while it's difficult to turn a large block into chip-sized chunks, it's a lot easier to turn it into shavings. Unfortunately, these shavings would get...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search introduces Team plan
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
over a year ago
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
Kagi Blog
Kagi + Wolfram
Building a search engine is hard.
9 months ago
Building a search engine is hard.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Idioms as Code
This is silly.
I wrote code depicting common idioms. You read the code and try to guess the...
11 months ago
This is silly.
I wrote code depicting common idioms. You read the code and try to guess the idiom.
Answers are below the code (and, for clients viewing in supported readers, appear upside down like a children’s book).
pen > sword
>>> true
The pen is mightier than the...
dthompson
Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from
eBay. I loved that laptop,...
over a year ago
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from
eBay. I loved that laptop, but
time marches on and old hardware eventually becomes too slow for
modern development needs. After a lot of indecision, I bought a 10th
generation Thinkpad X1 with an Intel Core...
HTMHell
Microdata for books
by Alan Dalton
Dive into marking up books
Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us...
4 days ago
by Alan Dalton
Dive into marking up books
Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us web geeks. (I hope you’ll find a Web Accessibility Cookbook in your Christmas stocking, gentle reader.) Unfortunately, A Book Apart closed this year. Fortunately, the authors...
Making software...
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal...
over a year ago
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It's pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc.
The only small...
Greg Brockman
Stellar board
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their...
over a year ago
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their board.
Digital currencies are still nascent, and my hopes for them remain unchanged. Particularly, we need digital currency protocols like Stellar that work with the existing...
Nelson's Weblog
My work at early Twitter
I worked at Twitter part-time starting June 2007. I've never talked much about this in public. I'm...
a year ago
I worked at Twitter part-time starting June 2007. I've never talked much about this in public. I'm revisiting it because of the complete disaster Elon Musk has made of Twitter. His sabotage of the company has felt personal to me. It hurts to watch him destroy something I helped...
Copper • A blog...
Making my own sharpening blocks
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use...
2 months ago
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken.
I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel...
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding
I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
a year ago
I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
Joel Gascoigne
The evolution of culture at a startup
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over a year ago
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It’s now 2 years since I launched Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and the company
has grown from just myself (working from my bedroom) to a team of 7. In the last
few months, I’ve been thinking a...
Maggie Appleton
New Harvest 2019 Conference
over a year ago
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Clientside Webmentions
How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
over a year ago
How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
Tony Finch's blog
RIPE DNS Hackathon
This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the
RIPE DNS Hackathon.
About 50 people gathered with several...
a year ago
This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the
RIPE DNS Hackathon.
About 50 people gathered with several ideas for potential projects: things
like easier DNSSEC provisioning, monitoring DNS activity in the network,
what is the environmental cost of the DNS, …
At the start of the weekend...
The Changelog
Using Yggdrasil As an Automatic Mesh Fabric to Connect All Your Docker Containers, VMs, and Servers
Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including...
a year ago
Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including how to use broadcast detection in Docker, Yggdrasil zero-config for ephemeral containers, and more. See it for the most current information. Sometimes you might want to run Docker...
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Bring Back Short Stories
There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books"....
11 months ago
There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books". Remarkably efficient things. Always-on display. Could survive dropping from a great height. Somewhat fragile but who cares when you could mass produce thousands of the things for...
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Center a Div
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
10 months ago
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
Renegade Otter
I am not your Cloud person
Jack of all clouds
In an episode of
Screaming in the Cloud podcast,
Corey Quinn, a cloud services...
a year ago
Jack of all clouds
In an episode of
Screaming in the Cloud podcast,
Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn
inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
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...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How I stay motivated as a solo-creator
Working solo has its difficulties. For one, my income is somewhat tied to my productivity, and my...
a year ago
Working solo has its difficulties. For one, my income is somewhat tied to my productivity, and my productivity highly correlates to my state of mind. This is combined with a lack of co-workers. Comrades in the trenches, if you will. And finally there's the ability to not do...
Code Of Honor
Whose bug is this anyway?!?
At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the...
over a year ago
At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Right?!? Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered...
David Heinemeier...
Capture less than you create
I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore,...
2 months ago
I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore, Doximity, Coinbase, and others claim billion-dollar valuations from work done with Rails. It's beyond satisfying to see this much value created with a web framework I've spent the...
David Heinemeier...
Learning to accept defeat against reality
A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing...
a year ago
A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing to accept defeat when reality proves them wrong. Armed with an intellect that's at once both too proud to recognize it's own failings and cunningly capable of producing...
The Codist
My Art And Color-After Tiling
I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged...
a month ago
I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged randomly and contain everything appearing in the final image. What I do differently is to separate the layout of tiles from colorizing the image. I call this technique...
alexwlchan
Ten years of blogging
I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared...
over a year ago
I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared shortly after that (but the exact date is lost to history).
This means I’ve been writing at alexwlchan.net for about a decade.
The site looks very different now to how it...
wingolog
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera
Consider
. Compared
to finalizers, in which the ,
guardians allow the mutator to control...
5 months ago
Consider
. Compared
to finalizers, in which the ,
guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See
for more notes. Java’s
/
seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently
with the mutator, by the...
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES implementation
The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that
scary in practice. Let’s...
7 months ago
The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that
scary in practice. Let’s take a look at the implementation in the Go
standard library. Even I can understand it!
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Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)
2 weeks ago
Julia Evans
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE
filesystem for a git...
a year ago
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE
filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns
out the answer is yes! There’s giblefs,
GitMounter, and git9 for Plan 9.
But FUSE is pretty annoying to use on Mac – you need to...
Blog System/5
SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right
The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy...
a year ago
The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy when your keys are protected by a passphrase: you can unlock and add your keys to the agent once and, from then on, any SSH client such as ssh(1) can interact with the keys without...
Acko.net
Headless React
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects
Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
over a year ago
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects
Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation
Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU
Live
It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Origin of Online Handles
There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about.
For example:...
11 months ago
There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about.
For example: Jeremy Keith is “Adactio”. I have no idea what that word means. A quick internet search reveals no hints. Even ChatGPT has no idea.
Dave Rupert is davatron5000. I wonder where...
Julia Evans
Some miscellaneous git facts
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I
already knew Git pretty...
a year ago
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I
already knew Git pretty well, but as usual when I try to explain something I’ve
been learning some new things.
None of these things feel super surprising in retrospect, but I hadn’t thought
about them...
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How to turn your engineers into product people
Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our...
over a year ago
Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our engineers are encouraged to think about the what and…
Vadim Kravcenko
🔥 Battling daily procrastination
🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?...
over a year ago
🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? What […]
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Computer Things
NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses
No Newsletter next week
I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe.
NoCode Will Not Bring...
7 months ago
No Newsletter next week
I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe.
NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses
I don't have a whole lot of time this week so here's something that's been on my mind a little. I haven't researched any of the factual claims; consider this...
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...
Vadim Kravcenko
How much a CTO makes and where can I find CTO Jobs?
Question:
Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in...
7 months ago
Question:
Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in terms of $$$, most of the people in the field are secretive about how much they're getting. It's not just about the money (okay, it's a bit about the money), but also understanding if...
Confessions of a...
Celebrating 2^13 Subscribers & My Birthday
I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply...
3 months ago
I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply technical articles and making a living.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Things I Like Over Things I Don’t
It was another typical day on the internet: somebody did something, it felt like a big deal to me,...
a year ago
It was another typical day on the internet: somebody did something, it felt like a big deal to me, and I wanted to blog about why I didn’t like it.
To vent, I sent Dave a private message — well a couple of them — detailing my frustrations.
Looking back, I don’t remember what I...
Max Countryman
Anatomy of the Update Email
Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the...
a year ago
Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the components of a well-structured email, we can bridge the gap and ensure effective communication.
ntietz.com blog -...
Debugging my wife's alarm clock
My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately.
Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't...
2 months ago
My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately.
Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't blare in the morning at the set time.
Instead, when it was supposed to go off it would... reset itself.
The time would start flashing in that "I'm confused because the power went...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular PostHog alternatives, compared
As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need...
a year ago
As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need quantitative and qualitative insights into user…
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to work out what your users really need
Understanding the needs of your users better than anyone else is critical for the success of any...
over a year ago
Understanding the needs of your users better than anyone else is critical for the success of any product. For years, taxis solved the primary user…
ntietz.com blog
When to use cute names or descriptive names
I've previously written that project names should be cute, not descriptive.
That post talks about...
9 months ago
I've previously written that project names should be cute, not descriptive.
That post talks about services and does not talk at all about modules or variables.
It's different in the latter context: those names should often be descriptive.
What's the difference, and how do you...
Ralph Ammer
Show me!
Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things. But what does that mean?...
7 months ago
Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things. But what does that mean? Understanding Well, the world is complicated. And in order to make good decisions we need to know what is going on. Language can help us structure the world. So one way to understand things...
The Codist
Why I Use Swift To Make Generative Art
Now that I am retired from programming for a living, I make generative art (not AI; see my post What...
2 months ago
Now that I am retired from programming for a living, I make generative art (not AI; see my post What Is Generative Art?) every day. I belong to a discord community of generative artists, yet I stick out because I am the only person using Swift as my chosen language.
Patrick Kayongo
Disenchantment
Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her...
a year ago
Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her phone after recharging at her parents’ home earlier in the day. In addition to that, there had been no water since the morning. Joburg Water had promised restoration by 2pm, but 48...
Jake Zimmerman
What if typing on phones was fast?
3 weeks ago
Irrational...
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis.
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk,
Solving the Engineering Strategy...
a year ago
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk,
Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis,
which I gave at QCon last week.
They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording
of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
2022-03-14
For the past few years, I’ve been using a set of...
over a year ago
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
2022-03-14
For the past few years, I’ve been using a set of Eero routers as my home mesh network. It’s worked fairly great in that time and even seamlessly transitioned without any hiccups when my family moved house. During the initial setup,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition
It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for...
over a year ago
It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for Hacktoberfest again. I am in the middle of buying…
alexwlchan
My custom <picture> plugin for Jekyll
About seven months ago, I did a complete rewrite of how I handle images on this site.
It’s working...
a year ago
About seven months ago, I did a complete rewrite of how I handle images on this site.
It’s working well and nothing seems to have broken, so I thought it might be good to explain what I’m doing.
For readers: I want images to load quickly and look good.
That means looking sharp on...
Confessions of a...
All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure
Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
6 months ago
Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
Liz Denys
Save Congestion Pricing!
Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of...
6 months ago
Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of congestion pricing on June 30.
Your voice is urgently needed to stand up for a funded MTA with increased accessibility, a healthy planet, and good government in New York. Stop a $15...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Plain text journaling
The new/old way of keeping a digital journal
6 months ago
The new/old way of keeping a digital journal
charity.wtf
The Cost Crisis in Observability Tooling
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on January 24th, 2024 The cost of services is on everybody’s...
11 months ago
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on January 24th, 2024 The cost of services is on everybody’s mind right now, with interest rates rising, economic growth slowing, and organizational budgets increasingly feeling the pinch. But I hear a special edge in people’s voices when...
exist
Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2023
The Ware for June 2023 is a Sony TR-733 “7-transistor radio” from the mid 1960’s. I’ll give the...
a year ago
The Ware for June 2023 is a Sony TR-733 “7-transistor radio” from the mid 1960’s. I’ll give the prize to Pedro Rodrigues, because even though the model number isn’t correct, as far as I can tell the portion of the electronics shown is identical between the TR-729 and the TR-733....
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Upcoming changes to the discovery feed
Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
5 months ago
Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
bt RSS Feed
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
2019-06-11
Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous...
over a year ago
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
2019-06-11
Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous post about how changing the display properties on tables can impact screen readers. I highly recommend his excellent article Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA
I find that the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Manifest a Meetup
This week I was visiting NYC for work reasons, and found myself with a gap on my schedule for...
over a year ago
This week I was visiting NYC for work reasons, and found myself with a gap on my schedule for Thursday night. So I [tweeted out an invite](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1546219659195826178):
Ink & Switch
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans
Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
a year ago
Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Architecture and Principles
Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
over a year ago
Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
6 months ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Documenting WebCard
<.*
One of the...
over a year ago
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).*
One of the questions I've been asked several times by readers of this blog are [what are salaries of developers in Japan](/articles/software-developer-salaries-in-japan). There is a fair...
David Heinemeier...
Breaking the inertia of mediocrity
It's rarely the terrible decisions, processes, or even people that'll sink your organization. It's...
a year ago
It's rarely the terrible decisions, processes, or even people that'll sink your organization. It's the accumulation and inertia of the mediocre ones. Dealing with the truly bad is easy. It's painfully obvious to all that change is required. The danger is imminent. It's much...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is user segmentation?
User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it...
over a year ago
User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it mean? In this article we'll explain what user…
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How Bear does analytics with CSS
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great...
a year ago
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there, but I wanted to build one native to Bear.
tldr;
One of my constraints for Bear is to not use client-side javascript. This...
bt RSS Feed
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-17
Designing1 software is a complex...
over a year ago
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-17
Designing1 software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
Words and Buttons...
Partial order and non-Boolean logic
Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can...
over a year ago
Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can implement a logic you want within total order or partial order but sometimes even that isn't enough and you need an even more general relation. With operator overloading, you have the...
Joel Gascoigne
What is your coming soon page for?
> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and
reflect." - Mark...
over a year ago
> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and
reflect." - Mark Twain
When you’re building a startup, it’s very important to question assumptions. I
think one of these assumptions which needs to be questioned is the initial few
steps people
bt RSS Feed
Avoiding Featurism
Avoiding Featurism
2022-10-14
I rather enjoy the term “featurism”. I came across this term while...
over a year ago
Avoiding Featurism
2022-10-14
I rather enjoy the term “featurism”. I came across this term while reading the wonderful article Why I don’t use Netscape, which the author credits to Bernd Paysan. Although it sums up the current “digital product” industry quite well the more...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.22.0
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual bug squashing. Community MVP The community MVP…
bt RSS Feed
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions
2022-01-28
Since a few people have reached...
over a year ago
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions
2022-01-28
Since a few people have reached out and thanked me for my previous post Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator, I thought I would continue to share more of my own custom Automator Quick Actions....
Tinloof - Blog
Localization with Sanity
In this article, we describe how we make it possible to translate content from Sanity and publish...
over a year ago
In this article, we describe how we make it possible to translate content from Sanity and publish content that is specific to languages/regions.
Joel Gascoigne's...
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Note: this was originally posted on...
over a year ago
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
We’ve dedicated the week of August 22nd to a brand new internal initiative called Build Week. We’ll all be putting aside our regular work for a single week to come...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor
Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
over a year ago
Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
the singularity is...
nuke/acc
I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be...
3 weeks ago
I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be discussed there. Nuclear weapons are the Chekhov’s gun on the world stage.
When, if ever, are they going to be fired? When should they be?
I suspect this is not a question a lot of people...
bt RSS Feed
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
2021-11-25
As you can most likely tell by looking at...
over a year ago
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
2021-11-25
As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser’s URL - I’ve swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I’m a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I’ve been planning to do...
Daniel Marino
Why I Still Prefer to Prototype Using Code
There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of...
8 months ago
There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of them over the years. I think these days, most everyone is using Figma, but whatever app you’re using—most of them typically have some sort of prototyping feature. Typically they have...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented Oembed Proxy for GitHub
Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub
I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I...
over a year ago
Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub
I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I need to include code snippets.
Notion has support for code blocks but it’s not good enough for my use case.
I want to make sure the code compiles so I write small programs and...
Nelson's Weblog
PreSonus Eris speakers
PreSonus makes good
computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100
for a...
6 months ago
PreSonus makes good
computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100
for a small set I have my doubts about their referenceness. Fortunately I
have a tin ear and they sound just fine for my computer playing YouTube
videos, compressed music, games. ...
Vadim Kravcenko
Code Reviews
Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […]
The post...
11 months ago
Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […]
The post Code Reviews appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
blag
Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store
CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable...
over a year ago
CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable database from scratch.
HTMHell
Submit to the Quirks of HTML
by Felix Hessenberger
It was on a cold February evening. I had been working on a client project,...
a week ago
by Felix Hessenberger
It was on a cold February evening. I had been working on a client project, building an order item list—nothing out of the ordinary. To adjust an item’s quantity, the user would open a popup form with a single input field, type a number, and hit...
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...
David Heinemeier...
Paranoia and desperation in the AI gold rush
I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI....
7 months ago
I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI. Companies seem less excited about the prospects than they are petrified that its going to kill them. Maybe that fear is justified, maybe it's not, but what's incontestable is the...
Daniel Marino
Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
11 months ago
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out:
See the...
Evan Jones -...
Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common
I was wondering: how often do nanosecond timestamps collide on modern systems? The answer is: very...
a year ago
I was wondering: how often do nanosecond timestamps collide on modern systems? The answer is: very often, like 5% of all samples, when reading the clock on all 4 physical cores at the same time. As a result, I think it is unsafe to assume that a raw nanosecond timestamp is a...
A Beautiful Site
SVG has a logo
HTML5 was the first to get an official logo. Web designers rejoiced, some even hacking together...
over a year ago
HTML5 was the first to get an official logo. Web designers rejoiced, some even hacking together matching logos for CSS. But did you know that SVG also has an official logo, and it's—flowery?
The W3C describes it as:
The flower-like structure of the SVG logo evokes creativity and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
10 things we've learned about pricing for SaaS startups
Originally published in our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping...
a year ago
Originally published in our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
David Heinemeier...
Finding The Last Editor
Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever...
9 months ago
Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever editor is on their system? They'll make it work. Using a different framework or language every few years? No problem. I envy that level of versatility, but I've come to accept it just...
HTMHell
Forced Colors Mode Futility
by Matthias Zöchling
figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid...
2 weeks ago
by Matthias Zöchling
figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid #000}figcaption,sup,.highlight,section:has(#resources) span,section:has(#fns)...
samwho.dev
Load Balancing
.simulation {
width: 100%;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items:...
a year ago
.simulation {
width: 100%;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
margin-bottom: 2.5em;
}
.load-balancer {
color: black;
font-weight: bold;
}
.request {
color: #04BF8A;
font-weight: bold;
}
.server {
color:...
blag
I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert...
over a year ago
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
ntietz.com blog
It's easier to code review Rust than Python
On Monday, I was talking to a friend about programming and I mentioned that I prefer to review Rust...
a year ago
On Monday, I was talking to a friend about programming and I mentioned that I prefer to review Rust code over Python code.
He asked why, and I had some rambling answer, but I had to take some time to think about it.
It boils down to the fact that I can give a much better review...
37signals Dev
Kamal 2.0 released
We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or...
2 months ago
We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers.
Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer.
With Kamal 2.0...
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
2023-05-05
I recently tooted about my hatred of website...
a year ago
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
2023-05-05
I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don’t actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep...
macwright.com
Year in Review
The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old...
12 months ago
The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old writing is nostalgic and horrific.
By the numbers, 2023 was pretty normal: I read around 20 books, ran around 400 miles. It’s funny how the statistics even out to the same numbers...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
a month ago
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Local-first Codebase Opens the Door to More Collaborators
I thought this was interesting: Dax Raad on the local-first podcast observes how a local-first model...
6 months ago
I thought this was interesting: Dax Raad on the local-first podcast observes how a local-first model drastically simplifies the experience of building an app, both as an individual and as a team.
He talks about how his wife is not an engineer but she learned to be more hands on...
HTMHell
How to transfigure wireframes into HTML
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands...
over a year ago
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an...
Tony Finch's blog
getentropy() vs RAND_bytes()
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months:
There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
2 months ago
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months:
There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of
good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy()
which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting
cryptographically secure random...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
a year ago
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
A small freedom area...
GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild
Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions
after weeks of struggle, I...
over a year ago
Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions
after weeks of struggle, I was minding my own business having fun writing
integer arithmetic code. Life was good, when suddenly… zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped).
That code wasn't messing with memory much...
Irrational...
Navigating ambiguity.
Perceiving the layers of context in problems will unlock another stage of career progression as a...
11 months ago
Perceiving the layers of context in problems will unlock another stage of career progression as a Staff-plus engineer, but there’s at least one essential skill to develop afterwards: navigating ambiguity. In my experience, navigating deeply ambiguous problems is the rarest skill...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2023
The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
a year ago
The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
Joel Gascoigne
How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency
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It’s an exciting...
over a year ago
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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],...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Reflexive McLuhanism
First we shape X, then X shapes us.
over a year ago
First we shape X, then X shapes us.
Liz Denys
How communication breaks down
In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their...
over a year ago
In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their primary advocacy group, the Undergraduate Association. Every year around later February and early March, students who consider themselves relatively politically active request an...
Vadim Kravcenko
🌈 Hedonic Treadmill
I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving...
over a year ago
I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving something we […]
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HTMHell
The Gift You Do NOT Want: A Div in a Button's Clothing
by Corina Murg
With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a...
a week ago
by Corina Murg
With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a button. In accessibility work, we spot these fakes and fix them, but teaching others why and how to do it is just as important. It’s not just about correcting a single mistake; it’s...
Remains of the Day
My Pandemic Zoom Setup
Now that everyone is spending many of their waking hours in Zoom, a lot of people are laughing at,...
over a year ago
Now that everyone is spending many of their waking hours in Zoom, a lot of people are laughing at, and then asking me about, my Zoom setup. It’s actually not all that elaborate. I know many people with much more elaborate setups. Still, for a simple upgrade to the mic and camera...
Florian Bellmann |...
You are never taught how to build quality software
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn...
a year ago
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn it?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Stop Being Fancy
This is a note to self:
Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy.
When confronted with,...
a year ago
This is a note to self:
Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy.
When confronted with, “Can this be done?”
If the answer is an immediate "Yes", go ahead, do that.
But if the answer is, “Well, you could, but you’d have to…"
Just stop right there. Don’t go do...
Joel Gascoigne
The paradox of how bugs and downtime can be a good thing
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over a year ago
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Often if I give a talk or I speak with someone about getting their idea off the
ground, the topic of how solid the product should be comes up. In particular,
people very frequently wait far too...
A small freedom area...
Saving a restic backup the hard way
This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup
infrastructure like a...
over a year ago
This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup
infrastructure like a responsible adult. The villain of the following story is
the junk MIPS machine which held hostage most of my important data (about 1TB).
Its evil plan was to build up a corrupted...
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: assemblages
over a year ago
Alex MacCaw
The Illusion of Free Will
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
a year ago
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
Charles Chen
Google Firebase with dotnet6
Find out why Google Firebase is a great platform for application development with .NET 6
over a year ago
Find out why Google Firebase is a great platform for application development with .NET 6
Blog - Bitfield...
Will write for food
In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went
from self-unemployment...
5 months ago
In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went
from self-unemployment to founding the world’s tiniest publishing empire.
ntietz.com blog
Introducing Yet Another Rust Resource (or YARR!)
Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme
1
of things.
I've previously talked about why...
a year ago
Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme
1
of things.
I've previously talked about why the learning curve is hard and what we could do about it.
Today, I'm proud to say that there's another resource to help people learn Rust in a more approachable way.
Introducing Yet...
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Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think
How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
over a year ago
How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
Making software...
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fixing Up the Svelte Community Site
Adding GitHub Actions and Updating Data Dependencies
over a year ago
Adding GitHub Actions and Updating Data Dependencies
Vadim Kravcenko
How can you tell if you’re a good developer?
Question:
Hey Vadim, So, I've been coding for money for about 5 years now. I've jumped around a lot...
8 months ago
Question:
Hey Vadim, So, I've been coding for money for about 5 years now. I've jumped around a lot — Java, Javascript, Python, NodeJS — you name it. The job market's been great, making it super easy for me to switch between gigs. I've done both full-time and contract work across...
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Better Way to Get Data
> Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
over a year ago
> Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Powering a blog with Notion and Netlify
The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM...
over a year ago
The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM ($5/month).
Recently I’ve made 2 big changes:
I converted it to a static site hosted on Netlify
I used Notion for writing the posts instead of writing markdown files in a text editor
Moving to...
ntietz.com blog
I'm moving my projects off GitHub
It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge.
I'm not necessarily advocating...
over a year ago
It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge.
I'm not necessarily advocating for anyone else to do the same, but if my reasons resonate with you then you may want to consider it.
I also don't expect this post to... matter, if that makes sense1.
I'm not a...
TokyoDev
Working as a Female Software Developer in Japan
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan)...
a year ago
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) would be a dream come true. As an Australian software developer who has been in Japan for 6 months, I’m one of those dreamers.
If you’ve been looking to work in Japan for a while,...
Irrational...
Thesis on value accumulation in AI.
Recently, I’ve thinking about where I want to focus my angel investing in 2024,
and decided to...
10 months ago
Recently, I’ve thinking about where I want to focus my angel investing in 2024,
and decided to document my thinking about value accumulation in artificial intelligence
because it explains the shape of my interest–or lack thereof–in investing in artificial
intelligence tooling....
Epic Web Dev
What is a Superset (in programming?) (article)
Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency,...
9 months ago
Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
Words and Buttons...
[Republishing] Redundant stories about redundancy
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
over a year ago
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
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4 Q&A's on Blogging for Developers
Answering Q&A's
over a year ago
Julia Evans
How HEAD works in git
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they
were that they...
9 months ago
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they
were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700
votes) were a little surprising to me:
10% “100%”
36% “pretty confident”
39% “somewhat confident?”
15% “literally no idea”
I was...
ntietz.com blog
The phrase "good enough" isn't fit for purpose
Words matter.
First impressions matter.
I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and...
a year ago
Words matter.
First impressions matter.
I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and there's a section titled "Good-Enough Software".
In it, the authors expand that "the phrase 'good enough' does not imply sloppy or poorly produced code" and that it must still meet...
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Winning from the back - late mover advantage
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to...
over a year ago
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
Tinker, Tamper,...
An Efficient Multi-Stage Build for Python Django in Docker
We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment...
over a year ago
We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment easier. One of the challenges was establishing a good baseline Dockerfile which can maximize the benefits of Dockers caching mechanism and at the same time provide minimal...
Josh Collinsworth
A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress"
I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer...
a month ago
I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Robots.txt
A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing...
a year ago
A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt:
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
That felt a bit “ex post facto“ as they say. Or, as Jeremy put it, “Now that the horse has bolted—and...
blag
Recurse Center First Week
Reflections on the first week of the Recurse Center
over a year ago
Reflections on the first week of the Recurse Center
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...
10 months ago
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...
Steve Klabnik
The hardest decision I've ever made
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Shoelace 2.0
It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has...
a year ago
It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has amassed over 300 million monthly hits on jsDelivr and, as of today, it is jsDelivr's 73rd most popular project.
And that was just the beta version.
Today, I'm happy to announce that...
A Smart Bear
AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different
The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous...
9 months ago
The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
Vadim Kravcenko
Managing difficult software engineers
In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every...
a year ago
In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every project, every failure, and […]
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