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13th Mar 2026
Animating the Unanimatable An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items...
15th Feb 2016
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Animating the Unanimatable

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

15th Feb 2016
An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items in a list swap positions.
Abusing ID3 chapters to turn videos into glanceable podcasts I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I like how they fit around other tasks. I press play, lock my...
a week ago
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Abusing ID3 chapters to turn videos into glanceable podcasts

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I like how they fit around other tasks. I press play, lock my phone, and put it down. I’m free to wash the dishes, fold the laundry, or shop for groceries. Unfortunately, more and more information is only published as a video. Technical talks,...
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
18th Mar 2020
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Mar 2020
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
Start something small * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I...
2nd Nov 2012
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Start something small

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I was listening to Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and and I found it amazing how this book, which has now sold over 15 million copies, originally started: >...
27th Nov 2013
Trade offs in designing versatile log format This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
25th Mar 2019
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Trade offs in designing versatile log format

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

25th Mar 2019
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound. I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design: it should be simple and therefore easy to implement it should be human-readable it...
Using Playwright to test my static sites I build a lot of static websites – including this site and all of my local media archives – and I...
2nd May 2026
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Using Playwright to test my static sites

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2026
I build a lot of static websites – including this site and all of my local media archives – and I want to test them. Most of my pages are static HTML and I can write automated tests that analyse the HTML, but for more complex sites I have JavaScript that runs in the browser and...
Books I read in 2020 Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books....
3rd Jan 2021
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Books I read in 2020

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

3rd Jan 2021
Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books. But that was about it. Even reading The Lord of the Rings or easier to digest books like Harry Potter would be a struggle. It was not until I started getting access to technical...
Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs, version 0.1.0, has been...
5th Jan 2025
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Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jan 2025
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs, version 0.1.0, has been released! This is a library I've been working on for quite some time and after more than one rewrite and many smaller refactors I think it's finally ready to release publicly. Let's...
How to Actually Integrate Angular and Nestjs I don’t know who needs to hear this. But your frontend and backend systems don’t need to be...
15th Sep 2023
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How to Actually Integrate Angular and Nestjs

from These Yaks Ain't Gonna Shave Themselves [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2023
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But your frontend and backend systems don’t need to be completely separate. I started anew side project recently. You know, one of things that allows me to tinker with new technology but will probably never be finished. I’m using Angular for...
16th Feb 2024
Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency...
4th Jun 2020
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Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll

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

4th Jun 2020
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency functions one after the other. For example, if I have a web page that needs to request seven files from the server before it can show the page, I need to asynchronously fetch all those...
Where books travel i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen...
13th Aug 2014
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Where books travel

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

13th Aug 2014
i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen years ago, but at a higher premium," and deeply internalize my physical constraints for the next six hours. A small box outlined by my seat, the side of the plane with its tiny...
Exploring intricate execution mysteries by reversing a crackme It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a...
27th Oct 2022
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Exploring intricate execution mysteries by reversing a crackme

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Oct 2022
It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a difficult period currently, I needed to take a break from the graphics world and go back to the roots: understanding obscure or elementary tech stuff. One may argue that it was most...
#33 make me one (input) with everything The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more. Bad...
27th Aug 2024
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#33 make me one (input) with everything

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Aug 2024
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more. Bad code <label for="textinput">First name</label> <input type="text" id="textinput" aria-label="First name" placeholder="First name" title="First name"> Issues and how to fix them The...
Running Pull Requests in Github Codespaces Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working....
23rd Oct 2025
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Running Pull Requests in Github Codespaces

from These Yaks Ain't Gonna Shave Themselves [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Oct 2025
Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working. Dev Containers are the required way to enable Github Codespaces, which was my actual goal. I finally got to something that works, so I want to document what I learned. Dev Containers...
Systems Software in the Large Software is hard (yes, even in an era of vibe coding), and systems software — the silent engine room...
18th Sep 2025
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Systems Software in the Large

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

18th Sep 2025
Software is hard (yes, even in an era of vibe coding), and systems software — the silent engine room of modern infrastructure — is especially so. By design, systems software provides an abstraction for programs, insulating programmers from the filthy details that lie beneath;...
1st Sep 2010
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
7th Jul 2023
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AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day

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

7th Jul 2023
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
I am tired of AI Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
17th Sep 2024
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I am tired of AI

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

17th Sep 2024
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code) I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI...
23rd Dec 2025
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How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code)

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

23rd Dec 2025
I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI influencer "built 15 apps in a weekend" crowd, but Claude Code just did something wild for me. Had it help us rip out our entire search engine - we're talking millions and millions of...
Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own...
16th Aug 2025
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Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2025
Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own workout app instead of paying another SaaS. Two weeks ago, I decided to get serious about my workouts again and start logging them. I looked for an existing solution that has the...
Building my bullet journal layout with CSS Grid & Subgrid & Flexbox This is a post about how I built my bullet journal demo that you can find over here. My bullet...
29th Dec 2019
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Building my bullet journal layout with CSS Grid & Subgrid & Flexbox

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

29th Dec 2019
This is a post about how I built my bullet journal demo that you can find over here. My bullet journal layout is pretty simple compared to some of the more elaborate, colorful and playful layouts I’ve seen. I mainly use my bullet journal to track a few monthly goals, bills, my...
Rust Nation UK 2024 A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at...
22nd Apr 2024
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Rust Nation UK 2024

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

22nd Apr 2024
A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at the conference. One of the speakers got COVID and I was chosen to be their replacement. I had less than 48 hours to prepare the slides, which was a fun challenge, but very...
What I have been so busy with How I built a website that lots of you will probably hate
8th Feb 2024
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What I have been so busy with

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

8th Feb 2024
How I built a website that lots of you will probably hate
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
17th Dec 2022
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Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI

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

17th Dec 2022
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
I’m (re-)starting a newsletter Just a quick update to let those of you who bookmarked this blog or who have subscribed to my RSS...
11th May 2026
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I’m (re-)starting a newsletter

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

11th May 2026
Just a quick update to let those of you who bookmarked this blog or who have subscribed to my RSS feed know that I have (re-)started a newsletter. Why a newsletter? As you might know (or not), while I’ve been pretty active on LinkedIn over the years, I do have a love-hate (or...
Indie Web Stack of the Future You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a...
8th Jan 2023
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Indie Web Stack of the Future

from Max Countryman [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2023
You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a few things that make indie development different and we should design our stack around our unique goals. Let's explore an ideal web stack we can build the future on.
A list of ternary operators Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
5th Nov 2024
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A list of ternary operators

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Nov 2024
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators. Almost all...
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
13th May 2022
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug

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

13th May 2022
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying On Evitability in Use of AI If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it...
3rd Mar 2026
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The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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

3rd Mar 2026
On Evitability in Use of AI If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it is over. Strangely though, despite now years of LLM-powered tooling, the results look, feel and function mostly the same as they ever did: barely. It's undeniable there's a metric...
Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
8th Jan 2022
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Assumed Audiences

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

8th Jan 2022
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
The five types of people who produce inaccessible code There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They...
16th Jun 2023
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The five types of people who produce inaccessible code

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

16th Jun 2023
There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They are: People who create inaccessible code, but do not realize they are doing so. People who create inaccessible code and realize they are doing so, but do not know how to fix it. People...
Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
30th Dec 2022
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone

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

30th Dec 2022
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
Counting Forest Fires 2024/01/26 Counting Forest Fires Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought...
26th Jan 2024
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Counting Forest Fires

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

26th Jan 2024
2024/01/26 Counting Forest Fires Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought I'd re-publish one of my favorite short blog posts written over there, Counting Forest Fires, which has become my go-to argument when discussing incident metrics when asked to count...
Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy...
9th May 2018
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Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2018
This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy sell, full API docs and tutorial are already available at glom.readthedocs.io. met me at PyCon, this 5-minute talk. The Spectre of Structure In the Python world, there's a...
Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links This is one of those cases where circumstances at my job led to needing to document expected...
21st Aug 2024
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Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links

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

21st Aug 2024
This is one of those cases where circumstances at my job led to needing to document expected behavior in order to create “synthetic” links via JavaScript. Sometimes this sort of thing is regrettably unavoidable. A large part of the effort was capturing all the different actions...
Three attempts at making payments secure In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and...
16th Jul 2025
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Three attempts at making payments secure

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2025
In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known today. The post Three attempts at making payments secure appeared first on The History of the Web.
2nd Apr 2015
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
3rd Nov 2023
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Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer.

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

3rd Nov 2023
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
3rd Jul 2019
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS

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

3rd Jul 2019
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
7th May 2021
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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

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

7th May 2021
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
The Alphabet as Technology Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words: Thinking of a language as a technology...
16th Mar 2023
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The Alphabet as Technology

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

16th Mar 2023
Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words: Thinking of a language as a technology or a product is strange at first but the more you look at them the more they resemble microwaves or dishwashers; incredibly complicated under the hood but also sort of boring on...
Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a...
5th Nov 2025
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Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering

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

5th Nov 2025
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a project-based option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology. This service...
Password Math A friend from my PC Magazine days recently posted on Facebook a little mathematics anomaly that he...
8th Feb 2025
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Password Math

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

8th Feb 2025
A friend from my PC Magazine days recently posted on Facebook a little mathematics anomaly that he encountered while trying to figure out the number of possible passwords under certain conditions. He began with the stipulation that a four-character password had to be constructed...
What if Stripe is the next Google? Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
14th May 2021
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What if Stripe is the next Google?

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

14th May 2021
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
1st Oct 2024
Slides for Measuring an engineering organization. Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco about...
20th May 2023
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Slides for Measuring an engineering organization.

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

20th May 2023
Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco about measuring engineering organizations. This talk was essentially this blog post, and here are the slides. A few topics worth highlighting: Measurement educates you, and your audience,...
Bandcamp wrapped I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside...
6th Dec 2024
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Bandcamp wrapped

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

6th Dec 2024
I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s great and has been working well for me. Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games (?) and then acquired...
Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
2nd Jun 2020
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Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup

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

2nd Jun 2020
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
Sneaky Header Blocker Trick There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often...
23rd Mar 2026
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Sneaky Header Blocker Trick

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

23rd Mar 2026
There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often reach out, asking how on earth it works. It feels like it defies the rules of CSS! In this blog post, I’ll break down the surprisingly-straightforward implementation so you can...
Of Price Tags, Gig Apps, and Dynamic Pricing It is told that the modern price tag was developed in 1861 by one John Wanamaker, a merchant from...
15th Dec 2025
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Of Price Tags, Gig Apps, and Dynamic Pricing

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

15th Dec 2025
It is told that the modern price tag was developed in 1861 by one John Wanamaker, a merchant from Philiadephia, USA. Before this point, every transaction with every merchant one encountered was a negotiation. Someone who was wealthy would end up paying more because the merchant...
Tablet Platform Showdown Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
1st Nov 2018
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Tablet Platform Showdown

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

1st Nov 2018
Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
What I learned in 2017 At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re...
8th Jun 2018
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What I learned in 2017

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jun 2018
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re more than halfway through 2018, I decided to stop procrastinating and flesh out the details. Some of these things are probably obvious to you, but they were new to me! Being right is...
How Tailscale tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug &rarr; I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how...
13th Aug 2026
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How Tailscale tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug &rarr;

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Aug 2026
I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how they eventually led us to find an SQLite bug that predates my entire programming career. I’m incredibly proud of this, both the work and the blog post. Before Tailscale, I was...
A more ergonomic editor toolbar A more ergonomic editor toolbar
7th Feb 2023
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A more ergonomic editor toolbar

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

7th Feb 2023
A more ergonomic editor toolbar
My 2021 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
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My 2021 New Mac Setup

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

5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
7th Jun 2024
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For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech

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

7th Jun 2024
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM) If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a...
1st Jul 2020
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Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM)

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

1st Jul 2020
If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a Go scratchpad in the browser. Want to show someone a code snippet? Want to quickly test some syntax? Browser-based code pads are helpful. On that note, I created a new playground....
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
13th Oct 2019
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SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation

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

13th Oct 2019
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is...
4th Jan 2022
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer

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

4th Jan 2022
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is focusing on Python best practices. It’s really important that your code is readable, testable, and maintainable. From picking good variable names, refactoring code that gets repeated...
2024: Just the Start 2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023...
31st Dec 2024
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2024: Just the Start

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

31st Dec 2024
2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023 was tough, but 2024 went some way to redressing the balance and I am even more positive about 2025 because of it. Here are a few highlights: We went to Japan! My first time in...
It’s hard to grow without trust Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
16th Jul 2024
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It’s hard to grow without trust

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2024
Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
What I'm up to - September 2023 I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Sep 2023
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What I'm up to - September 2023

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

1st Sep 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in August - Launched FRCTNL, a community of fractional tech workers. - Co...
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
7th Nov 2017
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Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.)

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

7th Nov 2017
When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written. Here’s a typical case: #if defined (_MSC_VER) // code specific to Visual Studio compiler #endif To perform those checks you need to check...
How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different? Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
1st May 2019
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How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

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

1st May 2019
Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
22nd Nov 2018
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Nov 2018
Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
Which blend mode? This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for...
22nd Oct 2021
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Which blend mode?

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Oct 2021
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for use in the wild.
The Giant's Cup On running trails
5th Jun 2026
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The Giant's Cup

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

5th Jun 2026
On running trails
Running Dolphin Locally with Ollama Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way -...
3rd Dec 2023
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Running Dolphin Locally with Ollama

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2023
Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way - Ollama. install ollama. after you finsh you should be able to run ollama from the command line. Also you will see the ollama icon up top like this: Iff you are curious - anytime you see that...
Recently We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The...
1st Oct 2023
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Recently

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

1st Oct 2023
We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The landscape is just native pollinators and native plants growing wild, with a wood platform above the field so you can walk around and see the bugs and plants. It’s also built on a...
Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right...
20th Sep 2012
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Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows

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

20th Sep 2012
Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right click on the My Computer icon > Click Properties > Click on the Remote tab Check the box that says “Allow Users to Connect Remotely to this Computer” Add your username to the list of...
We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month "Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget...
5th Aug 2026
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We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month

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

5th Aug 2026
"Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget that anyone can use to bring weird ideas to life…
Japan Needs International Developers No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe...
11th Oct 2024
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Japan Needs International Developers

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2024
No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe labor shortage. A report by the Teikoku Databank states that across all industries, 52.6% of Japanese companies say they don’t have the workers they need. 260 bankruptcies in 2023...
Remembering the LAN Remembering the LAN How it was How it is A dream: How it will be 2020-01-28 A memory and a dream. I...
28th Jan 2020
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Remembering the LAN

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

28th Jan 2020
Remembering the LAN How it was How it is A dream: How it will be 2020-01-28 A memory and a dream. I started programming in the 1990s living above my parent's medical practice. We had 15 PCs for the business, and one for me. The standard OS was MS-DOS. The network started off...
Svelte reactivity — an inside and out guide I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the...
22nd Apr 2023
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Svelte reactivity — an inside and out guide

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

22nd Apr 2023
I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the foot every now and then when using reactive state. Some of the confusion is due to my prior experience with React, but some points are confusing on their own. Today, I dive into...
Campfire is now for sale After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is...
1st Feb 2024
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Campfire is now for sale

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2024
After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all! This is The Moment of Truth where we get to see whether all that excitement turns into credit card swipes. That release rush. I love it. And I especially love...
On finding clients as an independent consultant I’ve been a freelancer / independent consultant for some 11 years now, and until recently, keeping...
27th Nov 2025
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On finding clients as an independent consultant

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

27th Nov 2025
I’ve been a freelancer / independent consultant for some 11 years now, and until recently, keeping myself occupied has been fairly smooth sailing. There has always been a lot of demand for people with the technical skills that I have gathered over the years, so finding new...
What I'm up to - January 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jan 2026
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What I'm up to - January 2026

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

1st Jan 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Visited Boulder - Launched a print edition of Contraption Company, which was a fun ...
Eternal Robustness "Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take...
10th Sep 2023
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Eternal Robustness

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

10th Sep 2023
"Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take great care to provide you with excellence year after year. Your involvement with us will be predictable and stable."
How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast Merkle Trees in the real world
10th May 2025
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How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast

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

10th May 2025
Merkle Trees in the real world
Job Interviews By Zombies The golden rule of interviewing is: make yourself easy to hire. Like many organizations at the...
18th Jan 2022
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Job Interviews By Zombies

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

18th Jan 2022
The golden rule of interviewing is: make yourself easy to hire. Like many organizations at the moment, we’re hiring. As I’m interviewing people, I’m struck by how hard some folks make it for me to give them a “yes.” Candidates tend to murmur things like, “we decided to move...
Using Dall-E/AI to create kids colouring pages in KidzFun.art Over the past couple of years I’ve been building KidzFun.art, an art & education app for my young...
9th Apr 2024
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9th Apr 2024
Over the past couple of years I’ve been building KidzFun.art, an art & education app for my young kids and hopefully yours. The first feature I ever added was simple colouring pages, hand drawn by my lovely and talented wife. However that was a slow and laborious process, and...
Bazel and action (non-) determinism A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of...
21st Jul 2025
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Bazel and action (non-) determinism

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

21st Jul 2025
A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of actions.
Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their...
4th Feb 2025
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4th Feb 2025
For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their complete control over the Treasury Department is entirely insane. Unless you intend to destroy everything, making arbitrary changes to complex computer systems will result in destruction,...
What I'm up to - July 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in...
1st Jul 2022
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What I'm up to - July 2022

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

1st Jul 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in Webflow, a project I've lead to redesign and rebuild a popular social site for Webflow creators - Seein...
Thrice charmed at Rails World The first Rails World in Amsterdam was a roaring success back in 2023. Tickets sold out in 45...
6th Sep 2025
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Thrice charmed at Rails World

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2025
The first Rails World in Amsterdam was a roaring success back in 2023. Tickets sold out in 45 minutes, the atmosphere was electric, and The Rails Foundation set a new standard for conference execution in the Ruby community. So when we decided to return to the Dutch Capital for...
A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the...
7th Dec 2025
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A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the first one, Red Alp. There, I went into details about the whole process, so I recommend to check it out first if you're not familiar with the field. We will look at 4 demos:...
Finding Fulfillment What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
25th Dec 2022
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Finding Fulfillment

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

25th Dec 2022
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
8th Jun 2025
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One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations

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

8th Jun 2025
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
What America has meant to me Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given...
5th Jul 2026
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What America has meant to me

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

5th Jul 2026
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
18th Jul 2024
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Don't ask me to embarrass myself.

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

18th Jul 2024
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
22nd Nov 2024
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025 Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing....
1st Oct 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025

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

1st Oct 2025
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu… I hope you’ve all been able to avoid it!
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
2nd Oct 2024
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How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer

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

2nd Oct 2024
I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
4th Jan 2017
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Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size

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

4th Jan 2017
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible. I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
I'm an introvert and I gave a conference talk I gave my first conference talk at Design It Build It conference in September this year. After my...
19th Oct 2019
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I'm an introvert and I gave a conference talk

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

19th Oct 2019
I gave my first conference talk at Design It Build It conference in September this year. After my talk, an attendee invited me to connect on LinkedIn and in his message to me, asked how I had overcome being an introvert to give my talk. And while I understood the sentiment, I...
Double your productivity without more work or stress People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
4th Aug 2024
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Double your productivity without more work or stress

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

4th Aug 2024
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage...
14th Nov 2012
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IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild

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

14th Nov 2012
On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”. This is a particularly obscure bug with IE that has caused me lots of grief. First of all, it is indeed a bug with IE. This behavior can be...
Recently Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives...
3rd Jan 2023
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Recently

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

3rd Jan 2023
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives on how the business and such have gone, but for now, let’s keep this traditional, a good old-fashioned Recently. Reading This month’s theme, looking back on it, was feminism, and...
26th Feb 2021
State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1 AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this...
6th Feb 2025
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State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2025
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interfaces.  The terminology...
Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is...
18th May 2023
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Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization

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

18th May 2023
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.” – Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die. I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
3rd Oct 2007
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Convert arrays to CSV with PHP

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

3rd Oct 2007
The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
1st Nov 2024
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Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2024
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
Making Sense of React Server Components This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official...
6th Sep 2023
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Making Sense of React Server Components

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

6th Sep 2023
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial,...
1st May 2009
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Managing Gigabytes of Images with git-annex Earlier this year, I hit GitLab's 10GB storage limit with one of my git repositories. I'm writing a...
13th Mar 2024
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Managing Gigabytes of Images with git-annex

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

13th Mar 2024
Earlier this year, I hit GitLab's 10GB storage limit with one of my git repositories. I'm writing a family blog where I document our various trips and activities, hoping that in 20 years, it will be a great memento (like a photo album combined with a journal in a digital form,...
The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails Neither the first nor the fastest international connection, it was the one that lasted.
3rd Jul 2025
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The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

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

3rd Jul 2025
Neither the first nor the fastest international connection, it was the one that lasted.
Implementation-First GraphQL Defining a meaningful distinction within code-first GraphQL server libraries.
17th Apr 2023
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Implementation-First GraphQL

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

17th Apr 2023
Defining a meaningful distinction within code-first GraphQL server libraries.
Braces Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by...
24th Jun 2024
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Braces

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jun 2024
Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by Dentist Chung (in Vietnamese I called him Bác Sĩ Chung – which means Dr Chung translated directly) and his sister running the office. The office was in Garden Grove, in between the...
Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
a week ago
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Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

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

a week ago
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
chasing the dragon Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer...
10th Apr 2025
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chasing the dragon

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

10th Apr 2025
Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer with an honest side by side comparison to the more, exotic options.
Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
6th Aug 2021
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Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer

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

6th Aug 2021
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
4th Nov 2024
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A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries

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

4th Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
Apple Captive Network Assistant Slowness Problems on iOS We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the...
31st Jan 2018
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Apple Captive Network Assistant Slowness Problems on iOS

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

31st Jan 2018
We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the strangest issue. Only on iOS devices, we’d see extreme slowness and unresponsive behavior in the Apple Captive Network Assistant (CNA). Over the course of several days, we made multiple...
How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
1st Mar 2020
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How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg

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

1st Mar 2020
A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
18th Mar 2010
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Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer

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

18th Mar 2010
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding...
28th Feb 2023
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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

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

28th Feb 2023
At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition, and this was the first time...
Learn ESLint concepts, not rules What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's...
1st Aug 2019
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Learn ESLint concepts, not rules

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2019
What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's start with the problems we have when writing JavaScript code. Problem #1: JavaScript is not compiled while you write it
Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023 My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
3rd Dec 2022
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Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023

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

3rd Dec 2022
My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
16th Aug 2021
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TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2021
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
Use the Natural CSS Box Model The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the...
27th Oct 2013
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Use the Natural CSS Box Model

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

27th Oct 2013
The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the document tree. It determines how the content area, padding, border and margin of an element will be displayed. There are two types. The W3C Box Model x ...
How we&#x27;re trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve...
3rd May 2014
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How we&#x27;re trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2014
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
Machining under a microscope "The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses...
20th Jun 2016
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Machining under a microscope

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

20th Jun 2016
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses spade-type end mills as small as 0.001 inch wide, although even smaller tools have been used occasionally." www.mmsonline.com/articles/cutting-with-a-0001-inch-end-mill
Death of the Visceral Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane...
22nd Jan 2025
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Death of the Visceral

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

22nd Jan 2025
Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane sideways to fit, a missile on your tail and closing, hitting the turbo, feeling the g force, coming up on the end of the corridor, pulling back hard on the stick the second the corridor...
It needs to map back to a role One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to...
14th Mar 2022
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It needs to map back to a role

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

14th Mar 2022
One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to create experiences that have never existed before. The history of websites, web apps, and native apps is full of countless widgets that let you enter and manipulate content in new...
The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 11 March 2022 11 March 2022 Whoops. Here it is March already and I have not been keeping up with my Web Witch...
11th Mar 2022
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The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 11 March 2022

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

11th Mar 2022
11 March 2022 Whoops. Here it is March already and I have not been keeping up with my Web Witch Grimoire posts. A lot of things have happened since October and I'm not even going to remotely attempt to recap it all. I've had a rough two and a half years. Not as rough as some, but...
My spaghetti carbonara recipe In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too...
15th Dec 2023
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My spaghetti carbonara recipe

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

15th Dec 2023
In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too frequently. Here’s my recipe. It works well for 1 - 3 people but gets unweildy at larger quantities. ingredients Rough quantities per person: 100g pasta Spaghetti is traditional but I’ll...
libc delenda est Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if...
12th Feb 2023
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libc delenda est

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

12th Feb 2023
Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a setjmp which is fun in a more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1 The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be...
25th Jan 2024
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State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jan 2024
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be challenging when selecting the right tool We are approaching a period where the traditional boundaries between between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses are overlapping. As...
Epistemic Disclosure Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
10th Nov 2021
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Epistemic Disclosure

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

10th Nov 2021
Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
Liftmaster 87504-267 This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
13th Sep 2022
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Liftmaster 87504-267

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

13th Sep 2022
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door! Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
How "new type" helps avoid production outages My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author...
9th Mar 2024
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How "new type" helps avoid production outages

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

9th Mar 2024
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author briefly touches upon the “new type” idiom, its typical implementation in Rust, and then proceeds to propose a better alternative. But the question arises: why should you care?
Stuff to do when you’re not well Stuff to do when you’re not well Learn new stuff! ¶Stuff to do when you’re not well Last week I was...
13th Nov 2017
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Stuff to do when you’re not well

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

13th Nov 2017
Stuff to do when you’re not well Learn new stuff! ¶Stuff to do when you’re not well Last week I was sick with a cold. I was basically indoors for 5 straight days (one of those actually in bed all day). I was also unable to sleep for a couple of nights. So I had a lot of extra...
All the user-facing states I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as...
29th Apr 2022
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All the user-facing states

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

29th Apr 2022
I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as augmented memory—I’ll update it as I encounter more user-facing states in the wild. What user-facing state is User-facing state is what someone experiences when they interact with...
Some notes on for loops New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a...
10th Apr 2024
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Some notes on for loops

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2024
New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a lot of Alloy). Patreon link here. Some notes on for loops I sometimes like to sharpen the axe by looking at a basic programming concept and seeing what I can pull out. In this...
Reasons I still love the fish shell I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day...
12th Sep 2024
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Reasons I still love the fish shell

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2024
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some reasons. This came up today because I was trying to...
So you think you know everything about React refs React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you...
17th May 2021
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So you think you know everything about React refs

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

17th May 2021
React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you can access the current DOM node for that component in your JS. This is one of those great APIs that work just the way you'd expect, so you don't even think about how, exactly, it...
Beware The Fallacy of Composition Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
1st Oct 2020
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Beware The Fallacy of Composition

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

1st Oct 2020
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
Try the Last Internet Kermit Server $ grep kermit /etc/services kermit 1649/tcp What is this mysterious protocol? Who uses it and what...
4th Aug 2023
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Try the Last Internet Kermit Server

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

4th Aug 2023
$ grep kermit /etc/services kermit 1649/tcp What is this mysterious protocol? Who uses it and what is its story? This story is a winding one, beginning in 1981. Kermit is, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest actively-maintained software package with an original developer...
Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020 I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian...
17th Oct 2020
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Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020

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

17th Oct 2020
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian before the start of a pandemic was really convenient. Few things beat having a bunch of dried beans, lentils, and veggies plus a bunch of rice on in my pantry while you're figuring...
Procrastinate for Success! Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
7th Jul 2024
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Procrastinate for Success!

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

7th Jul 2024
Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Long web pages benefit from having a table...
24th Aug 2024
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Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript

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

24th Aug 2024
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Long web pages benefit from having a table of contents. Especially technical, reference documentation. As a reader you want a way to quickly navigate to a specific part of the documentation. This article describes how I...
Blooms and roots embroidery I got a crewel embroidery kit for a variety of flowers and their roots from Purl Soho. Like I am...
26th Aug 2022
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Blooms and roots embroidery

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

26th Aug 2022
I got a crewel embroidery kit for a variety of flowers and their roots from Purl Soho. Like I am often wont to do, I deviated from the prescribed stitches, especially in the roots section so the different flowers had distinct roots. Here's the finished piece:
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...
31st Mar 2021
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31st Mar 2021
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
Dispatch 013: ARIA Safeguarded AI Programme, new faces, and a splattering of ink lab notes Peter, our lab director, will announce a major new initiative. You’ll hear about two researchers who...
22nd Sep 2025
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22nd Sep 2025
Peter, our lab director, will announce a major new initiative. You’ll hear about two researchers who have recently joined our staff. Finally, we’ve got a collection of lab notes about Programmable Ink.
This site has buttons! This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple...
8th Jun 2025
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This site has buttons!

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

8th Jun 2025
This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple counter with a name attached. These are good for polls too! Pineapple on pizza: Yay Nay Of course, the results will be biased because there is no deduplication. I don’t limit the...
The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for...
15th Jul 2024
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The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next

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

15th Jul 2024
The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for businesses and dev teams – and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like in the future? I tackled these burning questions in my conference talk, “What’s Old is
Every product needs an architecture vision Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
5th Feb 2024
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Every product needs an architecture vision

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

5th Feb 2024
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment....
6th Mar 2025
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Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2025
<![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment. It can capture and optionally save to a file the full screen, a window with or without title bar and borders, or an arbitrary area. This project helped me learn the internals of...
Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a...
8th Mar 2024
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Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes

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

8th Mar 2024
Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a Kubernetes enjoyer (I even wrote a course on it, but I’m not here to argue about that. The part of the video I do want to discuss has nothing to do with k8s. It’s where Theo draws the...
Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a...
17th Oct 2024
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Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2024
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a while. Whenever I wanted to launch something new or set up a waiting list, I couldn’t find a simple, flexible, and free tool to collect emails. Most options out there are either too...
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
21st Mar 2021
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Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Mar 2021
Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
What is a DevOps Engineer's Salary? The median DevOps engineer’s salary is $103,994 in base pay, with around $28,514 in additional pay...
1st Nov 2022
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What is a DevOps Engineer's Salary?

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

1st Nov 2022
The median DevOps engineer’s salary is $103,994 in base pay, with around $28,514 in additional pay through bonuses, commissions, and profit sharing according to Glassdoor. Salary.com estimates the average is closer to $125k, while BuiltIn puts the average closer to $128k in base...
Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
1st Sep 2022
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Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes)

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

1st Sep 2022
Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content.
Migrating Buttondown to mypy The journey of 37,000 lines of static types begins with a single annotation.
19th Jan 2022
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Migrating Buttondown to mypy

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

19th Jan 2022
The journey of 37,000 lines of static types begins with a single annotation.
Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
2nd Feb 2023
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech

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

2nd Feb 2023
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
Announcing the Hatnote Top 100 Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered...
14th Dec 2015
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Announcing the Hatnote Top 100

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Dec 2015
Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered around knowledge, always growing, and brimming with information. It's important to remember that the insight of our favorite community-run encyclopedia often follows the focus of its...
AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You .highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color:...
22nd Apr 2024
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AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2024
.highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color: var(--theme-secondary-background-color); border-radius: 10px; } The firehose of data is turned on In the beginning, the Internet was a small, cozy place. Most people weren’t online, and most businesses...
Being a minor AI public figure I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
3rd Nov 2023
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Being a minor AI public figure

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

3rd Nov 2023
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and...
1st Sep 2020
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Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring

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

1st Sep 2020
My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and more time refactoring our code and tests. As a result, and perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, we’ve noticed a significant increase in our throughput of features and bug fixes.
Google Merchant Center is a Whiny Pain in The Arse fREW once said “As time goes by I have less and less patience for ecosystems that demand my time”...
26th Aug 2025
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Google Merchant Center is a Whiny Pain in The Arse

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Aug 2025
fREW once said “As time goes by I have less and less patience for ecosystems that demand my time” and I think about this now and then. However, in my case I replace the word “ecosystems” for “anything”. There are exceptions, of course, but I’m not going to list them here as those...
Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm I would like to thank Modern Health. It was not their intent, but using their service broke me out...
1st Feb 2023
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Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm

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

1st Feb 2023
I would like to thank Modern Health. It was not their intent, but using their service broke me out of a deep depression by launching me into an incandescent rage. I’ve read enough on destigmatizing mental health that I feel no shame in discussing this. In fact, in this regard I...
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
2nd Dec 2023
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A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed

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

2nd Dec 2023
For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
Software engineers hate code. This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
8th Jul 2023
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Software engineers hate code.

from Dan Cowell [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2023
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
Command Line HDR Image Processing Expensive cameras don’t take better photos. Folks tend to learn this when they do the first...
29th Jun 2021
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Command Line HDR Image Processing

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

29th Jun 2021
Expensive cameras don’t take better photos. Folks tend to learn this when they do the first side-by-side between their gorgeous iPhoneograhy and the objectively worse shots taken with their fancy new $2,000 DSLR. Cell phones have itty-bitty sensors and equally lilliputian optics...
Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Dnsmasq Valet ¶Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel...
9th Sep 2019
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Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet

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

9th Sep 2019
Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Dnsmasq Valet ¶Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Valet is great. Occasionally though I need an app to respond on a different TLD to the default one. And there are even times when it makes sense to have an app respond on multiple...
The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
8th Jun 2022
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The "Talk vs Walk" framework

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

8th Jun 2022
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
The Inevitability of Change Everything is the same and yet everything is different. That's how I feel sitting on the edge of the...
8th Aug 2024
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The Inevitability of Change

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

8th Aug 2024
Everything is the same and yet everything is different. That's how I feel sitting on the edge of the water in West Seattle. I've not been living here since January 2023. I've been back 5 or 6 times in the last year and a half and suddenly the buildings that were steel bones and...
An early-morning trip to Exeter A very early-morning trip to Exeter, Devon, with my camera.
16th Oct 2014
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An early-morning trip to Exeter

from beep.blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Oct 2014
A very early-morning trip to Exeter, Devon, with my camera.
Philip Glass Piano Works by Víkingur Ólafsson Sharing an album I’ve been obsessed with this year
12th Jan 2025
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Philip Glass Piano Works by Víkingur Ólafsson

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

12th Jan 2025
Sharing an album I’ve been obsessed with this year
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
5th May 2020
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We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th May 2020
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
My first two weeks at Igalia After my first two weeks at Igalia, while everything is new, it also feels as if I've come back home...
22nd Mar 2024
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My first two weeks at Igalia

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

22nd Mar 2024
After my first two weeks at Igalia, while everything is new, it also feels as if I've come back home after 2 years away from the web platform space. There is so much new information about web platform projects to digest and I've been slowly figuring out how things work around...
How to make an ineffective 404 page 404 pages are what a server will show you if you request something that isn’t there. Another way to...
4th Apr 2021
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How to make an ineffective 404 page

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

4th Apr 2021
404 pages are what a server will show you if you request something that isn’t there. Another way to say this: 404s are a last-ditch effort to help visitors get what they want if a webpage isn’t there anymore. There’s plenty of articles out there about how to make entertaining,...
21st Sep 2025
#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser...
9th Feb 2020
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#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2020
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" aria-label="Browser Wars: The Last Engine"> <div> <img alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" src="thumbnail.jpg"> </div> </div> </a> Issues and...
New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and...
5th May 2023
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New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs

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

5th May 2023
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements. Mail The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential...
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us...
9th Jan 2023
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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

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

9th Jan 2023
ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
7th Apr 2025
Introducing Workshop New newsletter about work in progress
1st Nov 2025
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Introducing Workshop

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

1st Nov 2025
New newsletter about work in progress
What is Backend Web Development? The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of...
7th Aug 2023
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What is Backend Web Development?

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

7th Aug 2023
The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of websites and web applications. It primarily focuses on handling the logic, data processing, and communication between the user’s web browser and the server.
In defense of AI mandates When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most...
2nd Jul 2026
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In defense of AI mandates

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

2nd Jul 2026
When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most honest way to fund it.
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
7th Feb 2024
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Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS

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

7th Feb 2024
Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
Company Values: A Resentful Odyssey I have a very cynical reaction to the word “values”, especially in the context of corporate...
6th Feb 2018
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Company Values: A Resentful Odyssey

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

6th Feb 2018
I have a very cynical reaction to the word “values”, especially in the context of corporate entities. At best it’s a disingenuous marketing campaign, usually it’s more like a red blaring light shining on their degenerate hypocrisies and weakest aspirations. But we’ve been doing a...
Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent...
20th Feb 2024
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Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2024
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent building things. So we never forget to interview for skills at building stuff. Sometimes we ask candidates to write code on the fly. Other times we ask them to whiteboard out a sensible...
The Truth About “MEH-TRICS” First published on 2022-04-13 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/truth-about-meh-trics-metrics A long...
13th Apr 2022
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The Truth About “MEH-TRICS”

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

13th Apr 2022
First published on 2022-04-13 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/truth-about-meh-trics-metrics A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I said a lot of inflammatory things about metrics. “Metrics are shit salad.” “Metrics are simply nerfed dimensions.” “Metrics suck,” “metrics...
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