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A Mental Model for Data in UI Applications A technology-agnostic model of the layers that naturally arise in any reasonably sized application,...
26th Sep 2025
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A Mental Model for Data in UI Applications

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

26th Sep 2025
A technology-agnostic model of the layers that naturally arise in any reasonably sized application, and the abstract properties of each layer.
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Choose Boring Technology Culture Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot;...
1st May 2023
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Choose Boring Technology Culture

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

1st May 2023
Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot; Emily summed it up crisply as, “Living another day on someone else’s money isn’t business success, even though it is a lovely vote of confidence.” Agreed. The vote of confidence...
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Overconfidence and future-proofing “Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable...
18th Mar 2023
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Overconfidence and future-proofing

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

18th Mar 2023
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand what the tradeoffs are.
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Don't hate on PHP It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
22nd Nov 2016
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Don't hate on PHP

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

22nd Nov 2016
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this: I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP. A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
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[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
13th Jul 2015
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[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jul 2015
I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read. The book...
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Non-alcoholic apéritifs I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage...
31st Jan 2025
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Non-alcoholic apéritifs

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

31st Jan 2025
I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage to mark the start of the evening. Something complex and maybe bitter, not like a drink you’d have with lunch. I found some good options. Ghia sodas are my favorite. Ghia is an NA...
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Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping. The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of...
2nd Jan 2025
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Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping.

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

2nd Jan 2025
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of the three core strategy refinement techniques, this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least. Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it highlights how...
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Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
7th May 2012
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Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2012
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no-unused-binary-expressions: From code review nit to ecosystem improvements How implementing an ESLint rule led to changes in how people write JavaScript
7th Oct 2024
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no-unused-binary-expressions: From code review nit to ecosystem improvements

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

7th Oct 2024
How implementing an ESLint rule led to changes in how people write JavaScript
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Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular...
18th Oct 2017
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Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Oct 2017
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular software, run as a prelude to the GitHub Universe conference. After being brought up to speed on this year's secret handshake of the software elite, I had a great time in the...
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Booklet's architecture Booklet is a modern email group software from Contraption Company. Think "Google Groups," but with a...
4th Dec 2023
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Booklet's architecture

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2023
Booklet is a modern email group software from Contraption Company. Think "Google Groups," but with a modern interface and features. If you haven't tried Booklet, here is a 3-minute video showing how it works. In this post, I'll share technical details about how I
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be...
13th Sep 2021
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

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

13th Sep 2021
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
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What is GitOps? It began with shell scripts and config management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef. Now...
3rd Jul 2020
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What is GitOps?

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2020
It began with shell scripts and config management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef. Now GitOps brings some new tools for managing containerized applications in Kubernetes clusters.
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Carrots, sticks, and making things worse This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well. Every...
3rd Oct 2024
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Carrots, sticks, and making things worse

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

3rd Oct 2024
This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well. Every organization has to contend with limits: scarcity of resources, people, attention, or funding, friction from scaling, inertia from previous code bases, or a quickly shifting...
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Meta’s historic growth challenge The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position...
6th Oct 2022
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Meta’s historic growth challenge

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

6th Oct 2022
The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position than Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft. Why is this and what can the company do to get out of this situation?
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Growing my team 4x has been a pain. Can we do better? My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the...
18th Apr 2024
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Growing my team 4x has been a pain. Can we do better?

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

18th Apr 2024
My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the success of our core banking product, we've decided to expand to other financial services. In the last four months my team has grown 4x, going from a 4-person team to 4 teams...
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Vim, the OSX clipboard and Tmux I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 4 years now. Since I started working at Upsync 3 months ago, I’ve found...
9th Feb 2013
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Vim, the OSX clipboard and Tmux

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

9th Feb 2013
I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 4 years now. Since I started working at Upsync 3 months ago, I’ve found myself a very lonely desktop Linux user. Also, since this job is my first heavy-duty exposure to back-end web development, I’ve found myself a very confused desktop Linux...
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AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is...
30th Aug 2022
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AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs)

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

30th Aug 2022
NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is we keep raising the bar on what it means for something to be a machine intelligence. Early machine learning models have been quite successful in terms of real world impact. Large...
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
11th Aug 2023
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

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

11th Aug 2023
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
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GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve...
19th Feb 2022
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GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2022
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve been a part of. I had some lofty goals for this game, and I just about met them all. I’m extremely happy with how the game came out! Like prior games I’ve made, I don’t tend to...
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Bring Back Ops Pride "Operations" is not a dirty word, a synonym for toil, or a title for people who can't write code....
19th Jan 2026
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Bring Back Ops Pride

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

19th Jan 2026
"Operations" is not a dirty word, a synonym for toil, or a title for people who can't write code. May those who shit on ops get the operational outcomes they deserve.
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I'm finally dumping Visual Studio After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and...
19th Jun 2024
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I'm finally dumping Visual Studio

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

19th Jun 2024
After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and frustrating, and I've decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code. While as a C# developer I'm still unsure if I can replicate every aspect of my workflow in VS Code, I'm...
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Eight more months of agents Eight more months of agents 2026-02-08 I wrote up my experiences programming with LLMs , and updated...
8th Feb 2026
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Eight more months of agents

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

8th Feb 2026
Eight more months of agents 2026-02-08 I wrote up my experiences programming with LLMs , and updated it for the world of agents . A lot has changed since then, so here is an update.a bit over a year agoeight months ago We were prototyping our first agent, Sketch, when Claude Code...
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Free Radon album released A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go...
26th Oct 2023
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Free Radon album released

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Oct 2023
A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go with Lofi or Chillvibes. Or maybe Not-Rock-n-Roll. I don’t know—I’m so bad at classifying music. I wasn’t sure what to do with the songs. I was experiencing some intense emotions...
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Ho Rudolph Rudolph claps back.
24th Dec 2013
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Ho Rudolph

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

24th Dec 2013
Rudolph claps back.
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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 I. 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...
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Date Me! if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
2nd Jan 2025
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Date Me!

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

2nd Jan 2025
if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2026 The Ware for March 2026 is a Elecom DST C30SV 6 in 1 USB “docking station”. I’ll give the prize to...
29th Apr 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2026

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

29th Apr 2026
The Ware for March 2026 is a Elecom DST C30SV 6 in 1 USB “docking station”. I’ll give the prize to tayken – the ware itself wasn’t terribly hard to guess on its own, so this month I’m just going with the first interesting response. Congrats, email me for your prize! As other...
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Advice to my younger self I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in...
31st Oct 2019
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Advice to my younger self

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

31st Oct 2019
I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in full: If you could call yourself 10 years ago and speak for a minute, what would you say? That's the thought that was going through my mind when I got
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The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
16th Dec 2024
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The premise trap

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

16th Dec 2024
The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long...
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I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired...
6th Jan 2024
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I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned

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

6th Jan 2024
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired 10 people into our team. It's been extremely tiring: around 80 hours of active interviewing, plus writing interview reports, plus screening CVs and take-home assignments, plus...
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
26th Dec 2018
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity

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

26th Dec 2018
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
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Leaving Intel InnovatiON 2022 AI Flame Graphs GPU Flame Scope Harshad Sane SREcon APAC Cloud strategy Last...
4th Dec 2025
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Leaving Intel

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

4th Dec 2025
InnovatiON 2022 AI Flame Graphs GPU Flame Scope Harshad Sane SREcon APAC Cloud strategy Last day I've resigned from Intel and accepted a new opportunity. If you are an Intel employee, you might have seen my fairly long email that summarized what I did in my 3.5 years. Much...
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Programming Portals Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple...
23rd Oct 2022
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Programming Portals

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

23rd Oct 2022
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
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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...
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A decade of code A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and...
10th May 2024
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A decade of code

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

10th May 2024
A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and CSS exactly ten years ago, reflecting on the lucky turning points that brought me to where I am today.
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DuckDB vs ClickHouse: Why we use both at PostHog ClickHouse and DuckDB are two heavyweights in the OLAP category. This makes them appear as direct...
1st May 2026
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DuckDB vs ClickHouse: Why we use both at PostHog

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

1st May 2026
ClickHouse and DuckDB are two heavyweights in the OLAP category. This makes them appear as direct competitors. In a few respects they are, but they…
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Daily Notes Pages Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
4th May 2022
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Daily Notes Pages

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

4th May 2022
Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
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The imminent risk of vibe coding Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
30th Jan 2026
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The imminent risk of vibe coding

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

30th Jan 2026
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
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Living with Linux and Android after two decades of Apple It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to...
12th Jul 2024
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Living with Linux and Android after two decades of Apple

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

12th Jul 2024
It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to switch off the Apple stack and stick to my choice. That's what two decades worth of entrenched habits will do to your belief in change! But not only was it possible, it's been...
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Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars In the spirit of “everything old is new again,” browsers are once again supporting the ability to...
3rd May 2023
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Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars

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

3rd May 2023
In the spirit of “everything old is new again,” browsers are once again supporting the ability to style the scrollbar. Much like custom CSS mouse cursors, I feel this is also a mistake. When you style things on the web, you get control over almost the entire experience. From ten...
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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.
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Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
7th May 2026
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Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech

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

7th May 2026
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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Coming soon This is General Robots.
31st Jan 2023
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Coming soon

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2023
This is General Robots.
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HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free,...
18th Jun 2020
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HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jun 2020
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
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Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
27th Jun 2014
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Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome

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

27th Jun 2014
When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation. But all bets are off as soon as I...
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Delightful React File/Directory Structure How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a...
15th Mar 2022
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Delightful React File/Directory Structure

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

15th Mar 2022
How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a solution I'm really happy with. In this blog post, I'll share how it works, what the tradeoffs are, and how I mitigate them.
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My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job....
5th Jul 2023
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My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer

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

5th Jul 2023
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job. Also, I never worked for a big tech company (other than Apple briefly, but that was when they were going out of business) and only a
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Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
2nd Nov 2019
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Oct 2019 Recap

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

2nd Nov 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
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How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level
20th Jan 2025
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How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jan 2025
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
8th Feb 2023
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2023
Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
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How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
28th Feb 2023
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How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World

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

28th Feb 2023
Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
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Every Man a Microservice Contra Conway
8th Feb 2026
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Every Man a Microservice

from Grant Slatton's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2026
Contra Conway
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What I'm up to - January 2024 Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2024

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
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5 production surprises worth investigating As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and...
6th Mar 2023
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5 production surprises worth investigating

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

6th Mar 2023
As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and getting to the bottom of them. By adopting this habit, we can find and fix many classes of problems before they turn into incidents. Over time, this makes things run much smoother. But...
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Must-have Windows Apps Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net -...
10th Apr 2012
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Must-have Windows Apps

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

10th Apr 2012
Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net - Fast, lightweight image editor Foobar2000 - Fast, lightweight, music player (supports FLAC) IrfanView - Awesome, lightweight, image viewer for all formats Media Player Classic -...
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How to Not Write "Garbage Code" (by Linus Torvalds) Linus Torvalds, Creator of Git and Linux, on reducing cognitive load
12th Sep 2025
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How to Not Write "Garbage Code" (by Linus Torvalds)

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

12th Sep 2025
Linus Torvalds, Creator of Git and Linux, on reducing cognitive load
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Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having...
19th Feb 2016
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Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2016
When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having multiple merge commits and issues with keeping the forked repo in sync. This post addresses solutions for some of the problems.
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Staying Ahead of Amazon, in Amazon Treasure Hunt Contest With a simple Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, I tried to cheat(?) one of Amazon India’s contest.
31st Oct 2015
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Staying Ahead of Amazon, in Amazon Treasure Hunt Contest

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Oct 2015
With a simple Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, I tried to cheat(?) one of Amazon India’s contest.
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CipherSmith: a browser-based crypto toolkit CipherSmith: a browser-based crypto toolkit
6th May 2026
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CipherSmith: a browser-based crypto toolkit

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2026
CipherSmith: a browser-based crypto toolkit
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production...
1st May 2019
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies

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

1st May 2019
VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (___/) || (⌾ㅅ⌾) || / 　 づ — Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) April 12, 2019 So, that happened. I hadn’t seen anyone say something like this in quite a while.  I remember saying things like...
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You Don’t Need a Website You Don’t Need a Website ¶You Don’t Need a Website I came across this Reddit post the other day. The...
29th Jan 2018
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You Don’t Need a Website

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29th Jan 2018
You Don’t Need a Website ¶You Don’t Need a Website I came across this Reddit post the other day. The gist of it is: Websites are an expensive necessity that companies hate paying for And you can understand why sometimes. Some organisations just have a completely absurd view of...
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Designing a version In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak...
23rd Feb 2016
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Designing a version

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2016
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak version management neglects clients like lack of source control neglects collaborators. Dependency management and migration rely on versions. Beyond the technical, a project's...
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Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more...
13th Sep 2026
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Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases

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13th Sep 2026
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more efficiently in any codebase.
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2025 The training grounds are LIVE! 21,000 challenges have been generated between the launch and as I...
8th Sep 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2025

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

8th Sep 2025
The training grounds are LIVE! 21,000 challenges have been generated between the launch and as I write this, and we’re just getting started. Big things to come.
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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
29th Apr 2024
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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of

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

29th Apr 2024
An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
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2024 Book Roundup My goal for 2024 was to read 30 books. I had set a stretch goal despite not meeting my 2023 goal. I...
5th Jan 2025
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2024 Book Roundup

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

5th Jan 2025
My goal for 2024 was to read 30 books. I had set a stretch goal despite not meeting my 2023 goal. I finished 31 books in 2024 and I am damn proud of that. I found myself prioritizing reading and having more time to do so. Perhaps it was finally abandoning Twitter, after realizing...
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Specialization considered harmful It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to...
3rd Apr 2023
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Specialization considered harmful

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Apr 2023
It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to specialize early in their careers. I think his advice is misguided. In my opinion, having a wide range of knowledge is in many cases more important than being extremely good at a very...
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Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
11th Dec 2023
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Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres

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

11th Dec 2023
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
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This RSS feed has moved to a new domain I have recently moved my website to a new domain. My old posts may reappear in your feed reader —...
2 days ago
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This RSS feed has moved to a new domain

from Dariusz Winkler | Software development [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 days ago
I have recently moved my website to a new domain. My old posts may reappear in your feed reader — sorry for the inconvenience! I redirect the RSS feed to the new domain, but you might want to update the URL in your reader. I've also merged my dev, photography, and personal posts...
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Is ShareFile GDPR Compliant?
9th Jul 2025
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Is ShareFile GDPR Compliant?

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2025
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Happier development On programming "the good old fashioned way"
26th Mar 2026
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Happier development

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

26th Mar 2026
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
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Rescuing Resque (again)
28th Oct 2015
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Rescuing Resque (again)

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Oct 2015
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The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
27th Jan 2022
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The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite

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

27th Jan 2022
Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
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Chromecast Backgrounds I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
28th Jan 2014
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Chromecast Backgrounds

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

28th Jan 2014
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome. I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
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10 Shopify SEO best practices with Sanity and Remix Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives. As a...
1st Feb 2023
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10 Shopify SEO best practices with Sanity and Remix

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

1st Feb 2023
Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives. As a result, CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) increases, pushing ecommerce business owners to look for more affordable lead generation strategies. SEO is one of them. Online store...
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers? TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more...
12th Feb 2025
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2025
TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more Japanese companies we’ve interviewed, the more we’ve realized that a talent shortage is not the only reason for Japanese companies to hire from overseas. There are a host of other...
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The Best Decade in Music Like many people who turned 11 years old in 1964, the first record album I bought “on my own” — in...
14th Dec 2024
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The Best Decade in Music

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

14th Dec 2024
Like many people who turned 11 years old in 1964, the first record album I bought “on my own” — in other words by pleading “Mom, can you get this album for me?” — was Meet the Beatles!, their first release in the United States. But so what? I have about as much inclination to...
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Database Migrations I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software...
1st Oct 2023
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Database Migrations

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2023
I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software engineer’s life. Not only […] The post Database Migrations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Patchwork 06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
5th Mar 2024
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Patchwork 06 · Simple branching

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

5th Mar 2024
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
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An update on leap seconds It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap seconds, though I have been...
4th Dec 2022
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An update on leap seconds

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

4th Dec 2022
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an index of threads. But Twitter now seems a lot less likely to stick around, so I’ll aim to...
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No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
15th Sep 2023
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No sacred masterpieces

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

15th Sep 2023
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
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Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes,...
6th Apr 2012
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Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2012
Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes, [Eric Ries](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/). While talking to him, I realized one of the pitfalls of [the...
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Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
3rd Jun 2026
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Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable

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

3rd Jun 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
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Breaking the Rules When you know the rules, then you can break the rules.
17th Dec 2008
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Breaking the Rules

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

17th Dec 2008
When you know the rules, then you can break the rules.
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Review: Red Rain
27th Jun 2025
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Review: Red Rain

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jun 2025
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
4th Dec 2020
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2020
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be “injected” via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one’s hands. So, the least I can do is...
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
28th Jun 2016
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jun 2016
Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
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Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
2nd Oct 2018
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Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2018
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Software Praxis The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period...
27th Jul 2026
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Software Praxis

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

27th Jul 2026
The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period carrying its own set of talking points and controversies, which are almost completely forgotten in the next. In 2026, we find ourselves immersed in the tools and talking points of...
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Laying myself off from Amazon
16th Nov 2022
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Laying myself off from Amazon

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Nov 2022
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CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
5th Jan 2023
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CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach

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

5th Jan 2023
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
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Year X
7th Apr 2024
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Year X

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7th Apr 2024
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Functional Programming and Big Data Update: I wrote this while preparing a talk for the Columbus Functional Programmers meetup. You can...
12th Nov 2016
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Functional Programming and Big Data

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2016
Update: I wrote this while preparing a talk for the Columbus Functional Programmers meetup. You can find the talk on YouTube. It has more humor than these words, but then you'd have to listen to my voice. This post is a long one, so here’s a brief roadmap. We’ll start with a...
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Catching grace Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying...
12th Mar 2025
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Catching grace

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2025
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.
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Is anyone still using Emacs? Self-answering the question posed in a recent Hacker News discussion
20th Jun 2026
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Is anyone still using Emacs?

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20th Jun 2026
Self-answering the question posed in a recent Hacker News discussion
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What I'm up to - May 2023 ✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking...
1st May 2023
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What I'm up to - May 2023

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

1st May 2023
✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking forward to spending the next three weeks without travel. I am currently immersed in the developme...
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Searching the Creative Internet Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the...
18th May 2018
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Searching the Creative Internet

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

18th May 2018
Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the 1990s. A place where everything was obscure or new. If you saw something mainstream like a Disney princess, it was because someone had taken the time to handcraft an ASCII art...
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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…
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Analyse and run simulations on your energy usage I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they...
11th Mar 2026
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Analyse and run simulations on your energy usage

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2026
I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they used to have a useful insights dashboard that let me analyse my power usage. Well, they seem to have removed it so I built a handy dashboard that anyone can use. It’s at...
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Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced...
24th Feb 2015
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Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry

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

24th Feb 2015
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
22nd Aug 2023
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

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

22nd Aug 2023
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors

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

9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
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Browser font rendering inconsistencies 22 June 2020 I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different...
22nd Jun 2020
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Browser font rendering inconsistencies

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

22nd Jun 2020
22 June 2020 I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different browsers against my personal website when I opened up Safari and noticed how drastically different the title of my page was rendering. It was extremely bold in Safari compared to...
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Crafting a support network Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
3rd Jan 2021
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Crafting a support network

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

3rd Jan 2021
Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
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An API for my Christmas tree
1st Dec 2017
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An API for my Christmas tree

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2017
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Before and after Almost Perfect At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in...
8th Jul 2024
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Before and after Almost Perfect

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2024
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my residence. The first half was recorded on the first day of my stay,
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Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or...
4th Aug 2020
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Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL

from home automation - Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2020
One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or “WITH queries”. I’ll explain the mental model that helped me make sense of them, and how to use them to execute recursive queries. Afterwards I’ll show how to apply these techniques...
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Sketches I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face. Faces...
31st Jan 2026
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Sketches

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2026
I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face. Faces are different for me than any other kind of drawing. Somewhere in the process the face looks real enough for me to recognize it as a human being, if it's a good drawing. About 30% of...
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In Defense of the Midwest As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the...
8th Mar 2015
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In Defense of the Midwest

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Mar 2015
As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the heart of the software industry. With this in mind, in my final semester at Kent State, I joined a Silicon Valley startup as their third engineer1. The staff at that time was split:...
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Prevent data loss on page refresh It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click...
1st Oct 2024
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Prevent data loss on page refresh

from Dariusz Winkler | Software development [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2024
It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click "back") and lose all the hard work. In this blog post, I present a method to retain form data when the page is reloaded, which improves the user experience. Browser behavior Most...
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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious...
4th Jan 2025
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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks

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

4th Jan 2025
Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it
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Using Machine Learning to Generate Winamp Skins I used thousands of screenshots of Winamp skins and StyleGAN2 to train an ML model generate more...
7th Jul 2021
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Using Machine Learning to Generate Winamp Skins

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

7th Jul 2021
I used thousands of screenshots of Winamp skins and StyleGAN2 to train an ML model generate more Winamp skins.
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What I'm up to - June 2023 ✨ What I've been up to It's been a busy month at Contraption Company. I'm amid building a new...
1st Jun 2023
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What I'm up to - June 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2023
✨ What I've been up to It's been a busy month at Contraption Company. I'm amid building a new product called Booklet, which I plan to launch this Summer. It's a community platform designed to be a cal...
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Just stop adding people. “Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack...
28th Mar 2023
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Just stop adding people.

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

28th Mar 2023
“Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack is a great way to destroy a workday. You can lose whole days hammering out details with coworkers across a few Slack threads. But communication is the cost you pay for capacity—the...
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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...
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Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a...
3rd Nov 2024
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Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2024
I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy. (Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.) Hopefully nobody noticed! When I flipped the DNS records to...
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Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF...
31st Dec 2018
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Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2018
An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
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Logo: Squawkbox Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
14th Jul 2026
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Logo: Squawkbox

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jul 2026
Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
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There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
19th Jul 2023
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There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS

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

19th Jul 2023
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies. This...
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Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of...
23rd Dec 2024
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Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev

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

23rd Dec 2024
A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of version control for game dev.
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A deep dive into distributed database architectures Learn about different strategies for delivering data from multiple servers
12th Mar 2024
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A deep dive into distributed database architectures

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2024
Learn about different strategies for delivering data from multiple servers
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Transaction models are programming paradigms
16th Aug 2024
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Transaction models are programming paradigms

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2024
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Program synthesis with Z3
30th Jan 2020
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Program synthesis with Z3

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jan 2020
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Epic Workshop: Major Updates for 2026 (article) Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved...
22nd Jan 2026
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Epic Workshop: Major Updates for 2026 (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jan 2026
Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved playgrounds, a revamped epicshop CLI, and MCP upgrades.
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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week —...
2nd May 2025
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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates

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

2nd May 2025
Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week — scoping it down, writing straight through, trying real hard to avoid over-writing or editing down to a pulp. Week 1 — “On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of...
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Equivalent experience can cut both ways I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and...
5th Sep 2023
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Equivalent experience can cut both ways

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

5th Sep 2023
I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and expertise (and grace in answering the occasional ignorant question) in exchange for payment. The goal here is to uncover assumptions I carry with me when using assistive technology,...
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What I'm up to - November 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
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What I'm up to - November 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
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The faded world: my experience with cataract <![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
22nd Dec 2024
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The faded world: my experience with cataract

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

22nd Dec 2024
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came. In May of 2024 my ophthalmologist confirmed what I surmised: both of my eyes were affected by cataract. It came earlier than my age would suggest but that's...
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Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
27th Feb 2019
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Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Feb 2019
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
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The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and...
14th Dec 2022
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The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica

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

14th Dec 2022
Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and 13.0. In late June this year it was Version 13.1. And now we’re releasing Version 13.2. We continue to have a huge pipeline of R&D, some short term, some medium term, some long term...
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Erizo
6th Oct 2019
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Erizo

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Oct 2019
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On AI doomerism So what's going on? This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed,...
20th Jan 2025
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On AI doomerism

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

20th Jan 2025
So what's going on? This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed, by Flavio Copes. "I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to be. You, on the other hand, have to try any passing bandwagon, because what else have you...
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Rickrolling Turso DB (SQLite rewrite in Rust) This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in...
20th Jul 2025
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Rickrolling Turso DB (SQLite rewrite in Rust)

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jul 2025
This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in Rust. I will explore how to get familiar with Turso’s codebase, tooling and tests
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Behind the Scenes: Sending Invoices Without Leaving Cakedesk Read the post here.
10th Jul 2025
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Behind the Scenes: Sending Invoices Without Leaving Cakedesk

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

10th Jul 2025
Read the post here.
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Safari bug with ruby tag *Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
28th Jul 2019
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Safari bug with ruby tag

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jul 2019
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.* Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ） which renders as ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ） If you control click...
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Kagi Search - New Features We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three...
22nd Dec 2022
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Kagi Search - New Features

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

22nd Dec 2022
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three months.
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"Integration tests" are just vibes New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software...
1st May 2024
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"Integration tests" are just vibes

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

1st May 2024
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software cause us to miss deadlines, and how we can address some of them. Patreon here. "Integration tests" are just vibes You should write more unit tests than integration tests. You should...
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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
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My Mac OSX Setup Application Installs Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge...
9th Jul 2014
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My Mac OSX Setup

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

9th Jul 2014
Application Installs Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge step above MacPorts and Fink when it comes to installing and managing open source software. Spectacle is a free window resizing utility that gives you keyboard shortcuts to resize...
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Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in...
1st Jul 2024
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Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2024
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in question was not particularly complicated, and had been reviewed by multiple people. It included a timeout, and is straightforward: allow a Websocket connection to test that the client...
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How we built Buttondown's new docs We're excited to share our brand new documentation site.
6th May 2024
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How we built Buttondown's new docs

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

6th May 2024
We're excited to share our brand new documentation site.
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Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
12th Mar 2020
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Veblen values

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2020
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
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My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer The most stressful period of my career.
5th Sep 2020
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My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Sep 2020
The most stressful period of my career.
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Self-documenting Makefiles Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
10th Jan 2025
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Self-documenting Makefiles

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

10th Jan 2025
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
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You look tired "You look tired." Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent...
5th Jun 2025
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You look tired

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

5th Jun 2025
"You look tired." Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent myself from throwing up, while needing to force myself eat every 2 hours despite not really exercising and needing to sleep for what seems like 12 hours a day all totaled up, and then...
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Building a Better Web Takes a Village: Introducing Kagi Specials ------------------------------------------------------------------- Our curation of privacy-first...
3rd Sep 2025
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Building a Better Web Takes a Village: Introducing Kagi Specials

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

3rd Sep 2025
------------------------------------------------------------------- Our curation of privacy-first projects worth knowing and supporting ------------------------------------------------------------------- Nothing excites us more than bringing together people who believe the web...
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Adding graphics support to DandeGUI <![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like. Some text and graphics output...
4th Jun 2025
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Adding graphics support to DandeGUI

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

4th Jun 2025
<![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like. Some text and graphics output windows created with DandeGUI on Medley Interlisp. In addition to the square root table text output demo, I created the other graphics windows with the newly implemented...
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
4th Nov 2022
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero

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

4th Nov 2022
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
10th Jul 2020
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

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

10th Jul 2020
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
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Winner, Name that Ware January 2026 The Ware for January 2026 is a FNIRSI DPS-150. Tim nailed it almost immediately; congrats, email me...
27th Feb 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware January 2026

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

27th Feb 2026
The Ware for January 2026 is a FNIRSI DPS-150. Tim nailed it almost immediately; congrats, email me for your prize! The DPS-150 is a small, portable DC “benchtop” power supply that converts USB-C into a range of voltages and currents. samchin convinced me to get one of these as...
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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.
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Have a single definition of “now” I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing...
4th Jun 2023
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Have a single definition of “now”

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2023
I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing help: function today(): Date { return new Date(); } It’s not very sophisticated – it just returns the current time – but we use it everywhere we need to get the current time. (You...
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you...
11th May 2026
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

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

11th May 2026
I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just...
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Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin Queues are everywhere, and they follow mathematical rules. Learn a few of those rules! It'll go a...
25th Jun 2025
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Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin

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

25th Jun 2025
Queues are everywhere, and they follow mathematical rules. Learn a few of those rules! It'll go a long way to making you a stronger SRE.
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Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that...
3rd Feb 2024
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Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2024
Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that cost me […] The post Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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An Interactive Guide to Flexbox When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible...
22nd Nov 2022
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An Interactive Guide to Flexbox

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

22nd Nov 2022
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do...
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A Thousand Tiny Optimisations This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM...
8th Jun 2025
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A Thousand Tiny Optimisations

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

8th Jun 2025
This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM but it wasn't accepted. There is also a companion playthrough video that goes into much more detail. Note that the post was written well over a year ago, as usual it just didn't...
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Tech Heroin Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell...
7th Jan 2024
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Tech Heroin

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

7th Jan 2024
Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell cocaine. Techno-Optimism is cocaine. Atlas Shrugged is cocaine. Futurism is cocaine. I am a progressive. A liberal. I believe in progress. I am not a conservative. Conservatives lose....
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Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
20th Feb 2022
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Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

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

20th Feb 2022
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
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Backyard Ukulele Session: Ukulele Videos with Chelsea Chelsea and I recorded a few songs in our backyard with the help of Beau Lambert.
4th Nov 2011
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Backyard Ukulele Session: Ukulele Videos with Chelsea

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

4th Nov 2011
Chelsea and I recorded a few songs in our backyard with the help of Beau Lambert.
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Challenge your performance intuition with nanosecond sorting If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about...
5th Nov 2019
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Challenge your performance intuition with nanosecond sorting

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

5th Nov 2019
If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about algorithmic complexity probably wouldn't apply. The most effective algorithms become mediocre while the useless rise from the oblivion to shine and amaze. One of these algorithms is the...
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External popup links using jQuery With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has...
15th Nov 2007
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External popup links using jQuery

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

15th Nov 2007
With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
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Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and...
7th Nov 2023
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Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Nov 2023
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and richer UIs grew, teams came up with different frontends to deliver on those expectations. Client-side frameworks such as Angular, Ember, and React emerged as popular choices. One of...
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Don't make me read your PR description I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s...
3rd Feb 2023
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Don't make me read your PR description

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

3rd Feb 2023
I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s been a net positive. There are more than a handful of problems that make me slower: Sometimes it suggests a closing quote or paren that isn’t needed. Removing the duplicate character...
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Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
12th Oct 2022
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Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Oct 2022
The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
11th Oct 2022
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022

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

11th Oct 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
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A designer developing for Android
8th Nov 2018
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A designer developing for Android

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

8th Nov 2018
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Le Mans 2024 This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some...
3rd Apr 2024
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Le Mans 2024

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

3rd Apr 2024
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a real race car, and even less time since I made participating in the world's greatest endurance race the ultimate goal. But it almost didn't...
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Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos...
21st Jul 2023
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Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator

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

21st Jul 2023
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos from iOS to iCloud they often render themselves into heif or heic formats. Both macOS and iOS have no problem working with these formats, but a lot of software programs will not even...
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Exploring the web in 1995 By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone. The post Exploring the web...
3rd Jun 2025
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Exploring the web in 1995

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

3rd Jun 2025
By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone. The post Exploring the web in 1995 appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
5th Jun 2023
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Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jun 2023
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...
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The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water
11th Mar 2025
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The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2025
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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...
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024 Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024

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

5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
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Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
16th May 2023
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Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th May 2023
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of C++ code implementing a binary search: template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp> It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
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Papageno's Glockenspiel-kulele [Ukulele Ringtone] A ringtone for Chelsea based on Papageno's Glockenspiel music from Mozart's The Magic Flute.
26th May 2013
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Papageno's Glockenspiel-kulele [Ukulele Ringtone]

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

26th May 2013
A ringtone for Chelsea based on Papageno's Glockenspiel music from Mozart's The Magic Flute.
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PWA: What it is and why you should try it The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
20th Jan 2023
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PWA: What it is and why you should try it

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

20th Jan 2023
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users. Mobile applications...
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What Is A Good Programmer? Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming...
27th Jul 2025
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What Is A Good Programmer?

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

27th Jul 2025
Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming for 52 years now, having started in a public high school class in 1973, which is pretty rare because few high schools offered such an opportunity back then. I
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Plugin Systems "What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems...
11th Jul 2017
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Plugin Systems

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jul 2017
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems BoF. Update: This BoF and post inspired [a talk I gave at PyGotham 2017][pygotham2017]. Within the programming world, and the Python ecosystem in particular, there are a lot of...
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Redecorating my bedroom Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the...
11th May 2023
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Redecorating my bedroom

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2023
Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the inspiration to finally redecorate my bedroom – something I’ve been thinking about for two years. My bedroom used to have white walls, a dark grey feature wall, and a purple sliding...
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Folk Interfaces People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
24th Aug 2022
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Folk Interfaces

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

24th Aug 2022
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
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Toto C5 Washlet power usage I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I...
26th Aug 2023
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Toto C5 Washlet power usage

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

26th Aug 2023
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses. About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is without the seat...
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Making a Retro Dock for the Playdate Console I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a...
27th Jul 2025
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Making a Retro Dock for the Playdate Console

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

27th Jul 2025
I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a miniature version of the Super Famicom and I love how it makes the Playdate look like a little game cartridge when it’s charging. Making one yourself is pretty straight-forward, you’ll...
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Standards for ANSI escape codes Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI...
7th Mar 2025
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Standards for ANSI escape codes

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

7th Mar 2025
Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understanding of where they were supposed to be defined or whether or not there were...
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Need for Speed: LLMs Beyond OpenAI with .NET 8 SSE + Channels, Llama3, and Fireworks.ai If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and...
5th May 2024
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Need for Speed: LLMs Beyond OpenAI with .NET 8 SSE + Channels, Llama3, and Fireworks.ai

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

5th May 2024
If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and combine that with a backend capable of high-throughput concurrent processing.
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Like anything else, we need to practice startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to...
28th Aug 2011
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Like anything else, we need to practice startups

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

28th Aug 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that way, it is completely understandable...
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Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
1st Jul 2023
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Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog

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

1st Jul 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
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New Beginnings
1st Oct 2013
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New Beginnings

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2013
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Gathering Structures How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
20th Feb 2024
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Gathering Structures

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

20th Feb 2024
How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
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Want to join the Rust docs team?
24th Mar 2017
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Want to join the Rust docs team?

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Mar 2017
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What would a web app canary look like? Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...
2nd Oct 2023
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What would a web app canary look like?

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2023
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots. Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to. They are an essential component...
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Making html_of_jsx ~10x faster A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
3rd Dec 2025
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Making html_of_jsx ~10x faster

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2025
A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter > 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost...
1st Nov 2024
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter

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

1st Nov 2024
> 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost $222.51 one way (44min labor pickup 55min labor dropoff, which i think was fraud, no way dropoff cost more than pickup) and total base fare 38 + 14.5 fee. for the two way move price i...
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The 7 best mobile app analytics tools 1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an...
1st Aug 2024
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The 7 best mobile app analytics tools

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

1st Aug 2024
1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an all-in-one platform built to help engineers create…
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Atom Feed
16th Apr 2016
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Atom Feed

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

16th Apr 2016
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal...
19th May 2021
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th May 2021
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol’ Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
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Using global memoization in React When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a...
9th Feb 2022
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Using global memoization in React

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

9th Feb 2022
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a hammer that often works well, and makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. But useMemo is not a silver bullet — sometimes it just introduces more useless work instead of making...
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Website Contrast Ratio in Practice While perusing Hacker News I ran across a single-page site called Contrast Rebellion— which I...
27th Jul 2012
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Website Contrast Ratio in Practice

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

27th Jul 2012
While perusing Hacker News I ran across a single-page site called Contrast Rebellion— which I understand has created a bit of controversy. I think the point espoused by Contrast Rebellion is both well-made and well-taken (despite the host of straw-man style arguments to...
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Advanced Vitest Patterns (workshop) Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster,...
6th Aug 2025
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Advanced Vitest Patterns (workshop)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2025
Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster, more effective test experiences.
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