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Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's...
3rd Feb 2025
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Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation

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

3rd Feb 2025
Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's an anthropologist by training, and I'm a software engineer. How'd we wind up there? The short version is I asked her what I thought was an interesting question, and she thought it...
Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche...
6th Jan 2024
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Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings

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

6th Jan 2024
When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche Zero grinder: the Niche Zero has no markings past the 50 mark. Fortunately, there's a really simple solution to this problem: Set your grinder to 50 and place a small piece of...
30th Apr 2012
Building personal and organizational prestige Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
4th Jul 2023
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Building personal and organizational prestige

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

4th Jul 2023
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
Using Pytester to test my Playwright fixtures A month ago, I wrote about my Playwright fixture for testing static websites in a browser. I’ve been...
5th Jun 2026
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Using Pytester to test my Playwright fixtures

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jun 2026
A month ago, I wrote about my Playwright fixture for testing static websites in a browser. I’ve been copying that fixture from project-to-project, but recently I decided to add it to chives, the utility library I use for all my static websites (or tiny archives). One of my rules...
Put that Framework Down Before Someone Gets Hurt There is only one question that ignites my inner rage more than “How do I get a developer job in 3...
6th Nov 2023
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Put that Framework Down Before Someone Gets Hurt

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

6th Nov 2023
There is only one question that ignites my inner rage more than “How do I get a developer job in 3 months?”? That question is:
The Phoenix project — Book Notes Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
19th Jan 2019
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The Phoenix project — Book Notes

from Mahmoud Felfel's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jan 2019
Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
6th Oct 2020
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Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

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

6th Oct 2020
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
2nd Dec 2023
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A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed

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

2nd Dec 2023
For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
Mutation testing - not just for unit tests I wrote about mutation testing a few times on this blog, and I even have a mutation testing workshop...
3rd Sep 2025
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Mutation testing - not just for unit tests

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

3rd Sep 2025
I wrote about mutation testing a few times on this blog, and I even have a mutation testing workshop that I run on a pretty frequent basis. One misconception that pops up sometimes, either explicitly in a question or implicitly when I hear others talk about mutation testing, is...
Of Mountains and Hills It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
16th Mar 2024
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Of Mountains and Hills

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

16th Mar 2024
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
Exercise: a requirement for sleep? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently I have...
21st Nov 2010
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Exercise: a requirement for sleep?

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

21st Nov 2010
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently I have struggled to get to sleep at night. When I need to be up at 8 and working away on either my own projects or exciting client projects by 9 it is vital that I wake up refreshed
Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM...
12th Mar 2025
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Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()

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

12th Mar 2025
Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM instructions and object memory access patterns.
Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
30th Dec 2023
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Care about how the work is done

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

30th Dec 2023
High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
OpenClaw is my new coworker What happens when you give AI its own laptop
2nd Feb 2026
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OpenClaw is my new coworker

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

2nd Feb 2026
What happens when you give AI its own laptop
Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks. One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief...
12th Apr 2026
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Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.

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

12th Apr 2026
One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate, but that quickly switched to figuring out how we can minimize human involvement, and...
Epistemic Disclosure Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
10th Nov 2021
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Epistemic Disclosure

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

10th Nov 2021
Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming....
4th Nov 2019
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Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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

4th Nov 2019
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming. Let’s take a look at what they are, when to (maybe) use them, and when not to.
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...
you can never go back Total disassociation, fully out your mind That Funny Feeling I was thinking today about a disc...
31st Aug 2025
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you can never go back

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

31st Aug 2025
Total disassociation, fully out your mind That Funny Feeling I was thinking today about a disc jockey. Like one in the 80s, where you actually had to put the records on the turntables to get the music. You move the information. You were the file system. I like the Retro Game...
Springs and Bounces in Native CSS The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right...
28th Oct 2025
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Springs and Bounces in Native CSS

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

28th Oct 2025
The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips...
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a...
15th Oct 2021
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator

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

15th Oct 2021
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
Roundup of Unique Data/Storage Hosting Options Recently I have been taking another look at the services at rsync.net and it got me thinking: what...
3rd Jun 2021
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Roundup of Unique Data/Storage Hosting Options

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

3rd Jun 2021
Recently I have been taking another look at the services at rsync.net and it got me thinking: what would I do with a lot of storage? What might I want to run with it, if it were fairly cheap? Backups are an obvious place to start. Borgbackup makes a pretty compelling option: very...
Andrej Karpathy's AI Autoresearch found a 3-year-old bug in PostHog's query engine (and improved... A few weeks ago at a team offsite in Lisbon, we pointed an AI agent at our query engine, fed it slow...
1st Jun 2026
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1st Jun 2026
A few weeks ago at a team offsite in Lisbon, we pointed an AI agent at our query engine, fed it slow queries from production, and let it run overnight…
Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to...
10th Nov 2024
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Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Nov 2024
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to new opportunities. It’s time to work on one of my own ideas again. This is part of my plan to start failing more. I’ve decided to build a business sending gift cards to Pakistan -...
Insulin dump My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type...
12th Oct 2021
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Insulin dump

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

12th Oct 2021
My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. The student is allowed to keep a small purse with her at all times, as it contains a smartphone that runs an app that talks to, and controls her insulin pump. The...
Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam...
5th May 2007
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Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam

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

5th May 2007
Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam bots post comments on someones blog, guestbook, or wiki for the sole purpose of boosting traffic and promoting better search engine rankings for their site. Like email spam, it can be...
Why Amateur Radio? I always had a diffuse idea of why people are spending so much time and money on amateur radio. Once...
29th Aug 2025
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Why Amateur Radio?

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Aug 2025
I always had a diffuse idea of why people are spending so much time and money on amateur radio. Once I got my license and started to amass radios myself, it became more clear to me. It always seemed like amateur radio was an extremely practical endeavor. The goal appeared to be...
Functional JavaScript: Learn by refactoring Learn the basics of functional programming by iteratively refactoring imperative code.
11th Nov 2016
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Functional JavaScript: Learn by refactoring

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

11th Nov 2016
Learn the basics of functional programming by iteratively refactoring imperative code.
Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at...
1st Apr 2021
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Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly

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

1st Apr 2021
Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at runtime.
Ink Note Jan-Feb '26: How PlayBook Processes User Input The motivation and design of our input processing system
20th Feb 2026
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Ink Note Jan-Feb '26: How PlayBook Processes User Input

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

20th Feb 2026
The motivation and design of our input processing system
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
7th Mar 2025
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Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification

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

7th Mar 2025
A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
Manufacturing as Maintenance The cleansing fire of rebirth
8th Jun 2025
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Manufacturing as Maintenance

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

8th Jun 2025
The cleansing fire of rebirth
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers,...
31st Dec 2021
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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2021
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
Our own agents with their own tools. Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading...
4th Feb 2025
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Our own agents with their own tools.

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

4th Feb 2025
Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents, followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering. I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I also decided to do a personal experiment of...
never give up Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
30th Sep 2021
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never give up

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

30th Sep 2021
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
Dips and Wiggles Modern infrastructure generates a heck of a lot of data, and it all has to go somewhere. Here’s...
26th Feb 2022
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Dips and Wiggles

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

26th Feb 2022
Modern infrastructure generates a heck of a lot of data, and it all has to go somewhere. Here’s how to connect your Checkly data to Prometheus and Grafana, as part of an integrated observability pipeline.
Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012) I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already...
17th Sep 2012
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Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012)

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2012
I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already [another Rubyist here](https://twitter.com/igaiga555/status/247511186394972160). Five minutes before, I met [another one](https://twitter.com/yotii23) walking down the street. Last...
The Picture They Paint of You I keep noticing that the way AI SREs and coding agents are sold is fairly different: coding...
23rd Feb 2026
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The Picture They Paint of You

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

23rd Feb 2026
I keep noticing that the way AI SREs and coding agents are sold is fairly different: coding assistants are framed as augmenting engineers and are given names, and AI SREs are named “AI SRE” and generally marketed as a good way to make sure nobody is distracted by unproductive...
APIs for content sites must be free Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives...
14th Jun 2023
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APIs for content sites must be free

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

14th Jun 2023
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
22nd Oct 2025
Agents are commoditizing the complement Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code...
3rd Nov 2025
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Agents are commoditizing the complement

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

3rd Nov 2025
Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing up demand for the latter.
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...
How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different? Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
1st May 2019
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How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

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

1st May 2019
Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
13th Aug 2021
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Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400

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

13th Aug 2021
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn't as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
log4j: between a rock and a hard place log4j: between a rock and a hard place 2021-12-11 What does backwards compatibility mean to...
11th Dec 2021
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log4j: between a rock and a hard place

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

11th Dec 2021
log4j: between a rock and a hard place 2021-12-11 What does backwards compatibility mean to me? Backwards compatibility should not have forced log4j to keep LDAP/JNDI URLs The other side of compatibility: being cautious adding features There is more than enough written on the...
Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced...
18th Aug 2021
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Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP

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

18th Aug 2021
I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to-end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless...
Breaking the Chain Breaking the Chain Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your...
3rd May 2018
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Breaking the Chain

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

3rd May 2018
Breaking the Chain Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application Requirements Problems Solutions Explicitly store the current Builder in the model Results ¶Breaking the Chain ¶Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application I’ve got to admit I’ve...
New Blog, Who Dis? There is an unwritten rule that when you get back to your old blog, you have to rewrite it. You...
14th Oct 2022
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New Blog, Who Dis?

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

14th Oct 2022
There is an unwritten rule that when you get back to your old blog, you have to rewrite it. You can't just continue. You won't be happy with what you wrote a year ago. The world is a different place now, there are 12361293 new JavaScript frameworks since the last time you chose...
Postgres large JSON value query performance Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
1st Feb 2022
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Postgres large JSON value query performance

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

1st Feb 2022
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
The LLM productivity puzzle Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first...
22nd Jan 2023
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The LLM productivity puzzle

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

22nd Jan 2023
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex, Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊 At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty...
30th Jul 2023
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Sriracha Fight!! 🥊

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

30th Jul 2023
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone wants. Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have no idea when it’ll be back. So, driven by the...
1st Jul 2022
Is Computer Science Really that Hard? Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science...
5th Apr 2023
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Is Computer Science Really that Hard?

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

5th Apr 2023
Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science is hard. You want to know if it’s too hard. You want to know if having to learn computer science is going to be a real obstacle in your way to achieving your goal.
Tokyo Ruby Kaigi 05 ![Speaker](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6...
5th Feb 2011
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Tokyo Ruby Kaigi 05

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2011
![Speaker](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaEFsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--1169db2c72c9703ffc256e380c62cb2f19df8c6e/tokyorubykaigi_speaker.jpg) [Tokyo Ruby Kaigi...
Building Itako: an investment tracking application Around 2 years ago, I had some time on my hands and got really interested into investing and playing...
2nd Sep 2025
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Building Itako: an investment tracking application

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

2nd Sep 2025
Around 2 years ago, I had some time on my hands and got really interested into investing and playing with stock market data. After reading way too many books on the subject, I started building my own tools which led me to creating Itako. It’s a portfolio tracking and data...
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
1st Jun 2022
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to

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

1st Jun 2022
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
Printable shrinkage rulers Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the...
29th Sep 2024
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Printable shrinkage rulers

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

29th Sep 2024
Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the final size of in-progress work - especially if you're making multiples or trying to fit pieces together. One way to do this is with shrinkage rulers. I figured I'd design my own...
22nd Sep 2018
Advanced Promise Coordination: Rate Limiting In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js....
7th Jul 2018
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Advanced Promise Coordination: Rate Limiting

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

7th Jul 2018
In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js. This time we dive further and handle rate limiting. What Exactly to Rate Limit Let's get terminological matters out of the way first. Promises represent operations that last a certain...
Grow slowly, stay small A more sustainable way to do business
3rd Dec 2025
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Grow slowly, stay small

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

3rd Dec 2025
A more sustainable way to do business
The Deployment Fidelity Problem The most important problem that we face as software professionals is this: If somebody thinks of a...
31st Aug 2021
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The Deployment Fidelity Problem

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

31st Aug 2021
The most important problem that we face as software professionals is this: If somebody thinks of a good idea, how do we deliver it to users as quickly as possible? – Continuous Delivery Production is a low-fidelity version of your codebase. Many deployment metrics are just a...
Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
8th Feb 2020
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

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

8th Feb 2020
Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis. A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy...
21st Oct 2023
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Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis.

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

21st Oct 2023
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis, which I gave at QCon last week. They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
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 Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [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...
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
29th Mar 2022
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

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

29th Mar 2022
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
Rohit Chess fun little board game
10th Mar 2025
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Rohit Chess

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2025
fun little board game
From 0 to 1 MB in DOS A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
17th Jan 2024
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From 0 to 1 MB in DOS

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

17th Jan 2024
A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
5th Oct 2024
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Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh

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

5th Oct 2024
My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
Coding should be a vibe! The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire...
13th May 2025
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Coding should be a vibe!

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

13th May 2025
The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire project with AI — appears partly to be based on the fact that so many development environments are deeply unpleasant to work with. So it's no wonder that all these programmers stuck...
Growing Teams and Baking Bread One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it...
21st Jan 2017
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Growing Teams and Baking Bread

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

21st Jan 2017
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it ferments some of the sugars in the dough into alcohol and carbon dioxide, resulting in a growing, bubbly mass of dough. There are some tricks to making dough rise quickly, like using...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
1st Nov 2024
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Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses

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

1st Nov 2024
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2024 One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June....
10th Jul 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2024

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

10th Jul 2024
One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June. That’s nuts. I was so preoccupied with how cool it is that you all are learning so much that I’m late on this newsletter. Sorry ‘bout that.
What I'm up to - June 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter (a couple of weeks late!) about what I'm up to, which I send in place...
1st Jun 2024
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What I'm up to - June 2024

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

1st Jun 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter (a couple of weeks late!) about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May - Summer weather has hit NYC - it's great to be back outside - Pu...
Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
5th Oct 2024
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Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh

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

5th Oct 2024
My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
15th Sep 2011
What the hell is a Webmention? If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
1st Aug 2025
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What the hell is a Webmention?

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

1st Aug 2025
If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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.
Thinking in packages Thinking in packages Path repository Override PSR-4 Autoloading ¶Thinking in packages If you’re in...
6th Jun 2018
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Thinking in packages

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

6th Jun 2018
Thinking in packages Path repository Override PSR-4 Autoloading ¶Thinking in packages If you’re in the mindset of writing and using your own Composer packages, no doubt you’ve come across the following problem: “How do I keep the (frequently updated) package code in the main...
Solid Cache We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and...
3rd Oct 2023
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Solid Cache

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

3rd Oct 2023
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and HEY. Solid Cache uses a SQL database as its cache store. We get a much larger cache at a fraction of the storage costs of memory caches like Redis or Memcached. For us, that’s a...
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key...
10th Oct 2013
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10th Oct 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key values at Buffer [http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter, not...
Buying a House in Portland After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically...
13th Oct 2016
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Buying a House in Portland

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

13th Oct 2016
After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically toured more than 70 houses, put in 13 offers and looked over hundreds of listings in nearly every neighborhood in the city. I thought it might be a good time to reflect on the...
Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
16th Feb 2024
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Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Feb 2024
I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
Add captions to your images! Add captions to your images!
5th Sep 2023
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Add captions to your images!

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

5th Sep 2023
Add captions to your images!
Paper Review: Architecture of a Database System Last week, I read "Architecture of a Database System" for a Red Book reading group. This is as...
1st Oct 2022
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Paper Review: Architecture of a Database System

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

1st Oct 2022
Last week, I read "Architecture of a Database System" for a Red Book reading group. This is as massive paper: 119 pages. What surprised me is how approachable it is. I have relatively little background building database systems and more experience using them. Despite this, the...
Buying a house 🏠 in 2020 My significant other and I bought our very first home in July. We just finished moving. I learned a...
4th Sep 2020
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Buying a house 🏠 in 2020

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

4th Sep 2020
My significant other and I bought our very first home in July. We just finished moving. I learned a lot during this process. I’m writing it down while it’s still fresh in my mind. Why not rent? I’ve always rented and thought I would continue to rent forever. When I was still in...
GitHub’s updated Commits page and the interactive list component GitHub has updated the page template used to list Commits on a repository. Central to this...
20th Dec 2024
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GitHub’s updated Commits page and the interactive list component

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

20th Dec 2024
GitHub has updated the page template used to list Commits on a repository. Central to this experience is an interactive list component that I was responsible for architecting. This work was done alongside input from James Scholes, whose guidance was instrumental to the effort’s...
In-App Purchase Rules A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods: Your app must use Apple’s...
11th Sep 2020
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In-App Purchase Rules

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Sep 2020
A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods: Your app must use Apple’s in-app-purchase (IAP) system for all purchases made in the app. Unless they’re purchases for goods or services that are consumed outside the app, in which case you are prohibited from using...
Apologies and forgiveness The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way
5th Sep 2025
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Apologies and forgiveness

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

5th Sep 2025
The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way
What I'm up to - February 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2026
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What I'm up to - February 2026

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

1st Feb 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Busy month at Chroma - including launching a case study with Mintlify who recently ...
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
9th Dec 2023
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Generative Art on a Round TFT Display

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Dec 2023
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
SumatraPDF new features: March 18, 2026 New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: DDE commands accept arguments Commands sent...
4 days ago
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SumatraPDF new features: March 18, 2026

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

4 days ago
New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: DDE commands accept arguments Commands sent via DDE can take arguments, the same as in custom shortcuts (#5383). Loading message in tab While a document loads, its tab shows a “loading” message instead of the home...
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...
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big...
3rd Oct 2022
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery

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

3rd Oct 2022
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of "brutalist" or minimalist design, so I'm always inspired...
What I'm up to - October 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I...
1st Oct 2023
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What I'm up to - October 2023

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

1st Oct 2023
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 September I launched Booklet, a forum as an alternative to chat. It's my attempt to ma...
Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not...
21st Feb 2022
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Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware

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

21st Feb 2022
Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not watching the first layer of the print. This led to a large blob of PLA sticking to my heat block. In my attempts to remove it, I severely damaged the thermistor wires resulting in the...
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025 Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children...
2nd Jan 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025

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

2nd Jan 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
2nd Nov 2023
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME

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

2nd Nov 2023
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences...
11th Jun 2015
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Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types

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

11th Jun 2015
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning...
In Search of Sophistication Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
10th Sep 2021
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In Search of Sophistication

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

10th Sep 2021
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media: "Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees." This...
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling...
1st May 2023
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Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop

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

1st May 2023
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun “hack” to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly. The only other minor issue I had...
Braces Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by...
24th Jun 2024
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Braces

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

24th Jun 2024
Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by Dentist Chung (in Vietnamese I called him Bác Sĩ Chung – which means Dr Chung translated directly) and his sister running the office. The office was in Garden Grove, in between the...
Swearing and automatic captions Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make...
5th Dec 2022
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Swearing and automatic captions

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

5th Dec 2022
Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make pop. Throw in a shitload to create a motherfucking verbal curry, layers of delicious goddamn meaning to unpack. Swearing is also present in every culture I can think of, with culture...
Engineering Manager Archetypes and Career Paths Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a...
3rd Aug 2021
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Engineering Manager Archetypes and Career Paths

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

3rd Aug 2021
Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a very traditional breakdown of engineering manager archetypes – tech lead manager, team manager, director, and so forth – you can’t do better than Will Larson’s post, and I won’t...
Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the...
7th Dec 2025
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint

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

7th Dec 2025
I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the past 18 months or so. This is a problem that I think is, at minimum, a side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era. Given the sheer number of folks working on this...
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
8th Aug 2023
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Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2023
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
Asiajin Meetup Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what...
9th Oct 2010
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Asiajin Meetup

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Oct 2010
Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what is going on in the Japanese internet space. About 20 people participated, with over half the attendees being Japanese. This surprised me, as the blog's target is English speakers,...
A Million Little Secrets I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in...
24th Feb 2025
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A Million Little Secrets

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

24th Feb 2025
I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my...
5 Ways of Debugging with IPython There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am...
23rd Dec 2019
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5 Ways of Debugging with IPython

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

23rd Dec 2019
There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am a puts debuggerer", that I enjoyed when I played with Ruby. The gist of it is to show you that, in many cases, you don't need a full-fledged debugger. Don't get me (or Tenderlove)...
10 ways to speed up web image loading Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent...
19th Dec 2023
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10 ways to speed up web image loading

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Dec 2023
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
Basecamp code runs 18% faster with YJIT Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT. In this post I’ll share our setup, and the performance...
1st Dec 2023
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Basecamp code runs 18% faster with YJIT

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

1st Dec 2023
Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT. In this post I’ll share our setup, and the performance improvements we achieved. Our setup Basecamp is currently running Ruby 3.3.0-preview3 and Rails Edge (master branch). We configure YJIT in our servers via RUBYOPT=--yjit-disable...
Generating a 12 Hour Youtube Video With Python Making a video that smoothly scrolls through 70k Winamp skins over the course of 12 hours.
12th Sep 2021
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Generating a 12 Hour Youtube Video With Python

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

12th Sep 2021
Making a video that smoothly scrolls through 70k Winamp skins over the course of 12 hours.
Reminding folks to confirm their subscription Now you can gently remind your subscribers to confirm their address.
4th Nov 2019
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Reminding folks to confirm their subscription

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

4th Nov 2019
Now you can gently remind your subscribers to confirm their address.
Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a...
1st Apr 2015
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Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer

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

1st Apr 2015
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a professional branding agency was how to properly handle color output. So I decided to write this post in the hope of saving you some from some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid.
The "Opposite Test" Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft...
6th Apr 2008
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The "Opposite Test"

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

6th Apr 2008
Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft compelling, unique features.
The state of modern Front End Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six...
14th May 2023
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The state of modern Front End

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

14th May 2023
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls! There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
what is a favicon? I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app...
11th Nov 2025
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what is a favicon?

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

11th Nov 2025
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app which sports the default favicon (favorite icon) of whatever framework, tool, or library used to make said project, website, or app, I cannot help but be disappointed. Nay, more than...
Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by...
8th Apr 2020
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Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach

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

8th Apr 2020
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by COVID-19, it’s been “business as unusual” for everyone – Buffer included. I sent this update out to Buffer’s investors one week ago. I hesitated on whether
America’s Future It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America...
27th Oct 2024
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America’s Future

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

27th Oct 2024
It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America is not in decline, I want to believe America is not in decline. If America is in decline, I want to believe America is in decline. So let’s ask, what does the future look like for...
Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
29th Aug 2007
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php

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

29th Aug 2007
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
Advice for marketplace startups Marketplace businesses connect buyers and sellers, and they typically make money by taking a cut of...
11th May 2021
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Advice for marketplace startups

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

11th May 2021
Marketplace businesses connect buyers and sellers, and they typically make money by taking a cut of transactions. Some of today's largest companies are marketplaces, such as Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. ...
Home temperature monitoring on the cheap One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions – Grace Hopper One of my many AcuRite...
1st Dec 2022
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Home temperature monitoring on the cheap

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

1st Dec 2022
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions – Grace Hopper One of my many AcuRite 06044M Wireless Temperature and Humidity Monitor Sensors As I meandered around our new house, it was apparent some rooms were sweltering, others were freezing, and the thermostat...
Why learn about the golden-section search An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a...
29th Jun 2025
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Why learn about the golden-section search

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

29th Jun 2025
An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a motivation to learn them both. Spoiler alert! One converges better, and the other has a better computational cost.
xoxo You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces...
16th Sep 2014
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xoxo

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

16th Sep 2014
You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces into moments and memories and bonds to hold onto beyond those polygons, yellow, orange, and red.
Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
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Over-Nesting

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

6th Jan 2019
Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on...
5th Sep 2023
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Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic

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

5th Sep 2023
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz. For what Doug was fundamentally trying to do over the forty years he spent developing his CYC system was to use the framework of...
Top 20 Helpdesk Interview Questions (with answers) Help desk interviews usually test two things at once: whether you understand the technical basics,...
8th Mar 2026
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Top 20 Helpdesk Interview Questions (with answers)

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

8th Mar 2026
Help desk interviews usually test two things at once: whether you understand the technical basics, and whether you can explain those basics to a person who may already be annoyed, confused, or late for a meeting. That combination matters. A support technician who can diagnose a...
My Git alias for shipping a feature branch A handy Git alias for merging a feature branch into master and pushing it to the server.
4th Dec 2013
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My Git alias for shipping a feature branch

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

4th Dec 2013
A handy Git alias for merging a feature branch into master and pushing it to the server.
1st Aug 2012
Proxmox Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets...
18th Jan 2024
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Proxmox

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

18th Jan 2024
Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
30th Jan 2017
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I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jan 2017
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
Artificial Knowledge Creation How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
5th Jan 2024
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Artificial Knowledge Creation

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

5th Jan 2024
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
Tearing down the Rewind app Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll...
25th Dec 2022
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Tearing down the Rewind app

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

25th Dec 2022
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll through a timeline of past screen recordings. Rewind also recognizes text, including text in videos and Zoom calls, allowing the user to perform full-text search on anything that has...
You can now add automatic alt text to your images You can now add automatic alt text to your images
6th Oct 2023
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You can now add automatic alt text to your images

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

6th Oct 2023
You can now add automatic alt text to your images
How to Get a Software Developer Job in Japan I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby...
22nd Jun 2016
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How to Get a Software Developer Job in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2016
I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby developer](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan) at a Japanese startup. At the time, options for English speaking developers in Japan were few and far between: I could only find two...
Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
5th Jan 2021
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles

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

5th Jan 2021
Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with...
27th Dec 2021
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Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch

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

27th Dec 2021
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.
[2012] FachMe mentioned on Voicebox Recalling the time in 2012 when my opera related software project was discussed on a local public...
19th May 2025
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[2012] FachMe mentioned on Voicebox

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

19th May 2025
Recalling the time in 2012 when my opera related software project was discussed on a local public radio program
📈 The Toxic Grind There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
6th Jun 2022
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📈 The Toxic Grind

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

6th Jun 2022
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […] The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Questionable Advice: “What Should I Say In My Exit Interview?” I recently received this gem of a note:: Hi Charity, I really enjoy your writing and a lot of it has...
16th Apr 2021
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Questionable Advice: “What Should I Say In My Exit Interview?”

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

16th Apr 2021
I recently received this gem of a note:: Hi Charity, I really enjoy your writing and a lot of it has directly contributed to me finally deciding to leave a company with a toxic management culture. I’ll also be leaving many great IC friends that will have lost a strong voice. My...
29th Jun 2012
Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search (...
21st Jan 2026
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21st Jan 2026
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search ( https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search ) , published last year.
How to Build Fly Locally With Docker for Mac In my recent side projet, I’ve been deploying to fly.io and really enjoying it. It’s fairly easy to...
2nd Oct 2023
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How to Build Fly Locally With Docker for Mac

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

2nd Oct 2023
In my recent side projet, I’ve been deploying to fly.io and really enjoying it. It’s fairly easy to get setup. And it supports my preferred workflow of deploying my changes early and often. I have run into a few snags though. Fly.io builds your project into a docker image and...
Secure your account with MFA Secure your account with MFA
6th Jul 2022
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Secure your account with MFA

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

6th Jul 2022
Secure your account with MFA
agents, ai, and software engineering People are limited in the number of decisions they can make in a day. Most people do not experience...
24th Feb 2026
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agents, ai, and software engineering

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

24th Feb 2026
People are limited in the number of decisions they can make in a day. Most people do not experience this limit as day to day, the decision volume is pretty low. The day to day of an executive? It is generally a non-stop firewall of decisions.
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.
Writing Faster Python - Introduction 2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with...
18th Aug 2020
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Writing Faster Python - Introduction

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

18th Aug 2020
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with Intel CPU. In 2022, I switched to a new MacBook Pro with M1 CPU and decided to also switch to the latest Python 3.11 version as it offers some nice speed-up improvements. So all the...
18th Aug 2026
NixOS generators Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
1st Jun 2026
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NixOS generators

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2026
Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
Sorry, we’re closed For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will...
19th Jun 2023
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Sorry, we’re closed

from Don Melton [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jun 2023
For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will remain online for now, but I don’t plan on returning to write anything new here. Not that I’ve added any content in almost two years anyway. I still have a passion for making...
Writing AWS Lambda functions behind SQS with LambdaQ I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
11th Apr 2024
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Writing AWS Lambda functions behind SQS with LambdaQ

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

11th Apr 2024
I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
Bike Brooklyn! zine I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of...
23rd Apr 2025
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Bike Brooklyn! zine

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

23rd Apr 2025
I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be? This article is not about deciding whether two floating point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are...
27th Jan 2023
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Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be?

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

27th Jan 2023
This article is not about deciding whether two floating point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are plenty of resources on this (often subjective) problem. We simply want to know if ${x \leq y.}$ Suppose that you are a programmer, and that you have two numbers. You want to know...
Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between...
24th Mar 2025
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Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon

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

24th Mar 2025
Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between the pillars model and the single unified storage model and applying “2.0” to the latter, Christine was like “so what is going to stop the next vendor from slapping 3.0, 4.0, 5.0...
10th Feb 2014
Early-stage engineering Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the confidence to break with best...
1st Oct 2023
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Early-stage engineering

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

1st Oct 2023
Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the confidence to break with best practices.
One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment Why we need collaborative AI engineering
13th Apr 2026
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One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment

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

13th Apr 2026
Why we need collaborative AI engineering
5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
10th Aug 2020
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book

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

10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009. In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most...
1st Jan 2024
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I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009.

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

1st Jan 2024
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
What I'm up to - December 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2023
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What I'm up to - December 2023

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

1st Dec 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...
Playing with Streamlit and LLMs. Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools...
19th Jun 2023
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Playing with Streamlit and LLMs.

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

19th Jun 2023
Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools for their teams to make it easy to test LLMs against their internal usecases. I wanted to take a couple hours to see how far I could get using Streamlit to build out a personal LLM...
Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
3rd Dec 2019
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Nov 2019 Recap

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

3rd Dec 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
A good first word for Wordle Ok, I gave in to the fad and took up Wordle. For those who have been living under a rock for the...
27th Jan 2022
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A good first word for Wordle

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

27th Jan 2022
Ok, I gave in to the fad and took up Wordle. For those who have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, Wordle is a relatively new online word game which has become viral. It is a variation of Bulls and Cows. You have six tries to guess a five-letter word. Each […] The...
Who runs Engineering processes? Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was...
3rd Apr 2023
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Who runs Engineering processes?

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

3rd Apr 2023
Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was created as a deliberate non-acronym–but was otherwise a fairly typical review process. When I first joined, we’d review one or two specs each week. The volume of requested reviews...
5th Jun 2022
Announcing the Hatnote Top 100 Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered...
14th Dec 2015
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Announcing the Hatnote Top 100

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Dec 2015
Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered around knowledge, always growing, and brimming with information. It's important to remember that the insight of our favorite community-run encyclopedia often follows the focus of its...
Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
24th May 2026
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Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead

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

24th May 2026
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
Pointillism rose Sharpie on computer paper, Photoshop to brighten the colors.
3rd Feb 2013
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Pointillism rose

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

3rd Feb 2013
Sharpie on computer paper, Photoshop to brighten the colors.
Reflection and Custom States in Web Components In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both...
5th Jun 2024
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Reflection and Custom States in Web Components

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

5th Jun 2024
In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property. A...
Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so...
13th Jun 2022
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Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder

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

13th Jun 2022
We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so doing, I’ve had some fascinating conversations with engineering managers who have been trying unsuccessfully to make the leap to director. Here is a roundup of some of the ideas and...
JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
28th Dec 2019
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JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

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

28th Dec 2019
Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie —...
10th Nov 2014
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How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Nov 2014
If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write. This is possible because every document written in Google Docs since about May 2010 has a revision history...
Profiling Rust programs the easy way Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
4th Dec 2023
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Profiling Rust programs the easy way

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

4th Dec 2023
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need. So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that? Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
11th Mar 2021
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Introducing PageRoast

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

11th Mar 2021
Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines

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

3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
Sloppy Copies Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby project in a web...
19th Apr 2026
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Sloppy Copies

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

19th Apr 2026
Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby project in a web framework - Ruby on Rails - that hasn’t been “in fashion” for some time. The blog post gathered some interest and made it to various discussion sites like Hacker News and others. It caused...
Debugging running server applications So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real...
2nd Aug 2012
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Debugging running server applications

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2012
So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real users are playing the game server doesn’t work properly. Now what?!? I was reading an article by Mike Perham called Debugging with Thread Dumps and wanted to share a related...
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025 This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up...
9th Jul 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025

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

9th Jul 2025
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up - but we still did manage to get a few new features out the door!
The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
17th Jan 2019
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The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew

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

17th Jan 2019
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
13th May 2024
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Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue

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

13th May 2024
useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
Name that Wäre, July 2023 The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to...
31st Jul 2023
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Name that Wäre, July 2023

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

31st Jul 2023
The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to him, this was fished out of a dumpster in Germany, hence “wäre” (and yes, it’s a nonsense word, but I also think it’s cute). We had a little chuckle over the ware’s construction (or...
Creating Caddyfiles with Cog I’m currently restructuring my site, and I’m going to change some of the URLs. I don’t want to break...
5th Feb 2026
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Creating Caddyfiles with Cog

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2026
I’m currently restructuring my site, and I’m going to change some of the URLs. I don’t want to break inbound links to the old URLs, so I’m creating redirects between old and new. My current web server is Caddy, so I define redirects in my Caddyfile with the redir...
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