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Why Startups Should Build Their Own Models The importance of startups training their own AI models for differentiation and control.
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Switching to Android after 13 years of iOS I have used iPhone/iOS for the longest time. Last month I switched to OnePlus 6T/Android. Here are...
over a year ago
Alex MacCaw
Lifestyle business FAQ I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger...
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I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger business. Lifestyle businesses are intriguing to people, they sound too good to be true but the reality is they are imminently doable. Since I get quite a lot of questions...
Daniel Marino
GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve...
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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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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading to Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 <![CDATA[I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 based on Debian...
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<![CDATA[I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 based on Debian Bookworm 12.9: The desktop of 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 on a Raspberry Pi 400. Since I had no files to preserve the process was surprisingly easy as I went with a full...
Yale E360
Open source licenses as a reflection of values I'm the kind of nerd that has a favorite software license. For a while that favorite license was the...
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I'm the kind of nerd that has a favorite software license. For a while that favorite license was the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Right now, it's the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). Licenses are really important on all code, and they're critical to the open source...
Marco.org
The Overcast Redesign: Part One Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus...
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Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one. For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused...
Jibran’s Perspective
I have not failed enough I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
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I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”. This was...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Pen & Teller’s Masterclass I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks...
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I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids. I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of their craft....
A Day In The Life...
Endless - A dive into a C64 game Endless - A dive into a C64 game
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The Codist
I Learned How To Program 50 Years Ago In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer...
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In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer programming. This class was rare for its time, as there were few computers in the world accessible for students, and most people had no idea what they could do other than seeing HAL
A Smart Bear
Profitable on day one! You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable....
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You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable. Fix your definition of "profitable," and build a truly profitable business.
blag
Recurse Center Day 12: Isolation Anomalies Anomalies which define transaction isolation levels
over a year ago
charity.wtf
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...
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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...
David Heinemeier...
Celebrating a million copies of REWORK It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit...
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It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list right out the gate. In the first two years, it sold over 200,000 copies. And then... it just kept selling. Now it has passed one million copies...
David Crawshaw
2015-03-01 gothamist.com/2012/03/08/the_1960_plan_to_put_a_dome_over_mi.php
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alexwlchan
Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour":...
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Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour": "blue" } Notice that sides and colour both appear twice. This looks invalid, but I learnt recently that this is actually legal JSON syntax! It’s unusual and discouraged, but it’s...
bt RSS Feed
Vertical Tabs in Safari Vertical Tabs in Safari 2024-09-26 I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build)...
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Vertical Tabs in Safari 2024-09-26 I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build) which has vertical tabs built-in. There are instances where I need to use Safari, such as debugging or testing iOS devices, and in those instances I prefer to have a similar...
TokyoDev
How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan “Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s...
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8 months ago
“Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. So I began my very first, brief and spontaneous trip to any Asian country, in February of 2024. I’m sure I wasn’t the first or last tourist with such ideas...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Subversive Hyperlink The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an...
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The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link. This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of...
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How we justified quitting our jobs and financing PostHog early on Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure...
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Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure motivated Tim and me to make an epic pivot leap…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Link Preload as Image I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work...
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I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work ok on localhost, but as soon as I push code to a preview branch on a remote server, the image loads between transitions are janky because of image loading. Granted, this stuff...
Eric Bailey
100 Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown marks the hundredth post I’ve written. 100 is a bit of...
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Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown marks the hundredth post I’ve written. 100 is a bit of an arbitrary number, but we’ve mostly decided to be a base 10 society, so it also represents an opportunity to take pause. I’ve written ~143,500 words since 2015, not counting...
David Heinemeier...
Commit to competence in this coming year It’s that time of year where people often start thinking about new year’s resolutions. I want to...
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It’s that time of year where people often start thinking about new year’s resolutions. I want to loose 10 lbs, I want to read more books, I want to x, y, and z. Often, it’s just a fantasy. They’re not actually going to loose 10 lbs or they might order some more books but never...
Josh Collinsworth
Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can't agree on Tailwind It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we...
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It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we actually disagree on isn’t the details of this (or any) specific software; it's in what we value, and how we each define assets and liabilities.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Width and Height in CSS In his video “Secret Mechanisms of CSS”, Josh explains (among other things) how width and height...
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In his video “Secret Mechanisms of CSS”, Josh explains (among other things) how width and height work in CSS. I loved his explanation so much, I am going to re-write it here for my own benefit. Hopefully the next time I have to explain it — to someone else, or to myself in my...
A Smart Bear
Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But...
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How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But these guiding questions can help.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
More Everything With AI From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts...
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From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
dthompson
How to apply Hilltop's Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 English patch on Linux Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for...
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Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, which finally makes the Japan exclusive PS2 game accessible to us English speaking folks. The README explains how to apply the patch on Windows or via a web...
charity.wtf
Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not...
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I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if...
Making software...
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
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Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
Marco.org
Overcast summer update Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features. But first, I need to set low...
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Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features. But first, I need to set low expectations for iOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina updates this fall. Halfway through the summer, I’ve made much less progress than expected, having been overwhelmed by the required...
Hixie's Natural Log
Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
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My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
orlp.net - Blog...
Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more... Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small...
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Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random. This “deterministic randomness” is incredibly useful for a variety of purposes, such as hash...
A Beautiful Site
Access pages without the php extension using .htaccess There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight...
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There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight forward.  It allows you to access /any-page.php by simply going to /any-page.  Just place the following into your .htaccess file (and make sure that mod_rewrite is...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Redshift We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google...
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We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google BigQuery , Elastic , and Apache Druid . Most of…
Words and Buttons...
Partial order and non-Boolean logic Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can...
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Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can implement a logic you want within total order or partial order but sometimes even that isn't enough and you need an even more general relation. With operator overloading, you have the...
Maggie Appleton
Fixing Common Git Mistakes Illustrated notes on common mistakes people make in Git, and how to fix them
over a year ago
The Changelog
See The World Through the Eyes of a Child, and You Are Free Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily,...
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Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily, however, have a way of opening their eyes and seeing the wonders and beauties of this world as though seeing them for the first time. – Joseph Wirthlin Today is about dirt. I had to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Kubit Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built...
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a year ago
Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built primarily for engineers. In this article we’ll…
Epic Web Dev
AI Assistants (tutorial)
a year ago
Miguel Carranza
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most...
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There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most of it focused on the CEO role. The generic advice on leadership also applies to other non-CEO roles, but I could not find a lot of content targeted to technical founders. In fact,...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to get in shape with a Raspberry Pi A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used...
a year ago
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a year ago
A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used for a variety of projects. This blog post will discuss some of the reasons why I think every coder should have one!
Joel Gascoigne
Bright & Early Podcast with Brian Rhea I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above,...
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over a year ago
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above, and see more details here.
TokyoDev
個人のブログから利益を生むビジネスへ:TokyoDevのストーリー This article is also available [in...
a year ago
the singularity is...
The Demoralization is just Beginning This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20...
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This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience. I know there was a similar panic about Japan in the 80s, but Japan by population has always been 3x smaller...
Yale E360
Lessons from my first (very bad) on-call experience Near the beginning of my career, I was working for a startup that made database software used by...
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Near the beginning of my career, I was working for a startup that made database software used by other companies in their production infrastructure. The premise was that our super-fast database had a computing framework that would let you do things in real-time that usually took...
David Heinemeier...
DEI is done (minus the mop up) In November of 2022, I wrote about the waning days of DEI's dominance, and enumerated four factors...
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In November of 2022, I wrote about the waning days of DEI's dominance, and enumerated four factors that I saw as primary drivers of this decline. Those waning days have now been brought to a close, and DEI, as an obsessive, ideological preoccupation of the corporate world, is...
Cognitive...
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...
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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...
Kevin Chen
Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022 I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been...
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I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been interesting to me because their hardware limitations drive advances in their software. Relative to other players in the industry: Low-spec sensors require ML- and data-first...
Steve Klabnik
Why is Clojure so stable?
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
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Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach...
Ink & Switch
03 · What's In a Name? Why we've renamed the project
4 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
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This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
A Beautiful Site
How to get faster and better help from support It's tempting to take out your frustrations on the support person answering your email, but don't...
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It's tempting to take out your frustrations on the support person answering your email, but don't send out a message raging about their incompetence. Don't tell them how their product sucks or doesn't work the way you expect it to. Don't TYPE IN ALL CAPS to make sure they...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Know Your Tools > Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
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> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
HTMHell
You don't need JavaScript for that by Kilian Valkhof Hello, my dear friend of RSS! This post contains interactive demos. You may want...
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by Kilian Valkhof Hello, my dear friend of RSS! This post contains interactive demos. You may want to read it on the website. Please don't feel antagonised by the title of this article. I don't hate JavaScript, I love it. I write bucketloads of it every single day. But I also...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding useMemo and useCallback What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of...
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over a year ago
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.
macwright.com
I wish there was a better default for database IDs by Every database ID scheme that I’ve used has had pretty serious downsides, and I wish there was a...
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Every database ID scheme that I’ve used has had pretty serious downsides, and I wish there was a better option. The perfect ID would: Be friendly to distributed systems - multiple servers should be able to generate non-overlapping IDs at the same time. Even clients should be able...
A Smart Bear
Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
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Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
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Observability for Frontend Developers Some thoughts on how frontend developers can also embrace instrumenting their apps for observability
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
[Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine upload I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python...
over a year ago
Alex MacCaw
Pain I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
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I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is: We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2 We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last...
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We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last year. The update has several key improvements, bug fixes, and more API consistency between platforms. And we’ve created all new iOS and Android demo apps to show it off! A web-first...
alexwlchan
Good embedded toots In my previous post, there was a first for this site: I embedded a post from Mastodon. Like many...
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In my previous post, there was a first for this site: I embedded a post from Mastodon. Like many social media services, Mastodon has built-in support for embedding posts. If you’re looking at a public post, you can get a snippet of HTML and JavaScript to show that post in another...
swyx's site RSS Feed
What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to? ---
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moderating AI Conferences I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
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I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Sometimes It Works...
What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that… What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that...
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What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that forced big tech (and others eventually) to come to us for our data instead of just handing it to them on a plate? If we could do that, then we’d stand to benefit the most from it,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Types in JavaScript With Zod and JSDoc There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger...
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There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger projects — as long as somebody more knowledgable than me sets it up and maintains it. When I want type hints in VSCode for smaller, personal projects, I use JSDoc which lets you...
Dan Quach Blog
West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really...
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over a year ago
Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really sure where I get these crazy ideas, but a friend and I booked the West Coast Trail. It is this multi day thru hike in the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is accessible via...
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
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If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
blag
Recurse Center Day 18 Disk Storage II
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.32.0 PostHog 1.32.0 makes it easier to find what you want in the Persons & Groups page, introduces...
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PostHog 1.32.0 makes it easier to find what you want in the Persons & Groups page, introduces vertical funnels and sets the stage for the launch of Experimentation!
HTMHell
Table Like It's 2023 In this article: Hello, Website Builders! A little history What is a table? Who benefits from...
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over a year ago
In this article: Hello, Website Builders! A little history What is a table? Who benefits from tables? What does a table look like? What does a table sound and feel like? (Re)learning tables (1994 - 2022) WCAG levels unlocked When tables get complicated Go forth, and make good...
Eric Bailey
How accessible is your website for the disabled? Consider doing an audit to find out
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
We wash our trash to repent for killing God Denmark is technically and officially still a Christian nation. Lutheranism is written into the...
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Denmark is technically and officially still a Christian nation. Lutheranism is written into the constitution. The government has a ministry for the church. Most Danes pay 1% of their earnings directly to fund the State religion. But God is as dead here as anywhere in the Western...
Making software...
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it's parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
David Crawshaw
2015-12-26 news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/23/electronic-photonic-microprocessor-chip/
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.2 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
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I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.2 release includes a new feature: nsnotify can now send NOTIFY messages from a specific source address Thanks to Adam...
Making software...
Very Basic Form Styling Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I'm borderline obsessed with them. I...
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Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I'm borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I've also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note March 29, 2023: ink track update / thoughts on research direction We want a digital notebook that combines the best of hand-drawn sketching and note-taking with the...
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We want a digital notebook that combines the best of hand-drawn sketching and note-taking with the power of the dynamic computing medium.
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An Annotated Guide to React Server Components React Server Components are a nuanced, sweeping addition to React's existing capabilities. This is...
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Irrational...
High-Context Triad. The past couple weeks I’ve been working on three semi-related articles that I think of as the “High...
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The past couple weeks I’ve been working on three semi-related articles that I think of as the “High Context Triad.” Those are Layers of context, Navigating ambiguity, and Tradeoffs are multi-dimensional. One of my background projects, probably happening in 2025 or 2026 after I’ve...
Maggie Appleton
Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research A walkthrough of how I manage and tend Evergreen notes in Roam
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: deterritorialization
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A Beautiful Site
How to use the PHP ternary operator When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to...
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When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to simplify assignments based on a condition. If you're not sure what the ternary operator is or how it works, you're missing out on a really cool piece of programming...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Building Elm with Stack
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Don Melton
Hot enough for you? For some strange reason I checked the temperature today in Brawley, California, one of the many...
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For some strange reason I checked the temperature today in Brawley, California, one of the many small towns in the Imperial Valley where I grew up. It’s over 110 degrees Fahrenheit there as I write this. With a forecast for 123 degrees later today. The folks in Brawley sure know...
elementary Blog
The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these...
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Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these updates hand-made by real LGBTQIA+ community members from around the world!—and possibly some straight cis folks too. This rainbow of releases includes some important accessibility...
Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 million ARR - July update
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Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++ How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and...
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How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32. One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app. I encountered this in...
Computer Things
What could be added to TLA+ Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of...
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Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of the TLA+ foundation". Lamport released TLA+ in 1999 and shepherded its development for the past 25 years. Transferring ownership of TLA+ to the official foundation has been in the...
The History of the...
Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1 The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log...
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The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web.. The post Expanding Access: The History of...
TokyoDev
The Challenges Faced by Multinational Teams and Japanese Companies It’s a fact that Japan needs more international developers. That doesn’t mean integrating those...
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4 months ago
It’s a fact that Japan needs more international developers. That doesn’t mean integrating those developers into Japanese companies, as well as Japanese society, is a simple process. But what are the most common challenges encountered by these companies with multinational...
Yale E360
Reflecting on 2022, Looking Ahead to 2023 This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals...
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This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals and whatnot for next year. They're cliche, but they're also useful. The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other people can come along and...
ByteofDev
Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023? Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare...
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over a year ago
Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare some of the most popular monorepo tools' performance, ease of use, and more.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Deploying on Netlify with Apple’s Shortcuts Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I...
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11 months ago
Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I host my personal websites on Netlify. I’ve got a few websites that aren’t the traditional model of: commit to git, push, build triggers on Netlify, website goes live. Sometimes I...
James Vaughan's blog
Saving $167,000 on Groceries
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Irrational...
Notes on Technology Strategy Patterns Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy,...
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Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy, with a particular focus on the methods wielded by McKinsey consultants, software engineering mainstays like Thoughtworks, and philosophy. A valuable read for anyone looking to build...
TokyoDev
Entry Level Jobs in Japan *Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...
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*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.* When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....
The Changelog
Remote Directory Tree Comparison, Optionally Asynchronous and Airgapped Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and...
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Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In the previous installment on store-and-forward backups, I mentioned how easy it is to do with ZFS, and some of the tools that can be used to do it without ZFS. A lot of those...
Blog - Bitfield...
How to know when it's time to go Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when it’s time, it’s time....
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Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the next step in your career.
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your personal finances Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your personal...
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Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your personal finances: Credit and debit card security An important part of your personal digital security is making sure your credit and debit cards are secure. In this episode, Liz and Geoffrey take a...
Steve Klabnik
How to squash commits in a GitHub pull request
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Yale E360
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
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People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2024 Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware,...
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Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware, and congratulations to marcan for nailing it. Ping me if you want a prize!
Maggie Appleton
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content
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Joel Gascoigne's...
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the...
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
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Nobody Profits Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and...
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Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA Except it isn’t and Joe Biden is a senile moron....
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Find programming work by increasing luck surface area Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote...
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Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote a response centered around increasing luck surface area. This essay expands on it because I’ve seen this a few times now: good developers asking how to find work while botching...
Julia Evans
Some blogging myths A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides) about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was...
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A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides) about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was chatting with a friend about blogging the other day and it made me want to write up that talk as a blog post. here are the myths: myth: you need to be original myth: you need to...
Max Countryman
Is Deno Ready for Primetime? Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin...
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Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin TypeScript and a support for existing Node modules. However when it comes to using it in a real application, does it live up to its promises?
The Pragmatic...
Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The...
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I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The most popular are Cloudflare, Namecheap and Porkbun. Why do devs like them?
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A writer's Ruby Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the...
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a year ago
Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the stereotype of nerds in uncoordinated outfits or using pocket protectors. But style in the broad sense of aesthetics. Many appear imbued with fundamental opposition to the idea that how...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I prefer JS for front-end build automation Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers,...
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Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers, measure bundle size, and what not. npm scripts are fine for one-liners, but as the workflows grow more complex — run these things in parallel, then do something else, but only if...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older...
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Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server. It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Minor version bump I got a title change today. I’m now a Senior Designer. What’s worth noting is that this is the first...
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over a year ago
I got a title change today. I’m now a Senior Designer. What’s worth noting is that this is the first place I’ve worked that has given me a title change. I’ve been in the industry for 12 years. Titles are really important if you’re a member of a minoritized group. This is to say...
David Heinemeier...
The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
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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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In-depth: PostHog vs Pendo Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables...
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Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables users to add in tool-tips and in-app messages. It…
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Feedback Ladders A post for the Netlify blog on how we did Code Reviews during my recent product rotation.
over a year ago
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
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Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
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When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
Blog - Bitfield...
Writing terrible code The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going...
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The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going somewhere with this.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor) How AI beat me at code optimization game. When I started writing this article I did not...
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How AI beat me at code optimization game. When I started writing this article I did not expect AI to beat me at optimizing JavaScript code. But it did. I’m really passionate about optimizing JavaScript. Some say it’s a mental illness but I like my code to go balls to...
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust error handling: Option & Result The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our...
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The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our Rust programs? Let’s introduce two of every Rust programmer’s favourite types: Option and Result.
David Crawshaw
BBR queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
over a year ago
Making software...
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about...
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It's a very good article overall, and I suggest...
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5 Things I Learned from The DynamoDB Book Reviewing Alex DeBrie's new the DynamoDB Book
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
Thomas Aquinas — The world is divine! A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas. Amid...
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A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas. Amid the turmoil of life, riddled with wickedness and pain, he would insist that our world is good.  And all our success is built on this belief. Note: Before we start, let’s get one...
Josh Comeau's blog
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...
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over a year ago
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.
Seán Barry
Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
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The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are...
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Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are as similar as grapes and grapefruit. ClickHouse…
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Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
over a year ago
beep.blog
Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? John Gruber asks and answers: Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? I say...
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John Gruber asks and answers: Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? I say no. But it feels a bit skeevy, and more than a little curious, that they choose to. Is it outrageous? My gut said yes. It's outrageous that Apple would change their
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Simply explained: Where do programming languages come from? Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the...
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Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the plane to the game consoles. They can do so many things, but how do we tell them what to do? This involves programming, and people writing the program in specific languages made to...
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 01 · Welcome to the Keyhive An introduction to the Keyhive project
10 months ago
The Changelog
Flying Joy Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a...
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Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too! Moments like this make me smile at being a pilot dad. A week ago, I also got to give 8 children and one adult their first ever ride …...
Paolo Amoroso's...
A brief experience with the Cardputer uLisp Machine <![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack...
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<![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack Cardputer that can run uLisp. The M5Stack Cardputer is a card-sized, microcontroller-based portable system for home automation, hobby, and industrial applications. Although not...
Eric Bailey
An introduction to macOS Head Pointer
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
Immanuel Kant—What can we know? If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there...
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If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple question: “What can we know?“ And his answer is foundational to how we experience and...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1 AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this...
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5 months ago
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interfaces.  The terminology...
Josh Comeau's blog
Local Testing on an iPhone Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may...
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over a year ago
Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may not be the most exciting topic I've written about, but it's probably one of the most useful!
Alex Meub
My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out,...
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over a year ago
I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created. Finding Campsites My wife...
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How To Name Things > There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
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over a year ago
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
A Beautiful Site
What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website? Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...
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Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
Making software...
Yes, I Still Use jQuery Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
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over a year ago
Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of jQuery (3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
Vadim Kravcenko
Stand Out and Dare to Disagree Question: Answer: The post Stand Out and Dare to Disagree appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Devise: ActionController::RoutingError (No Route Matches [GET] /users/sign_out)
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Yale E360
Starting a New Chapter At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last...
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over a year ago
At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last week at CrossChx, and then I begin splitting my time between contract work and developing some of my own ideas. I only spent about three quarters of a year at CrossChx, but in that...
David Heinemeier...
Gender and Sexuality Alliances in primary school at CIS?! The Copenhagen International School is a wonderful private school located in the North Harbor of the...
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The Copenhagen International School is a wonderful private school located in the North Harbor of the city. It's home to over 900 students from around the world. This is where ambassadors, international executives, and other expats send their kids to get a great education in...
Dan Slimmon
Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
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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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"How come your website is so nice?" I've been asked this three times today, so I thought I'd explain it from a founder's perspective....
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I've been asked this three times today, so I thought I'd explain it from a founder's perspective. This is what I've learned so far. Figure out if…
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding window clearing and message printing to DandeGUI <![CDATA[I continued working on DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm writing in Common...
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<![CDATA[I continued working on DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm writing in Common Lisp. I added two new short public functions, GUI:CLEAR-WINDOW and GUI:PRINT-MESSAGE, and fixed a bug in some internal code. GUI:CLEAR-WINDOW deletes the text of the window...
Making software...
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks 2020-12-08 I recently published a new open source...
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over a year ago
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks 2020-12-08 I recently published a new open source project, Flexbox Bar Graphs, and wanted to share a simple breakdown of how it was built. It isn't anything mind-blowing, but I like the idea of placing bar graphs in a web page...
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September 11th from Singapore just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
ONCE #1 is entirely #nobuild for the front-end The dream has come true. It’s now possible to build fast, modern web applications without...
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a year ago
The dream has come true. It’s now possible to build fast, modern web applications without transpiling or bundling either JavaScript or CSS. I’ve been working towards this personal nirvana ever since we begrudgingly started transpiling and bundling assets in the late 2000s....
Patrick Kayongo
Substack vs Africa The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
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The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
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Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
The case for adding validation state to your design tokens .verbal-token { border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-radius: 0.5rem; ...
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over a year ago
.verbal-token { border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-radius: 0.5rem; padding: 0.15rem 0.5rem; } Naming things is hard. One way to go about naming things is via topology, the practice of classifying things by way of their visual characteristics. It is...
The Changelog
Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the...
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Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the censorship was algorithmic or human, it was intentional either way. Details in my new post. Last November, I made a brief post to Facebook about Mastodon. Mastodon is an open-source and...
Julia Evans
Some tactics for writing in public Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such...
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a year ago
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such assholes!” I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years,...
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Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Dune 2 the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
a year ago
TokyoDev
Paid Leave and Vacations in Japan Japan has a reputation for being a country of overworked people who never take holidays. While this...
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Japan has a reputation for being a country of overworked people who never take holidays. While this has been true in the past, the government has been trying to incentivize people to take more vacations and enjoy better work-life balance. Some challenges remain from a cultural...
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Language Servers are the New Frameworks Developer Experience is shifting left, all the way to onKeyUp.
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Dwell and the Tools for Thought Hackathon I worked on a little hackathon project at AGI House with Sasha. We won!
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After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL doesn’t match the order in which they are displayed on screen. Why’s this happening? I have a bunch of links in my HTML document,...
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Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my qp-trie code in BIND. I have now got it working with a refactored qp-trie that has been changed to support asynchronous memory reclamation - working to the point where I can run some benchmarks to compare the...
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How PostHog uses Wren to offset carbon emissions during offsites Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team...
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The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
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For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story on migrating a huge database from Linux to Windows with no downtime. Check it out. TL;DR: we spawned a Linux version of SQL Server and moved the database using "log-shipping"....
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The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up. Inbox by Gmail is no exception. Inbox has a concept of "speed dial" - an algorithmically determined set of "frequent" contacts that appears when hovering over the compose button: In...
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If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide. We wrote this article just to make sure you're not missing out on any feature that helps you manage your website more effectively. Navigating the CMS
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It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from having to see an arrow chain. As the docs go: useCallback((e) => onChange(id, e.target.value), [onChange, id]); // is equivalent to useMemo(() => (e) => onChange(id,...
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In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that quickly became a classic in the field. Epistemologists going back to the Greeks had debated what it meant to know something, and in the Enlightenment, a definition was settled upon:...
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With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not 30 seconds later, this fella showed up.
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Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an embarrassingly big grin - after all, I had just experienced Hamilton. Like many others, I'd listened to the soundtrack many times before even acquiring tickets to the musical, and I'd...
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«««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them for controlling lighting and fans. I thought it would be cool to control my Wemo plugs using a physical button (in addition to my phone). In many situations, a button is faster than...
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
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The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers. That is just mind boggling scale to me. It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in. They are paying a lot of engineers. Some of them do very...
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There is a tweet from a suspended Twitter user that shows a “ham biscuit sign” in its dark and lit-up state. Here’s a screenshot of it: Reddit. The sign is used to indicate if that particular McDonald’s had Country Ham Biscuits left in stock. Presumably, they’re a popular...
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A user interface is like a joke When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good...
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When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good rule of thumb: A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good. And I've heard some websites tell pretty bad jokes...
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Neovim is by far my favorite text editor. The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming. In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment. Today, I will show you how to use...
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Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
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Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript....
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In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript. Sometimes, you'd write the same code in two or three different ways to support various browsers. Code such as that shown below allowed webpages to work in browsers like Netscape...
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When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required computer class. Our teacher did not once call this programming; it was just another project among ones that usually weren't programming. I generalized almost every exercise - something...
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Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I've come to terms with it. It's fine. It'll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
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As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
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Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin...
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BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin transactions per day](https://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions), I was flabbergasted: **there are only about 60,000 transactions per day.** I graphed the number relative to [the...
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Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories? Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git...
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Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git (commits! branches! remotes! the staging area!) and commits have been surprisingly tricky. Understanding how git commits are implemented feels pretty straightforward to me (those are...
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TLA+ Workshop Feb 12th. I've decided to reduce the class size from 20 to 15, so there's only a couple of slots left! I'll be making a little less money this way but it should lead to a better teaching experience for the attendees. Use the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT for $100...
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Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
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GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries My mistakes and insights on GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries.
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Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266 Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s...
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Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s pretty cool to order pizza, turn on a light, send a tweet, or even run a custom script at the press of a physical button. But I recently tried to use one of my dash buttons and couldn’t...
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The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the fourth watch of the night. The blue radiance of the moon and the stars fill in for the lights darkened by stage 5 loadshedding. As the nighttime creatures prepare for their...
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How to change custom domain on Substack Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
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Insights and questions from the original waterfall paper The waterfall model is probably the most reviled methodology in software engineering. This...
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The waterfall model is probably the most reviled methodology in software engineering. This methodology was first described in a 1970 paper by Dr. Winston Royce. This paper didn't call it waterfall, nor did it endorse the technique, and the paper contains a lot of good insights...
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Making engineering strategies more readable As discussed in Components of engineering strategy, a complete engineering strategy has five...
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As discussed in Components of engineering strategy, a complete engineering strategy has five components: explore, diagnose, refine (map & model), policy, and operation. However, it’s actually quite challenging to read a strategy document written that way. That’s an effective...
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I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote a couple of blog posts back in 2014 describing my experiments. My initial source of inspiration was Elm, the Haskell-like language for the web that once had FRP as a core part of...
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A script to get Live Text from images One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an...
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One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an optical character recognition tool that lets you select text in images. This sort of tech has been around for decades, but having it built into the OS makes it much easier to use. The...
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One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
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Questionable Advice: “People Used To Take Me Seriously. Then I Became A Software Vendor” I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a...
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I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a conversation we had several years ago: “Hey, I’ve got a question for you. A long time ago I remember you talking about what an adjustment it was becoming a vendor, how all of a sudden...
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Running Docker without Docker Desktop Docker is great. Docker Desktop sucks. Here's my fix.
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Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS 2019-06-11 Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a...
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Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS 2019-06-11 Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous post about how changing the display properties on tables can impact screen readers. I highly recommend his excellent article Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA I find...
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Array 1.20.0 We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
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We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
elementary Blog
A Little Bit Now, A Lotta Bit Later In mid-March we released a big bug fix update—elementary OS 8.0.1—and since then we’ve been hard at...
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In mid-March we released a big bug fix update—elementary OS 8.0.1—and since then we’ve been hard at work on even more bug fixes and some new exciting features that I’m excited to share with you today! Read ahead to find out what we’ve released recently and what you can help us...
David Heinemeier...
Open source royalty and mad kings I'm solidly in favor of the Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) model of open source stewardship....
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I'm solidly in favor of the Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) model of open source stewardship. This is how projects from Linux to Python, from Laravel to Ruby, and yes, Rails, have kept their cohesion, decisiveness, and forward motion. It's a model with decades worth of...
Ink & Switch
06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
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Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Stealth Airplanes & Best Practices I recently finished reading (actually listening to as it was an audiobook) Skunk Works: A Personal...
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a year ago
I recently finished reading (actually listening to as it was an audiobook) Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben Rich. tldr; I quite enjoyed the (audio)book. It’s a fascinating look at how a collective group of people can find innovative solutions at the...
TokyoDev
All code is technical debt Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward...
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Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.0.9 We’re in the thick of our release schedule this week! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update ...
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We’re in the thick of our release schedule this week! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features…
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving scale by doing things that don&#x27;t scale * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Over the past...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Over the past few years of my journey with building startups, I’ve made a conscious effort to absorb as much of the fascinating insights and learnings of those more experienced than me. Startups...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL The post Happy New Year: solving...
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Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL The post Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Advanced Promises Coordination: Serialization and Concurrency Limiting I'm sure you can chain promises with doBefore().then(() => doAfter()) and even run multiple promises...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm sure you can chain promises with doBefore().then(() => doAfter()) and even run multiple promises in parallel using Promise.any. However, chaining an unknown count of homogenous promises is trickier. Let me teach you to serialze promises like a pro! Suppose we want a list of...
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5
6 months ago
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Memento Vivere Remember what life can do.
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
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Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
David Crawshaw
Everyone a writer "The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a...
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"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! For everyone is pained by the thought of...
David Heinemeier...
Is greed really seasonal? As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing...
a year ago
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a year ago
As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing their jobs after all, so that must mean someone is acting malevolent, dammit. This is when the age old accusation of greed is trotted out. Companies are only laying off people now...
TokyoDev
TokyoDev supports the legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect people I care about. So when I saw Business for Marriage Equality, a campaign that highlights 500+ companies and organizations that support legalization of same-sex marriage, I...
Steve Klabnik
Learning Ada
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser...
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over a year ago
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser session. Since I’m using Svelte, having it available as a store makes sense. This article describes how to implement a Svelte store whose values are persisted in IndexedDB. What is...
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly June
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Grateful: Colors in console.log() So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values. I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50%...
David Heinemeier...
Capture less than you create I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore,...
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I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore, Doximity, Coinbase, and others claim billion-dollar valuations from work done with Rails. It's beyond satisfying to see this much value created with a web framework I've spent the...
TokyoDev
Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from...
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Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from Tokyo by Shinkansen. The elevation is approximately 1000 meters above sea level, making the summers relatively mild. Unlike other colder places in Japan, it doesn’t get much snow,...
On Life and Lisp
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
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over a year ago
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
bt RSS Feed
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby My...
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
HTMHell
Swallowing camels by Ida Franceen I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Ida Franceen I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been experimenting with different kinds of markup to get it to read better, like injecting spans to force it to make proper pauses… Reflecting on my tendency to obsess over small, but maybe not...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't write Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most...
a year ago
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a year ago
Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most people. We don’t need more good quality, niche, carefully crafted content. So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, a Substack, a Twitter account or something similar, please know...
Dan Slimmon
The World Record for Loneliness What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
a year ago
Liz Denys
ZRH Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
The practical application of "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand" You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of...
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over a year ago
You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of actually doing it. It’s not just about how big tasks are, but about using different frameworks to prioritize each, and following certain guidelines about how to construct sprints.
Joel Gascoigne
The evolution of culture at a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s now 2 years...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s now 2 years since I launched Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and the company has grown from just myself (working from my bedroom) to a team of 7. In the last few months, I’ve been thinking a...
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2022 I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping detailed records. I don’t set reading goals, but I’m pleased with that. Nearly a third of those books came from my local library; both books I knew I already wanted to read, and books...
Computer Things
Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+ You're walking down the street and need to pass someone going the opposite way. You take a step...
a month ago
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a month ago
You're walking down the street and need to pass someone going the opposite way. You take a step left, but they're thinking the same thing and take a step to their right, aka your left. You're still blocking each other. Then you take a step to the right, and they take a step to...
Liz Denys
Sea strands V60-style coffee cone, 2024 Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
a year ago
Irrational...
A brief rant on converging compliance regimes. Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has touched on reconciling between product and compliance goals, and over that time I’ve developed something of a pet theory on the evolution of compliance over the next five to ten years:...
TokyoDev
Don't Start With a Prototype for Your MVP Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable product](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-product-guide.html) as > that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort As a...
wingolog
tracepoints: gnarly but worth it Hey all, quick post today to mention that I added tracing support to the . If the support library...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Hey all, quick post today to mention that I added tracing support to the . If the support library for is available when Whippet is compiled, Whippet embedders can visualize the GC process. Like this!Whippet GC libraryLTTng Click above for a full-scale screenshot of the trace...
ntietz.com blog -...
Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps) My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers1 ask me...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers1 ask me about it, and everyone else ignores me. These effects are not undesirable, but further testing is required. The main reason I have such an unusual setup, though, is more...
bt RSS Feed
Happily Paying For macOS Apps Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
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over a year ago
Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS1 systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
blag
Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Restic Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local...
a year ago
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a year ago
Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local and remote options. It is well documented, easy to set up, secure, and quite fast. It’s a very professional product. I am now backing up all my Linux systems with it. Note it’s a...
The Codist
I Am Not Betty, And I Can't Do Anything About It At some point around 2016, a person named Betty, in the town I used to live in, gave my phone number...
a year ago
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a year ago
At some point around 2016, a person named Betty, in the town I used to live in, gave my phone number to someone (either by accident or a random number), and it became associated with her name and address. Her home sits atop a giant gas field, and she gets
TokyoDev
Working with Tech Recruiters in Japan **Recruiters, Consultants, Career Advisors, Headhunters.** I've heard so many names from...
a year ago
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a year ago
**Recruiters, Consultants, Career Advisors, Headhunters.** I've heard so many names from different people that I've talked to, but all in all, the bulk of the work is the same -- they receive information on what kind of employee a client wants to hire, and start looking for...
ByteofDev
Building the fastest object and array differ How I built Microdiff and how it is faster than most other object and array diffing libraries
over a year ago
alexwlchan
It’s cool to care I’m sitting in a small coffee shop in Brooklyn. I have a warm drink, and it’s just started to snow...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I’m sitting in a small coffee shop in Brooklyn. I have a warm drink, and it’s just started to snow outside. I’m visiting New York to see Operation Mincemeat on Broadway – I was at the dress rehearsal yesterday, and I’ll be at the opening preview tonight. I’ve seen this show more...
ntietz.com blog -...
Reflecting on 2024, preparing for 2025 If you do things a few times, they're a tradition. This is the third time I'm writing one of these,...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
If you do things a few times, they're a tradition. This is the third time I'm writing one of these, so I guess it's an annual tradition now! This is where I reflect on the year that's been, and talk some about my hopes and goals for the next year. Reflecting on 2024 This year has...