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The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst....
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Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
A Smart Bear
You can have two Big Things, but not three No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
a year ago
TokyoDev
LinkedIn’s Broken Automation Took Down My Company’s Page Without Warning TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow...
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4 months ago
TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow their careers in Japan. Given our focus, it’s not surprising that LinkedIn is the social network that delivers us the most traffic. Typically, about 4% of our total visitors arrive...
Joel Gascoigne
Why context is so important * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve had a few...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve had a few different experiences in the last couple of weeks which made me reach a big realisation. What I’ve discovered is that the context of any situation is very important. Hiten Shah...
Epic Web Dev
Fully Typed Web Apps The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to...
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The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries.
Hixie's Natural Log
Indexing into a string I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into...
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I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into an integer type.
Tony Finch's blog
inlined nearly divisionless random numbers a blog post for international RNG day Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm unbiased bounded...
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a blog post for international RNG day Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm unbiased bounded random numbers has a fast path and a slow path. In the fast path it gets a random number, does a multiplication, and a comparison. In the rarely-taken slow path, it calculates a...
Josh Collinsworth
A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress" I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer...
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I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda.
The Codist
My Art And Color-After Tiling I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged...
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I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged randomly and contain everything appearing in the final image. What I do differently is to separate the layout of tiles from colorizing the image. I call this technique...
wingolog
fedi is for losers Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in...
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3 months ago
Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in common. We all left Twitter, or refused to join in the first place. Many of us are technologists or tech-adjacent, but generally not startuppy. There is a pervasive do-it-yourself...
Posts on Nikita...
Writing JIT Compiler on the Plane Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to...
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Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to me. You write the code in some language and then it spits out bitcode that a small crystall inside your computer understands. Some databases ship with a specialized compiler inside...
Words and Buttons...
[e-book] So You Think You Know C? And TenMore Short Essays on Programming Languages Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most...
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Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most productive way to create software. The journey, however, has taught me a few things so it was not a complete waste of time either. This book is a reflection of these lessons. It...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites This post from Dan Luu discussing how web bloat impacts users with slow devices caused me to reflect...
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This post from Dan Luu discussing how web bloat impacts users with slow devices caused me to reflect on the supposition that faster connectivity means faster websites. I grew up in an era when slow internet was the primary limiting factor to a great experience on the web. I was...
Vadim Kravcenko
Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior...
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These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior developers. To […] The post Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Liz Denys
Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I...
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Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I would absolutely dread the 15 minutes every hour that I couldn't stay in the pool known as adult swim - until I headed over to the pool's snack shop and grabbed a...
Liz Denys
Save Congestion Pricing! Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of...
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Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of congestion pricing on June 30. Your voice is urgently needed to stand up for a funded MTA with increased accessibility, a healthy planet, and good government in New York. Stop a $15...
Liz Denys
The underappreciated men's rights activist as a character background As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights...
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As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights movement looks to be about getting equal rights with respect to things like adoptions and custody disputes, but actually, the movement is primarily a coordinated attack on women....
ntietz.com blog
Profiling Rust programs the easy way Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
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Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need. So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that? Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
5 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why? If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at...
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If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at some point you have to figure out if it does or not. This is where load testing comes in: if you want to see whether or not your application can handle scale, just generate scale...
Vadim Kravcenko
Do some people just not have the talent for Software Engineering? Dear Friend, Your openness in sharing your experiences and concerns resonates deeply with me. I...
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Dear Friend, Your openness in sharing your experiences and concerns resonates deeply with me. I understand how you feel. I […] The post Do some people just not have the talent for Software Engineering? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
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If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
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It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
Dan Slimmon
Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As...
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When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As long as we’re creating standards for incidents, let’s track Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) and Mean-Time-To-Detection (MTTD) and Mean-time-Between-Failures (MTBF)!” they say things...
Blog - Bitfield...
Master of my domain Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more...
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Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
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...
Irrational...
Using systems modeling to refine strategy. While I was probably late to learn the concept of strategy testing, I might have learned about...
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While I was probably late to learn the concept of strategy testing, I might have learned about systems modeling too early in my career, stumbling on Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primer before I began my career in software. Over the years, I’ve discovered a number of...
bt RSS Feed
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of...
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
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Write My Code For Me _My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a...
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_My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a gist](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/6f97b9d7f3efbfad4c8e5b8a14b5bd27)_
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
orlp.net - Blog...
Branchless Lomuto Partitioning A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a...
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A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a predicate) which indicates if an element should be in the first, or second partition. Then it returns two arrays, the two partitions: def partition(v, pred): first = [x for x in v...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSC, Localfirst, and Coordination Between Multiple Computers Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which...
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Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which gives the conceptual background around how the team came up with the idea for React Server Components (RSC)[1]. I found the talk intriguing. It’s like watching someone take something...
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
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We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
bt RSS Feed
Animated Card Tiles Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using “cards” or “tiles” to display interactive...
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Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using “cards” or “tiles” to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let’s build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS. What we will be building (live...
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This is the...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This is the second article in my achieving overnight success [https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
Ralph Ammer
David Hume — Why we change our mind How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole...
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How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole grains, or even go fully vegan—only to return to a low-carb diet yet again. We constantly change our minds. Even scientists keep revising their perspectives. Why is it so difficult...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Is Making Websites Hard, Or Do We Make It Hard? Or Is It Some of Both? Johan Halse has a post called “Care” where he talks about having to provide web tech support to his...
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Johan Halse has a post called “Care” where he talks about having to provide web tech support to his parents: My father called me in exasperation last night after trying and failing to book a plane ticket. I find myself having to go over to their house and do things like switch...
A Beautiful Site
External popup links using jQuery With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has...
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With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
TokyoDev
Heroku + Travis CI: Tokyo Rubyist Meetup Report While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist...
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While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp), thanks to all the great people who attended, we were able to turn it into a lively event. Anchoring the night were presentations about...
The Changelog
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
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Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
alexwlchan
Plates and states I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I...
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I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to. Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
Oxide Computer...
How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that...
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Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that percentage will likely rise to 3-4% by the end of the decade. According to Goldman Sachs research, that rise will include a doubling in data center carbon dioxide emissions. As the...
David Heinemeier...
Where next for DEI? It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural...
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It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural world from 2020-2022, the reversal last year was astounding. The Supreme Court ruled the use of race in college admissions illegal, Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracst Research center fell...
Tony Finch's blog
Slower DNS name decompression In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this...
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In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this diagram so that we do less of it: names < pointers < labels < bytes Last week I had a bright idea about that leftmost step, moving per-pointer work to per-name, using some...
Dan Slimmon
No Observability Without Theory: The Talk Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
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Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
blag
When is my Cake Day? Using praw and prawoauth2 to find when is my cake day on Reddit.
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...
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This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and over-specification, direct and iterative solvers. The guide should give you enough knowledge to find a proper solution for your task but not enough to implement one efficiently yourself.
bt RSS Feed
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
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The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
Julia Evans
Terminal colours are tricky Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was...
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Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what problems they’ve run into with colours in the...
David Heinemeier...
You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
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When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
Steve Klabnik
Hope
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Letters of Note
Better Letters of Note Dear all, It gives me untold amounts of pleasure to announce that the Letters of Note website has...
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Dear all, It gives me untold amounts of pleasure to announce that the Letters of Note website has been given its first facelift since I naively launched it in 2009 using a bog-standard Blogger template. I would like to thank, profusely but from a very safe distance, the patient...
alexwlchan
The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser &rarr; As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to...
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As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to parse Flickr URLs. For example: $ flickr_url_parser 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727552068/' {"type": "single_photo", "photo_id": "4727552068"} This started...
Computer Things
Be Suspicious of Success From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems: You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not...
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From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems: You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not find a violation of a liveness property... you should also be suspicious if [it] finds no errors when checking safety properties. This is specifically in the context of...
ntietz.com blog
I'm scared, and hopeful, and you can help Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and...
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Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and I'm excited to meet all my coworkers in person. The travel is, on whole, going to be a good experience. But there is a lot surrounding the travel that is stressful and scary. I'm...
Dan Slimmon
Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent...
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In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent building things. So we never forget to interview for skills at building stuff. Sometimes we ask candidates to write code on the fly. Other times we ask them to whiteboard out a sensible...
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Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
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Blog - Bitfield...
If you need the money, don't take the job Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're...
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Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
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2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Do forgettable work There was a great post about doing unforgettable work. Absolutely. Go above and beyond. Do what’s...
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There was a great post about doing unforgettable work. Absolutely. Go above and beyond. Do what’s right. But also, do forgettable work. Work that you won’t remember the following week. Do a lot of it. In fact, do at least 30 minutes of utterly forgettable work on something you’re...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
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Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
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Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
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About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
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!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
David Heinemeier...
Apple actually lost a court case for once, but they refuse to comply in good faith Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app...
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Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app developers the right to link to their own websites. And it seems like Apple had been preparing for this outcome, because immediately thereafter, Apple revealed an elaborate bad-faith...
blag
Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep? My answer to a question online, why?
6 months ago
alexwlchan
Adding locations to my photos from my Apple Watch workouts A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest...
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A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest Slovenia. It’s a very photogenic landscape, so I was taking some pictures with my “nice” camera. It’s an Olympus that takes better photos than my iPhone, but it’s quite old and it doesn’t have...
David Heinemeier...
Villains may live long enough to become heroes The first tech company I ever really despised was Microsoft. This was back in the 1990s, the era of...
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The first tech company I ever really despised was Microsoft. This was back in the 1990s, the era of "cutting off the air supply", of embrace-extend-extinguish, of open source as a "cancer", and of Bill Gates before he sought reputational refugee in philanthropy. What made the...
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Sept 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Speeding up PostHog builds with Depot PostHog recently swapped out Docker for Depot in their container image builds within GitHub Actions....
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PostHog recently swapped out Docker for Depot in their container image builds within GitHub Actions. The results are outstanding, taking the average…
Copper • A blog...
Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of...
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You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels. You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision. Closing the lid is not an option because you...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The chatbot creator Back in the day my mother created and ran a math tutoring service for underserved communities in...
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Back in the day my mother created and ran a math tutoring service for underserved communities in South Africa called Dr Math. It was serving tens of thousands of students until bureaucracy shut the project down. I decided to rekindle it using GPT4 as a socratic tutor and WhatsApp...
the singularity is...
High Trust Society I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think...
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I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think this gets fixed? Is Kamala going to restore trust in government? Is Trump going to restore trust in government? Despite what Western media might have you believe about how the...
ntietz.com blog
Using search as a primary datastore since the docs said not to Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do...
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Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do it. So when I saw that the Typesense docs say not to use it as a primary datastore? Well well well, that's what we'll have to do. I spent a little bit of time figuring out what a...
bt RSS Feed
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community....
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How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
The Pragmatic...
Is the strategy of joining late-stage startups for the financial upside, a dead end? The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO...
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The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO company issuing generous equity, then wait for the IPO. This strategy seems to be less profitable in 2022.
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and...
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Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won’t go into the post’s specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
Alice GG
How to solve it (with raycasting) In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math...
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In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math teachers guide their students into solving abstract problems by asking the right questions. It has since had a large influence on math education and computer science, to the point of...
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Modern CSS patterns in Campfire Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live...
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Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live walk through the app’s CSS code. Campfire was built with vanilla CSS, fully #nobuild without compiling or preprocessors, and uses the latest web platform features available in...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website” The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities...
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The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. But...
Joel Gascoigne
The Yin and Yang of a great co-founder relationship * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve always...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve always found it interesting to think about co-founder relationships. I’ve been in a few myself, some which were not completely successful and then more recently working with Leo for the last...
Liz Denys
Impostor syndrome, an ancient arcane magic Dealing with impostor syndrome isn't fun, but playing Dungeons & Dragons is! Here's a quick little...
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Dealing with impostor syndrome isn't fun, but playing Dungeons & Dragons is! Here's a quick little 5e spell combining the two: Impostor syndrome 5th-level enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You create an...
macwright.com
Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases by I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s...
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I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s not good for every problem, I think React is a good solution to many problems. I think the React team has good intentions. Even though React is not a solution to everything, it a...
A Smart Bear
Building in public forces true competitive advantage “Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it...
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“Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it creates a self-imposed accountability. But doesn’t it ruin competitive advantage when your competitors can steal your source code and know the salaries of your employees and whether...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Immeasurable Impact Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way...
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Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way to measure impact is breadth (i.e. virality): Virality is all about breadth of impact: your content reaching as many people as possible as fast as possible. This feels great and is...
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts...
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I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories. I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
Josh Comeau's blog
Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back! The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations,...
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The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations, and spacer GIFs. In this article, we'll see how I use a Spacer component to solve common layout problems, and why it's often a great tool for the job in the modern web.
Tinloof - Blog
How to integrate Fathom Analytics into your Remix App When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your...
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When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your website visitors in order to enhance their experience. In this guide, we will go over the steps of integrating Fathom Analytics into a Remix application. Creating a site in Fathom...
Don Melton
A metastasis in America America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange...
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America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange tumor in the White House next week will not be enough to affect a cure. The malignancy has spread. It didn’t even start with the presidency. We’ve been brewing and self-dosing a...
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Spark: live reloading for Rails applications Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications. Reloading the...
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Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications. Reloading the browser automatically on source changes is a problem that has been well-solved for a long time. Here, we wanted to put an accent on smoothness. If the reload operation is very...
macwright.com
You can finally use :has() in most places by The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the...
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The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places. For example, in Val...
Acko.net
Fuck It, We'll Do It Live How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time...
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How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time internals are implemented, which drive Use.GPU. Some pre-existing React and FP effect knowledge is useful. I have written about Live before, but in general terms. You may therefor have...
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Pensieve: 10 Mar 2024 - Band of Brothers Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum...
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Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum call where we made some concessions. I wish he were better able to take things off my hands but also I need to step up
Liz Denys
xoxo You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces...
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You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces into moments and memories and bonds to hold onto beyond those polygons, yellow, orange, and red.
A Beautiful Site
Find a name for almost any hex color Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your...
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Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your Less/Sass variables something like gray, light gray, lighter gray, etc. Here's a tool that will give you more reasonable names for all those colors. Name that Color lets you enter a hex...
Steve Klabnik
A eulogy for my 20s
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Irrational...
Drafted Eng Executive's Primer! Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s...
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Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer, with O’Reilly. I wanted to share a few notes on progress! First, there’s a cover, shown above in this post’s image, and also in the right rail (or bottom footer if you’re reading...
alexwlchan
The Star-Spangled Ballad In an hour or so, Hannah Waddingham will take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and present this...
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In an hour or so, Hannah Waddingham will take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and present this year’s Olivier Awards. I won’t be there, but a number of dear friends are in the audience, and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for Operation Mincemeat – a musical with which we...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono February Update Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is...
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Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is very much appreciated. Here is a quick update on the progress: Website - Berkeleygraphics.com It is already up: https://berkeleygraphics.com but does not have the Berkeley Mono pages...
Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
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Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
David Heinemeier...
Jaguar is lost but Volvo knows the way Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as...
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Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as the diversity pandering is dated. CREATE EXUBERANT. LIVE VIVID. DELETE ORDINARY. You'd think these were slogans from a Will Ferrel bit about insufferable marketing trons, but nope,...
Alex Meub
Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right...
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Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right click on the My Computer icon > Click Properties > Click on the Remote tab Check the box that says “Allow Users to Connect Remotely to this Computer” Add your username to the list of...
A Beautiful Site
The Term "Headless Component" is a Misnomer You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid,...
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You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid, accessible components without any styles. A clean slate to style from scratch! But the structure (bones) and logic (head) are there. You're mostly adding styles. They should be called...
Basta’s Notes
Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
a year ago
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....
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Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
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As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired. A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
TokyoDev
Writing Developer Job Postings When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a...
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When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a developer hears about your company. Despite the posting being the first step in the hiring flow, companies put little effort into them, often having it be little more than a list of...
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
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There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […] The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Quentin Santos
Linux Pipes are Slow Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have...
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Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have included errata, but the results might not be reliable, so take this with pinch of salt! vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster...
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How we found our Ideal Customer Profile Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog....
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Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog. You can see it in our revenue growth: I wish we…
Kagi Blog
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
a year ago
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Painting of Russet Lake Summer in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, is a breathtaking experience, where the...
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Summer in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, is a breathtaking experience, where the natural world is alive with vibrant colours and serene beauty. One of the most stunning scenes unfolds at Russet Lake, where the iconic Fissile Mountain is mirrored perfectly in the...
David Heinemeier...
Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the...
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Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for...
TokyoDev
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
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My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
A Beautiful Site
Working with HTML5 data attributes Before HTML5, working with arbitrary data sucked. To keep things valid, you had to stuff things into...
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Before HTML5, working with arbitrary data sucked. To keep things valid, you had to stuff things into rel or class attributes. Some developers even created their own custom attributes. Boy, was it a mess. But that all changed with the introduction of HTML5 custom data attributes....
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How I Approach First Principles Thinking An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on...
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A Smart Bear
How much of success is luck? "You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours,...
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"You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours, perseverance. So… is it lucky?
Liz Denys
On the Fearless Girl, what constitutes art, authorial intent, and the patriarchy A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with...
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A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with Charging Bull statue in Manhattan's Financial District: Moody Man's photo of Fearless Girl Anthony Quintano's photo of Fearless Girl facing Charging Bull But she wasn't...
Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
over a year ago
macwright.com
Placemark is now open source Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions...
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Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions welcome Placemark is the map editor software-as-a-service that I built for several years. It’s a website where you can import, create, edit, export, publish, and visualize geospatial data. I’m...
TokyoDev
Don't Start With a Prototype for Your MVP Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable...
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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...
Tony Finch's blog
RIPE DNS Hackathon This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the RIPE DNS Hackathon. About 50 people gathered with several...
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This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the RIPE DNS Hackathon. About 50 people gathered with several ideas for potential projects: things like easier DNSSEC provisioning, monitoring DNS activity in the network, what is the environmental cost of the DNS, … At the start of the weekend...
Joel Gascoigne
What can we do right now? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there have been a few occasions at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we’ve hesitated about next steps or thought about spending longer on certain tasks. As a result of my thinking...
A Beautiful Site
A Web Component Story Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a...
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Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a component library for their design system. The one they were replacing was built with AngularJS, but AngularJS was old and rickety and nobody wanted to use it anymore. Plus, many teams...
macwright.com
Placemark is going open source and shutting down also on placemark.io/blog The company and product side of Placemark didn’t work out. Some fantastic,...
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also on placemark.io/blog The company and product side of Placemark didn’t work out. Some fantastic, friendly people used it, but I couldn’t find a way to make it work as a sustainable bootstrapped startup. Building it was incredibly fun. Failing to find success and...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Framework DIY 13 gen AMD review ⚙️ .title {text-wrap:balance;} Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and...
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.title {text-wrap:balance;} Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and screwdriver The laptop industry is a tragedy. Meanwhile, Framework built something different—repairable, Linux-ready laptops that respect users. Framework is a rare company worth...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc? Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you...
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Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you need to take […] The post Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Enabling zero downtime data migrations for self-hosted users In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product...
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In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product evolves, your schemas evolve too, and you need…
markround.com
A Splinter In Your Mind Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
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Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions 2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
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2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
macwright.com
React is old My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web...
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My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web stack, we considered a few other options - we had used d3 to build iD, which worked out great but we were practically the only people in the internet using d3 to build HTML UIs - I...
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Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux 2023-04-13 Everyone seems to be running some...
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Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux 2023-04-13 Everyone seems to be running some version of VSCode as their main editor these days. But not me. I find VSCode to be too bloated for my needs - not to mention being built on top of electron instead of native code. I...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Cleaner ways to build dynamic JS arrays Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you...
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Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you need some items to appear based on a condition. So you add an if (condition) array.push(item). Then you need to shuffle things around and bring in an unshift or two, and maybe even...
Julia Evans
Some Go web dev notes I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not...
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I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not ever see the light of day, but I learned a couple of things along the way I wanted to write down. Here they are: go 1.22 now has better routing I’ve never felt motivated to learn any...
Paolo Amoroso's...
A fix for duplicate definitions in Femtounit <![CDATA[I finally fixed a longstanding duplicate definitions issue with Femtounit, my Interlisp...
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<![CDATA[I finally fixed a longstanding duplicate definitions issue with Femtounit, my Interlisp unit test framework. Femtounit creates a new File Manager type for unit tests, TESTS. DEFTEST, which defines a test, adds an entry of type TESTS and expands into an internal function...
ntietz.com blog
What's hidden behind "just implementation details" Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the...
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Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the hard part is figured out, and the rest is just implementation details." This typically means they've created an algorithm to do something, and the rest of it is all the supporting...
Vadim Kravcenko
My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do? Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more...
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Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more detailed […] The post My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Ognjen Regoje •...
ChatGPT == Google News? ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of...
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ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of the model, is almost exactly the same like Google ingesting news and presenting it on the search results page. Actually, it’s worse, because it gives absolutely no attribution to...
HTMHell
Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what...
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While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what we intended. This is especially true on the web, where there are many ways to consume content. The language, browser type, device model, using a screen reader, navigating with or...
ntietz.com blog
Fight Burnout, Go For a Run Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We...
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Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We need to talk about it. We need to know how to deal with it and recover from it. And we need to recognize that everyone can come back from it, stronger than ever. In the software...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Surprisingly High Table Stakes of Modern Blogs Bottom Line Up Front: You are probably underestimating how much goes into blogging technology these...
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Tell me about features, not benefits Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why ...
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Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why someone would use your product. Features are what…
MMapped blog
Transposing tensor files
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Why you may not need a sales team You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder...
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You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder of a new tech startup. A few months back, you and…
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Learnings from Elon People hate or love him. Regardless, I read the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson over...
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People hate or love him. Regardless, I read the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson over Christmas and here are some lessons that we can take from…
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How we do customer support at our open source devtool company Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the...
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Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the feedback loop between your customers and your product…
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...
blag
An exploit on Gaana.com gave me access to their entire User Database In May, 2015 I found an exploit on Gaana.com, which let me access their entire User Database (more...
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In May, 2015 I found an exploit on Gaana.com, which let me access their entire User Database (more than 10 Million) which included all the user info.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Another Week with Bad Software In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why —...
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In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why — probably because I could. I had a hotel booked via booking.com, but once I arrived there the receptionist told me it was the first time he's heard of my booking, and he told me that...
HTMHell
Boosting testing efficiency: how semantic HTML transforms End-to-End testing by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human...
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by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human interaction but also the efficiency of software systems. For instance, when users fill out forms with clear labels and accessible input fields, this reduces errors and ensures...
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
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It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
Tony Finch's blog
tolower() with AVX-512 A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using SWAR tricks. A couple of days...
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A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using SWAR tricks. A couple of days ago I was interested by Olivier Giniaux’s article about unsafe read beyond of death, an optimization for handling small strings with SIMD instructions, for a fast hash function...
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The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious. This is a guide to making the perfect Mule. The Perfect Copper Mug The copper mug is essential for a real Moscow Mule. Copper immediately takes on the temperature of the drink keeping...
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Writing for developers As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the...
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As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the front page of Hacker News . Out of five posts that I…
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I meant to post this when I left Calm earlier this year, as a ending note to my post on joining Calm, but instead I got focused on joining Carta and writing An Engineering Executive’s Primer. I’m cleaning out some of my old drafts, and posting this as an artifact of that moment....
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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...
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Enablement vs Ownership Roles Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
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In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
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I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously not true, and it's usually cynically invoked by management to entice an undue obligation of sacrifice. Implying that you should give it all to The Company -- constantly working...
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When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things. They are used for different purposes. But ultimately, they are abstractions of the same thing. They might even be the same thing except for how they are used and the consequences for...
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The Leading Edge of 2023 Technology … and Beyond Today we’re launching Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica—both available immediately on desktop and cloud. It’s only been 196 days since we released Version 13.2, but there’s a lot that’s new, not least a whole...
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One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet… …and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it! The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
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I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party. The purist in me loves the idea because it makes CSS more internally consistent with its design to be a language-agnostic framework for uni-directional layout. Chris gets at this in his recent post, “Why aren’t logical...
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After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically toured more than 70 houses, put in 13 offers and looked over hundreds of listings in nearly every neighborhood in the city. I thought it might be a good time to reflect on the...
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We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping bug the week before release. To help with this, I’ve come up with a simple way to visualise the points in the development process that you can find bugs. The further to the left...
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The Review Is the Action Item 2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own...
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2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen. This is not surprising advice if...
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Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow...
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I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow moving project but the last (and only) release was in 2018 so this release is long overdue. Guile-syntax-highlight is a general-purpose syntax highlighting library for GNU Guile. It...
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Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?
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Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily enough. Simple syrup is traditionally made by dissolving white sugar into water on a stove and then cooling before use, but sometimes, in a pinch, people will shake superfine sugar...
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Open sourcing the nginx playground Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx...
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Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx playground. There’s a blog post about it here. This is an extremely short post to say that at the time I didn’t make it open source, but I am making it open source now. It’s not a lot of...
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[Republishing] Redundant stories about redundancy Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
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Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
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"Rules" that terminal programs follow Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination...
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Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat) The first three (your...
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Acting with incomplete information in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling entrepreneur in the midst of a growing startup, I try to read quite a lot around the subject. I’ve been deeply involved in startup culture for around two years now and I often find...
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
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Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping. The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of...
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The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of the three core strategy refinement techniques, this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least. Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it highlights how...
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How to write a Python Twitter Unfollow Script in 2022 The Twitter API has changed (from v1 to v2), and Python has gone from 2 to 3, and Google is still...
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The Twitter API has changed (from v1 to v2), and Python has gone from 2 to 3, and Google is still serving up loads of outdated results.
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Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section. A little while ago I started...
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Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section. A little while ago I started using a Mac, and one of my biggest frustrations with it is that often I need to run Linux-specific software. For example, the nginx playground I posted about the other day only...
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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...
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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...
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A small freedom area...
Invert a function using Newton iterations Newton's method is probably one of the most popular algorithm for finding the roots of a function...
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Newton's method is probably one of the most popular algorithm for finding the roots of a function through successive numeric approximations. In less cryptic words, if you have an opaque function f(x), and you need to solve f(x)=0 (finding where the function crosses the x-axis),...
Irrational...
Ex-technology companies. One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a...
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One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a technology company. Most interestingly, this question wasn’t coming from friends or random strangers on the internet, it was coming from the engineers working there! In an attempt to...
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My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a...
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My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Local-first Codebase Opens the Door to More Collaborators I thought this was interesting: Dax Raad on the local-first podcast observes how a local-first model...
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I thought this was interesting: Dax Raad on the local-first podcast observes how a local-first model drastically simplifies the experience of building an app, both as an individual and as a team. He talks about how his wife is not an engineer but she learned to be more hands on...
Nelson's Weblog
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I worked at Twitter part-time starting June 2007. I've never talked much about this in public. I'm revisiting it because of the complete disaster Elon Musk has made of Twitter. His sabotage of the company has felt personal to me. It hurts to watch him destroy something I helped...
ntietz.com blog
Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things. I also...
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I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things. I also like to make things in Rust, mostly for the web, and this is where we run into a problem. See, if I want to make something for the web, I could use Django but I don't want that. I...
Irrational...
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Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how much it believes that key individuals drive and create industries. It’s an infectious belief, and a necessary one to write a concise, coherent narrative story about the origins of...
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I am tired of AI Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
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Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
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When should a decision be fast, or slow? Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really...
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Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really is smarter to take your time. Here's how to decide.
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
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Living with a disability in Japan This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last...
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This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last 16 years. Even though I do not have a mobility disability, I have also included notes about mobility accessibility because I also have some awareness of those through relatives. I...
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I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
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It's crushing and disheartening to discover I live in a country where half the adults around me still haven't learned something I'm teaching my kindergartener.
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To the pretty pitter, pitter, patter I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically...
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I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically enjoy the process but don't walk in the rain because they dislike arriving at their destinations wet. However, unless I have something of a very pressing importance at the other end...
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.title {text-wrap:balance;} GIT - the stupid content tracker “git” can mean anything, depending on your mood. – Linus Torvalds, Initial revision of “git”, the information manager from hell Like most git features, gitcredentials(7) are obscure, byzantine, and incredibly...
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Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive enough, today I'm giving you a dose of HTML5 and WebGL greatness. The project is called PlayCanvas, and it dubs itself an open source game engine that brings fun to the...
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I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built! We’ll examine the tech stack and see how all of the pieces fit together, as well as dig into some of the details to see how they work.
macwright.com
Running motivation hacks Things that have worked to get me back on a running regimen and might work for you: Try to run all...
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Things that have worked to get me back on a running regimen and might work for you: Try to run all the streets in my neighborhood. I use CityStrides, there are many similar apps. Run the same exact route, every time, at any speed: focus on consistency-only. Repetition...
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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...
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Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
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This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
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The Law of Conservation of Risk Risk cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be redistributed
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Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We’ve dedicated the week of August 22nd to a brand new internal initiative called Build Week. We’ll all be putting aside our regular work for a single week to come...
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Challenging the guardians of the paradigm I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
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I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
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Getting our focus back “We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
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“We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the nine unmonetized glances. An...
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Why don't more people use Linux? A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?"...
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A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My...
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Array 1.9.0 First, learn how PostHog raised $3M for our open source project . We could not have done it without...
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First, learn how PostHog raised $3M for our open source project . We could not have done it without this community - thank you for all your issues…
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The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1 The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
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Beware The Fallacy of Composition Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
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Array 1.0.10 Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features....
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Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Release notes Users in Trend Graphs Whilst we have…
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Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan’s...
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Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan’s work on Dribbble and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it’s a half-way decent copy...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to incorporate is one of those topics which comes up time and time again, and there is much conflicting advice out there. I’m lucky enough to have a number of different experiences and...
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The Pragmatic...
Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the...
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The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. We do deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software. After each...
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Language Servers are the New Frameworks Developer Experience is shifting left, all the way to onKeyUp.
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A second year of the pandemic passed in which I didn’t attend any film festivals in person. I miss it. My viewing output of is lower than usual but still much much higher than that of the median filmgoer. Film is one category of media in which human recommendations still feel...
ntietz.com blog
Work on tasks, not stories One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the...
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One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the smallest unit of work2. That a ticket should almost always be a story, because that means it's something that delivers concrete value to the users. There are some cases in which this...
The Pragmatic...
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From learning to code in Australia, to launching Chronosphere in Silicon Valley: cofounder and CEO Martin Mao shares his story.
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HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode...
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<![CDATA[The text of WebCard cards is intended to be read only but my previous attempt to achieve it by overriding card editing didn't work. I implemented a new, simpler approach that actually works. The card type Web inherits from the Text type whose "substance" is a text...
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I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical troubleshooting, which I firmly believe is the way we should all be diagnosing system failures. Enjoy the full episode!
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Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for...
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I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines. The result of the port is a Go client. This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, November 2024 The Ware for November 2024 is shown below. Click on any image for a larger version. I have a policy...
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The Ware for November 2024 is shown below. Click on any image for a larger version. I have a policy of never using one of my own projects for name that ware. But, sometimes I see another person’s project in the wild and it is just too cool not to share! I came across this […]
ntietz.com blog
Introducing Hurl, a terrible (but cute) idea for a language Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting...
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Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting with a friend, we toyed around with the idea of a language where the only control flow you get is error handling. This idea embedded itself in my brain and wouldn't let me go, so I...
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When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […] The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Maciej Cegłowski writing about “The Lunacy of Artemis”: You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to wonder what’s going on here. If we can put a man on the moon, then why can't we just go do it again? The moon hasn’t changed since the 1960’s, while every technology we used to get...
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Progress on the Block Protocol Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
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Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
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The Last Battle
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Getting Senpai To Notice You How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting...
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How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting the leaders of that field to at least read your writing and know your name.
Words and Buttons...
Why did I write Geometry for programmers This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
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This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
Alex Meub
Building the DataToaster 3000 Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local...
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Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local computer recycling store. The idea of a computer with the design of a home appliance was really appealing and so was the absurdity of it. It occurred to me that this would be a fun...
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Blogging & Listening When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t...
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When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t been able to express it!” In this sense, writing a great blog post is about listening. If you’re listening — to others, your coworkers, the people you follow, your own experiences,...
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Hyperfocus and hobbies &rarr; One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it...
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One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it affects my cross-stitch. I’m really proud of this one, and I hope you’ll consider reading. Writing for Stories was one of my “bucket list” items while working at Wellcome, and I...
Charles Chen
Nuxt 3 with SSR on Google Cloud Firebase Functions (2023) If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no...
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Greg Brockman
It's time to become an ML engineer AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and...
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AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
Patrick Kayongo
The Fruitfulness of Grunt Work I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS...
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I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS application, doing general maintenance work, which led me down an interesting rabbit hole. I could’ve used an online knowledge tool such as the various LLM-based tools available now. But...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog. And now I’m...
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Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog. And now I’m here to propose another: .well-known/avatar The idea is: anybody that owns a domain can put their avatar in a well-known location. I’ve already implemented this for my own site[1]....
Tony Finch's blog
A qp-trie for BIND In 2021, I came up with a design for a new memory layout for a qp-trie, and I implemented a...
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In 2021, I came up with a design for a new memory layout for a qp-trie, and I implemented a prototype of the design in NLnet Labs NSD (see my git repo or github). Since I started work at ISC my main project has been to adapt the NSD prototype into a qp-trie for use in BIND. The...
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August Photo Highlights
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Max Countryman
Let It Fail I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I...
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I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer in 2024 The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously...
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The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously unshared details like what Stripe's engineering culture is like, The architecture evolution of Bluesky, How the ChatGPT scaled to meet demand, How Anthropic builds products, How and...
Vadim Kravcenko
Product Owner vs Project Managers During my career as a software developer, I’ve met many different managers. Some were the kind of “I...
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During my career as a software developer, I’ve met many different managers. Some were the kind of “I tell — […] The post Product Owner vs Project Managers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Don't write Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most...
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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...
The Changelog
Asynchronous Email: Exim over NNCP (or UUCP) Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with...
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Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with modern encryption and onion routing, here is the first of my posts showing how to put it into action. Email is a natural fit for async; in fact, much of early email was carried by...
Dan Slimmon
Garden-path incidents Barb’s story It’s 12 noon on a Minneapolis Wednesday, which means Barb can be found at Quang. As the...
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Barb’s story It’s 12 noon on a Minneapolis Wednesday, which means Barb can be found at Quang. As the waiter sets down Barb’s usual order (#307, the Bun Chay, extra spicy), Barb’s nostrils catch the heavenly aroma of peanuts and scallions and red chiles. A wave of calm moves...
Patrick Kayongo
Technology & The Hollowing Middle Class IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in...
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IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in great cost-savings, yet with unquestioned social effects. In his book Rhodes & His Banker, Richard Steyn narrates the founding and the early years of the bank we now know as Standard...
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Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
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Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
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Why we've launched PostHog user surveys Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new...
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Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new pricing . Short version? Pricing is usage-based, with…
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
Making software...
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
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...
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Launching the Coding Career Handbook! I'm launching my career advice book today!
over a year ago
Dan Cowell
Deadlines Work If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain,...
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If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain, eyes burning with sunblock, sweat and ocean spray, in sub-10°C conditions, I would have called you a filthy liar. Then yesterday happened. It was meant to be
macwright.com
A shortcut for bash using tt by () I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new...
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I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new temporary directory, moving into that, and creating a short-lived project. Finally I automated that and have been actually using the automation: I wrote this tiny zsh function...
The Changelog
The Hidden Drawbacks of P2P (And a Defense of Signal) Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some...
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Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some conversation followed, which led me to consider some of the problems with P2P protocols. P2P and Privacy Brave adopting IPFS has driven a lot of buzz lately. IPFS is essentially a...
Nelson's Weblog
Legal aid charities for immigrants (2024) The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear...
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The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear what’s coming, my biggest fear is a violent display of fascism. (Don’t call them camps!) But even if it’s a polite legal process it will be chaotic and disruptive to many...
ntietz.com blog
Go slow to go fast A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long...
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A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long been an endurance athlete, and it's time to lean into my overall fitness and strength. Part of this is to be healthy and live a long life. But honestly? More of it is a desire to...
Ralph Ammer
Bergson — Why we live in the past Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson...
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Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson claims that this is not even possible. 1. Perception is physical First of all: How do we perceive the “current moment” anyway? Bergson suggests that the whole point of perception is...
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Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
10 months ago
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The Computer History Museum YouTube Channel I have been enjoying the CHM's YouTube Channel.
over a year ago
HTMHell
#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
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The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development: 🔥 the burger button. 🔥 The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
alexwlchan
Making the fish shell more forgetful For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool...
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For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool things it does is autosuggestions from my shell history. As I’m typing, it suggests (in light grey) a command I’ve run before. I can press the right arrow to accept the suggestion,...
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
Coding Horror
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers,...
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In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
charity.wtf
Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it,...
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I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 weeks later, the thread is still going!!), which I would sort into roughly three camps: “OMG this...
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP...
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I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any dedicated engineering managers....
A Beautiful Site
An Event Apart, Boston The plane took off from Orlando as I sat half asleep in my seat. With my laptop at my feet, I...
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The plane took off from Orlando as I sat half asleep in my seat. With my laptop at my feet, I wondered what kind of intriguing things I would learn at the web conference I had signed up for. I anticipated this day for months now and it was finally here. I was on my way to An...
Joel Gascoigne
Founders: failure comes with the territory * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of things have happened this week that made me think a little about what failure means for startup founders. Firstly, one of my favorite startups Sprouter has announced that it is...
37signals Dev
All about QA Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years...
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Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years ago, and Gabriel, who joined the team in 2022. Together, we have a hand in projects across all of our products, from kickoff to release. Our goal is to help designers and...
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Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their...
a year ago
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Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
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over a year ago
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
Josh Comeau's blog
Common Beginner Mistakes with React I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped...
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a year ago
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a...
Epic Web Dev
Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article) When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is...
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When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.
Basta’s Notes
The state with the fancy plates Book typography-style serifs are for lovers
a year ago
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Array 1.7.0 This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data...
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This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data from graphs, better user friendliness, and much…
alexwlchan
Publishing lots and lots of messages to SNS At work, we use Amazon SNS as the trigger for a lot of our data pipelines. You send a message to an...
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a year ago
At work, we use Amazon SNS as the trigger for a lot of our data pipelines. You send a message to an SNS topic, and it gets picked up by an SQS queue, an ECS task, or a Lambda function – and they in turn send new messages to other SNS topics, and the pipeline continues. Sending a...
Irrational...
Mailbag: What should you do if you report to an underperforming executive? Recently, an email came in asking what to do when you report into a mediocre or underperforming...
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Recently, an email came in asking what to do when you report into a mediocre or underperforming executive. I’ve gotten variants of this question a number of times over the years, and it’s worth digging into a bit: Have you written anything about working in middle management where...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand...
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Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself of this. Especially in an environment that prioritizes optimizing and maximizing personal productivity, where it seems if you...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Knowledge Laundering I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
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I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me: Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
The Changelog
The Good, Bad, and Scary of the Banning of Donald Trump, and How Decentralization Makes It All... It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit...
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It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit for the moment. It may well save lives, perhaps lots of lives. But it raises quite a few troubling issues. First, as EFF points out, these platforms have privileged speakers with...
Blog System/5
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a year ago
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How to run Python and Portray on Netlify How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
over a year ago
Irrational...
Extract the kernel. As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication...
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As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication challenges between executives and the folks they work with. The most frequent issue I see is when a literal communicator insists on engaging in the details with a less literal executive. I...
exist
Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
How to upgrade or downgrade Node.js using npm Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command...
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Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command line using npm. Upgrading to the latest stable version # This will update you to the latest available stable version: sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n...