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Charles Chen
Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
2 weeks ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading Crostini Linux from Bullseye to Bookworm <![CDATA[ChromeOS Stable 121 rolled out to my ASUS Chromebox 3 and brought with it a one-click...
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10 months ago
<![CDATA[ChromeOS Stable 121 rolled out to my ASUS Chromebox 3 and brought with it a one-click option to upgrade Crostini. Crostini, the Debian based Linux container of chromeOS, was running Bullseye prior to that. ChromeOS 121 popped up a notification with a button offering to...
Basta’s Notes
What have I been up to lately? Just a little update, because I've been quiet
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Writing an Authentication Store in Svelte This is my attempt today wrapping an Authentication workflow into a Svelte Store
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Can we useRef, but without the .current? Let's try! Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've used it instead of useState to optimize re-renders. But typing ref.current over and over is just annoying. Come on, Vladimir, startX.current is just the same as this.startX in a...
Dan Cowell
Software engineers hate code. This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
Ruud van Asseldonk
The yaml document from hell
a year ago
samwho.dev
API Design: Optional Parameters When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases. There are good ways and bad ways of doing it, and this post is going to explore them. › Guiding principles API design is hard. A good API needs to be: Easy to change without...
Tony Finch's blog
Introducing BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned. I am in the process of migrating my DNS zones from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy, and writing a blog post about it. These introductory sections...
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
a year ago
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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?
elementary Blog
Getting in shape for summer This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
a year ago
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a year ago
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot! Calculator Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
blag
PSA: Most databases do not do checksums by default Most databases don’t do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
a month ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 1 One of the things I love most about working in a community studio is hearing about other...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
One of the things I love most about working in a community studio is hearing about other ceramicists' experiences with new-to-me clay bodies. This has helped me feel confident in trying out many different clay bodies, and I now use a bunch of different clay bodies in my...
Josh Comeau's blog
Statements Vs. Expressions One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us...
Steve Klabnik
How do you find the time?
over a year ago
davidyat.es
Year X
8 months ago
Identity Designed
BERA Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Building Molecule Reader in one day Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when there are notifications coming in or even just other content on the screen1. I have a reMarkable tablet (RM), which I love dearly2 and much prefer to read on. But it's annoying...
A Beautiful Site
Hide the mouse cursor with CSS I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it altogether. .no-cursor { cursor: none; } Of course, that doesn't mean you should, it just means you can. Practical uses for this are definitely limited, but things like...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
The Phoenix project — Book Notes Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
over a year ago
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Dan Slimmon
Incident, Inçident, Incidënt When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And...
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9 months ago
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And don't forget to create an incident so customers can stay informed!
Joel Gascoigne
Expert of nothing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most interesting and simultaneously challenging realizations I’ve had is that as a founder, especially the CEO, you essentially have chosen to never become an expert of anything. Oh,...
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m sorry Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
7 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
Text with media background: practical solutions Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard...
a year ago
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a year ago
Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard to read and cause accessibility and usability issues. Designers might not catch these problems early on because they use ideal settings to test designs. The real problems show up...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to turn your engineers into product people Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our engineers are encouraged to think about the what and…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fave New Podcasts in 2021 My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
bunnie's blog
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
Ferd.ca
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents 2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
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over a year ago
2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
HTMHell
The road to HTMHell is paved with semantics by Vadim Makeev HTML semantics is a nice idea, but does it really make a difference? There’s a huge...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Vadim Makeev HTML semantics is a nice idea, but does it really make a difference? There’s a huge gap between HTML spec’s good intentions and what browsers and screen readers are willing to implement. Writing semantic markup only because the good spec is a spec, and it is good,...
Patrick Kayongo
Online Communication & Social Hierarchy There are a plethora of ways to communicate online, both with people you know, and people you’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are a plethora of ways to communicate online, both with people you know, and people you’ve never met. But something the makers of these tools fail to mould to, is the social hierarchy and human structures in which they are used. There are three examples that come to mind....
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust vs Go in 2024 Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
💀 Every app has its skeletons You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You […] The post 💀 Every app has its skeletons appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Kagi Blog
Kagi's approach to AI in search Kagi Search is pleased to announce the introduction of three AI features into our product offering.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Tests or Types: Why Not Both? _Published on CSS Tricks as [Types or Tests: Why Not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
_Published on CSS Tricks as [Types or Tests: Why Not Both?](https://css-tricks.com/types-or-tests-why-not-both/)_
Words and Buttons...
Either your estimates suck or your job does This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
a year ago
Joel on Software
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway? For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more "So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?"
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on ShopTalk Show #605 Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all things web. The conversation was fun and casual, mostly around topics I’ve written about recently — which is good, since those are topics I should (presumably) be able to speak on at...
Liz Denys
Patina tissue box, 2024 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, matte copper patina glaze
8 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Speaking the GraphQL Query Language
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt? One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: on the side * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while ago I wrote about one of the ways I think people could bootstrap a startup from zero funds. I called it "working in waves" [https://joel.is/post/2106915988/bootstrapping-waves]. Of...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I don&#x27;t shield my team from bad news I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and other negative aspects that are inevitable on
Making software...
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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a year ago
HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode where I explained how to implement a very basic "dark mode" by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute. This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
Irrational...
How to get more headcount. One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A...
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a month ago
One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A similar problem is the idea that a team can’t get a favored project into their roadmap. In both cases, teams often create a story about how clueless executives don’t understand...
Julia Evans
Reasons to use your shell's job control Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me think about how I don’t use my shell’s job control interactively very often: usually I prefer to just open a new terminal tab if I want to run multiple terminal programs, or use tmux...
Writing - Andreas...
Summer reading list 2024 Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or...
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3 months ago
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or be useful at a fundamental level.
Alex Meub
The Perfect Moscow Mule The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
somenice
Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
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over a year ago
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the years following that tragic event, flotsam began arriving on the Pacific West Coast. Volunteers making great effort to return...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Hotjar Want to understand the difference between Hotjar and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Hotjar is a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Want to understand the difference between Hotjar and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Hotjar is a user research tool that offers session replays…
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Create Luck Your entire worldview changes when you realize you can *create luck*.
over a year ago
Acko.net
On Sperging Out The Boy Who Cried Leopard Recently there's been a new dust up about Richard Stallman and the Free...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Boy Who Cried Leopard Recently there's been a new dust up about Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. For those of you just tuning in: an open letter demands that the entire board of the Free-as-in-speech Software Foundation resign, because of past statements and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Maggie Appleton
Organic, Local, Artisan Data Storage
over a year ago
Remains of the Day
My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
Irrational...
How to capitalize engineering costs. There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one that’s both easy to forget and surprisingly important is your first meeting with the finance team. There’s a lot to learn from the finance team, particularly drilling into your profit...
Maggie Appleton
How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 7: Four habits to improve as a programmer Seven weeks down, five weeks to go! It's flying by quickly. On the one hand, I want it to last...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Seven weeks down, five weeks to go! It's flying by quickly. On the one hand, I want it to last forever. On the other hand, I know it can't, and I'm looking forward to talking to coworkers again at my day job when I go back. RC has given me a renewed appreciation for what I get at...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Computational Learning Theory What's the big O of machine learning? Lets put some formal theory around HOW we learn!
over a year ago
Liz Denys
'First' thoughts on git I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git;...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git; I've certainly already been exposed to git in a variety of ways. I'd always been told that my love of graph theory would convert me over to this different type of version control. I...
Civic Hax
over a year ago
MMapped blog
Transaction models are programming paradigms
4 months ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Iterators in Go Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never generate more results than we...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never generate more results than we actually use. Let’s see what that would look like in Go programs, and what new facilities it gives us in the standard library.
TokyoDev
Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin transactions per day](https://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions), I was flabbergasted: **there are only about 60,000 transactions per day.** I graphed the number relative to [the...
Steve Klabnik
A eulogy for my 20s
over a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.
Explained from First...
Number theory explained from first principles
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Acting with incomplete information in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* 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...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2024 Here’s the Ware for February 2024: Here’s another ware courtesy of FETguy, who recovered this from...
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9 months ago
Here’s the Ware for February 2024: Here’s another ware courtesy of FETguy, who recovered this from Renew Computers in San Rafael, CA. Renew is a recycling facility that apparently processes a fair bit of e-waste. NGL: I’m a little envious of being able to rummage around an...
blag
Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep? My answer to a question online, why?
6 months ago
Miguel Carranza
From J1 visa to Blue Passport: A startup founder's immigration journey I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times, but this will be the first time I’ll be using my shiny blue passport. No anxiety about aggressive questions, secondary inspection, or the possibility of deportation. A couple of...
A Beautiful Site
Surreal CMS acquires PageLime Nearly a decade ago, I launched my first SaaS application. It was a new take on content management —...
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over a year ago
Nearly a decade ago, I launched my first SaaS application. It was a new take on content management — a hosted CMS that reads/writes directly to a web server and uses class attributes to define content regions. It was a great idea. Such a great idea that it inspired others to do...
The Codist
I Have To Fix Broken Things Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes, products, or UI. If it's broken, I want to fix it. If I can't, it grates on me. After I graduated from college, my parents, a friend, and his
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
A Smart Bear
Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to adjust your approach.
Tinloof - Blog
How to create microfrontends with Web Components in React We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams build a big new web project. The company does not want teams to fight over a single monstrous SPA. It decides to break the project down into several mini-apps hosted by a parent app....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll...
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7 months ago
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2. Step 2: Hit the “Send” button. Shortly after...
alexwlchan
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
swyx's site RSS Feed
$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail *This post originated as [an AMA on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*This post originated as [an AMA on IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/made-121-326-since-launching-my-book-last-july-63-of-it-after-launch-month-ama-about-long-tail-infoproducts-41b55f5670)*
Julia Evans
Some notes on NixOS Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on 'Metaphysics and JavaScript' _[Slides...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
_[Slides here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_aeM_UkwS9qaSzHDz87zC9bmtvbuLbPof7RnN96SJKE/edit?usp=sharing)_
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
New Workflow for Publishing Notes: Content in Dropbox, Code in GitHub I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s...
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3 months ago
I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s the rundown. Before Pretty standard JAMstack type stuff. All my notes are markdown files in a git repository that live alongside the code generating the website,...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Forty years since my traditionally published book <![CDATA[Forty years ago these days, in November of 1983, my book Saturno: nubi, anelli e lune was...
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a year ago
<![CDATA[Forty years ago these days, in November of 1983, my book Saturno: nubi, anelli e lune was released by the small Italian publisher Italy Press. Early that year I had started writing this astronomy book about the planet Saturn. The paperback book "Saturno: nubi, anelli e...
samwho.dev
A Logical Way to Split Long Lines Splitting long lines is something we do every day as programmers, but rarely do I hear discussion...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Splitting long lines is something we do every day as programmers, but rarely do I hear discussion about how best to do it. Considering our industry-wide obsession with “best practices,” line breaks have managed to stay relatively free from scrutiny. A few years ago, I learned a...
Steve Klabnik
80% of success is showing up
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to…
Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on travelling with your startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] has been a crazy ride since I first had the idea back in October 2010. As we’ve grown the startup from nothing to 250,000 users, a $600,000 annual revenue run rate...
elementary Blog
Happy Holidays! We Come Bringing Gifts! It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with...
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It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with updates just in time for the holidays! Terminal The headliner this month is Terminal which comes with a bunch of fixes and new features thanks to Jeremy. It now uses the more...
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control...
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over a year ago
Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control structures Chapter 5: Arrays Chapter 6: Functions Chapter 7: Structs Chapter 8: Classes and Objects Chapter 9: Methods Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism Chapter 11: Some advanced...
Making software...
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I've been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I'm announcing ThriftyName. What is...
Irrational...
Navigating ambiguity. Perceiving the layers of context in problems will unlock another stage of career progression as a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Perceiving the layers of context in problems will unlock another stage of career progression as a Staff-plus engineer, but there’s at least one essential skill to develop afterwards: navigating ambiguity. In my experience, navigating deeply ambiguous problems is the rarest skill...
Alex Meub
Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files. Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
Joel Gascoigne
Two important and often overlooked aspects of creating a lasting morning routine * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that get up at 5am rule the world" - Robin Sharma Those who know me, know that I love my morning routine. I’m always making adjustments to it, and at its core it revolves around waking...
Steve Klabnik
Building StoreEngine
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Setting up super fast Cypress tests on GitHub Actions Moving fast is easy. Moving fast with confidence is hard. If you've been keeping track of The Array...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Moving fast is easy. Moving fast with confidence is hard. If you've been keeping track of The Array release posts you know that we prioritize…
MMapped blog
Programming avant-garde
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Dan Quach Blog
Rest in Peace Dad Around US Thanksgiving, my mom­ let me know that my dad had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Around US Thanksgiving, my mom­ let me know that my dad had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer with a life expectancy of 1-2 years. In mid December my dad was hospitalized and one of the doctors suggested all family members should come urgently.  When I arrived, the days...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Apollo and App Icons As a self-proclaimed app icon-noisseur, I’ve followed Apollo from the sidelines for a while. I...
a year ago
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a year ago
As a self-proclaimed app icon-noisseur, I’ve followed Apollo from the sidelines for a while. I absolutely love all the great app icon variations Christian has commissioned for the app. (Photo from @BasicAppleGuy.) It’s sad to see Apollo go. As I noted, Christian was a...
Ink & Switch
Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
5 months ago
Irrational...
Manage your priorities and energy. Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we justified quitting our jobs and financing PostHog early on Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure motivated Tim and me to make an epic pivot leap…
Steve Klabnik
GitHub is anarchy for programmers
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Inverse Assertions (article) Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives...
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2 months ago
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives in time-dependent tests without using sleep.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
The complete guide to safe type narrowing in TypeScript Say I'm building a TODO app with two tabs: done and pending tasks. To make the app routable, I put...
a year ago
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a year ago
Say I'm building a TODO app with two tabs: done and pending tasks. To make the app routable, I put the active tab into the ?tab query parameter, so that mytodo.io?tab=done takes me directly to the done tasks. I implement routing like this (pardon my hand-coded querystring...
Stephen Wolfram...
Twenty Years Later: The Surprising Greater Implications of A New Kind of Science See also: “A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View”. From the Foundations Laid by A New Kind of...
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over a year ago
See also: “A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View”. From the Foundations Laid by A New Kind of Science When A New Kind of Science was published twenty years ago I thought what it had to say was important. But what’s become increasingly clear—particularly in the last few years—is...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
Maggie Appleton
Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors
over a year ago
Irrational...
Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement. Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity...
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2 weeks ago
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools, which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time: Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learn Instrumenting metrics...
Marco.org
Developer relations Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple. That any portion of our customers came to our apps from our own marketing or reputation, rather than the App...
Steve Klabnik
Book review: New Programmer's Survival Manual
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
GIF, JPEG or PNG? Using images on the web This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on the Web, and how to use them effectively in your websites. JPEG # JPEG files are compressed images that maintain a balance of size versus quality. For example: More compression =...
Jake Zimmerman
Abstract singleton class methods are an abomination
11 months ago
Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog archives I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will have a grey background because I wasn't...
Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
A Smart Bear
Easy to criticize, hard to create It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally ignore the critics.
the singularity is...
Tech Heroin Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell cocaine. Techno-Optimism is cocaine. Atlas Shrugged is cocaine. Futurism is cocaine. I am a progressive. A liberal. I believe in progress. I am not a conservative. Conservatives lose....
macwright.com
Playing with bikeshare data, part one Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric. It’s a long-term project that combines my...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview? From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
a year ago
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a year ago
From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview? To qualify the choices a bit: Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure. A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
Charles Chen
Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023 My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
"It's a Balance" isn't always the answer Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a new solution, or find the balance.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Night Time Sky Read more about RSS Club. When I was a kid, my Dad used to take us outside to look for what...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Read more about RSS Club. When I was a kid, my Dad used to take us outside to look for what he called “UFOs”. It’d take a moment, but after enough searching we’d eventually spot one. One night, all of us kids were outside with our uncle. We saw a star-like light moving in...
Joel Gascoigne
How we&#x27;re trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
David Heinemeier...
Introducing Omakub Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a rite of passage in certain parts of the community where becoming an expert in the intricacies of every tool and its theming is required to prove you're a proper nerd. I think that's a...
Making software...
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....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Line Lengths Reflecting on what I have learned about CSS Units and Line Lengths
over a year ago
Making software...
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
bt RSS Feed
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source My Text Edtior is Not Open Source 2024-01-02 I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source 2024-01-02 I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than I can remember. I think Sublime has been around since the start of my “real” career over 10 years ago, but I could be mistaken1. It certainly feels that long. And in that time I...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is […] The post How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Solving the Quality vs Consistency Tradeoff Every creator wrestles with the tradeoff between quality and consistency. The answer - Default to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every creator wrestles with the tradeoff between quality and consistency. The answer - Default to consistency, and cut scope.
Josh Collinsworth
The Five Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me as a Design Student Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
As Good as HTML Jan Miksovsky has a talk titled “Delivering Universal UI Patterns as Web Components” that speaks on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jan Miksovsky has a talk titled “Delivering Universal UI Patterns as Web Components” that speaks on the incredible opportunity that is web components: That HTML tag that you create [for a web component] that’s just HTML. You can use that anywhere you use HTML. That means the...
David Heinemeier...
Hating Apple goes mainstream This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything everyone has ever hated about digitization. It celebrates a lossy, creative compression for the most flimsy reason: An iPad shedding an irrelevant millimeter or two. It's destruction...
Joel Gascoigne
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key values at Buffer [http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter, not...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
People and Blogs and Me If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely goal: to both highlight wonderful human beings and their blogs, and also to promote a healthier way to inhabit the web and show that traditional social media is not the be all and end...
ntietz.com blog
Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we have in place and something clicked for why they feel so wrong despite being so prevalent. I'm not sure what any solutions look like yet, but outlining a problem is the first step,...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte stores: the curious parts We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in...
a year ago
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a year ago
We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in svelte components. But not all state belongs in components — sometimes we want app-global state (think state manager), sometimes we just want to reuse logic between components....
Steve Klabnik
I got hit by a car today
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 2 I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've used. Note that I currently practice in a community studio that glaze fires to cone 6 in oxidation, so my observations reflect that. Standard 420 Sculpture: Cone 6: average shrinkage...
Joel Gascoigne
How an investor who turned me down ended up sleeping on my couch * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had the great pleasure of grabbing dinner with Jon Bradford [http://twitter.com/jd], and having him stop over at my place on his way to speak on a panel at an event in Jerusalem. The...
Steve Klabnik
Is npm worth 26MM?
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the work, because we're inventing new things and invention doesn't happen on a fixed schedule. And yet, many teams still estimate how long their tasks will take to finish. Why should...
Vadim Kravcenko
🏆 Promotion-based development While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies do promotions, I stumbled […] The post 🏆 Promotion-based development appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Early experience with Medley on the Raspberry Pi 400 <![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
<![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the AArch64 version on the Raspberry Pi OS desktop: SDL version of Medley Interlisp on a Raspberry Pi 400 under Raspberry Pi OS. The online version of Medley runs well and smoothly...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Two-factor authentication and account recovery The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and account recovery: Two-factor authentication and account recovery Last time we talked about strong passwords, but what if there was a better way to secure your account? We look at options...
Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
80/20 is the new Half-Ass Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look back and wonder why you never hit 100% on anything.
Joel Gascoigne
The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a fully distributed team. It’s a decision [https://joel.is/post/54284926855/questions-i-ask-myself-about-working-as-distributed] I had to make at the end of 2012, and it’s interesting...
Words and Buttons...
Image darning It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The chaotic beauty of street art I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up groceries, feels more delightful because of the organic gallery that is my city. Especially when a new piece of art pops up on a previously unremarkable stretch of street. What a...
Jake Zimmerman
Generic methods cannot have non-generic defaults in Sorbet
4 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I’m writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
Basta’s Notes
Go fix your bugs An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on comments For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a good blog post without a relevant discussion to accompany it? You might find it strange to learn that Postleaf doesn't ship with comments. This is by design, and I'll explain why...
Neil Panchal
Overkill Objects for Everyday Life I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
General Robots
How to Pick a Problem So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually...
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a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually it’s going to do all kinds of things. But right now it doesn’t do anything. What do you try first? In this post we’ll talk about the various pitfalls to avoid when choosing your...
Ink & Switch
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Early-stage engineering Early on you need to be fast. Your team, your stack, your infrastructure — they all need to be set...
a year ago
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a year ago
Early on you need to be fast. Your team, your stack, your infrastructure — they all need to be set up for that. To do that, you have to have the confidence to break with best practices. And that confidence comes from knowing what risks actually matter in your context.
Ralph Ammer
The perfect drawing tool The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. ...
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The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed.  I want every single pen, every brush, every quill, and a sheet of every paper, ranging from crude cardboard to magnificent handcrafted Japanese washi. And yes, I need papyrus. And...
A Beautiful Site
SVG has a logo HTML5 was the first to get an official logo. Web designers rejoiced, some even hacking together...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
HTML5 was the first to get an official logo. Web designers rejoiced, some even hacking together matching logos for CSS. But did you know that SVG also has an official logo, and it's—flowery? The W3C describes it as: The flower-like structure of the SVG logo evokes creativity and...
A Beautiful Site
The HTML5 download attribute Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't have to do that anymore. The HTML5 download attribute is intended to tell the browser that a certain link should force a certain file to download, optionally with a certain name...
Irrational...
Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis. These are speaking notes for my October 4th, QCon talk in San Francisco. Slides for this talk. Over...
a year ago
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a year ago
These are speaking notes for my October 4th, QCon talk in San Francisco. Slides for this talk. Over the course of my career, I’ve frequently heard from colleagues, team members and random internet strangers with the same frustration: the company doesn’t have an Engineering...
David Heinemeier...
Optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it might materially lower their payroll for programmers. If a company currently needs 10 programmers to do a job, each have a cost of $200,000/year, then that's a $2m/year problem. If AI...
alexwlchan
Preserving Dates during JSON serialisation with vanilla JS For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our...
a year ago
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a year ago
For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our longest-standing issues has been around sending Date values via JSON – JavaScript will happily encode a Date value in JSON, but it gets encoded as a string, and there’s no easy way to...
Engineer’s Codex
The Boolean Trap Use enums instead
3 months ago
A Smart Bear
Solving the Low-Budget Online Marketing Dilemma Low on cash but need marketing results? Here are four specific things you can do to grow on a...
a week ago
Joel on Software
The next CEO of Stack Overflow We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board. Read more "The next CEO of Stack Overflow"
alexwlchan
My Python snippet for walking a file tree I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and they often involve iterating over a folder full of files. The key function for doing this is os.walk in the standard library, but it’s not quite what I want, so I have a wrapper...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The Pull Request A brief and biased history. Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now – GitHub blog, Sat, 23 Feb 2008 When...
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A brief and biased history. Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now – GitHub blog, Sat, 23 Feb 2008 When GitHub launched, it had no code review. Three years after launch, in 2011, GitHub user rtomayko became the first person to make a real code comment, which read, in full:...
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Did I just build a better useCallback? Edit: the technique initially proposed in this post was not concurrent-mode safe. I've added a new...
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Edit: the technique initially proposed in this post was not concurrent-mode safe. I've added a new section describing a fix to this problem. Thanks to the readers who noticed it! useCallback has always been one of my least favorite hooks: it does not provide much value over...
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Array 1.24.0 Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP...
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Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP 🏆 This release cycle's Community MVP goes to…
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Thoughts on being a good manager Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
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Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day. When someone has a grievance, take an...
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Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs? Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy...
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Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I've come to terms with it. It's fine. It'll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit
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Check if Custom Fonts are Properly Loaded in Your App (tip) Learn how to use DevTools to check if the correct font is being applied to your app and troubleshoot...
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Learn how to use DevTools to check if the correct font is being applied to your app and troubleshoot issues related to loading custom fonts.
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Sept 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
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[Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine upload I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python...
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Cat and Mouse Read more about RSS Club. When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse...
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Read more about RSS Club. When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse problem. Well, I should say “mice” problem because it was definitely plural and not just one solitary mouse chillin in the house. As a new homeowner, I was distraught. I tried all kinds...
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Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 The short version: porting from Vue...
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Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 The short version: porting from Vue to Svelte is pretty straightforward and Svelte 5 is nice upgrade to Svelte 4. Why port? I’m working on Edna, a note taking application for developers. It started as a...
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
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David Heinemeier...
We have left the cloud Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take...
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Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take us years to get out as well. But all that work to containerize our applications and prepare them for the cloud actually turned out to make it relatively easy to exit. And now,...
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Numbers go up. There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be...
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There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be summarized as, “numbers go up.” These games focus on the fundamental gaming loop rather than plot, characterization or anything beyond the foundational satisfaction of numbers...
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Supervised Learning: Bayesian Inference Or, the unreasonable effectiveness of dumb rules
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A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
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My patented Miracle Tonic would have prevented the CrowdStrike meltdown Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I...
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Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I didn't bother to learn anything else about it because I was too busy writing my 10k whitepaper about how all the problems were all caused by one simple mistake: not drinking my...
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Retention rate vs churn rate: An intro to churn analysis Here's what you need to know about churn rate and retention rate: Churn rate is the percentage of...
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Here's what you need to know about churn rate and retention rate: Churn rate is the percentage of customers who stop using your product during a…
TokyoDev
Transferring from the Philippines to be a QA Engineer in Japan Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace...
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Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace Icay](https://www.tokyodev.com/authors/mary-grygjeanne-grace-icay) (Gray in the [TokyoDev Discord community](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV)) managed to do it. She originally worked...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
It’s Humans All the Way Down On the Aboard podcast, Paul Ford half-jokingly notes that everybody thinks everyone else’s job is...
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On the Aboard podcast, Paul Ford half-jokingly notes that everybody thinks everyone else’s job is easy. That’s why “AI” is going to replace so many people. Here’s Paul articulating this line of thiking: What is a lawyer? A lawyer is somebody who moves contracts around. Well, a...
Kagi Blog
Kagi for Teams To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams...
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To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams ( https://kagi.com/teams ) - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide.
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Fare-Wellcome Collection I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was...
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I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was living and working in the Cambridge at the time, and I’d come into London for the day to hang out with a friend who lived near King’s Cross. We wandered up the Euston Road, popped...
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Wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project <![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in...
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<![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in time as hoped. I accomplished the initial goal of extending NoteCards to visit websites. This is my Linux desktop after traversing a NoteCards link to a Web card which opened the...
Steve Klabnik
Theory and practice
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Oxide Computer...
Engineering a culture We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a...
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We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this particular issue was something of an Oxide object lesson, representative not...
A Beautiful Site
Generate random passwords in PHP Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
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Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
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OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪 a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
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Assumed Audiences
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What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to? ---
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David Heinemeier...
We’ve resubmitted the HEY Calendar app to Apple Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar...
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11 months ago
Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar app. It seems they love to play these little games to try to drown any controversy with the cover of a weekend. But we don’t roll over that easy, so the team worked through the...
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First impressions of the MoErgo Glove80 ergonomic keyboard How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my...
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How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my impressions after the first few weeks of use.
A Beautiful Site
BrowserStack: stop using virtual machines for browser testing Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack,...
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Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack, you don't need VMware or VirtualBox. Just enter a URL and instantly test on just about any browser you can think of. This is legit. It's not just another screenshot service or...
HTMHell
#4 link-also-button Bad code <a href="https://example.com"> <button>Example</button> </a> Issues and how to fix...
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Bad code <a href="https://example.com"> <button>Example</button> </a> Issues and how to fix them By nesting a button inside of a link, you’re sending two messages: this is a button, but also this is a link. If you’re not sure when to use <a> or <button>, watch The Links vs....
General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
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A Beautiful Site
What can you do with a single <div>? If I told you to make something using only CSS and a single <div>, would you be able to create...
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If I told you to make something using only CSS and a single <div>, would you be able to create something incredible? That's exactly what Lynn Fisher has been doing with A Single Div. Using only a single HTML element and some CSS, she's created some shockingly complex artwork...
Making software...
Write HTML Like It's 1999 Write HTML Like It's 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the...
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Write HTML Like It's 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer's life easier....
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My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
03 · Dynamic history Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created...
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Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created milestones.
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Array 1.37.0: Cohorts 2.0 and event & property detail pages PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages,...
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PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages, dancing hedgehogs and much, much more.
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How we made something people want It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This...
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It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This principle, and the ones that follow in this post…
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Networking Essentials: DNS Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
over a year ago
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A case study in being excellent: Divvy
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Adjacency Matrix: How to expand after PMF A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key...
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A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching.
Antoine Mayerowitz
Mario meets Pareto
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Why I kept my startup job for seven years (and counting) Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing...
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Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing out on opportunities1. And yet, I've made the choice to join and stay at one company for seven years. That's more than half my career to date. Why did I do that? And would I do it...
Cognitive...
GPT-4's rebuttal to Uncensored Models I asked GPT-4 to respond to my previous article "Uncensored Models" because it is more likely to...
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I asked GPT-4 to respond to my previous article "Uncensored Models" because it is more likely to provide civil discourse rather than the shrill demagoguery that my human opponents have tended to employ. I found it interesting and both sides have validity. But my argument is...
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Local Testing on an iPhone Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may...
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Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may not be the most exciting topic I've written about, but it's probably one of the most useful!
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Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
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Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
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The 4 Types of Activity timeouts in Temporal This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each...
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This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each Activity timeout in Temporal does and when to use it.
Joel Gascoigne
We spent $3.3M buying out investors: Why and how we did it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors. Starting the conversations, negotiations, and process of this buy out was one
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How we turned ClickHouse into our event mansion Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference...
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Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference organised by Altinity. It was a fantastic opportunity to…
Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
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Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
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One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
A Beautiful Site
Get comfortable with abstraction I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly...
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I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly because it's something I tend to have a problem with. You see, I have this thing where I try really hard to understand exactly how something works—all the way down to the last nut and...
Steve Klabnik
Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
What App is That?
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Growing Teams and Baking Bread One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it...
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over a year ago
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it ferments some of the sugars in the dough into alcohol and carbon dioxide, resulting in a growing, bubbly mass of dough. There are some tricks to making dough rise quickly, like using...
Making software...
Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
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over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I've...
TokyoDev
Winning a Coding Contest Got Me a Free Trip to Japan I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland...
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I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland for the last two years. Half a year ago I visited Japan where I really fell in love with the people, culture, and food; it felt like a different planet. After I returned to Poland,...
Epic Web Dev
Use Fetcher Keys for Registering Remix Fetchers (tip) Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve...
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a year ago
Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve user experience and eliminate network delays.
TokyoDev
Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
Josh Collinsworth
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals,...
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I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.
Making software...
Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
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over a year ago
Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it's nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware November, 2022 The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most sensitive analog traces; I would love it if someone could teach me why the soldermask is removed for these guard rings. I imagine there must be some motivation to retain this motif...
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Engineering AI Agents - OpenAI DevDay Singapore talk this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
a month ago
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Managing pure Common Lisp files on Medley <![CDATA[Managing Lisp code in the residential environment of Medley differs from similar tasks in...
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<![CDATA[Managing Lisp code in the residential environment of Medley differs from similar tasks in traditional file based Common Lisp systems. In a previous post I explained how the residential environment of Medley works, discussed some of its facilities and tools, and...
Tinloof - Blog
How to dynamically create a sitemap with Sanity and Remix In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and...
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over a year ago
In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and Remix. We’ll learn by following an existing example of a sitemap built for Heavybit’s website, a San Francisco-based VC whose website is built with both technologies. Remix is a React...
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How to Set Up SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS A quick 3 step guide for myself on how to set up Svelte with Tailwind CSS
over a year ago
Making software...
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on...
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over a year ago
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don't style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
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Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
Making software...
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
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over a year ago
Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
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Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
over a year ago
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HogMail #20: Why do startups fail? Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
TokyoDev
Don't Start With a Prototype for Your MVP Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable...
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over a year ago
Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable product](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-product-guide.html) as > that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort As a...
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Slack is Fumbling Developers Reflecting on the sudden switch away from Slack for Developer communities
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Nelson's Weblog
What are passkeys? That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are...
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a year ago
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
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PostHog raises $15 million Series B for open source product analytics Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million...
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over a year ago
Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million in fresh funding and major new free features for…
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Digital photos and privacy Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most...
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over a year ago
Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security: Digital photos and privacy Digital...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs For the past several months, after leaving Amazon I have been hard at work building a software...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the past several months, after leaving Amazon I have been hard at work building a software product. I anticipate probably another 1-…
The Changelog
Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of...
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The 9 best GA4 alternatives for apps and websites In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4...
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a year ago
In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) or another provider. This hasn't proved a…
ntietz.com blog
Distractions Cause Bad Code We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our digital society now is set up to allow us to focus for mere minutes at a time, since we are in an attention economy and the sole objective of companies is to capture more of our time....
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Keep a React component mounted The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is...
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over a year ago
The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is remount management. Some portions of the UI can be hidden or shown — sidebars, drop-down menus, modals and draggable widgets are all prominent examples. The basic React pattern for...
Maggie Appleton
Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2023 The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and...
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a year ago
The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and model of the keyboard, but it was really entertaining to see the comment thread puzzle through the design. The dual 8049’s caught my attention too, as well as the lack of obvious...
Maggie Appleton
Teenage Skeuomorphic Desktop Designs
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Database Migrations I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software...
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I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software engineer’s life. Not only […] The post Database Migrations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Josh Comeau's blog
What The Heck, z-index?? The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this...
macwright.com
The module pattern really isn't needed anymore by I wrote about this pattern years ago, and wrote an update, and then Classes became broadly available...
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12 months ago
I wrote about this pattern years ago, and wrote an update, and then Classes became broadly available in JavaScript. I was kind of skeptical of class syntax when it came out, but now there really isn’t any reason to use any other kind of “class” style than the ES6 syntax. The...
ntietz.com blog
Different topologies for an org chart, wrong answers only Traditionally, an org chart is represented as a tree. You start at the top with the root of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Traditionally, an org chart is represented as a tree. You start at the top with the root of the tree, probably the CEO. And then everything comes down from there hierarchically. It doesn't have to be that way, though! We can imagine other topologies for companies which would...
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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...
Computer Things
Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors? Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics....
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Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics. If you've got a blog come join us! You don't need to drive yourself crazy with a 3000-word hell essay, just write something fun and genuine and out of character for you. But I am...
Josh Comeau's blog
CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
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You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
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Being a good co-worker is your job now In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how not to suck at...
11 months ago
HTMHell
Getting Oriented with HTML Video by Scott Jehl A couple years back, I was in a window seat on a flight from Amsterdam to New York....
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by Scott Jehl A couple years back, I was in a window seat on a flight from Amsterdam to New York. The weather was gray and drizzly as the plane took off, but as it punched through the clouds a very different scene revealed itself. Out my window, it looked like a Maxfield Parrish...
Charles Chen
Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical...
a year ago
davidyat.es
Review: Bezos
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Josh Collinsworth
If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best...
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I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
Liz Denys
6/8 time, beat on the dotted quarter, 60 bpm My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per...
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over a year ago
My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per minute; at least, whenever I sit down at a piano without sheet music in front of me, I always converge on that setting. Sometimes, I write some of these musings down: I've...
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a...
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As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a brand new, yet familiar, framework for building hybrid mobile apps. Background But first, let me provide some context. Last year, shortly before Rails World 2023, we open sourced...
The Pragmatic...
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
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Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
the jsomers.net blog
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
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The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
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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over a year ago
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...
Nelson's Weblog
Liftmaster 87504-267 This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
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over a year ago
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door! Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
TokyoDev
How I obtained a J-FIND visa in Japan The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business...
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10 months ago
The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business startup, and other income-generating endeavors within Japan — opportunities that were previously inaccessible to do so. I was one of the first recipients of this visa, which provided me...
HTMHell
What the slot? by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used to. Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework HTML Web Components: An Example Material web components 1.0 release HTML Web Components are Just JavaScript? Web Components...
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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over a year ago
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...
David Heinemeier...
Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
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9 months ago
I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:   1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
Max Countryman
Delivering Value with Platform Engineering Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the holistic system. This in contrast to and in direct support of teams which focus on a narrower domain. In doing so, platform teams elevate and accelerate the work of their peers...
Remains of the Day
Catch up It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
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over a year ago
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time. While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
Epic Web Dev
Stop Lying to Your Users
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck. It's not that strategy and...
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over a year ago
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck. It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev...
a year ago
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a year ago
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
Coding Horror
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
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over a year ago
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
Maggie Appleton
Joining Ought
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In-depth: PostHog vs Pendo Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables...
a year ago
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a year ago
Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables users to add in tool-tips and in-app messages. It…
Acko.net
Reconcile All The Things Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
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Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and Reconciliation Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Memoization If you...
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of [insert design industry here] and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
Epic Web Dev
Adding OpenID Connect Authentication to the Epic Stack (tip) Learn how to integrate OpenID Connect authentication into the Epic Stack with this comprehensive...
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
The silent majority The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign. In...
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The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign. In this usage, it referred […] The post The silent majority appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Julia Evans
Building a custom site for zine feedback Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta...
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Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta readers! about how I’d started using beta readers. The basic strategy for getting feedback there was to email people a PDF and ask for feedback. This was kind of inefficient, and so over the...