Jake Zimmerman
Using my iPhone as a travel laptop
3 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Rebuilding your Spotlight index in macOS
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and...
over a year ago
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and files stopped appearing — even ones I access frequently.
After sifting through numerous posts online, I finally discovered one that seems to work. Running this command in the...
Elad Blog
The False Narrative Around Theranos
One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying...
over a year ago
One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying into part of the defense's narrative that "Theranos was just acting like every Silicon Valley startup". This is of course blatantly false, but it is being adopted as some form of...
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: An Optimistic Future (article)
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
5 months ago
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
Confessions of a...
CPython Garbage Collection: The Internal Mechanics and Algorithms
A detailed code walkthrough of how CPython implements memory management, including reference...
6 months ago
A detailed code walkthrough of how CPython implements memory management, including reference counting and garbage collection
Irrational...
Make an effective executive LinkedIn profile.
tl;dr - it’s valuable to update your LinkedIn profile to be a concise, accurate, and current summary...
a year ago
tl;dr - it’s valuable to update your LinkedIn profile to be a concise, accurate, and current summary of your accomplishment. Spend at most two hours updating it, then ask a friend (ideally a recruiter) for feedback. Incorporate that feedback and don’t think about your profile...
Josh Collinsworth
Converting from Gridsome to SvelteKit
I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project...
over a year ago
I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project before. So when I found myself looking for a new platform for this site as SvelteKit entered open beta, it seemed like perfect timing.
alexwlchan
CSS formatting in the console
I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service)...
a year ago
I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service) and I was mildly surprised by what I saw in the developer tools console:
Code that runs in the dev console can be very powerful, so I can understand why they want to...
Maggie Appleton
Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
over a year ago
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2024
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of...
9 months ago
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of reporting both wind speed and direction. Thanks again to FETguy and Renew Computers for the contribution! The coil on the left hand side is a brushless resolver, which determines...
Joel Gascoigne
The evolution of culture at a startup
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over a year ago
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has grown from just myself (working from my bedroom) to a team of 7. In the last
few months, I’ve been thinking a...
Remains of the Day
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
over a year ago
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
HTMHell
Makeshift hot reload
by Evan Hahn
In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh...
a week ago
by Evan Hahn
In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh your page every second. This is a makeshift "hot reload" for development. It's not perfect, but it can be a quick solution!
Hot reloading automatically reloads parts of your page...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 3: Related work
5 months ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Using Talon in a game jam
I use Talon to control my computer some of the time.
It's mostly voice control, but it has so many...
a month ago
I use Talon to control my computer some of the time.
It's mostly voice control, but it has so many other controls built in!
One lets you use an eye tracker as a mouse.
I thought this sounded like a neat interaction for other situations too.
When I mentioned this to a friend, he...
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Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors
Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
over a year ago
Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
ntietz.com blog
Rust's iterators optimize nicely—and contain a footgun
I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list...
7 months ago
I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list twice, while the foreach loop iterates only once."
The author continued that "Haskell can fuse maps together as an optimization but I don't think you safely fuse arbitrary map/filters?...
Irrational...
The Engineering executive’s role in hiring.
Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may...
a year ago
Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may have taken pride in being an effective interviewer. As an engineering manager, you may have prioritized becoming a strong closer, convincing candidates to join your team. As a more...
Making software...
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for...
over a year ago
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it.
Keeping Things...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eternal shell history 🐢
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5)
Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
10 months ago
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5)
Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash
history:
$ wc -l < ~/.muh_history
763075
My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all
saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history.
$...
Alex Meub
My Mac OSX Setup
Application Installs
Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge...
over a year ago
Application Installs
Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge step above MacPorts and Fink when it comes to installing and managing open source software.
Spectacle is a free window resizing utility that gives you keyboard shortcuts to resize...
somenice
Cloth Simulation with Procedural Plaid
This was fun, because how can you have too much plaid?Thanks to Ryan King Art on Youtube for the...
a year ago
This was fun, because how can you have too much plaid?Thanks to Ryan King Art on Youtube for the Blender tutorial series on material nodes. His tutorials are great and I appreciate the effort in his editing. Support him if you can. I often joke that I’ve learned Blender 3D every...
Darek Kay
Running Storybook from a separate folder
After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder...
over a year ago
After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder next to the actual app:
📁 project
├─ 📁 app
| ├─ 📁 src
| └─ 📄 package.json
└─ 📁 storybook
├─ 📁 .storybook
| ├─ 📄 main.js
| └─ 📄 preview.js
└─ 📄...
bt RSS Feed
My Robotic Mower Woes
My Robotic Mower Woes
2023-05-19
A Brief Background
I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
a year ago
My Robotic Mower Woes
2023-05-19
A Brief Background
I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
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Why we're removing the sessions page
This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain...
over a year ago
This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain a daily list of all sessions by your users…
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
2024-07-24
A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a...
5 months ago
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
2024-07-24
A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a standard pi-hole server with eero WiFi but since that time I have swapped out my “cell tower” internet for Starlink. The speed improvement has been incredible and there is no looking...
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...
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...
David Heinemeier...
We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines
Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it...
7 months ago
Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it takes our remote BuildKite-based continuous integration setup about 5m30s to verify a code change is ready to ship for HEY. My Intel 14900K-based Linux box can do that in less than...
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
In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical candidates (was it ever)?
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 23, 2016: street harassment
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today was the first time I was street harassed on my commute since moving in November... memories relived on the following train ride:
Content warning:...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Reactions to my post on cancelling the Replit subscription
<![CDATA[A few days ago I blogged on why I cancelled my paid plan to Replit.
It was a short...
a year ago
<![CDATA[A few days ago I blogged on why I cancelled my paid plan to Replit.
It was a short personal note to record my decision as I often do to document my experiences with tools and products, possibly of interest to the few dozen regulars per day who read my blog.
A day on...
Nelson's Weblog
Back to Goodreads
I’m
back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use
Goodreads please add
me as a...
over a year ago
I’m
back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use
Goodreads please add
me as a friend.
After
Goodreads
lost my account I was furious and of course intended to never use
it again. But to their credit, Goodreads did some extra work and
managed to get me a copy of...
Programming in the...
Writing Video Games in a Functional Style
When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games...
over a year ago
When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games be written in a functional style?" These are programs heavily based around mutable state. They evolve, often drastically, during development, so there isn't a perfect up-front...
Seán Barry
Presentation: Pushing Compute to the Browser
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose...
over a year ago
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose technical and real-world problems. Using a number of modern solutions like HTTP 2, web workers and careful state management with redux we can offload the work to the browser and deliver...
Julia Evans
Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?
Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core
concept in Git...
11 months ago
Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core
concept in Git (commits! branches! remotes! the staging area!) and commits have
been surprisingly tricky.
Understanding how git commits are implemented feels pretty straightforward to
me (those are...
alexwlchan
Making alt text more visible
I add alt text to every image on this site.
I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text...
2 months ago
I add alt text to every image on this site.
I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text before I publish the site, but that means alt text has often been an afterthought – something I’d dash out at the very end of writing a post.
I wanted to give it more attention, and...
David Heinemeier...
There are no secrets left
First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe...
11 months ago
First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe if they just get this one investor involved, they’ll know everything they need to do to crack product-market fit. Maybe if they just compose a board full of smart people, they’ll...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Link Preload as Image
I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work...
a year ago
I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work ok on localhost, but as soon as I push code to a preview branch on a remote server, the image loads between transitions are janky because of image loading.
Granted, this stuff...
David Gerrells
How fast is javascript? Simulating 20,000,000 particles
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the...
5 months ago
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the cpu. Let’s go.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22: failure and success
<![CDATA[I upgraded my System76 Merkaat mini PC from Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon to Mint 22 "Wilma". It...
4 months ago
<![CDATA[I upgraded my System76 Merkaat mini PC from Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon to Mint 22 "Wilma". It didn't go as hoped but some extra effort eventually made Mint 22 run fine.
I began by starting the upgrade process from Mint 21.3.
I didn't get a good feel for the upgrade tool,...
Joel Gascoigne
Maximize your excitement
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over a year ago
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I’m a huge believer of the lean startup movement and the concept of validating
ideas as quickly as possible. I think wasted time and resources are disastrous
and no matter how much you love an...
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...
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
Recruiters and Human Traffickers: A Short History of Employment Agencies in Japan
Japan's [Employment Security...
over a year ago
Japan's [Employment Security Act](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?id=10&vm=2&re=) requires a recruitment business to obtain a license. Failure to do so can result in imprisonment of up to a year. While I've met sleazy recruiters, sending them to prison...
the singularity is...
The Soul
ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you...
3 weeks ago
ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you wish there was a deep state that came for me. then at least there would be some adults in the room.
I used to fantasize about being or kissing Skrillex
the whole album is bangers...
samwho.dev
Fun With Rust's Traits
Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees
with this statement. It's...
over a year ago
Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees
with this statement. It's a great way to encode shared behaviour between
data types, and create flexible APIs.
It's also great for writing nonsense like this:
use std::f64::consts::PI;
use...
Ralph Ammer
So… this is a job?
What is Design?
The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
over a year ago
What is Design?
The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
swyx's site RSS Feed
OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪
a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
over a year ago
a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
Vadim Kravcenko
Bullsh*t Jobs
Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the...
a year ago
Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the second part of […]
The post Bullsh*t Jobs appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Seldo.com
On AI, ML, LLMs and the future of software
a year ago
The Changelog
A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP)
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
over a year ago
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
37signals Dev
Turbo 8 released
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
10 months ago
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board.
Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8:
Morphing...
Joel Gascoigne
Plan or build?
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over a year ago
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founder who’s really hustling. We spent some time discussing his idea and I
shared some of my experiences with...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Clientside Webmentions
How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
over a year ago
How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Ideas for replit bounties
Apparently replit asks all Pro users about their thoughts.
As it happens, I have a lot of thoughts...
a year ago
Apparently replit asks all Pro users about their thoughts.
As it happens, I have a lot of thoughts about how to improve Replit bounties.
Lower transaction costs
Currently the process is:
I post a bounty
one or more people apply
I select an applicant
they do the work
I...
alexwlchan
Going between Finder and the Terminal
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the...
3 months ago
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the Terminal’s command line and the Finder’s GUI.
He has some neat ideas, and I particularly like his AppleScript sel for selecting multiple items in Finder.
I’ve written a couple of similar...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components: An Example
In my article on HTML web components, I said:
But the unique power of web components (in the...
a year ago
In my article on HTML web components, I said:
But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React components cannot do this — full stop.
There’s a lot in there I wanted to explain more in-depth, but I just never go to it.
Then...
alexwlchan
Digital decluttering
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom.
I read novel-length stories about...
3 months ago
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom.
I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla.
Most of that is gone now.
Links rot quickly,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
For Sale: Used Domain (**Clean Title**)
Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”:
He...
a month ago
Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”:
He buys a domain that seems fine on the surface.
When he begins using it, he notices some things aren’t right (organic search traffic, for example, is dead).
After some investigation,...
Joel Gascoigne
Raising funding as a first-time founder
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over a year ago
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I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time
entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I
can really feel the passion and determination...
A Beautiful Site
Querying through shadow roots
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
over a year ago
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace.
<sl-button>Click me</sl-button>
Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
David Heinemeier...
Challenging the guardians of the paradigm
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
a year ago
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
Tinloof - Blog
Guide to fast Next.js
Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
11 months ago
Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
Remains of the Day
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:
COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
over a year ago
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:
COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.
If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Books I can remember
📚
The best part of reading is forgetting.
This is why I struggle with book reviews—it’s hard to...
a year ago
📚
The best part of reading is forgetting.
This is why I struggle with book reviews—it’s hard to know how
valuable a book is until later. But sometimes you find yourself
declaiming a book’s key point long after you’ve forgotten most of
it.
That’s when you know a book is...
A Smart Bear
Double your productivity without more work or stress
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
4 months ago
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
6 months ago
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
Alex Meub
A Great Bumper Sticker
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago...
over a year ago
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing:
It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland):
If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
Making software...
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
2023-07-21
Often times when you save or export photos...
a year ago
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator
2023-07-21
Often times when you save or export photos from iOS to iCloud they often render themselves into heif or heic formats. Both macOS and iOS have no problem working with these formats, but a lot of software programs will not even...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 2: Pairing is Awesome
The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going...
over a year ago
The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going too quickly.
My batch is twelve weeks long, so I'm 17% through.
Only ten weeks left!
This is a precious time, so I'm trying to make the most of it, but also trying to not increase...
the jsomers.net blog
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose...
over a year ago
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example, or sport, or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know....
Steve Klabnik
Rails 4.0.0-beta1 to Rails 4.0.0-rc1
over a year 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
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...
Computer Things
What I look for in empirical software papers
Behind on the talk and still reading a lot of research papers on empirical software engineering...
7 months ago
Behind on the talk and still reading a lot of research papers on empirical software engineering (ESE). Evaluating a paper studying software engineers is a slightly different skill than evaluating other kinds of CS papers, which feel a little closer to hard sciences or...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture...
over a year ago
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Basta’s Notes
No hassle detected!
The importance of tools
4 months ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
What is a react component, anyways?
I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write...
over a year ago
I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write a simple component!”. But time after time I hear — “Vladimir, what’s a component, anyways?”. Bah, what a question! It’s a react thingie. React apps are made of components. Why do...
TokyoDev
Safari bug with ruby tag
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
over a year ago
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.*
Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
which renders as
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
If you control click...
Joel Gascoigne
What online gaming taught me about startups
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Whilst researching for the Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom
[https://joel.is/post/22436341176/achieving-overnight-success-kevin-systrom] piece
I published two weeks ago, I was excited to...
Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
over a year ago
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […]
The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
alexwlchan
How I set up my Obsidian vaults
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve...
a year ago
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve been using it for nearly three years.
Time flies when you’re organising information!
I’ve grown to really like it, and I expect to keep using it for a while to come.
Its approach...
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Measuring Developer Relations
DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective...
over a year ago
DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor.
Tinloof - Blog
How we build fast Shopify stores
It is no surprise that ecommerce page speed is a key factor in user satisfaction, conversion rates,...
a year ago
It is no surprise that ecommerce page speed is a key factor in user satisfaction, conversion rates, SEO, and brand perception.
Research clearly shows that the slower the ecommerce is, the less likely visitors are going to purchase; 79% of customers are less likely to buy again...
TokyoDev
Discount coupons for babysitters in Japan via a government subsidy
In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use...
a year ago
In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use babysitters](https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/headline/taikijido/pdf/h28yosan_sankou5.pdf). Babysitters are very expensive in Japan for most families, so it’s usually not an option for many parents. But at...
David Heinemeier...
You're not guaranteed a spot on the team
I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously...
8 months ago
I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously not true, and it's usually cynically invoked by management to entice an undue obligation of sacrifice. Implying that you should give it all to The Company -- constantly working...
Irrational...
Digital release of Engineering Executive's Primer.
Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday,
and physical...
10 months ago
Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday,
and physical copies will be available in March.
Also, as of this moment, you can purchase the digital edition on Amazon,
and read the full digital release on O’Reilly.
(You can preorder physical...
Maggie Appleton
Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh
2 months ago
The Changelog
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
over a year ago
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
macwright.com
How are we supposed to do tooltips now? by
I’ve been working on oldfashioned.tech, which is sort of a testbed to learn about htmx and the other...
11 months ago
I’ve been working on oldfashioned.tech, which is sort of a testbed to learn about htmx and the other paths: vanilla CSS instead of Tailwind, server-rendering for as much as possible.
How are tooltips and modals supposed to work outside of the framework world? What the Web...
dthompson
Optimizing Guile Scheme
Guile is a rather niche language
that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features...
10 months ago
Guile is a rather niche language
that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features an
advanced optimizing bytecode compiler, a JIT compiler, and a modest
set of developer tools for inspecting and debugging. Through my time
spent developing Chickadee, a...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
over a year ago
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
TokyoDev
Facebook didn't try to change the world
A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some...
over a year ago
A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some great insight into how to become a successful entrepreneur.
> **Interviewer:** Where are you taking Facebook, you can expand to those other schools that you're not at, and then...
Joel Gascoigne
5 varieties of remote working in companies
I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the
nature of a company...
over a year ago
I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the
nature of a company where the team works from remote locations to accomplish our
work.
Scaling remote working has been a challenge as the team has grown. Remote
companies are still relatively rare,...
Tinloof - Blog
PWA: What it is and why you should try it
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
a year ago
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users.
Mobile applications...
A Smart Bear
A life-changing challenge guided by Pascal's Wager
Applying Pascal's Wager: Humility wins, arrogance loses.
a month ago
Applying Pascal's Wager: Humility wins, arrogance loses.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Custom Elements, At Minimum, Only Need End With a Hyphen
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid...
6 months ago
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid custom element tag.
The spec says you can have custom elements with emojis in them. For example:
<emotion-😍></emotion-😍>
But for some reason the Codepen where I tested this wasn’t...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: React
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.
In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React?
We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
A small freedom area...
Hacking window titles to help OBS
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a
tiny project I wrote...
a year ago
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a
tiny project I wrote the other day, WTH, or WindowTitleHack, which is
meant to force a constant window name for apps that keep changing it (I'm
looking specifically at Firefox and Krita, but there are...
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Jan 2020 Recap
a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
over a year ago
a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
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Post Bootcamp Mindmap
What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or...
over a year ago
What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or bootcamp?
Alex MacCaw
Lifestyle business FAQ
I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger...
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...
elementary Blog
elementary OS 7.1 Available Now
Today, we’re proud to announce that OS 7.1 is available to download now and shipping on several...
a year ago
Today, we’re proud to announce that OS 7.1 is available to download now and shipping on several high-quality computers. This release represents the sum of our work over the last several months as a single major update to the OS 7 series and includes all of the monthly OS updates...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools
For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you!
And I pass on this super useful...
a year ago
For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you!
And I pass on this super useful (perhaps obvious) piece of information I received from Bramus: watch your animations play out in slow motion using Chrome’s devtools.
I’ve been working on view transitions on my icon...
the singularity is...
There is no hard takeoff
Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view....
a year ago
Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view. Soon, Go agents would beat top humans learning from self play. By the end of 2017, the same algorithm mastered Chess and Shogi. By 2020, it didn’t even need tons of calls to the...
A Beautiful Site
Smaller volume increments in macOS
Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can.
You...
over a year ago
Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can.
You already know you can increase and decrease your Mac's volume with the keyboard, but sometimes the intervals are a bit too much. I usually end up adjusting my external speakers just to...
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How rollup-plugin-svelte Works
Svelte is often thought of as a compiler. But really it is a compiler within a bundler.
over a year ago
Svelte is often thought of as a compiler. But really it is a compiler within a bundler.
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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...
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…
Oxide Computer...
Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM
Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered...
over a year ago
Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered an undocumented hardware block in the LPC55S69 (our chosen part for our product’s Root of Trust implementation) that could be used to violate security boundaries. This issue...
Irrational...
Notes on Tidy First?
Tidy First? by Kent Beck captures the spirit of Ousterhout’s A Philosophy of Software Design while...
a year ago
Tidy First? by Kent Beck captures the spirit of Ousterhout’s A Philosophy of Software Design while also recognizing the inherent tensions of developing software within a team and business. You can also read it in about two hours. Recommended!
A Philosophy of Software Design by...
David Heinemeier...
The Musk Algorithm
Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book....
a year ago
Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best business books, it's not merely an instruction manual, but an inspirational guide too. Not since reading Ricardo Semler's Maverick in the early 2000s have I...
alexwlchan
Publishing lots and lots of messages to SNS
At work, we use Amazon SNS as the trigger for a lot of our data pipelines.
You send a message to an...
a year ago
At work, we use Amazon SNS as the trigger for a lot of our data pipelines.
You send a message to an SNS topic, and it gets picked up by an SQS queue, an ECS task, or a Lambda function – and they in turn send new messages to other SNS topics, and the pipeline continues.
Sending a...
macwright.com
What editors do things use?
Apps that use CodeMirror
Obsidian
Repl.it
Val Town
…more on the CodeMirror site
Apps that use...
11 months ago
Apps that use CodeMirror
Obsidian
Repl.it
Val Town
…more on the CodeMirror site
Apps that use Monaco
StackBlitz
CodeSandbox
Deno Deploy
Cloudflare Workers
ntietz.com blog
Feature flags and authorization abstract the same concept
When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things.
They...
a year ago
When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things.
They are used for different purposes.
But ultimately, they are abstractions of the same thing.
They might even be the same thing except for how they are used and the consequences for...
Joel Gascoigne
What are your top 3 challenges?
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over a year ago
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There are a few key things which looking back I remember I was very bad at. One
of them was asking people for advice.
I think a key turning point with this was when we raised funding for...
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
Joel Gascoigne
Making money with a product: A myth?
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over a year ago
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I’ve realised there was a time I didn’t believe people would pay for a product.
In my mind, it was a myth. As an entrepreneur, it’s so vital to overcome that.
First, a coffee shop conversation
I
Julia Evans
Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server
I started using Mastodon back in November, and it’s the Twitter alternative
where I’ve been spending...
a year ago
I started using Mastodon back in November, and it’s the Twitter alternative
where I’ve been spending most of my time recently, mostly because the Fediverse
is where a lot of the Linux nerds seem to be right now.
I’ve found Mastodon quite a bit more confusing than Twitter because...
Joel Gascoigne
The third option
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over a year ago
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In the recent months I’ve realized I am very much in a bubble. Everyone I know
is building a company. Amongst my circle of friends, that is the norm. This,
however, is mostly out of choice: I...
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Eponymous Laws
Interesting Two Word ideas with names of people on them
over a year ago
Interesting Two Word ideas with names of people on them
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
over a year ago
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code.
As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
Steve Klabnik
Living with a terrible taste in music
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Video: Architecture of Groq's LPU & Why is it so Fast?
This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me...
9 months ago
This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me for the recording of the session.
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
over a year ago
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
macwright.com
Incentives
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives....
9 months ago
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner
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over a year ago
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This is the second article in my achieving overnight success
[https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel
the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
Making software...
Over-Nesting
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
over a year ago
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Julia Evans
New playground: integer.exposed
Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers
and floating point...
a year ago
Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers
and floating point numbers work. Whenever I make a zine I like to release a
playground to go with it, like mess with dns for the DNS zine or the sql playground.
For this one, I made a simple playground...
Writing - Andreas...
Grit Multipliers
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful
business as a solo founder....
over a year ago
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful
business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you
get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important
advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Cost of Avoiding Annoyance
tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the...
a year ago
tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the sophisticated workarounds we create to avoid them.
I really enjoyed this well-reasoned article explaining why htmx, the open-source hypermedia JS framework, does not have a build...
Joel Gascoigne
What can we do right now?
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over a year ago
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Recently there have been a few occasions at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where
we’ve hesitated about next steps or thought about spending longer on certain
tasks. As a result of my thinking...
David Gerrells
journey before destination
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
over a year ago
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
Basta’s Notes
Don't make me read your PR description
I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s...
a year ago
I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s been a net positive. There are more than a handful of problems that make me slower: Sometimes it suggests a closing quote or paren that isn’t needed. Removing the duplicate character...
Joel Gascoigne
Bright & Early Podcast with Brian Rhea
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above,...
over a year ago
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above, and see more details here.
A Beautiful Site
IE8 burns the Acid 2 test
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as...
over a year ago
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as Microsoft is showing more and more progress towards incorporating web standards into Internet Explorer, even though IE7 has remained dormant since it's release back in October 2006.
The...
Liz Denys
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
a year ago
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
The Codist
My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job....
a year ago
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job. Also, I never worked for a big tech company (other than Apple briefly, but that was when they were going out of business) and only a
David Heinemeier...
Native mobile apps are optional for B2B startups in 2024
I continue to see new B2B software startups struggle with native mobile apps. Consumer software...
a year ago
I continue to see new B2B software startups struggle with native mobile apps. Consumer software makers can usually start by going all-in on a single platform, but for business tools, that’s rarely an option. So they must face the tall task of tackling web, iOS, and Android at the...
Civic Hax
Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
Intro
This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate....
over a year ago
Intro
This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate. Please point out any mistakes if you see any!
In 2016, I did some work in trying to find some hotspot areas for parking tickets to see if a bit of data munging could reduce those...
A small freedom area...
Deconstructing Bézier curves
Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics
professionals and...
over a year ago
Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics
professionals and enthusiasts are often working with Bézier curves. They're
popular, extensively documented, and used pretty much everywhere. That being
said, I find them being explained almost exclusively...
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How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
over a year ago
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
Making software...
CSS Character Unit
CSS Character Unit
2019-04-23
When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
over a year ago
CSS Character Unit
2019-04-23
When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
Vadim Kravcenko
Dealing with complexity
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […]
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A Beautiful Site
Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
over a year ago
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
Making software...
Easy Toggle Switches
Easy Toggle Switches
2019-02-18
Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches
2019-02-18
Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles.
This is overkill. You can...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Creating Some Noise on Behalf of Silence
How do you write about the value of silence?
It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use...
5 months ago
How do you write about the value of silence?
It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use words to extol the value of something whose essence is the very absence of words?
It’s like making a painting of the invisible. Do you use visible means to depict something that...
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
2021-11-25
As you can most likely tell by looking at...
over a year ago
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
2021-11-25
As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser’s URL - I’ve swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I’m a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I’ve been planning to do...
Stephen Wolfram...
Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
a year ago
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
Daniel Marino
JS13K 2018 Retrospective
In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a...
over a year ago
In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a video game. I asked my JavaScript-whiz buddy, Brad, if he was interested in building a game with me. Without hesitation, he said “Yes!”
Concept
A couple of years ago I came up with...
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
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...
Tony Finch's blog
My wireguard IPv6 tunnel
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several
misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
7 months ago
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several
misfeatures is a lack of IPv6. Yesterday I (at last!) got around to
setting up a wireguard IPv6 VPN tunnel
between my workstation and my Mythic Beasts virtual private
server.
There were a few, um, learning...
wingolog
whippet update: faster evacuation, eager sweeping of empty blocks
Good evening. Tonight, notes on things I have learned recently while hacking on the .Whippet...
3 months ago
Good evening. Tonight, notes on things I have learned recently while hacking on the .Whippet GC
library
For some time now, the name Whippet has referred to three things.
Firstly, it is the , consisting of an include-only
garbage collection library containing a compile-time...
The Pragmatic...
Pollen’s enormous debt left behind: exclusive details
Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the...
over a year ago
Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the company has accumulated, most of which will not be paid. The highest offer to buy Pollen’s business assets - but without its liabilities - currently stands at only $250K. Details.
James Vaughan's blog
Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
11 months ago
blag
Moving to Hugo
some personal notes to remember the migration effort from Pelican to Hugo
over a year ago
some personal notes to remember the migration effort from Pelican to Hugo
bunnie's blog
The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A...
a year ago
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception. There’s a new maintainer of the guide, Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), and she is crowdfunding an updated, new...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes for The End of Localhost (Infobip Shift 2022)
I returned to Zadar!
over a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Why I don’t give investment advice
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are
either looking for...
a year ago
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are
either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually
not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which
doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
bt RSS Feed
Using User-Select
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
over a year ago
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property?
Introducing the CSS property
Simply put, the...
Irrational...
Building personal and organizational prestige
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
a year ago
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Good advice on JSX conditionals
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
over a year ago
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead:
condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy,
condition ?...
Blog System/5
End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate...
a year ago
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries, at least one of which is a CLI tool. But let’s face it: you don’t have end-to-end testing for those tools, do you?
Liz Denys
I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker'
When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required...
over a year ago
When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required computer class. Our teacher did not once call this programming; it was just another project among ones that usually weren't programming. I generalized almost every exercise - something...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
SumatraPDF 3.0 released
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 3.0 of Sumatra, a multi-format reader (PDF,...
over a year ago
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 3.0 of Sumatra, a multi-format reader (PDF, epub and mobi ebooks, comic books, etc.) for Windows.
You can download it from official SumatraPDF website
The biggest change in this version is addition of tabs, contributed by...
blag
Recurse Center Day 14: NoSQL Transactions
I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
over a year ago
I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
HTMHell
Reading the meter
The <meter> element is a little known and rarely used semantic element. It's a non-interactive form...
over a year ago
The <meter> element is a little known and rarely used semantic element. It's a non-interactive form element that renders as a partially filled horizontal bar. Browsers provide user-agent styles, but the <meter> element can also be styled.
<meter min="10" max="200"...
ntietz.com blog
Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers
I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things.
I also...
2 months ago
I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things.
I also like to make things in Rust, mostly for the web, and this is where we run into a problem.
See, if I want to make something for the web, I could use Django but I don't want that.
I...
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
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How I Approach First Principles Thinking
An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on...
over a year ago
An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on Applications
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work
> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer...
over a year ago
> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer News](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/naked-promises-are-not-safe-for-work/). A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
Computer Things
Five Unusual Raku Features
Logic for Programmers is now in Beta!
v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version,...
a month ago
Logic for Programmers is now in Beta!
v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version, all of the content I wanted to put in the book is now present, and all that's left is copyediting, proofreading, and formatting. Which will probably take as long as it took to...
Liz Denys
invalid arch-dependent ELF magic
An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it,...
over a year ago
An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it, or...
bt RSS Feed
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
2022-12-08
Introduction
I’ve made the switch...
over a year ago
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
2022-12-08
Introduction
I’ve made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid
workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux “installer” I used for this...
bt RSS Feed
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist
2021-11-03
This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
over a year ago
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist
2021-11-03
This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door…
I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website’s CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It’s pretty amazing to see the problems...
A Beautiful Site
Semantic version numbers
Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With...
over a year ago
Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With semantic versioning, the question of how and when to bump versions is made simple.
According to semver.org, the syntax for version numbers should go like this: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
When...
Daniel Marino
My First Sketch Plugin and What I Learned
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some...
over a year ago
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some of the nice effects it ships with. I love Sketch, but I don’t think these effects will ever make their way into Sketch. Sketch does have the ability to add plugins, and I’ve always...
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
4 months ago
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
Alex Meub
Buying a House in Portland
After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically...
over a year ago
After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically toured more than 70 houses, put in 13 offers and looked over hundreds of listings in nearly every neighborhood in the city. I thought it might be a good time to reflect on the...
Liz Denys
Black coiled bowl, 2023
Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, glossy blue glaze
a year ago
Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, glossy blue glaze
bt RSS Feed
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
over a year ago
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren’t great (and still aren’t perfect) but they represented a...
Liz Denys
Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
a year ago
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
Tinker, Tamper,...
Making Good Bug Reports
Many, many years ago, this was with Bugzilla in the early 2000s, I got my first automated lecture on...
4 months ago
Many, many years ago, this was with Bugzilla in the early 2000s, I got my first automated lecture on what constitutes a good bug report. I probably didn’t pay attention. Since then, I’ve seen this list countless times, in various levels of detail, across a broad array of...
A Smart Bear
No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric
Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
a month ago
Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now...
3 months ago
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work.
And work, they do.
Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
Darek Kay
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
over a year ago
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, which might lead to inconsistencies between different environments.
In this post I will present the behavior of npm 7.15.1 and Yarn...
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...
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...
bt RSS Feed
Stay Hungry
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
over a year ago
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
elementary Blog
Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More
As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and...
a year ago
As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and a major platform improvement. Enjoy this month’s contributions to the upcoming OS 7.1!
AppCenter
As we work towards our continual goal of better supporting alternative app stores,...
TokyoDev
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
over a year ago
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
Remains of the Day
Smoke and Mirrors
“When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy,...
over a year ago
“When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy, you’re standing up to the robe that he’s wearing and the role that he’s going to play. What makes him worthy of that role is his integrity, as a representative of the principles of...
Josh Comeau's blog
Data Binding in React
As developers, we don't like working with forms, but they're a critical part of most web...
a year ago
As developers, we don't like working with forms, but they're a critical part of most web applications! In this tutorial, you'll learn exactly how to wire up all of the different form controls in React. Never forget how to data-bind a checkbox or radio button again!
ntietz.com blog
Teleportation
teleportation does exist
from OR to recovery room
I left something behind
not quite a part of...
2 months ago
teleportation does exist
from OR to recovery room
I left something behind
not quite a part of myself
—unwelcome guests
poisoning me
from the inside
no longer welcome
Dan Quach Blog
Data Engineering Low Code Tools
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our...
a year ago
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our radar. Low code tools have their own nuances as you will get to operationalize quicker, but the minute you need to customize something outside of the toolbox, you may run into...
Liz Denys
Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers
You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet...
over a year ago
You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet someone new, and you're inevitably asking and being asked three questions:
Where do you work?
Where do you live?
How much is your rent?
Okay, you don't always encounter that last one,...
bt RSS Feed
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal...
over a year ago
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It’s pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc.
The only small...
Dan Cowell
"balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet.
I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline...
a year ago
I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency.
Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast,
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
a year ago
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
David Heinemeier...
The premise trap
The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
6 days ago
The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long...
bt RSS Feed
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested...
over a year ago
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
Elad Blog
AI Safety: Technology vs Species Threats
There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The...
a year ago
There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The conventional view is that AI is just yet another of many tool-based technological advances. Like all technologies, the main threat of AI in this scenario is if a human were to use it for...
macwright.com
Bandcamp wrapped
I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s.
The downside...
2 weeks ago
I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s.
The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s
great and has been working well for me.
Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games
(?) and then acquired...
Alex Meub
Install JSDOM On Windows
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation...
over a year ago
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation of the DOM that makes it super easy to work with pages retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, JSDOM relies on a node package called Contextify that is difficult to get working...
Kagi Blog
Kagi + Wolfram
Building a search engine is hard.
9 months ago
Building a search engine is hard.
bt RSS Feed
Chasing Performance
Chasing Performance
2017-11-20
Update
This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
over a year ago
Chasing Performance
2017-11-20
Update
This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I’m keeping this article up as a point of reference.
So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag’s Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
bt RSS Feed
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
over a year ago
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I’ve most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome.
But that all changes...
Ink & Switch
OS of the future and universal version control
In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing...
9 months ago
In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing and introducing our new research project.
Liz Denys
Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier...
over a year ago
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier person. That said, it took a while to go from very comfortable riding a bike around the car-free loop inside Prospect Park to no longer feeling extremely anxious riding on NYC...
The Changelog
Martha the Pilot
Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our...
a year ago
Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our airplane in short flights to a nearby restaurant and long ones to Michigan and South Dakota. All this time, she’s been riding in the back seat next to Laura. Martha has been talking...
ntietz.com blog
Approximating the Sierpinski Triangle on my CNC
One of my big hobbies outside of tech is chess.
I like to play it, and I also help run our town's...
5 months ago
One of my big hobbies outside of tech is chess.
I like to play it, and I also help run our town's chess club.
As part of that, we like to run rated tournaments to get our members some experience in a low-pressure tournament environment.
These are my responsibility to organize and...
Epic Web Dev
Hamburger Menu Animation (tip)
Learn how to create an engaging hamburger menu animation with Tailwind CSS, improving user...
a year ago
Learn how to create an engaging hamburger menu animation with Tailwind CSS, improving user experience and adding a touch of fun flair.
Joel on Software
Kinda a big announcement
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I...
over a year ago
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"
swyx's site RSS Feed
API Design: Modifying Defaults
> This is a quick note on a API Design. I hope to make this an ongoing series.
over a year ago
> This is a quick note on a API Design. I hope to make this an ongoing series.
Julia Evans
How do Nix builds work?
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
a year ago
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds
work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here.
I started by complaining on Mastodon:
are there any guides to nix that...
Joel Gascoigne
Focus on the line, not the dot
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Yesterday I...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring?
[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker
News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half
a...
Steve Klabnik
Fast Rails tests with CanCan
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Meta-Creator Ceiling
Don't play games you don't want to win.
over a year ago
Don't play games you don't want to win.
A Smart Bear
Moats: Durable competitive advantage
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
over a year ago
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
TokyoDev
Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012)
I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already...
over a year ago
I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already [another Rubyist here](https://twitter.com/igaiga555/status/247511186394972160). Five minutes before, I met [another one](https://twitter.com/yotii23) walking down the street. Last...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eventually consistent plain text accounting
.title { text-wrap: balance }
Spending for October, generated by piping
hledger → R
Over the past...
a month ago
.title { text-wrap: balance }
Spending for October, generated by piping
hledger → R
Over the past six months, I’ve tracked my money with hledger—a plain text
double-entry accounting system written in Haskell. It’s been
surprisingly painless.
My previous attempts to pick up...
Vadim Kravcenko
🔥 Do things, tell people
🤖 When I was younger, I liked to build things (still do), and I was very often surprised that...
over a year ago
🤖 When I was younger, I liked to build things (still do), and I was very often surprised that people […]
The post 🔥 Do things, tell people appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fibonacci Goals
A system for goalsetting.
over a year ago
A system for goalsetting.
Seán Barry
What does Quitting the Rat Race Mean to Me?
Am I going to move to a cave in the mountains and immediately get eaten by a bear? This is what...
a year ago
Am I going to move to a cave in the mountains and immediately get eaten by a bear? This is what 'quitting the rat race' means to me.
somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
a year ago
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
Alex Meub
A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a...
over a year ago
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x2TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all...
Maggie Appleton
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology
over a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
a year ago
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
Alex Meub
Chromecast Backgrounds
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
over a year ago
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome.
I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky Brutalist planter with attached drip tray, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
7 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
alexwlchan
Using templates in Terraform to document a deployment
I’ve been doing a bunch of new Terraform recently, and I’ve started using it to document the...
a year ago
I’ve been doing a bunch of new Terraform recently, and I’ve started using it to document the deployments it’s creating.
In particular, I’ve started using Terraform to create README files which describe the exact infrastructure it’s just created.
Here’s my latest example: a README...
HTMHell
#21 Legendary legend!
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button...
over a year ago
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button class="panel-heading" tabindex="0" href="#collapse0" aria-expanded="true">
<legend> Industries Served </legend>
</button>
Issues and how to fix them
legend is not allowed as a child of any other...
Alex MacCaw
Advice to my younger self
I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in...
over a year ago
I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in full:
If you could call yourself 10 years ago and speak for a minute, what would you say?
That's the thought that was going through my mind when I got
swyx's site RSS Feed
TL;DR of Why React is Not Reactive
A recap of my first ever conference talk
over a year ago
A recap of my first ever conference talk
Words and Buttons...
The simplest possible smooth contouring algorithm
The algorithm that takes a distance function and makes a smooth contour out of it in three steps.
over a year ago
The algorithm that takes a distance function and makes a smooth contour out of it in three steps.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Powering a blog with Notion and Netlify
The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM...
over a year ago
The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM ($5/month).
Recently I’ve made 2 big changes:
I converted it to a static site hosted on Netlify
I used Notion for writing the posts instead of writing markdown files in a text editor
Moving to...
ntietz.com blog
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
over a year ago
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
a year ago
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
ntietz.com blog
Start to finish on self-publishing a technical book
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022.
That year I wrote...
8 months ago
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022.
That year I wrote 37,000 words, more than the 33,000 I'd written up to that point.
It has accelerated since then.
At some point, I realized that I've put in a lot of time and effort writing here, and...
macwright.com
You can finally use :has() in most places by
The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the...
a year ago
The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places.
For example, in Val...
Dan Slimmon
3 questions that will make you a phenomenal rubber duck
As a Postgres reliability consultant and SRE, I’ve spent many hours being a rubber duck. Now I...
11 months ago
As a Postgres reliability consultant and SRE, I’ve spent many hours being a rubber duck. Now I outperform even the incisive bath toy. “Rubber duck debugging” is a widespread, tongue-in-cheek term for the practice of explaining, out-loud, a difficult problem that you’re stumped...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 6: Halfway done, wrote a parser!
I'm halfway done with my RC batch now.
Time feels like it has sped up.
The feeling that my time at...
over a year ago
I'm halfway done with my RC batch now.
Time feels like it has sped up.
The feeling that my time at RC is infinite is gone.
This was compounded by seeing folks from the Fall 1 batch conclude their batches yesterday.
We'll get a new boost from the Winter 1 batch joining on Monday,...
Josh Comeau's blog
Why React Re-Renders
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and...
over a year ago
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the...
Patrick Kayongo
Disenchantment
Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her...
a year ago
Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her phone after recharging at her parents’ home earlier in the day. In addition to that, there had been no water since the morning. Joburg Water had promised restoration by 2pm, but 48...
Nelson's Weblog
Trump's plans for his second presidency
The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open
about
their planning for a...
a year ago
The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open
about
their planning for a second presidency, mostly under the umbrella of
Project 2025.
There’s been a lot of good journalism about it. Some examples:
Sweeping
Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside...
Nelson's Weblog
No more talking to politicians
I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been
aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
a year ago
I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been
aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer
accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined.
Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize
the caller...
ntietz.com blog
Automating my backups with restic and anacron
I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set...
10 months ago
I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set up.
Automating them was something important but was on the back burner, because, well, it never felt very important.
Then I lost a few days of work when my SSD died, and it felt more...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Netlify Environment Variables
We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally...
over a year ago
We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally configure your environments as well?
Blog - Bitfield...
Will write for food
In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went
from self-unemployment...
5 months ago
In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went
from self-unemployment to founding the world’s tiniest publishing empire.
ntietz.com blog
Measuring the overhead of HashMaps in Rust
While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my...
over a year ago
While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my hashmaps were taking up a lot of RAM.
I mean, a lot of RAM.
I did a back of the napkin calculation for what the minimum memory usage should be, and I was getting more than twice...
HTMHell
The Hellish History of HTML: An incomplete and personal account
by Jason Cranford Teague
Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024
Note: HTML standards are developed...
a year ago
by Jason Cranford Teague
Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024
Note: HTML standards are developed first in browsers, so the version might have already became the de facto standard before the official standard document is released.
The story so far:
In the beginning Tim...
Max Countryman
Three Years to Shake Your Head
There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the...
a year ago
There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the shakuhachi, "It takes three years to learn to shake your head." This is in reference to the difficulty of mastering even seemingly simple techniques. The only way around this is to...
The Pragmatic...
Apple: The Only Big Tech Giant Going Against the Job Cuts Tide
Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can...
a year ago
Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can we now expect it to follow suit by shedding workers?
General Robots
Nailing the Demo
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9. If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to...
a year ago
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9. If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC, a potential customer, an executive or a journalist
HTMHell
The Implied Web
by Halvor William Sanden
People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get...
a year ago
by Halvor William Sanden
People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get attention and herd people towards clicks increase cognitive effort because they obscure themselves and reduce interfaces to clickable surfaces.
The implied web is based on the idea...
macwright.com
Recently
November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most
of New York before the snow...
over a year ago
November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most
of New York before the snow takes over.
Reading
I finally finished Barbarian Days.
I think it took over a month to get through it - kept losing momentum by
taking a few days off from reading during a trip. It...
Steve Klabnik
Travis build matrix for Rails
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Ditching Google Chat with XMPP
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
"No Code" vs RPA
RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real...
over a year ago
RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real differences and I am trying to note them down here.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The state of plugins on PostHog
Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part...
over a year ago
Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part of PostHog, as it is responsible for event…
ntietz.com blog
Asheville
Asheville is in crisis right now.
They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
2 months ago
Asheville is in crisis right now.
They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets.
As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water.
Things are really bad.
Lots of...
37signals Dev
Solid Cache
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and...
a year ago
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and HEY.
Solid Cache uses a SQL database as its cache store. We get a much larger cache at a fraction of the storage costs of memory caches like Redis or Memcached. For us, that’s a...
Maggie Appleton
The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes
over a year ago
Daniel Marino
How I Manage Projects
As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there...
over a year ago
As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there is a right or wrong way to manage projects, I do think there are some methods that can yield better results. I’m hardly an expert in this area, but I’d like to share some of the...
HTMHell
My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving...
2 days ago
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol' CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy CSS nonsense here. No siree. We use HTML as the good lord intended and shalln't...
Making software...
Do You Have an Extra $10?
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it's a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it's a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it's an impulse buy while we're out shopping for...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Coups, Wars, and Corporate Digital Transformations
In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces...
a year ago
In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was formed during the war in Darfur, outside the control of the national army for “special operations”. Because they weren’t under the leadership of the army, normal war...
macwright.com
Recently
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big...
a year ago
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big update about Placemark.
Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little
breather and just do the usual: what’s new!
Reading
I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
James Vaughan's blog
How I Keep Up With Concerts
over a year ago
Alex MacCaw
The Manager's Handbook
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
over a year ago
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version).
If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
ntietz.com blog
I'm scared, and hopeful, and you can help
Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event.
It's my first time flying since 2018, and...
11 months ago
Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event.
It's my first time flying since 2018, and I'm excited to meet all my coworkers in person.
The travel is, on whole, going to be a good experience.
But there is a lot surrounding the travel that is stressful and scary.
I'm...
bt RSS Feed
Proper UI Hierarchy
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
over a year ago
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
Julia Evans
New zine: How Git Works!
Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine
is FINALLY done! It...
6 months ago
Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine
is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday!
You can get it for $12 here:
https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, or get
an 14-pack of all my zines here.
Here’s the cover:
the table of contents
Here’s the table...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to harness the awesome power of growth loops
A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs...
over a year ago
A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs repeatedly power the series to exponentially grow…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Found-Money Startups
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
over a year ago
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
Steve Klabnik
Rust is surprisingly expressive
over a year ago
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Web
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s...
7 months ago
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web.
Today I’m pleased to announce that we are open sourcing Mission Control — Web and you can find it on...
alexwlchan
Splitting a class into balanced groups
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem.
She’s got a class of 12 students, who are...
a year ago
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem.
She’s got a class of 12 students, who are going to meet over 7 sessions.
In each session, they’re going to split into 3 or 4 groups, and she wants to find an even distribution of groups – each person gets to work with...
37signals Dev
Basecamp code runs 18% faster with YJIT
Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT. In this post I’ll share our setup, and the performance...
a year ago
Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT. In this post I’ll share our setup, and the performance improvements we achieved.
Our setup
Basecamp is currently running Ruby 3.3.0-preview3 and Rails Edge (master branch).
We configure YJIT in our servers via RUBYOPT=--yjit-disable...
bt RSS Feed
"This Key is Useless Now. Discard?"
“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?”
2024-08-28
The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic...
3 months ago
“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?”
2024-08-28
The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic memories for old school Resident Evil veterans like myself. My personal favourite in the series (not that anyone asked) was the original, 1998 version of Resident Evil 2 (RE2). I...
Steve Klabnik
Fire Mario not fire flowers
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.10.0
This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
over a year ago
This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see…
The Changelog
So Many Caring People In This World
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the...
over a year ago
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of “disaster,” I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that...
Vadim Kravcenko
Habits of great software engineers
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While...
a year ago
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […]
The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A small freedom area...
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform...
over a year ago
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn
Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is.
But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
blag
Recurse Center Day 17
Disk Storage I
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 9: Parallels of Proofs and Programs
I have three weeks left at Recurse Center.
This last week was significantly less productive for me...
over a year ago
I have three weeks left at Recurse Center.
This last week was significantly less productive for me than usual, because I've been pretty fatigued and just recovered from a cold.
But I still got some work done that I'm proud of.
More than that, I'm excited for the coming three...
TokyoDev
Entry Level Jobs in Japan
*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...
over a year ago
*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.*
When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How I learn (making games for the Playdate)
I (finally) received my Playdate, after about a year and a half of waiting. To be honest, I'd kinda...
11 months ago
I (finally) received my Playdate, after about a year and a half of waiting. To be honest, I'd kinda forgotten that I'd ordered it and was pleasantly surprised when it showed up.
For those who don't know, the Playdate is a niche handheld gaming console, similar to a Gameboy. It...
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