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Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach...

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blag

PSA: Most databases do not do checksums by default Most databases don’t do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.

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PSA: Most databases do not do checksums by default

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Most databases don’t do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.

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Alice GG

Plaid Layoffs and beyond Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my...

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Plaid Layoffs and beyond

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

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Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my termination agreement, which makes this week my last week as part of Plaid’s infrastructure team. Kelly Sikkema Moving forward While being laid off and having to leave a very talented...

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MMapped blog

Scaling Rust builds with Bazel

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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...

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Of Coups, Wars, and Corporate Digital Transformations

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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...

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A small freedom area...

Saving a restic backup the hard way This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup infrastructure like a...

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Saving a restic backup the hard way

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

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This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup infrastructure like a responsible adult. The villain of the following story is the junk MIPS machine which held hostage most of my important data (about 1TB). Its evil plan was to build up a corrupted...

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Maggie Appleton

The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes

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The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes

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Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes

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Epic Web Dev

Exploring the has Utility in Tailwind CSS (tip)

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Irrational...

Using cultural survey data. When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal...

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Using cultural survey data.

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

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When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal was to better evaluate polished senior leaders who always said the right thing. I wanted to find the real beliefs and behaviors underneath all the polish. One interview focused on...

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A Beautiful Site

Validating URLs and email addresses in PHP This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var()...

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Validating URLs and email addresses in PHP

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This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var() function, it's actually very easy and doesn't require regular expressions. The following wrapper functions force a true boolean response, so you can use them safely in your logic. Email...

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alexwlchan

Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...

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Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line

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Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...

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alexwlchan

Fare-Wellcome Collection I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was...

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Fare-Wellcome Collection

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I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was living and working in the Cambridge at the time, and I’d come into London for the day to hang out with a friend who lived near King’s Cross. We wandered up the Euston Road, popped...

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How to download YouTube Videos quickly I used to use yt5s all the time to rip and remix videos:

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How to download YouTube Videos quickly

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I used to use yt5s all the time to rip and remix videos:

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Eric Bailey

The endless search for “here” in the unhelpful “click here” button

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Alex MacCaw

We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...

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We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking

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

3 months ago

At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.

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A Beautiful Site

Better Buttons with color-mix() and Custom Properties Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically....

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Better Buttons with color-mix() and Custom Properties

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Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically. For this experiment, we'll use CSS Custom Properties, color-mix(), and OKLCH to ensure that tints and shades are perceptually uniform. To keep things simple, we'll follow today's...

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The Pragmatic...

CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...

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CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach

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CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?

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Ruud van Asseldonk

Please put units in names

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macwright.com

My favorite books of 2022 This year I read 22 books, which is about the average for the last few years. The ratio of fiction...

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My favorite books of 2022

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This year I read 22 books, which is about the average for the last few years. The ratio of fiction to non-fiction was skewed toward non-fiction. I think overall I read fewer amazing books than last year, when I finished 20, but also fewer duds - though there certainly were some...

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Basta’s Notes

25 terrible engineer interview questions Ones that you should never ask

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25 terrible engineer interview questions

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Ones that you should never ask

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The History of the...

The Gift of Code In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time...

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The Gift of Code

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In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript The post The Gift of Code appeared first on The History of the Web.

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Maggie Appleton

A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019 Illustrated notes on the new language changes in JavaScript ES2019

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A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019

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Illustrated notes on the new language changes in JavaScript ES2019

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Quentin Santos

Espressif’s Automatic Reset In previous articles, we saw how to use “real” UART, and looked into the trick used by Arduino to...

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Espressif’s Automatic Reset

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In previous articles, we saw how to use “real” UART, and looked into the trick used by Arduino to automatically reset boards when uploading firmware. Today, we’ll look into how Espressif does something similar, using even more tricks. “Real” UART on the Saola As usual, let’s...

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Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to...

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Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux

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Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to different versions of ruby. Although there exist many step-by-step instructions on installing and configuring rvm for most Linux distros, there aren’t many focused on Alpine “daily...

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TokyoDev

Entry Level Jobs in Japan *Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...

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Entry Level Jobs in Japan

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*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.* When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....

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TokyoDev

Discount coupons for babysitters in Japan via a government subsidy In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use...

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Discount coupons for babysitters in Japan via a government subsidy

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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...

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Blog System/5

Hands-on graphics without X11 A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons

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Hands-on graphics without X11

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A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons

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Yale E360

Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or...

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Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature

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Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users 1 ." It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry: That accessibility...

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ByteofDev

State of the Web: Deno What is Deno, why does it matter, and how is it currently used for server-side JavaScript?

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State of the Web: Deno

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What is Deno, why does it matter, and how is it currently used for server-side JavaScript?

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Liz Denys

Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich....

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Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich

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I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich. Don't get me wrong - I like chocolate - but that's just it, I like chocolate, not a pinch of cocoa flavor. Chocolate chip cookies always tasted better to me with the chips on the...

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Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...

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Dynamic Viewports with CSS

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Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...

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Confessions of a...

Recording: Live Coding a Bytecode Compiler for Python Yesterday we concluded the live session on live coding a bytecode compiler and interpreter (VM) for...

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Recording: Live Coding a Bytecode Compiler for Python

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Yesterday we concluded the live session on live coding a bytecode compiler and interpreter (VM) for a tiny subset of Python in Python. Even though I said I will not be sharing the recording, I think the session went quite smooth so I am sharing it here.

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A Beautiful Site

JavaScript functions for basename and dirname Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path)...

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JavaScript functions for basename and dirname

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Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path) { return path.replace(/.*\//, ''); } dirname() # function dirname(path) { return path.match(/.*\//); } Unlike their PHP cousins, these functions do not support paths...

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Joel on Software

A Dusting of Gamification I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe...

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A Dusting of Gamification

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over a year ago

I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more "A Dusting of Gamification"

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Confessions of a...

The Pythonic Emptiness Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...

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The Pythonic Emptiness

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Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most cases

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TokyoDev

How TokyoDev improves your job hunt Hi, I’m Paul, the founder of TokyoDev. Our mission is to help international software developers...

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How TokyoDev improves your job hunt

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Hi, I’m Paul, the founder of TokyoDev. Our mission is to help international software developers begin and grow their careers in Japan. To achieve this, we: Manage an online and in-person community of developers in Japan. Research and write original articles on navigating life in...

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The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be...

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The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale

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

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This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be able to remember it in the future. I expect close to zero others to be interested. The C standard library function isspace() returns a non-zero value (true) for the six "standard"...

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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...

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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts

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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it’s relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...

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blag

Install Windows 8 UEFI on Legacy BIOS with Clover (and Dual boot with Yosemite) This tutorial will help you install Windows 8 on a Legacy BIOS in UEFI mode using Clover and dual...

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Install Windows 8 UEFI on Legacy BIOS with Clover (and Dual boot with Yosemite)

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This tutorial will help you install Windows 8 on a Legacy BIOS in UEFI mode using Clover and dual boot with Yosemite.

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Patrick Kayongo

Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...

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Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends

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The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...

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Miguel Carranza

The first five employees The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always...

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The first five employees

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over a year ago

The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always aligned, and sometimes there is a notable lack of gratitude. But, for the most part, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Founders benefit from capital, and VCs need access to the best...

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Charles Chen

Cheap and Easy Way to Scrape Sites for LLM Processing If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started...

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Cheap and Easy Way to Scrape Sites for LLM Processing

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

a year ago

If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started with just a few lines of code.

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Eric Bailey

CSS is a Strongly Typed Language

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alexwlchan

An unexpected lesson in CSS stacking contexts I’ve made another small tweak to the site – I’ve added “new” banners to articles I’ve written...

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An unexpected lesson in CSS stacking contexts

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I’ve made another small tweak to the site – I’ve added “new” banners to articles I’ve written recently, and any post marked as “new” will be pinned to the homepage. Previously, the homepage was just a random selection of six articles I’d written at any time. ...

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Patrick Kayongo

Iinkomo “I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing...

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Iinkomo

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“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing the last bit of her belongings into her bags, rushed by her anger and irritation. “I told you; it will just be for a few days. My grandfather is here for a medical procedure, and...

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Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An...

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Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time

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

8 months ago

We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An election just finished in the US, which means that half the country lost and has to face the coming changes. In particular, this is a scary time for many folks who have been targets in...

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Workshopping Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.

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Workshopping

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over a year ago

Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.

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Eric Bailey

An introduction to macOS Head Pointer

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The Pragmatic...

A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...

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A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed

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

a year ago

For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?

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HostHogs - free drinks, free pizza and frequently asked questions As you may have heard, we’ll soon host our first ever meet-up for anyone who uses or is interested...

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HostHogs - free drinks, free pizza and frequently asked questions

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As you may have heard, we’ll soon host our first ever meet-up for anyone who uses or is interested in finding out more about PostHog. It’ll take place…

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alexwlchan

The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation...

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The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo

a year ago

On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation Human Thermos”, a fan gathering to celebrate Operation Mincemeat, a musical that gives us all the warm and fuzzies. A lot of people dressed in cosplay to mark the occasion, and I...

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Confessions of a...

Everything You Wanted to Know About Profilers in Python Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Profilers in Python

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a year ago

Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python

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The magic function How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a...

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The magic function

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6 months ago

How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic function” approach.

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Josh Collinsworth

Let's Learn CSS Variables! CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...

over a year ago

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Let's Learn CSS Variables!

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over a year ago

CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.

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You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox If you fit one of these criteria:

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You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox

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a year ago

If you fit one of these criteria:

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Patrick Kayongo

Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...

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Super Apps vs WhatsApp

over a year ago

Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...

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Liz Denys

Mornings are for madeleines Madeleines are probably my favorite baked good - both to eat and to make. They're rich in flavor,...

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Mornings are for madeleines

over a year ago

Madeleines are probably my favorite baked good - both to eat and to make. They're rich in flavor, but light in texture. They're quick to make (hellooo, morning option), but don't get boring as they exercise good techniques (easy to learn good techniques, even). And they go really...

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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Snowflake Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake...

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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Snowflake

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over a year ago

Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake was fully managed, expensive, and broadly featured…

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alexwlchan

How I name my computers I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the...

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How I name my computers

7 months ago

I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the setup, and this blog post is one of the first things I’ll make with it. I’m quite pleased with how quickly I can get up and running with a new machine. There’s one hard part of...

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Patrick Kayongo

Familiar Spirits The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the...

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Familiar Spirits

over a year ago

The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the fourth watch of the night. The blue radiance of the moon and the stars fill in for the lights darkened by stage 5 loadshedding. As the nighttime creatures prepare for their...

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Acko.net

React - The Missing Parts Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a...

over a year ago

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React - The Missing Parts

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over a year ago

Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a popular library's patterns is that you can experiment with all sorts of changes. In my case, I have a React-clone, Live, which includes all the familiar basics: props, state and...

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A Smart Bear

Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. "MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy...

a year ago

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Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead.

a year ago

"MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy that results in fast, validated learning, that customers love.

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Chris Nicholas

How to write exceptional documentation Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to...

4 months ago

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How to write exceptional documentation

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4 months ago

Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to crafting holistic, comprehensive documentation.

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David Heinemeier...

The price of managed cloud services One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...

a year ago

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The price of managed cloud services

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a year ago

One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...

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CFP Advice Some thoughts on writing your first few CFPs

over a year ago

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CFP Advice

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over a year ago

Some thoughts on writing your first few CFPs

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Words and Buttons...

[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...

over a year ago

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[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations

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over a year ago

This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and over-specification, direct and iterative solvers. The guide should give you enough knowledge to find a proper solution for your task but not enough to implement one efficiently yourself.

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MMapped blog

Enlightenmentware

a year ago

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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

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Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers

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,...

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Maggie Appleton

Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw The failure of drawing materials without mediums and meat

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Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw

over a year ago

The failure of drawing materials without mediums and meat

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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...

a year ago

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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack

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a year ago

note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.

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MMapped blog

Programming avant-garde

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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big...

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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery

over a year ago

Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of “brutalist” or minimalist design, so I’m always inspired...

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A Beautiful Site

What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website? Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...

over a year ago

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What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website?

over a year ago

Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...

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Patrick Kayongo

River Flows Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...

a year ago

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River Flows

a year ago

Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents. I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...

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Maggie Appleton

Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of language models

over a year ago

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Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots

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over a year ago

Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of language models

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Making software...

89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...

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89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File

over a year ago

89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I'll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :) This is my personal blog (if that wasn't already obvious). I...

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Notes on Serverless GraphQL with AWS AppSync My Notes on Slobodan Stojanovic's Serverless GraphQL with AppSync talk

over a year ago

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Notes on Serverless GraphQL with AWS AppSync

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over a year ago

My Notes on Slobodan Stojanovic's Serverless GraphQL with AppSync talk

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Computer Things

Formally modeling dreidel, the sequel Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad...

6 months ago

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Formally modeling dreidel, the sequel

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6 months ago

Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad game. Last year I formally modeled it in PRISM to prove the game's not fun. But because I limited the model to only a small case, I couldn't prove the game was truly bad. It's time...

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A Beautiful Site

The Term "Headless Component" is a Misnomer You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid,...

over a year ago

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The Term "Headless Component" is a Misnomer

over a year ago

You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid, accessible components without any styles. A clean slate to style from scratch! But the structure (bones) and logic (head) are there. You're mostly adding styles. They should be called...

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alexwlchan

Parsing CloudFront logs with Python I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do...

a year ago

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Parsing CloudFront logs with Python

a year ago

I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do this, and I normally reach for Python inside a Jupyter Notebook because those are tools I’m very familiar with. I’ve done this a few times now, so I thought it’d be worth pulling...

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Words and Buttons...

SymPy makes math fun again It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast,...

over a year ago

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SymPy makes math fun again

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over a year ago

It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast, accurate, and without angst. In other words, it is everything I'm not.

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Don't Rush to Simplicity Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the...

over a year ago

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Don't Rush to Simplicity

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over a year ago

Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?

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Yale E360

[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...

over a year ago

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[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier

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over a year ago

I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read. The book...

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macwright.com

Recently Writing in from Washington, DC, my once-hometown and the birthplace of Mapbox. This one will be...

over a year ago

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Recently

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over a year ago

Writing in from Washington, DC, my once-hometown and the birthplace of Mapbox. This one will be quick because I’m between one thing and another! Listening Dry Daniel by Buke and Gase Buke and Gase released some music they recorded a while ago, and there are some hits in it. I...

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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...

over a year ago

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Splitting a class into balanced groups

over 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...

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Daniel Immke's Blog...

2018: A year in review It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I...

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2018: A year in review

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over a year ago

It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I didn’t, as well as what I can do better next…

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alexwlchan

CSS formatting in the console I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service)...

over a year ago

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CSS formatting in the console

over 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...

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Confessions of a...

Live Session: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on...

5 months ago

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Live Session: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance

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5 months ago

I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on a 64kB machine. Writing it wore me down.

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Liz Denys

Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the...

over a year ago

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Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song

over a year ago

Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the clefs, but it was the least nasty way to span the piano. You can grab a full copy of the score.

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Stephen Wolfram...

ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”! See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » To enable the functionality described...

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ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

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

over a year ago

See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » To enable the functionality described here, select and install the Wolfram plugin from within ChatGPT. Note that this capability is so far available only to some ChatGPT Plus users; for more information, see...

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Steve Klabnik

Rails has two default stacks

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Rails has two default stacks

over a year ago

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somenice

Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...

over a year ago

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Merlin Bird Sound ID

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over a year ago

I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...

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Automated Data Scraping with Github Actions A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers

over a year ago

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Automated Data Scraping with Github Actions

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over a year ago

A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers

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EXPLAIN EXTENDED

Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF...

over a year ago

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Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL

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over a year ago

An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.

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wingolog

needed-bits optimizations in guile Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you. First, though, some background. ...

9 months ago

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needed-bits optimizations in guile

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9 months ago

Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you. First, though, some background. Guile’s numeric operations are defined over the complex numbers, not over e.g. a finite field of integers. This is generally great when writing an algorithm, because you don’t have...

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A Smart Bear

Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...

a year ago

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Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data

a year ago

Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.

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Acko.net

Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...

over a year ago

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Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams

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over a year ago

Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general. #pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color' void main() { gl_FragColor =...

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Blog System/5

How "new type" helps avoid production outages My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author...

a year ago

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How "new type" helps avoid production outages

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a year ago

My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author briefly touches upon the “new type” idiom, its typical implementation in Rust, and then proceeds to propose a better alternative. But the question arises: why should you care?

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Maggie Appleton

JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript

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JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

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Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript

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Irrational...

Predictability. Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how...

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Predictability.

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

a year ago

Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how much it believes that key individuals drive and create industries. It’s an infectious belief, and a necessary one to write a concise, coherent narrative story about the origins of...

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Marc Astbury

Building a Simple Chrome Extension with ChatGPT I’ve casually been learning some JS via Mimo and Udemy for the past couple of months. It is fun and...

a year ago

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Building a Simple Chrome Extension with ChatGPT

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a year ago

I’ve casually been learning some JS via Mimo and Udemy for the past couple of months. It is fun and I get some dopamine seeing a nice animation when completing a lesson on Mimo, however, it is pretty abstracted from a real environment. I learn things best under two conditions:...

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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating...

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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console

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10 months ago

Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...

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Joel Gascoigne

Enjoying the moment * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back...

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Enjoying the moment

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over a year ago

* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back on the times I’ve done the most productive work on my startup [http://bufferapp.com], it has always been when I’ve had a great balance of work and rest...

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bunnie's blog

Winner, Name that Ware February 2025 The Ware from last month is the main board from a Lego Duplo Steam Train. As predicted, this was a...

3 months ago

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Winner, Name that Ware February 2025

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3 months ago

The Ware from last month is the main board from a Lego Duplo Steam Train. As predicted, this was a much easier one to guess. Congrats to MJS for naming it (with a margin of just half an hour ahead of Will), email me for your prize! And again, thanks to spida for contributing yet...

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The Codist

If You Don't Give A Crap, This Is the Shit That You Get Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing...

a year ago

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If You Don't Give A Crap, This Is the Shit That You Get

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a year ago

Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing broken or poor functionality in web and mobile apps. I always cared about what we were putting out, even if it was sometimes unimportant to my employer. When I see things that are easy...

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Ruud van Asseldonk

Working on a virtualenv without magic

over a year ago

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Working on a virtualenv without magic

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Paolo Amoroso's...

Wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project <![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in...

8 months ago

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Wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project

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8 months ago

<![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in time as hoped. I accomplished the initial goal of extending NoteCards to visit websites. This is my Linux desktop after traversing a NoteCards link to a Web card which opened the...

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Cognitive...

From Zero to Fineturning with Axolotl on ROCm Gratitude to https://tensorwave.com/ for giving me access to their excellent servers! Few have tried...

a year ago

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From Zero to Fineturning with Axolotl on ROCm

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a year ago

Gratitude to https://tensorwave.com/ for giving me access to their excellent servers! Few have tried this and fewer have succeeded. I've been marginally successful after a significant amount of effort, so it deserves a blog post. Know that you are in for rough waters. And even...

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Making software...

How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community....

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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer

over a year ago

How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn't have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in "web dev" some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...

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Irrational...

Notes on Technology Strategy Patterns Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy,...

a year ago

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Notes on Technology Strategy Patterns

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a year ago

Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy, with a particular focus on the methods wielded by McKinsey consultants, software engineering mainstays like Thoughtworks, and philosophy. A valuable read for anyone looking to build...

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog

A Few Details About My Notes Website A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a...

a year ago

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A Few Details About My Notes Website

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a year ago

A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a little more about some of my favorite parts of the site. First: It’s Really a Page, Not a Site I’m not sure I should call it a “website”, as I think of a website as a collection...

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HTMHell

The hidden attribute in HTML by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was...

a year ago

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The hidden attribute in HTML

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a year ago

by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was introduced, it worked in a very simple way: it set the CSS display property to none. Many people voiced concerns because here we are, mixing styles with markup again. To be fair, this...

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Founder's blog

I'm finally dumping Visual Studio After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and...

a year ago

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I'm finally dumping Visual Studio

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

a year ago

After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and frustrating, and I've decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code. While as a C# developer I'm still unsure if I can replicate every aspect of my workflow in VS Code, I'm...

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macwright.com

Focus For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in...

over a year ago

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Focus

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over a year ago

For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in JavaScript. It’s the first time in a while I’ve made a project just for kicks. If you look at the number of GitHub repositories I’ve committed to since 2013, the number is decreasing. Same...

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Liz Denys

How communication breaks down In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their...

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How communication breaks down

over a year ago

In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their primary advocacy group, the Undergraduate Association. Every year around later February and early March, students who consider themselves relatively politically active request an...

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Liz Denys

A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Mitered Corner Blanket A fan of my Library Blanket color palette preview tool asked if I could make one for the Mitered...

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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Mitered Corner Blanket

over a year ago

A fan of my Library Blanket color palette preview tool asked if I could make one for the Mitered Corner Blanket, so I did. This blanket's square building blocks are also made by holding different pairs of yarns together, so this tool can be used to help imagine how a custom yarn...

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Epic Web Dev

Tailwind CSS Color Tokens (tutorial)

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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...

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For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words

over 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.

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89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...

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89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File

over a year ago

89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I’ll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :) This is my personal blog (if that wasn’t already obvious). I...

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tonsky.me

Local, first, forever So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught...

a year ago

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Local, first, forever

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a year ago

So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught my attention: Specifically, this part: But first, some context. What is local-first? For the long version, go to Ink & Switch, who coined the term. Or listen for Peter van...

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Epic Web Dev

How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.

a year ago

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How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster

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a year ago

Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.

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dthompson

Guix for development This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange...

over a year ago

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Guix for development

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over a year ago

This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links...

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PostHog's RSS Feed

Introducing PostHog Cloud EU It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR...

over a year ago

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Introducing PostHog Cloud EU

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

over a year ago

It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR regulations in the EU. That's one reason why we…

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Engineer’s Codex

Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux

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Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships

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a year ago

Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux

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RSS Hacks With XSLT RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I’ve been further tinkering (hopefully for the...

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RSS Hacks With XSLT

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over a year ago

RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I’ve been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website1 script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you’re interested, I wrote about it on the official...

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Computer Things

The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the...

2 months ago

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The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago

Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the class of all decision problems (yes/no) where a potential proof (or "witness") for "yes" can be verified in polynomial time. For example, "does this set of numbers have a subset that...

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Yale E360

Go slow to go fast A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long...

a year ago

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Go slow to go fast

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long been an endurance athlete, and it's time to lean into my overall fitness and strength. Part of this is to be healthy and live a long life. But honestly? More of it is a desire to...

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Making software...

Animated Card Tiles Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive...

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Animated Card Tiles

over a year ago

Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let's build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS. What we will be building...

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Steve Klabnik

Deleuze for developers: deterritorialization

over a year ago

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David Heinemeier...

The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...

a year ago

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The endangered state of normality

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

a year ago

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...

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Ink & Switch

Patchwork 03 · Dynamic history Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created...

a year ago

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Patchwork 03 · Dynamic history

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a year ago

Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created milestones.

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A Smart Bear

The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good"...

a year ago

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The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness

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

a year ago

How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good" when they really mean "No, I'm not buying."

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Making software...

Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...

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Animated Radio Tab Toggles

over a year ago

Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...

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Epic Web Dev

Good Code, Testable Code (article) Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for...

a year ago

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Good Code, Testable Code (article)

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a year ago

Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for effective testing.

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Code Of Honor

The StarCraft path-finding hack Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite...

over a year ago

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The StarCraft path-finding hack

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over a year ago

Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite right, and then that minor issue becomes a rage-inducing, end-of-the-world problem. During the development of StarCraft there were times when path-finding just didn’t work at all. As...

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Maggie Appleton

A Digital Anthropology Reading List A few favourite books from the field of digital anthropology

over a year ago

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A Digital Anthropology Reading List

over a year ago

A few favourite books from the field of digital anthropology

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Steve Klabnik

An early Christmas present for you

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An early Christmas present for you

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Confessions of a...

Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.

7 months ago

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Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python

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7 months ago

I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.

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Basta’s Notes

My friend, JT I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.

4 months ago

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My friend, JT

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4 months ago

I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.

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Liz Denys

Where books travel i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen...

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Where books travel

over a year ago

i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen years ago, but at a higher premium," and deeply internalize my physical constraints for the next six hours. A small box outlined by my seat, the side of the plane with its tiny...

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alexwlchan

Plates and states I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I...

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Plates and states

11 months ago

I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to. Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...

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Alex Meub

Material Rewards for Motivation Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term...

over a year ago

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Material Rewards for Motivation

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over a year ago

Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term goals. This isn’t a new idea but I’ve found it to be really helpful in keeping me on track and giving me that extra push to follow through on my goals. Set SMART Goals In order to...

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A Smart Bear

Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar...

a year ago

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Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

a year ago

Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar decisions.

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Ruud van Asseldonk

A type system for RCL, part 3: Related work

11 months ago

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A type system for RCL, part 3: Related work

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11 months ago

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swyx's site RSS Feed

Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather...

over a year ago

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Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy

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

over a year ago

This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather than the art and science of creating software itself.

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Max Countryman

Indie Web Stack of the Future You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a...

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Indie Web Stack of the Future

from Max Countryman [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a few things that make indie development different and we should design our stack around our unique goals. Let's explore an ideal web stack we can build the future on.

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Irrational...

Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles. The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering...

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Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles.

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

10 months ago

The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering leadership styles. It’s an interesting chapter to me peronally, precisely because it’s not something I would have agreed with or written five years ago. This past Friday I gave a...

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Ognjen Regoje •...

During a difficult conversation, remember to take a minute One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten is to take a minute, or a week, after you’ve had a...

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During a difficult conversation, remember to take a minute

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten is to take a minute, or a week, after you’ve had a difficult conversation. By and large, people are not unreasonable. They’re not out to get you. They’re not trying to make your life miserable. They’re probably trying to do what...

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A Beautiful Site

Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task,...

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Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document

over a year ago

I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill. I did find a couple functions that returned the duplicates, but they didn't include the first occurrence (I...

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bunnie's blog

Name that Ware, October 2023 The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!

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Name that Ware, October 2023

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a year ago

The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!

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Ralph Ammer

Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The post Ludwig Wittgenstein...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak

from Ralph Ammer [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The post Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak appeared first on Ralph Ammer.

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Maggie Appleton

Spatial Web Browsing Adding spatial affordances to the experience of browsing the web

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Spatial Web Browsing