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Irrational...
How to get more headcount. One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A...
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One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A similar problem is the idea that a team can’t get a favored project into their roadmap. In both cases, teams often create a story about how clueless executives don’t understand...
Josh Collinsworth
The Five Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me as a Design Student Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not...
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over a year ago
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
Civic Hax
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Quadratic to Discover Newsletter Links I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way...
a year ago
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a year ago
I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way to discover new people, blogs, and newsletter that I didn’t know existed. I recently saw links to my blog from the tldr newsletter but didn’t know which posts specifically they were...
HTMHell
Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what...
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While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what we intended. This is especially true on the web, where there are many ways to consume content. The language, browser type, device model, using a screen reader, navigating with or...
blag
Recurse Center Day 11: B Tree Insertions I started writing code for B Tree insertions
over a year ago
TokyoDev
個人のブログから利益を生むビジネスへ:TokyoDevのストーリー This article is also available [in...
a year ago
Alex Meub
My Favorite Web Apps and Tools I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
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I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
Epic Web Dev
The Golden Rule of Assertions (article) Learn about The Golden Rule of Assertions that helps pinpoint good tests from bad ones.
a year 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
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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...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc? Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you...
a year ago
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a year ago
Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you need to take […] The post Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
How I Take and Publish Notes I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
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a year ago
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design. But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it. The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
Alex Meub
How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6. This means that visitors won’t be able to access your content with IPv6-only enabled which is not good. On top of that, I think its important to...
Alex MacCaw
The Beginning of Infinity It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just...
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It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just look up. There are a hundred billion stars in a hundred billion galaxies (that we know of!). What are we but a spec of dust? And don'
charity.wtf
On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
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2 months ago
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
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It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
The Pragmatic...
Big Tech job-switching stats Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the...
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Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the “open-to-new-opportunities” ratio shifted across Big Tech? I collaborated with a recruiter to find out, and the data is in.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.41.0: Improving performance by up to 400% Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
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over a year ago
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! 1.41.0 update guide for self-hosted…
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0.pre has been released
over a year ago
Making software...
Simple Does Not Mean Ugly Simple Does Not Mean Ugly 2019-03-26 I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for...
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Simple Does Not Mean Ugly 2019-03-26 I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for designers to keep their products as simple as possible - and I couldn't agree more. A lot of designers tend to think they need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to UI concepts that...
Marco.org
Low Power Mode on the Mac Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But...
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over a year ago
Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But sometimes you lose that lottery, as I did on my latest 8-hour daytime flight. Apple’s “Up to 10 hours” claim doesn’t apply to my work,1 which is usually a mix of Xcode, web browsing, and...
Engineer’s Codex
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
11 months ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...
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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.
Tony Finch's blog
inlined nearly divisionless random numbers a blog post for international RNG day Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm unbiased bounded...
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a blog post for international RNG day Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm unbiased bounded random numbers has a fast path and a slow path. In the fast path it gets a random number, does a multiplication, and a comparison. In the rarely-taken slow path, it calculates a...
David Heinemeier...
Servers can last a long time We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing...
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We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to fill all the app, job, cache, and database duties we needed. The entire outlay for this fleet was about half a million dollars,...
Neil Panchal
Introducing Berkeley Mono Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial:...
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Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono It will be available through Berkeley Graphics agency as a first release. Berkeley Mono Typeface Berkeley Mono is a love letter to the golden era of computing....
Irrational...
Benchmarking. Many of the most important questions for running an organization don’t have clear answers. In most...
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a year ago
Many of the most important questions for running an organization don’t have clear answers. In most engineering organizations, both the teams working on infrastructure and the teams working on product feel they are undersized. It’s also true that most individuals feel they are...
Maggie Appleton
Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research A walkthrough of how I manage and tend Evergreen notes in Roam
over a year ago
Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three years Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to...
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Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map).
Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy. I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy, and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
Oxide Computer...
Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69 At Oxide Computer, we are designing a new computer system from the ground up. Along the way we...
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At Oxide Computer, we are designing a new computer system from the ground up. Along the way we carefully review all hardware selected to ensure it meets not only functional needs but our security needs as well. This work includes reverse engineering where necessary to get a full...
David Crawshaw
How I program with LLMs How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using...
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How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming to learn about them. The result...
Making software...
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling...
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Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun "hack" to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly. The only other minor issue I had...
Confessions of a...
CPython Memory Management Internals A high-level but detailed explanation of how CPython implements memory management
a year ago
Yale e360
Getting people to tell you you're wrong One of the challenging things about being a staff+ engineer is that people trust you. They trust you...
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over a year ago
One of the challenging things about being a staff+ engineer is that people trust you. They trust you a lot, and there might be less pushback on ideas than there should be. This makes sense. To become a staff+ engineer, you usually need to be really good at this intersection of...
Josh Collinsworth
First impressions of the MoErgo Glove80 ergonomic keyboard How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my...
a year ago
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a year ago
How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my impressions after the first few weeks of use.
David Crawshaw
2016-01-23 "Unless you’re a plow driver or a parka-clad elected official trying to look essential, one doesn’t...
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"Unless you’re a plow driver or a parka-clad elected official trying to look essential, one doesn’t pretend to do battle against a blizzard. You submit. Surrender. Hunker down. A snowstorm rewards indolence and punishes the go-getters, which is only one of the many reasons it’s...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Constraint System At the beginning of phase 2, we weren’t sure what to do about constraints. Based on past...
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At the beginning of phase 2, we weren’t sure what to do about constraints. Based on past exploration, constraints seemed to hold a lot of promise but were notoriously unreliable. A good constraint system could unify and power a number of key aspects of the dynamic medium we seek.
Josh Collinsworth
Impressions of the ZSA Moonlander at one month My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal...
over a year ago
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My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal and work projects for a full month
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Digging into git commit templates Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been...
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Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. – Eagleson’s Law After scouring git history, I found the correct config file, but someone removed it. Their full commit message read: Remove config. Don't bring...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing nested context menu in Svelte 5 I was working on Edna, my open source note taking application that is a cross between Obsidian and...
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I was working on Edna, my open source note taking application that is a cross between Obsidian and Notational Velocity. It’s written in Svelte 5. While it runs in the browser, it’s more like a desktop app than a web page. A useful UI element for desktop-like apps is a nested...
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Pseudocode for Intentionality I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my...
5 months ago
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I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my working definition of how to be more intentional.
Alex MacCaw
The Toad
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a...
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I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy. (Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.) Hopefully nobody noticed! When I flipped the DNS records to...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
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The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is popular but it can be done better. I wrote betterguid Go package that does it better. Unique id generated by this package: is a 20 character string, safe to include in urls (no need...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
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Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
On Life and Lisp
Growing up Alyssa When I was 10, I came out as transgender. I was a girl and I knew it. I was one of the lucky...
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When I was 10, I came out as transgender. I was a girl and I knew it. I was one of the lucky ones. After four painful years, I was fortunate enough to access gender-affirming health care. First testosterone blockers. Later estrogen, the stuff my peers soaked in for years while I...
Vadim Kravcenko
🏆 Promotion-based development While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies...
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While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies do promotions, I stumbled […] The post 🏆 Promotion-based development appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
HTMHell
#28 alert level 1 Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues...
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Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues and how to fix them The element is used for communicating status updates, not to structure the page. A div with a role of status or alert is more suitable than a h1. The heading is...
Ink & Switch
Open-sourcing Keyhive, filtering Ambsheets, and Sketchpad explorations Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about...
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3 months ago
Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about filtering scenarios in a spreadsheet, and some explorations of the historic Sketchpad project for constraint-based drawing.
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: More on authentication and password managers Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password...
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Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password managers: Using a password manager effectively In a deeper exploration of password manager browser extensions and features for sharing as well as a survey of alternatives to password...
Jibran’s Perspective
Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post. This is...
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a year ago
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post. This is a good failure. It has taught me things, lessons I can use in the future to avoid failing this way again. But first a bit of context. What did I fail at? In February of 2024 I...
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"...
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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."
Kagi Blog
Update to Kagi Search pricing It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and...
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It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and we have been busy with three main large-scale initiatives: a new pricing model that ensures Kagi’s sustainability, new plans including Family plans, and enhancing search experience...
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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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...
samwho.dev
Load Balancing .simulation { width: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items:...
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.simulation { width: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; margin-bottom: 2.5em; } .load-balancer { color: black; font-weight: bold; } .request { color: #04BF8A; font-weight: bold; } .server { color:...
Tony Finch's blog
random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of...
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One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation. However, PCG only has a limited amount of ILP, about 3 instructions. Its overall...
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Versioned Docs in 30 Seconds with Amplify Console's Branch Subdomains Amplify Console just got the ability to create a custom subdomain for every new branch. This makes...
over a year ago
Yale e360
Alpha-beta pruning illustrated by the smothered mate I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC. The first engine-like thing I...
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I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC. The first engine-like thing I implemented for it was alpha-beta pruning, which is a way of pruning out branches of the search tree to significantly speed up search. This is a common algorithm, which I also...
The History of the...
Progressive enhancement brings everyone in Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we...
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Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement. The post Progressive enhancement brings everyone in appeared first on The History of the Web.
Elad Blog
Early days of AI Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it...
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Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past
HTMHell
DOM Clobbering Motivation When thinking of HTML-related security bugs, people often think of script injection...
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Motivation When thinking of HTML-related security bugs, people often think of script injection attacks, which is also known as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). If an attacker is able to submit, modify or store content on your web page, they might include evil JavaScript code to modify...
David Heinemeier...
Could Apple leave Europe? Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case, and Epic...
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Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case, and Epic Sweden's plans to introduce an alternative App Store in the EU have all been laced with a surprising level of spite and obstinacy. Even when Steve Jobs was pulling power moves...
bt RSS Feed
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about...
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It’s a very good article overall, and I suggest...
Elad Blog
A return to company core mission & values If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of...
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If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
Code Of Honor
Debugging running server applications So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real...
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So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real users are playing the game server doesn’t work properly. Now what?!? I was reading an article by Mike Perham called Debugging with Thread Dumps and wanted to share a related...
Oxide Computer...
A Tool for Discussion At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
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At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design decisions. They document the processes, APIs, and tools that we use. The workflow for the RFD process is based upon those of the Golang proposal process, Joyent RFD process, Rust...
On Test Automation
The test automation quadrant, or a different way to look at your tests Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been...
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Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been introduced to the concept of the test automation pyramid early on in my career. While this model has received its share of criticism in the testing community over the years, I still use...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
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2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Making uLisp more usable on the Cardputer <![CDATA[It's a joy to use the Cardputer uLisp Machine, a nice little microcontroller system that...
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<![CDATA[It's a joy to use the Cardputer uLisp Machine, a nice little microcontroller system that runs uLisp. But after a short experience I had to put aside my Cardputer due to a showstopper issue that made it impractical to program the device. Since then a good workaround...
Irrational...
Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience. In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a...
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In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of the developing software at the company. In this chapter, we’ll work through: Summary results...
Steve Klabnik
Introducing the rails-api project
over a year ago
Computer Things
"Testing can show the presence of bugs but not the absence" Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! — Edgar...
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a year ago
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! — Edgar Dijkstra, Notes on Structured Programming Dijkstra was famous for his spicy quips; he'd feel right at home on tech social media. He said things he knows aren't absolutely true but...
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An Annotated Guide to React Server Components React Server Components are a nuanced, sweeping addition to React's existing capabilities. This is...
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
<code>display: contents</code> considered harmful display: contents has a long and storied history when it comes to accessibility. On paper, the...
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display: contents has a long and storied history when it comes to accessibility. On paper, the declaration alters thedisplay qualities of the element it is applied to. It makes the element “disappear,” elevating its child elements to the next level up in the DOM. This sort of...
Epic Web Dev
Versioning and Releasing NPM packages with Nx (tutorial)
5 months ago
Posts on Nikita...
EuroRust 2024 I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an...
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I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an actor system written in Rust. As I’m no longer an active contributor to elfo, it feels a bit bittersweet to finish last thing related to the project. I wish maintainers of elfo well...
Daniel Marino
Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
a year ago
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I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out: See the...
bt RSS Feed
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
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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
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
a year ago
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Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book. (If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.) This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
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As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
TokyoDev
Will a company in Japan find out your previous salary? When it comes to [salary negotiation in...
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When it comes to [salary negotiation in Japan](/articles/a-guide-to-salary-negotiations-in-japan-s-tech-industry), companies often have the upper hand. Not only do they know what they're willing to pay for a position, but it is very common for companies to ask you to disclose...
Joel Gascoigne
How coffee shops helped my startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m sat in a great coffee shop in Tel Aviv writing this blog post. It’s got a casual feel to it which is relaxing, yet there are people here with laptops hustling away. I come here
Making software...
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I'm keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question
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A Beautiful Site
How to use currentColor in your stylesheet I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way...
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I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way to reference the current text color when writing CSS. Works in modern browsers, including IE9+. If you use Less or Sass then you probably already use something like @text-color....
Tinloof - Blog
Translating Shopify stores with Sanity At Tinloof, we have an internal library that does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to building...
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At Tinloof, we have an internal library that does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to building fast Remix websites that have their content managed from Sanity. A while ago, we took a step back to research and implement a localization setup with Sanity that handles all...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Embeds and Quotations in Writing Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and...
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Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and quotations in my writing. A lot of my blogging is quoting other people. I remember debating the use of social embeds on my blog because I quoted a lot of things on Twitter. But I...
orlp.net - Blog...
Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be? This article is not about deciding whether two floating point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are...
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This article is not about deciding whether two floating point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are plenty of resources on this (often subjective) problem. We simply want to know if ${x \leq y.}$ Suppose that you are a programmer, and that you have two numbers. You want to know...
Elad Blog
Startup Decoupling & Reckoning The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely...
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The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation. Implications are discussed.
Liz Denys
My favorite secret to baking healthier: white whole wheat flour Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people...
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Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people seem to be wondering how to generally add more whole grains to their diets. This doesn't come as much of a surprise: whole grains haven't had their bran and germ removed through...
Tony Finch's blog
Where does "where does my computer get the time from?" come from? I am pleased that so many people enjoyed my talk about time at RIPE86. I thought I would write a few...
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I am pleased that so many people enjoyed my talk about time at RIPE86. I thought I would write a few notes on some of the things I left out. genesis Essen & Markowitz Galileo zones BIH irony genesis There were a couple of things that I thought would make a fun talk: Just how many...
Liz Denys
Understanding GNU Screen's captions I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does...
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I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does everything I really need. One of the things I (possibly mistakenly) want is lots of windows. The problem with having lots of windows is they quickly become hard to keep track of,...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Review: Beepy, the pocket-sized, linux-powered cyberdeck THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my...
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THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my cat printer The Beepy is a handheld Linux console designed by artists and built for nerds. From the first announcement, Beepy’s creator—SQFMI—was candid about the device’s lack of...
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Solid Queue 1.0 released We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version...
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We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version has come a long way since we published the first version, 0.1.1, back in December 2023, with 132 merged pull requests and 126 closed issues, and the help of multiple...
Liz Denys
A quick hop across the southern border Taken while admiring the beach at Tulum.
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Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
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A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
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Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts Illustrated notes on the key concepts of how Gatsby.js works
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Vue 3x3 - A Mental Model for Building Fast A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
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Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
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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...
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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...
TokyoDev
Software Developer Salaries in Japan Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software...
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Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software development doesn’t pay exceptionally well: according to [a 2022...
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Competition For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something...
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For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list. Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies and...
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Array 1.16.0 Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And,...
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Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And, given that scalability was the focus of the previous…
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The devil is in the &lt;details&gt; by J. Pedro Ribeiro Not too long ago, building an accordion component would require you to use a...
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by J. Pedro Ribeiro Not too long ago, building an accordion component would require you to use a combination of JavaScript and CSS. If you've been around for as long as I have, you might have used a library like jQuery or Mootools. "vanilla", your code would look something like...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on ShopTalk Show #605 Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all...
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Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all things web. The conversation was fun and casual, mostly around topics I’ve written about recently — which is good, since those are topics I should (presumably) be able to speak on at...
alexwlchan
A day out at the Bure Valley Railway Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north...
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Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north Norfolk. I came across it quite by chance – I was driving through Aylsham to get to a B&B, and I spotted a sign pointing to the railway. I checked the website for a timetable,...
Ognjen Regoje •...
What if I spent exactly two hours on each post Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had...
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Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had dwindled. So, in the interest of being prolific and producing content that I can iterate and learn from, at the start of the year I decided that this year I would not spend more than...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The...
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One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
Eric Bailey
Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown
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How to Create Luck Your entire worldview changes when you realize you can *create luck*.
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Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need
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A Beautiful Site
But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
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Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
TokyoDev
Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
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At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
HTMHell
The UX of HTML by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
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by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
The Changelog
How & Why To Use Airgapped Backups A good backup strategy needs to consider various threats to the integrity of data. For instance:...
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A good backup strategy needs to consider various threats to the integrity of data. For instance: Building catches fire Accidental deletion Equipment failure Security incident / malware / compromise It’s that last one that is of particular interest today. A lot of backup...
A Beautiful Site
Tips for the aspiring web developer So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a...
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So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a lot more fun than most other programming jobs. However, before you take the plunge into a career in web development, there are a few things you should probably consider. A different...
Alice GG
Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats? Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject:...
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Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject: Blockchains. Two years ago, Vitalik Buterin revolutionized the nascent field by creating Ethereum. Ethereum was at the time a cryptographic protocol that would allow people to make distributed...
Eric Bailey
How to not make a résumé in React I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like...
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I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like recently. They all promise the same thing, namely how to use React to create a résumé. I mean, I get it. It’s important to have something to build towards when learning a new skill,...
alexwlchan
Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour":...
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Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour": "blue" } Notice that sides and colour both appear twice. This looks invalid, but I learnt recently that this is actually legal JSON syntax! It’s unusual and discouraged, but it’s...
Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
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Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification. Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then? One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
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We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
Max Countryman
Let It Fail I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I...
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I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
Tinloof - Blog
Guide to fast Next.js Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
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Making software...
CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
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CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn't an insult - I'm happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Seán Barry
Presentation: Pushing Compute to the Browser Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose...
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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...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2025 The Ware for March 2025 is shown below. I was just taking this thing apart to see what went wrong,...
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The Ware for March 2025 is shown below. I was just taking this thing apart to see what went wrong, and thought it had some merit as a name that ware. But perhaps more interestingly, I was also experimenting with my cross-polarized imaging setup. This is a technique a friend of...
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Wonderful vi The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic....
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The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic. Nothing highlights that perception more than the recent and relentless march of AI advancements. But for as much as some things in technology change, many other things stay the same....
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Disabling Comments in WordPress Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
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Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down. Back...
Don Melton
Waiting four years to exhale Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And...
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Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And Kamala Devi Harris as our 49th vice president. While they cannot immediately undo the American carnage inflicted upon us by the previous administration, at least the vindictive...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 04 · Diff visualizations Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
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Steve Klabnik
How to be an open source gardener
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Josh Comeau's blog
What The Heck, z-index?? The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the...
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The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this...
Yale e360
How I Work Remotely I've been working remote since September 2016. There are a lot of engineers who have worked remote...
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I've been working remote since September 2016. There are a lot of engineers who have worked remote longer than I have; there are others who have more insight into how they work than I do; and there are plenty of people who simply don't work in the same way I do. My intention in...
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on...
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don’t style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
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Every Public Engineering Career Ladder A list of the public engineering career ladders I've found
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • James's Notes James Lindenbaum’s notes on possible extensions to Crosscut
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Vadim Kravcenko
How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of...
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Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of not being considered […] The post How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel Gascoigne
Acting with incomplete information in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling entrepreneur in the midst of a growing startup, I try to read quite a lot around the subject. I’ve been deeply involved in startup culture for around two years now and I often find...
HTMHell
#3 image-buttons Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif"...
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Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif" onclick="openDeleteDialog(123)"> Issues and how to fix them The purpose of the img element is to display images, not to execute JavaScript. A click event on a img triggers only on...
David Heinemeier...
Europe's impotent rage Europe has become a third-rate power economically, politically, and militarily, and the price for...
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Europe has become a third-rate power economically, politically, and militarily, and the price for this slowly building predicament is now due all at once. First, America is seeking to negotiate peace in Ukraine directly with Russia, without even inviting Europe to the table....
blag
Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having...
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When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having multiple merge commits and issues with keeping the forked repo in sync. This post addresses solutions for some of the problems.
Nelson's Weblog
GAS I’ve been listening to the same music every night when I go to sleep 10+ years now. Weird...
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I’ve been listening to the same music every night when I go to sleep 10+ years now. Weird endorsement; I’ve listened to it with more attention plenty of times too. But it’s particularly good for going to sleep; calm, interesting, and comfortably familiar. That music is GAS,...
charity.wtf
Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between...
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Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between the pillars model and the single unified storage model and applying “2.0” to the latter, Christine was like “so what is going to stop the next vendor from slapping 3.0, 4.0, 5.0...
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...
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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...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Five Tricks for Debug-Logging in JavaScript Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple...
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Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple tricks you can use right now. We'll be talking about console.log and friends for debugging javascript, mostly in the browser. If you don't use devtools debugger — try it, but I'm...
Max Countryman
High Leverage One-on-Ones One-on-ones are an important resource for both managers and individual contributors. However, it's...
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One-on-ones are an important resource for both managers and individual contributors. However, it's easy to misuse them and squander the opportunity altogether. Let's explore how to get the most of out of these meetings by turning them into high-leverage touchpoints.
Confessions of a...
Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have...
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How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
alexwlchan
How I create static websites for tiny archives Last year I wrote about using static websites for tiny archives. The idea is that I create tiny...
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Last year I wrote about using static websites for tiny archives. The idea is that I create tiny websites to store and describe my digital collections. There are several reasons I like this approach: HTML is flexible and lets me display data in a variety of ways; it’s likely to...
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...
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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...
A Beautiful Site
The Future of Frameworks Love them or hate them, web components ("custom elements") are making a huge dent in the world of...
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Love them or hate them, web components ("custom elements") are making a huge dent in the world of front-end development. As of today, close to 18% of page views in Chrome are registering web components. That's an insane amount of usage! The benefits of a framework-agnostic...
Steve Klabnik
Twitter ghosts
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A Beautiful Site
Dynamic Slots Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
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Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with them? Here's an interesting technique to use (or abuse) slots in your custom elements. I've been calling the pattern dynamic slots. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at how...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte stores: the curious parts We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in...
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We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in svelte components. But not all state belongs in components — sometimes we want app-global state (think state manager), sometimes we just want to reuse logic between components....
Making software...
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
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Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn't cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
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Open source is eating SaaS Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fatigue is real. Open source has several key advantages, which make B2B...
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fatigue is real. Open source has several key advantages, which make B2B SaaS companies look and feel traditional. Here's…
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How To Optimize for Change Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the...
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Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the first time requirements change.
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Changing the macOS accent colour without System Preferences In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects...
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In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects colours throughout your Mac’s user interface, including buttons, menus, and tickboxes. When you pick a new colour, it updates everywhere, immediately. I want to write some automations...
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Did you know AI is answering our community questions? AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that...
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AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that try to replace a human in a product support context…
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My Hacktoberfest 2019 This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and...
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This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and really wanted to participate, but I had…
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Documentation Belongs in Engineering Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point,...
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Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
Ink & Switch
07 · AI bots in version control Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
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Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Outperforming everything with anything It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language...
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It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language outperforming C and C++ solutions. Originally published in mid 2018, now completetly rewritten.
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An Efficient Multi-Stage Build for Python Django in Docker We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment...
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We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment easier. One of the challenges was establishing a good baseline Dockerfile which can maximize the benefits of Dockers caching mechanism and at the same time provide minimal...
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A Commentary on Defining Observability 2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
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2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
Grant Slatton
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Invisible asymptotes "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred...
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"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single...
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Web technology optimism hour It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer...
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It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter and...
HTMHell
#25 A link is a button is a link Note: We've removed most classes to improve readability. Bad code <a tabindex="0" type="button"...
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Note: We've removed most classes to improve readability. Bad code <a tabindex="0" type="button" href="/signup" role="link"> <span class="focus" tabindex="-1"></span> <span> <span> <span>Sign up</span> <i class="icon icon-external-link" aria-hidden="true"...
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Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but...
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People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but inefficient state. For example, the taxicab industry: there was little innovation going on in it, and it was stable, but it seemed like it was far from ideal. Along came Uber, intent to...
Blog - Bitfield...
Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a...
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How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a new digital ledger for secure “Bobcoin” transactions.
David Heinemeier...
Beans and vibes in even measure Bean counters have a bad rep for a reason. And it’s not because paying attention to the numbers is...
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Bean counters have a bad rep for a reason. And it’s not because paying attention to the numbers is inherently unreasonable. It’s because weighing everything exclusively by its quantifiable properties is an impoverished way to view business (and the world!). Nobody presents this...
David Crawshaw
Everyone a writer "The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a...
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"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! For everyone is pained by the thought of...
Maggie Appleton
Programming Portals Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple...
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Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSC, Localfirst, and Coordination Between Multiple Computers Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which...
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Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which gives the conceptual background around how the team came up with the idea for React Server Components (RSC)[1]. I found the talk intriguing. It’s like watching someone take something...
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I have not failed enough I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
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I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”. This was...
Joel Gascoigne
How to name your startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Choosing a name...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Choosing a name is one of the parts of a startup I find the most difficult. It’s also something you can easily get hung up on. We all know that the key thing is to move on to actually
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Errors Are Not Exceptions Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is...
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Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is wrong.
Liz Denys
Bridges 4 People Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation...
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Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn, North Brooklyn, and Manhattan activist committees. Bridges 4 People reimagines what the bridges that connect Brooklyn and Manhattan would look like if they...
The Changelog
Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg 200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of...
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200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of which boiled down to their strong pacifism in the midst of a highly militarized country. Last week, my wife, the boys, and I walked through the favorite palace of Friedrich Wilhelm...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Improving my productivity in 2018 2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
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2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
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syntax highlighting with tree-sitter I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I...
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I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I learned, with some complaining. static site generator markdown ingestion highlighting incompatible?! highlight names class names styling code results future...
Making software...
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about...
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It's a very good article overall, and I suggest...
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Shadowing in Python gave me an UnboundLocalError There's this thing in Python that always trips me up. It's not that tricky, once you know what...
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There's this thing in Python that always trips me up. It's not that tricky, once you know what you're looking for, but it's not intuitive for me, so I do forget. It's that shadowing a variable can sometimes give you an UnboundLocalError! It happened to me last week while working...
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Enabling zero downtime data migrations for self-hosted users In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product...
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In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product evolves, your schemas evolve too, and you need…
Steve Klabnik
2012: year in review
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Announcing Hondo Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from....
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Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from. Eventually, those ideas took the shape of a whole new word game, named Hondo.
Ink & Switch
Capstone: A tablet for thinking Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
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Guide to content creation with Sanity We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
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Eric Bailey
The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing
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Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The post Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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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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How we do meetings at PostHog Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do...
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Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do nothing but hop into one meeting after another? Even…
A Smart Bear
A life-changing challenge guided by Pascal's Wager Applying Pascal's Wager: Humility wins, arrogance loses.
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Eric Bailey
Presentation panic I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation. This was before I was really...
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I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation. This was before I was really aware of my anxiety and depression—I didn’t know what they were or what caused them. Because of this, I spent way too much time fixating on the symptoms, and not the cause. Both my...
A Beautiful Site
SSH failing on macOS Sierra For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel...
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For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a handful of other apps. In fact, it seems to break any app that uses an SSH key with a passphrase. 🤔 The solution I found was to tell SSH to use the MacOS keychain. Simply...
Oxide Computer...
Engineering a culture We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a...
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We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this particular issue was something of an Oxide object lesson, representative not...
Steve Klabnik
More rstat.us refactoring
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Hosting with Codeberg Pages Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
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Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
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Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the...
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Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for...
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
Words and Buttons...
Error codes are not numbers. But they are. Can we exploit that? People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with...
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People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with guilt for an obscure hack. Which is odd since there is nothing particularly hacky about it. The ISO/IEC 14882 is ok with it. The IEEE 754 is ok with it. So why is it a hack and not a...
HTMHell
The hidden depths of the input element by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the...
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a year ago
by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the same way regardless of their attributes, the type attribute of the <input> element can take 1 of 22 different values that gives it not only different behaviour, but a different...
ntietz.com blog -...
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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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...
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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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...
Coding Horror
To Serve Man, with Software I didn't choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time,...
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I didn't choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was this unambiguously great-for-everyone career field with zero
Julia Evans
New zine: How Integers and Floats Work Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12...
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Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats, or get an 13-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table of contents! Now let’s...
Sometimes It Works...
It's not just me, then! I don't want to hapr on about Twitter's downfall as a medium for people to connect, but... as I...
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a year ago
I don't want to hapr on about Twitter's downfall as a medium for people to connect, but... as I mentioned a few weeks ago, the situation is pretty bad right now. For a while, I truly believed it was just me, but over the past few weeks I've been picking up a vibe fromjust a few...
Darek Kay
Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion...
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a year ago
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcripts. In this post, I use interactive examples to show the difference. I also provide related success criteria from...
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
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over a year ago
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱. Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
Confessions of a...
Recording: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance Watch now | We concluded the latest live session yesterday.
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orlp.net - Blog...
Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or...
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It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or fanatic. The skeptic thinks AI sucks, that it’s overhyped, it only ever parrots nonsense and it will all blow over soon. The fanatic thinks general human-level intelligence is just...
Tony Finch's blog
performance of random floats A couple of years ago I wrote about random floating point numbers. In that article I was mainly...
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3 weeks ago
A couple of years ago I wrote about random floating point numbers. In that article I was mainly concerned about how neat the code is, and I didn’t pay attention to its performance. Recently, a comment from Oliver Hunt and a blog post from Alisa Sireneva prompted me to wonder if I...
Blog System/5
Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the...
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In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128 pixels, a D-pad, and 3 other buttons. I will cover the prerequisite work to make the port possible, dig into the GPIO and SPI...
Charles Chen
Using useMemo and useCallback to Save the Past from React Langoliers If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s...
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If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s sci-fi? You came to the right place!
blag
Recurse Center Day 9: Papers We Love I learnt a few things about Dynamo
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Stephen Wolfram...
Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive... The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work?...
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The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that surprise us with what they manage to achieve. So what’s the essence of what’s going on? I’m going to concentrate here on biological...
A Beautiful Site
What is my browser? This tool will tell you Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
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over a year ago
Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier. As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
Letters of Note
It is only a matter of time On September 12th of 2011, the New York Times published an article by Dr. Abigail Zuger in which she...
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On September 12th of 2011, the New York Times published an article by Dr. Abigail Zuger in which she criticised certain supposedly unrealistic aspects of Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s recently released and widely lauded thriller in which a deadly pandemic sweeps the globe. In...
Kevin Chen
What I learned in 2017 At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re...
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over a year ago
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re more than halfway through 2018, I decided to stop procrastinating and flesh out the details. Some of these things are probably obvious to you, but they were new to me! Being right is...
elementary Blog
elementary OS 7 Available Now It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and...
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over a year ago
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware. So far, OS 6.1 has been downloaded from our...
Josh Comeau's blog
Demystifying styled-components For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses...
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over a year ago
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how styled-components works by...
David Gerrells
A lazy dark mode A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The last RailsConf Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started...
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a year ago
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
Blog of Simple...
Analytics without a cookie banner
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Julia Evans
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I...
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a year ago
A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I think some things are hard to learn and ideas for how we can make them easier. Here’s the video, as well as the slides and a transcript of (roughly) what I said in the talk. the...
Steve Klabnik
How can I contribute to Ruby on Rails?
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up “dynamic” navigation in Jekyll. The problem I’ve noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
TokyoDev
8 Proven Strategies for Making Every Candidate Fall in Love with Your Company Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan...
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Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan market. My recruitment career has taken me across both agency and in-house roles, with the most recent one being at [Indeed](https://www.tokyodev.com/companies/indeed) (a proud...
A Smart Bear
How startups beat incumbents A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will...
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A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will not do. Here are those things.
Seldo.com
AI's effects on programming jobs
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Greg Brockman
#define CTO OpenAI It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I...
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It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. I’ve finally found that role, though not by seeking it — instead, I sought out a problem more important to me than my role within it,...
Steve Klabnik
Shoes 4 work is starting: get involved!
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Ink & Switch
03 · Dynamic history Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created...
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Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created milestones.
The Codist
Why I Use Swift To Make Generative Art Now that I am retired from programming for a living, I make generative art (not AI; see my post What...
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Now that I am retired from programming for a living, I make generative art (not AI; see my post What Is Generative Art?) every day. I belong to a discord community of generative artists, yet I stick out because I am the only person using Swift as my chosen language.
Liz Denys
Black coiled planter with attached drip tray, 2024 Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, denim satin glaze
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bt RSS Feed
Improving Receipt UX Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago...
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Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further. What was the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I Don’t Like The Term “IC” Either I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”. I still remember the way I felt the...
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11 months ago
I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”. I still remember the way I felt the first time I heard that term. It was used in a way where its connotations conveyed a kind of laziness via lack of ambition. And I thought, “But wait, I am an individual contributor —...
HTMHell
HTML: The Bad Parts by Mayank You've probably heard statements along the lines of "HTML is already accessible by...
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by Mayank You've probably heard statements along the lines of "HTML is already accessible by default" or "You don't need to reinvent this perfectly fine HTML control". I consider these to be more of general claims rather than universal truths. It's extremely important for web...
Marco.org
Apple is Listening Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant...
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over a year ago
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user. The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
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Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
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Irrational...
Eng-Strategy-Book
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10x engineers talk to users I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers...
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I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers and founders need to deeply understand and care…
blag
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
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i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
Blog - Bitfield...
Writing terrible code The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going...
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The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going somewhere with this.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
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General Robots
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(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages)
Yale e360
Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
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Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
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A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
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I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, git@vger.kernel.org Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
Ralph Ammer
Xunzi vs. Mengzi – Are People (No) Good? About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“. But he wasn’t...
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About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“. But he wasn’t just having a bad day. The question—Are humans fundamentally good or bad?—is a major fork in the road. How you answer this question profoundly impacts your morals and how you live...
Yale e360
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...
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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...
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly April 2024
a year ago
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Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
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My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
David Heinemeier...
Workfeed goes to America During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd...
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a year ago
During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd work towards becoming profitable, remaining in the country, and avoiding the VC timebomb. The one that has already fulfilled all the objectives is Workfeed, and now they're ready to...
A Beautiful Site
Social sharing buttons are ineffective Back in 2012, I wrote an article called Down with the "Share" Widget. In it, I talked about why...
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over a year ago
Back in 2012, I wrote an article called Down with the "Share" Widget. In it, I talked about why plastering social sharing buttons all over your website is completely ineffective. This morning, Smashing Magazine all but confirmed my theory. In today's Smashing Newsletter, they...
Eric Bailey
How to Lead Better User Interviews
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: October 2023
a year ago
somenice
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general...
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I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general machine learning. From Bayesian beginnings to GANs and CNNs, I’m all about data, ML and all of the promises it’s future holds. The problems it can solve today seemed impossible...
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: September 2023
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The 80s are still alive in Denmark I grew up in the 80s in Copenhagen and roamed the city on my own from an early age. My parents...
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3 months ago
I grew up in the 80s in Copenhagen and roamed the city on my own from an early age. My parents rarely had any idea where I went after school, as long as I was home by dinner. They certainly didn’t have direct relationships with the parents of my friends. We just figured things...
TokyoDev
Reduced Hours and Remote Work Options for Employees with Young Children in Japan Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees...
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3 months ago
Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees with children under three. However, the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act was amended in May 2024, with some of the new provisions coming into effect April 1 or October 1,...
Eric Bailey
What they don’t tell you when you translate your app Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most difficult things you can do with software. There’s plenty of content out there about how to perform the basic design and development aspects of translation and localization work....
A Beautiful Site
Know When To Draw The Line One-off variations aren't uncommon, but they don't belong in your design system. You're design...
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over a year ago
One-off variations aren't uncommon, but they don't belong in your design system. You're design system isn't solving for every possible use case — it's encouraging visual consistency and efficient development. Use custom styles for one-offs. This came up recently on my team. We...
A Beautiful Site
A better way to write config files in PHP How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name = 'somedb'; $db_user = 'someuser'; $db_pass = 'somepass'; Then, of course, it gets included and the variables are referenced as globals: include('config.php'); echo $db_host; //...
A small freedom area...
From roots to polynomials Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are those I call the "sum of...
over a year ago
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Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are those I call the "sum of powers" (for example f(x)=ax³+bx²+cx+d) and the "root factors" (for example f(x)=(x-r)(x-s)(x-t), where r, s and t are the roots). The process of transforming the former into the...
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....
a year ago
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a year 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...
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...
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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...
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Benchmarking the impact of session recording on performance The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session recording – a screen-recording-like service that…
David Heinemeier...
The law of the land Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile, longest-running social fissures in America. So of course the recent ruling from the Supreme Court making its use in college admissions illegal was going to light a political fire. The...
Oxide Computer...
Remembering Charles Beeler We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away...
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We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away in September after a battle with cancer. We lost Charles far too soon; he had a tremendous influence on the careers of us both. Our relationship with Charles dates back nearly two...
alexwlchan
A flash of light in the darkness I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of...
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2 months ago
I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of the default background texture. I like giving my website a subtle bit of texture, which I think makes it stand out from a web which is mostly solid-colour backgrounds. Both my...
dthompson
Haunt 0.2.6 released Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that was accidentally broken in 0.2.5. Additionally, Haunt now uses the inotify API to watch for file changes on Linux when running haunt serve --watch, replacing a slower and more naive...
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The 6 best free and open-source A/B testing tools Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your...
over a year ago
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Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your audience to test variations of a product design…
Eric Bailey
Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars In the spirit of “everything old is new again,” browsers are once again supporting the ability to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the spirit of “everything old is new again,” browsers are once again supporting the ability to style the scrollbar. Much like custom CSS mouse cursors, I feel this is also a mistake. When you style things on the web, you get control over almost the entire experience. From ten...
Patrick Kayongo
When You Die the doctors will tell your spouse and they’ll break down in grief they’ll message someone they trust...
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the doctors will tell your spouse and they’ll break down in grief they’ll message someone they trust who’ll rush to see them, as soon the time allows. your workplace will send an email and all your colleagues will be saddened whatsapp broadcasts will flood phones of those time...
somenice
AI Art is getting better Adobe Firefly Express (beta) whatever “Text to Image” takes the old Colab Notebooks to a new refined...
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Adobe Firefly Express (beta) whatever “Text to Image” takes the old Colab Notebooks to a new refined level.However it’s still easy to cherry-pick “good” images for every 10 mediocre or just plain wrong images. Don’t trust the robots. PEACE. T.AKE IT IT ELASY! * All images...
The Changelog
For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a PCMCIA slot, or, heck, sound. Nowadays, mostly new hardware means things get a bit faster or less crashy, or I have some more space for files. It’s good and useful, but sorta… meh....
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How we made something people want It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This...
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It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This principle, and the ones that follow in this post…
Coding Horror
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
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over a year ago
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
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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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.
Steve Klabnik
Docember
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Folk Interfaces People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
over a year ago
the singularity is...
Three Class Society I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t...
a year ago
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a year ago
I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t want to live in a free society. A free society requires personal responsiblity. People here want to be managed. They want a ruling class.” I heard something similar once from a...
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Send love to open-source projects on Valentine's Day Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that...
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over a year ago
Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that helps power PostHog! Here's how: For every GitHub star…
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Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 Box shadow on HTML elements has been widely supported across most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 Box shadow on HTML elements has been widely supported across most browsers for a while now, but I find the default options don’t allow for much visual manipulation of the shadows in general. Let’s take a look at a default configuration of...
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta2 release
over a year ago
Basta’s Notes
I ask three questions When I'm interviewing for a job, these are the questions I ask
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
(Live Session) Performance Thinking: Six Key Lessons from 1BRC Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation...
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10 months ago
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation for the finer details that drive performance optimization—something I truly enjoy discussing.
Patrick Kayongo
Digital Platforms & The Proselytisation of American Civilisation A few months ago, I was on a Microsoft Teams call. As one sometimes does to distract themselves from...
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a year ago
A few months ago, I was on a Microsoft Teams call. As one sometimes does to distract themselves from looking at their own face, I started clicking buttons around the Teams call window. I found an interesting one directing me to a “Speaker Coach”. Clicking on it, The AITM started...
A Beautiful Site
Determine file extensions using JavaScript A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension. function fileExt(path) { return...
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over a year ago
A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension. function fileExt(path) { return path.substr(path.lastIndexOf('.') + 1); }
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0 has been released
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Ductility in Software I learned a new word: ductile. Do you know it? I’m particularly interested in its usage in a...
2 months ago
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I learned a new word: ductile. Do you know it? I’m particularly interested in its usage in a physics/engineering setting when talking about materials. Here’s an answer on Quora to: “What is ductile?” Ductility is the ability of a material to be permanently deformed without...
Joel on Software
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
Eric Bailey
My typical day Hidde kindly nominated me to write one of the “typical day” posts that have been making the blogging...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hidde kindly nominated me to write one of the “typical day” posts that have been making the blogging rounds. I’ve been enjoying reading them, as they give a nice look into how other people are holding up in quarantine. I’m also all about demystifying things. Here’s my daily...