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A Beautiful Site
Valid Names for CSS Parts CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web...
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CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web component's shadow root so they can be styled by consumers with CSS. But what are we allowed to call these parts? What characters comprise a valid CSS part name? To find out, I had to dive...
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Content marketing strategy for devtool companies - How we do it at PostHog Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to...
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Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to what type of content they consume, and clickbait…
A Smart Bear
Limiting Options The winning strategy in Othello is to minimize your opponent's options, rather than maximizing your...
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The winning strategy in Othello is to minimize your opponent's options, rather than maximizing your own. The same principle applies to competitive strategy.
Liz Denys
Starlit sky Brutalist planter with attached drip tray, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
a year ago
Computer Things
My patented Miracle Tonic would have prevented the CrowdStrike meltdown Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I...
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Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I didn't bother to learn anything else about it because I was too busy writing my 10k whitepaper about how all the problems were all caused by one simple mistake: not drinking my...
Grant Slatton
Quasirandom sequences Cool method to generate non-clumping random points
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Determining your app's base directory in Node.js Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight...
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Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight forward as you'd think in Node. Here's a little trick to get a globally available reference to your app's root directory. Add this somewhere towards the start of your main app...
David Heinemeier...
We wash our trash to repent for killing God Denmark is technically and officially still a Christian nation. Lutheranism is written into the...
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Denmark is technically and officially still a Christian nation. Lutheranism is written into the constitution. The government has a ministry for the church. Most Danes pay 1% of their earnings directly to fund the State religion. But God is as dead here as anywhere in the Western...
Irrational...
How to resource Engineering-driven projects at Calm? (2020) One of the recurring challenges in any organization is how to split your attention across long-term...
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One of the recurring challenges in any organization is how to split your attention across long-term and short-term problems. Your software might be struggling to scale with ramping user load while also knowing that you have a series of meaningful security vulnerabilities that...
ntietz.com blog -...
Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends...
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After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends tried it out. He gave me some really useful insights as he went through it, letting me see what was hard about learning Rust from a newcomer's perspective. Unsurprisingly, lifetimes...
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I recommend starting it if you find that
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours Grabbing the audio
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
New blog: Words
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Creating Some Noise on Behalf of Silence How do you write about the value of silence? It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use...
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How do you write about the value of silence? It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use words to extol the value of something whose essence is the very absence of words? It’s like making a painting of the invisible. Do you use visible means to depict something that...
macwright.com
Playing with ActivityPub ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s...
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ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away. But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub. ActivityPub Under the...
HTMHell
Grouping form fields by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about...
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by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about HTML and especially not about accessibility. Everything I noticed was the special way a legend is displayed inside a fieldset – or rather: alongside the border of a fieldset. Fast...
Eric Bailey
Tag, you’re it I’ve been seeing, and enjoying reading these posts as they pop up in my RSS reader. Dave Rupert...
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3 months ago
I’ve been seeing, and enjoying reading these posts as they pop up in my RSS reader. Dave Rupert tagged me into the chain, so here we go! Why did you start blogging in the first place? With the gift of hindsight, I guess I came up being blog-adjacent. Like Dave, I also had a...
Making software...
Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I...
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Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
James Vaughan's blog
Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Understanding the cause of hydration issues in react-router (tip) Today we go over how hydration errors happen in react-router and how to fix them.
a month ago
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...
Julia Evans
Some notes on using nix Recently I started using a Mac for the first time. The biggest downside I’ve noticed so far is that...
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Recently I started using a Mac for the first time. The biggest downside I’ve noticed so far is that the package management is much worse than on Linux. At some point I got frustrated with homebrew because I felt like it was spending too much time upgrading when I installed new...
Making software...
Improving Github's New Design Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
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Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
A Smart Bear
The Fairytale Narrative: Structured strategic planning Traditional fairytale structure fits naturally in our brains, and thus can guide strategic...
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Traditional fairytale structure fits naturally in our brains, and thus can guide strategic problem-analysis, and a plan that everyone understands.
The Pragmatic...
Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days It is now day five that Italian bank Sella has its apps and internetbank down, after a weekend...
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It is now day five that Italian bank Sella has its apps and internetbank down, after a weekend systems update went south. The problem seems to be database-related: “something, something Oracle.”
Neil Panchal
Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs? Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy...
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over a year ago
Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I've come to terms with it. It's fine. It'll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit
Julia Evans
Behind "Hello World" on Linux Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on...
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a year ago
Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on Linux, like this one? print("hello world") Here’s what it looks like at the command line: $ python3 hello.py hello world But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Get You Some Practical Accessibility Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for...
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Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for pre-order right now. I’ve never met Sara in person, but have been an online follower for some time. She is one of those people who has the discipline and eye to make everything they...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
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Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
macwright.com
Recently If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
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If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight upgrade this month. I’ve been publishing a lot of content in the /micro/ section, and I update my /reading/ list once or twice a month when I finish books, but these proper...
Daniel Marino
What I’m Using in 2025 I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day...
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I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day lives. Every now and then I learn about a new app or some cool trick I didn’t previously know. I doubt anyone seriously cares about what I’m using, but figured I’d list them out...
Making software...
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal...
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over a year ago
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol' Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cat and Mouse Read more about RSS Club. When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse...
a year ago
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Read more about RSS Club. When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse problem. Well, I should say “mice” problem because it was definitely plural and not just one solitary mouse chillin in the house. As a new homeowner, I was distraught. I tried all kinds...
Renegade Otter
I am not your Cloud person Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services...
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a year ago
Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
Yale e360
Estimates are about time, so let's cut to the chase As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work. Our most common brush with estimates is when...
a year ago
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As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work. Our most common brush with estimates is when we estimate individual tasks within a sprint. Usually, we do that with abstract points, and that's the wrong way about it. We should be cutting to the chase and estimating directly...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Open source starter pack for JS devs So you've decided to open-source your project. Amazing! Bad news first: writing code is only the...
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So you've decided to open-source your project. Amazing! Bad news first: writing code is only the beginning. The information for library authors on the web is surprisingly fragmented, so I've decided to put together a list of things to keep in mind when open-sourcing a JS...
TokyoDev
The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan I stumbled across an amazing fact. From 2003 to 2022, the number of home burglaries in Japan...
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I stumbled across an amazing fact. From 2003 to 2022, the number of home burglaries in Japan decreased by a factor of 12! Home burglaries in Japan peaked in 2003, with 190,473 cases in Japan. But as of 2022, where the most recent data is available, they have dropped to a mere...
Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
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Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
Steve Klabnik
Marx, anarchism, and web standards
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY, out of AWS and onto our own hardware last...
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We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY, out of AWS and onto our own hardware last summer. But it took until the end of that year for all the long-term contract commitments to end, so 2024 has been the first clean year of savings, and we've been pleasantly surprised...
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 348
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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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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,
Eric Bailey
<code>contrast-color()</code> is a good thing, but also solving the problem at the wrong layer Browsers are a failure of imagination. I understand that new browser features and functionality need...
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Browsers are a failure of imagination. I understand that new browser features and functionality need to be rolled out with care, in that you need to accommodate a wide range of technological literacy and familiarity. This is to say nothing of built-up muscle memory and the risk...
Contraption Co.
Is fractional work the future? A conversation with Taylor Crane
9 months ago
Ralph Ammer
J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson...
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A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist. The post J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Grant Slatton
A peasant's plight On the shackling of the peasantry
7 months ago
HTMHell
Getting started with Web Performance 🚀 by Alistair Shepherd Carefully observing websites in the wild As the murderous...
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by Alistair Shepherd Carefully observing websites in the wild As the murderous tortoises start to converge on Ryūji’s hideout, they pull out their phone. It’s a cheap, older device but it’s survived the toils of the tortoise-ageddon well so far. Thankfully...
A Smart Bear
Never say "no," but rarely say "yes." "Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes"...
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"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
bt RSS Feed
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
Yale e360
Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things. I also...
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I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things. I also like to make things in Rust, mostly for the web, and this is where we run into a problem. See, if I want to make something for the web, I could use Django but I don't want that. I...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading to Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 <![CDATA[I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 based on Debian...
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<![CDATA[I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 based on Debian Bookworm 12.9: The desktop of 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 on a Raspberry Pi 400. Since I had no files to preserve the process was surprisingly easy as I went with a full...
Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that way, it is completely understandable...
David Heinemeier...
Wonderful Rails World Vibes I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel...
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I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel somewhere to save money. It's expensive to outfit a cool venue with the gear and operations needed to pull off a great experience for speakers, sponsors, and attendees. And while the cost...
A Beautiful Site
Don't hate on PHP It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
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It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this: I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP. A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
bunnie's blog
Name that Wäre, July 2023 The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to...
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a year ago
The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to him, this was fished out of a dumpster in Germany, hence “wäre” (and yes, it’s a nonsense word, but I also think it’s cute). We had a little chuckle over the ware’s construction (or...
Eric Bailey
Maralinga bomb test On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing...
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On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing program was codenamed One Tree, and utilized a payload comparable to the horrific Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. The test was part of Operation...
Words and Buttons...
Why is it ok to divide by 0.0? This explains why the division by zero in floating point numbers is ok.
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to integrate Fathom Analytics into your Remix App When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your website visitors in order to enhance their experience. In this guide, we will go over the steps of integrating Fathom Analytics into a Remix application. Creating a site in Fathom...
A Beautiful Site
Generate random passwords in PHP Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
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over a year ago
Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
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over a year ago
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
A Beautiful Site
Getting it right To my awesome users: I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To my awesome users: I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes, the betas were pretty awesome, but they weren't what I wanted them to be in terms of design, code, and function. I can do better, and you deserve nothing less than my very best. The...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Please put units in names
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Folding the DOM In this post, we'll explore a technique we can use to "fold" a DOM node, like folding a letter in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post, we'll explore a technique we can use to "fold" a DOM node, like folding a letter in real-life. On that journey, we'll learn a lot about 3D transforms and CSS animation techniques!
Blog of Simple...
The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water
3 months ago
bt RSS Feed
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal...
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol’ Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
blag
Galloping Search I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used...
7 months ago
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I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used to search sorted items when the upper bound is unknown. In this short post, I will share my notes and other alternatives I discovered for searching over unbounded items
bt RSS Feed
Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don’t pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
Maggie Appleton
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 1.0 I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top...
a year ago
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a year ago
I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top for our situation. If they hadn't reached for those million-dollar contracts, we'd probably be stuck in enterprise vendor hell forever, buying over-priced consulting services for...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented Oembed Proxy for GitHub Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I...
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over a year ago
Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I need to include code snippets. Notion has support for code blocks but it’s not good enough for my use case. I want to make sure the code compiles so I write small programs and...
macwright.com
How could you make a scalable online geospatial editor? by I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not...
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a year ago
I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not founding another geo startup anytime soon. I’d love to found another bootstrapped startup eventually, but geospatial is hard. Anyway, geospatial data is big, which does not combine well...
Blog of Simple...
What is PHI under HIPAA?
a year ago
David Gerrells
how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
Joel on Software
Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team,...
over a year ago
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New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more "Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams"
bt RSS Feed
Vertical Tabs in Safari Vertical Tabs in Safari 2024-09-26 I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build)...
9 months ago
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Vertical Tabs in Safari 2024-09-26 I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build) which has vertical tabs built-in. There are instances where I need to use Safari, such as debugging or testing iOS devices, and in those instances I prefer to have a similar...
alexwlchan
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Optimistic, Offline-First Apps This is my attempt adapting an Amplify DataStore tutorial to Svelte
over a year ago
Alex Meub
Hotel Guest User Agent Data I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country....
over a year ago
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I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country. This data is very different from say: StatCounter or NetApplications estimates because they rely on getting their data from trackers on specific websites. The data I pulled comes...
David Crawshaw
2015-04-02 "- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one...
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over a year ago
"- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one common section.- When a blue train waits for red trains to go through the shared section, the blue trains behind it catch up (get more clumped)- If the merge rules are efficient...
Quentin Santos
AMD CPUs, CCDs and CCXs When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more familiar with how my CPU works. I thought I knew quite a bit, with L1/L2/L3 caches, ISA extensions, branch predictors, register renaming and so much more. But, it turns out, even...
The Pragmatic...
The Big Tech Hiring Slowdown Is Here and it will Hurt Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this impact the rest of the tech industry?
Maggie Appleton
The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
over a year ago
Irrational...
Better to micromanage than be disengaged. For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
HTMHell
An HTML structure for a tab component by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact...
6 months ago
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by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact you learnt about ARIA was the first rule “Don't use ARIA, use native HTML instead“ - and so did I. As someone who has been able to speak native HTML for many years, I always thought...
blag
Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
8 months ago
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
a year ago
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Friendcatchers Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
over a year ago
37signals Dev
Kamal 2.0 released We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or...
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We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers. Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer. With Kamal 2.0...
alexwlchan
Going between Finder and the Terminal Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the...
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Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the Terminal’s command line and the Finder’s GUI. He has some neat ideas, and I particularly like his AppleScript sel for selecting multiple items in Finder. I’ve written a couple of similar...
ntietz.com blog -...
Python is an interpreted language with a compiler After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted...
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After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted languages in common usage," and that they "wish Python was more widely recognized as a compiled language." This got me thinking: what is the distinction between a compiled or...
Irrational...
Setting engineering org values. Uber’s best known corporate value is probably Super Pumped, which, in addition to being a one-time...
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Uber’s best known corporate value is probably Super Pumped, which, in addition to being a one-time company value, is also the title of Mike Isaac’s account of Uber and the subsequent television show. However, for me personally, the value I remember most is Let Builders...
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Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons" My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
over a year ago
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How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website...
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The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website if you use Transistor. But also it's a simple guide to do clientside customizations of almost any website whose code you don't control.
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Upgrading React Router (tip) Upgrade React Router from v5 to v7. Learn about nested routing, Outlet components, built-in error...
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Upgrade React Router from v5 to v7. Learn about nested routing, Outlet components, built-in error boundaries, and other key improvements across versions
macwright.com
Recently: Cycling and Autumn I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
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I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
Eric Bailey
Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well I remember feeling numb learning that my writing had been sucked up by OpenAI. It came out of...
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a year ago
I remember feeling numb learning that my writing had been sucked up by OpenAI. It came out of nowhere and was done without my permission or consent. I have a lot of ethical issues with contemporary AI productization, notably notions around consent, ownership, and environment....
Eric Bailey
A Complete Guide to CSS Functions
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Forbidden noodles My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware...
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My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware of: Bucatini The FDA banning the import of this beloved pasta was one of the many tragedies 2020 visited on us. If there is any consolation, know that the De Cecco pasta factories have...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Boox Go 10.3, two months in [The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the...
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[The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the source (and modifications) once someone asks for it. And now I’m asking nicely for you to do so 🙂 – Joga, bbs.onyx-international.com Boox in split screen, typewriter mode In...
Confessions of a...
Why Do Python Lists Multiply Oddly? Exploring the CPython Source Code A look at the internals of list implementation in CPython to understand this weird quirk about them
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Becoming an Asshole Read more about RSS Club. I’ve been reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. There’s this...
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Read more about RSS Club. I’ve been reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. There’s this part in there where he’s talking about a guy who worked for Apple and was known for being ruthless, stopping at nothing to negotiate the best deal for Apple. He was so aggressive yet...
alexwlchan
emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty...
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I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty or nearly empty, and deletes them. This isn’t a completely trivial problem, because emptiness is deceptive. Consider the following folder. Finder tells us it has 0 items, so it...
David Heinemeier...
Visions of the future Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of...
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Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of realizing that something is simply better, and the only reason it hasn't taken off yet is because the world hasn't realized it. It's amazing, and it's how I'm feeling about Linux...
37signals Dev
Speeding up mobile development with Turbo Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product Expectations for a product are higher now than ever....
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a year ago
Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product Expectations for a product are higher now than ever. Users expect to use their software to be available everywhere: on the web, on desktops, on their mobile devices. Development for all these platforms is fractured so most companies...
Remains of the Day
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
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It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
Tony Finch's blog
tolower() with AVX-512 A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using SWAR tricks. A couple of days...
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A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using SWAR tricks. A couple of days ago I was interested by Olivier Giniaux’s article about unsafe read beyond of death, an optimization for handling small strings with SIMD instructions, for a fast hash function...
Yale e360
TIL: enabling features on transitive dependencies (Rust) While pairing on a small Rust program with a friend, I ran into a problem: to compile to WASM, one...
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While pairing on a small Rust program with a friend, I ran into a problem: to compile to WASM, one of my dependencies needed one of its dependencies to turn on a feature. A variation of this that I've run into in other projects is where a transitive dependency has a bug/CVE and I...
Ink & Switch
11 · Universal comments We experiment with adding a universal comment system that works across different apps.
11 months ago
Eric Bailey
Fighting uphill As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibility space, I follow WebAIM’s work...
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As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibility space, I follow WebAIM’s work closely. Their survey results are priceless insights into how disabled people actually use the web, so when the organization speaks with authority on a subject, I listen. WebAIM’s...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Dev tool marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
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Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers. There are plenty of…
David Heinemeier...
Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an...
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For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an 8-core/16-thread AMD 8745H CPU, which retails for $343 (or €379) as a bare-bone unit, and stays below $550, even after adding 48GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. I'm shocked to report that I really...
alexwlchan
An unexpected lesson in CSS stacking contexts I’ve made another small tweak to the site – I’ve added “new” banners to articles I’ve written...
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I’ve made another small tweak to the site – I’ve added “new” banners to articles I’ve written recently, and any post marked as “new” will be pinned to the homepage. Previously, the homepage was just a random selection of six articles I’d written at any time. ...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition) I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the...
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I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the last 8 months the number of tech startups worth $1B or more ("unicorns") has grown by 43% from 487 Unicorns to 701. This is almost double the 361 unicorns in June 2019
Maggie Appleton
How to Import Academic Papers from Zotero into Tana How to use Zotero's translator and Tana Paste formatting to easily import papers into Tana
5 months ago
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Pen-driven symbolic programming An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using...
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An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using formulas. We want a way of inputting formulas that is as “pen-driven” as possible.
The Changelog
Rehabilitating Asynchronous Communication with NNCP: A Cross Between Tor, ssh, and UUCP Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was...
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Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was saturating the terrible wifi you had access to? Maybe you’d wish the upload to pause until you get somewhere else, but then pausing syncing on your Nextcloud/Syncthing/Dropbox would...
Steve Klabnik
Extracting domain models: a practical example
over a year ago
Alex Meub
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
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My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
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How to start a growth team (as an engineer) Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at ...
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Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at Let's Do This – a Y Combinator startup with $80M in…
A Beautiful Site
CSS shapes are here Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but...
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Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but you haven't had a chance to see what can actually be done with CSS shapes yet. (Hint: check out the featured image above.) Razvan Caliman explains it like this: For a long time, web...
ntietz.com blog -...
Bright lights in dark times It's kind of dark times right now. And I'm definitely only talking about the days being short. It's...
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It's kind of dark times right now. And I'm definitely only talking about the days being short. It's pretty dark out right now, since it's the winter in the northern hemisphere. Every year, I start to realize somewhere around January that I'm tired, really tired, and don't want to...
A Smart Bear
Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy...
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People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy customers, even when you mess up.
the singularity is...
The World’s Computer This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
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This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer. In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
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STAR Apps - A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows _Published on CSS Tricks as [STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development...
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_Published on CSS Tricks as [STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows](https://css-tricks.com/star-apps-a-new-generation-of-front-end-tooling-for-development-workflows/)_
Maggie Appleton
Gathering Structures How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Fully Typed Web Apps The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to...
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The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries.
Julia Evans
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE filesystem for a git...
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Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns out the answer is yes! There’s giblefs, GitMounter, and git9 for Plan 9. But FUSE is pretty annoying to use on Mac – you need to...
Nelson's Weblog
The Sandbaggers I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the...
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a year ago
I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the show name-checks James Bond frequently the soul of it is more of a Le Carré thing. Intelligence as a series of dismal political battles between underpaid civil servants at the home...
Joel Gascoigne
Focus on the line, not the dot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring? [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half a...
On Life and Lisp
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power. A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
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over a year ago
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
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The best Google Optimize alternatives for apps and websites Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement on its website, Google said: "Google Optimize and…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Every Web Performance Test Tool Check your site's speed quickly with a battery of tests
over a year ago
TokyoDev
The 2023 TokyoDev Developer Survey results are live! In October 2023, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. The results are...
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In October 2023, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. The results are now live, please [check them out!](https://2023.surveys.tokyodev.com/en-US) This year’s survey had a total of 713 respondents, up 28% from last year’s survey. This is an amazing...
Stephen Wolfram...
The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in...
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Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in the cloud. See also more detailed information on Version 13.1, Version 13.2 and Version 13.3. Building Something Greater and Greater… for 35 Years and Counting Today we celebrate...
The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
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I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
Steve Klabnik
For science: I'm killing my cell phone
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How Spotify (and PostHog) build successful features This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
TokyoDev
Tech Meetups in Tokyo Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into...
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a year ago
Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into attending tech meetups. Tech meetups are events held online and offline, and attending them is a great way to form connections and establish yourself in the tech community. It...
Writing - Andreas...
Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
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over a year ago
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
alexwlchan
Localising the `` with JavaScript I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our...
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I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our server does everything in UTC, but the team is split across four different timezones, so the server timestamps aren’t always easy to read. For most people, it’s harder to...
Alex Meub
Indeterminate Checkboxes While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can...
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over a year ago
While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can actually have up to four different visual states: checked, unchecked, disabled and indeterminate. What is indeterminate? It’s defined by the W3C this way: If the element’s...
Maggie Appleton
Metaphors We Web By A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web
over a year ago
The Changelog
I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years. I want thin, light, portable,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years. I want thin, light, portable, excellent battery life, and a servicable keyboard. For a while, I tried a Lenovo Chromebook Duet. It meets the hardware requirements, well sort of. The problem is with performance and...
HTMHell
Web Components FTW! by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create...
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by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create reusable custom elements, with built-in interactivity, automatically scoped (or encapsulated) from the rest of your code. They have a wide range of features and functionality (some...
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Why You Should Pre-Sell My thoughts on preselling, from having done it successfully exactly one time.
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
You're Allowed To Make Your Own Tools Making personal side projects for fun and profit.
over a year ago
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How To Google Your Errors ---
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alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2023 I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with...
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a year ago
I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with that number, although overall I found it a slightly disappointing year for reading. Although I read more books, there were less that I really loved – less of the sort of book that...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or...
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over a year ago
On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. – Google, Project Jigsaw Thu, 19 Aug 2021 @EmilyKager & @wardellbagby@androiddev.social I didn’t expect to learn...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
2025-06-21 Sat: Thoughts on C/C++ killer There are several programming languages that are “better C/C++”: zig, odin, jai, D. The problem is...
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2 weeks ago
There are several programming languages that are “better C/C++”: zig, odin, jai, D. The problem is adoption: it’s hard to break from all the code already written in C/C++. It’s too expensive to rewrite large code bases in new language. My idea on how to improve adoption: perfect...
David Heinemeier...
The most interesting people We didn’t used to need an explanation for having kids. That was just life. That’s just what you did....
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We didn’t used to need an explanation for having kids. That was just life. That’s just what you did. But now we do, because now we don’t. So allow me: Having kids means making the most interesting people in the world. Not because toddlers or even teenagers are intellectual...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2025 The Ware for March 2025 is part of a Wekome WP-U157 “67 watt” GAN power supply. This particular unit...
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2 months ago
The Ware for March 2025 is part of a Wekome WP-U157 “67 watt” GAN power supply. This particular unit had overheated and let out the magic smoke, so I decided to take it apart to understand what was going on. There were a number of engineering issues with the design; the most...
Jake Zimmerman
Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax
2 months ago
alexwlchan
A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian &rarr; I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too. To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin. When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
What is a react component, anyways? I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write...
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over a year ago
I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write a simple component!”. But time after time I hear — “Vladimir, what’s a component, anyways?”. Bah, what a question! It’s a react thingie. React apps are made of components. Why do...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap & Industry Towns, 2020 In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas,...
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In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and companies tend to have strong network effects that support startup formation and success in a given industry. For example, Silicon Valley, London,...
A Smart Bear
The practical application of "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand" You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of...
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over a year ago
You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of actually doing it. It’s not just about how big tasks are, but about using different frameworks to prioritize each, and following certain guidelines about how to construct sprints.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Nuance of “Domain” I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links...
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a year ago
I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye. What is a “Domain”? Let’s say you have a URL like this: https://example.com Put it in the URL constructor and...
Don Melton
Sweet sixteen for Safari and WebKit On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It...
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over a year ago
On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same project with me. For that reason, Ken and I have always considered our start date to be when Safari and...
A Day In The Life...
I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • James's Notes James Lindenbaum’s notes on possible extensions to Crosscut
over a year ago
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Ejectable Defaults Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of...
over a year ago
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Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of how Ejectable Defaults fits with the Zero Config movement
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
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This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
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...
blag
Internet is wholesome: MVCC edition This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a...
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This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a publication error and how people on the internet helped me.
Making software...
Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is ONCE #1 With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second...
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With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second big launch of the new year: ONCE #1. And... drumroll... it’s a rebirth of Campfire! The original web-based chat system we built back in 2006. Brought back to the future as...
alexwlchan
The maths cross-stitch that hangs behind me I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me...
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I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me when I’m on video calls – which made me realise I’ve never posted about it here. It’s a rather nice piece that I’m quite pleased with, and it’s worth sharing. Most of my...
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First Letter Pseudo Element First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
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First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset. The HTML Like most...
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Asheville Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
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Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of...
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn't mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
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Fight Link Rot with Server- and Client-side Redirects (Netlify and Gatsby) Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
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Testing JavaScript without a (third-party) framework Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own...
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Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own experience. A lot of my websites (including this one) are content sites with just a bit of interactivity sprinkled on top, where I prefer writing vanilla JS over using complex...
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Supervised Learning: Bayesian Learning Lets update our priors! Oh wait we have none.
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Jibran’s Perspective
State machines - Why and how to use them in web development. What is a state machine? I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine. A...
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What is a state machine? I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine. A finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: automata), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract...
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Breaking the inertia of mediocrity It's rarely the terrible decisions, processes, or even people that'll sink your organization. It's...
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It's rarely the terrible decisions, processes, or even people that'll sink your organization. It's the accumulation and inertia of the mediocre ones. Dealing with the truly bad is easy. It's painfully obvious to all that change is required. The danger is imminent. It's much...
A Beautiful Site
Using the classList API jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff...
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jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff wasn't built into JavaScript. But wait — it is now! What your looking for didn't exist until IE10, but it's been in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera for some time now. It's...
Computer Things
Unusual basis types in programming languages TLA+ Workshop TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you...
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TLA+ Workshop TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you start building them. I've been saying the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT gives $50 off, but that's wrong because I actually set it up for $100 off. Enjoy! Unusual basis types in...
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Linux Context Switches: The Truth About TLB Flushes Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?
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A Beautiful Site
box-sizing: border-box explained It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us...
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It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us back to the days of early Internet Explorer. The good ol' days # You might remember how Internet Explorer 6 (quirks mode) and below did that whole box model thing wrong. If not,...
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The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing...
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This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside. Here's my attempt to make sense of it.
David Crawshaw
2015-06-26 "While the Union survived the civil war, the Constitution did not. In its place arose a new, more...
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"While the Union survived the civil war, the Constitution did not. In its place arose a new, more promising basis for justice and equality, the 14th Amendment, ensuring protection of the life, liberty, and property of all persons against deprivations without due process, and...
A Smart Bear
Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can...
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Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can create opportunities for everyone involved.
Yale e360
Building Molecule Reader in one day Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when...
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Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when there are notifications coming in or even just other content on the screen1. I have a reMarkable tablet (RM), which I love dearly2 and much prefer to read on. But it's annoying...
Eric Bailey
Your CSS is an interface My partner is learning Japanese using the Duolingo app. They’ve been dutifully opening the app and...
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My partner is learning Japanese using the Duolingo app. They’ve been dutifully opening the app and doing daily challenges for over 400 days now. A few days ago, they shared this screenshot with me: If I could wager a guess, it looks like there was a bug with dark mode color logic...
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How I learned to love feedback loops (and make better products) I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my...
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I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my first two projects as a Software Engineer at PostHog…
Maggie Appleton
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
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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
TokyoDev
A four-stage approach for hiring women on your engineering team “We’d love to have woman engineers on our team, but we don’t get any applying to us” is a common...
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“We’d love to have woman engineers on our team, but we don’t get any applying to us” is a common sentiment I’ve heard from startup founders, both in Japan as well as my home country, the United States. If you’re in a similar position, and looking to increase the gender...
Liz Denys
The night sky and finding hope in the dark I found inspiration for this pitcher's glaze design in the night sky. Whenever I feel lost, I know...
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I found inspiration for this pitcher's glaze design in the night sky. Whenever I feel lost, I know I can always look up and be under the same night sky, no matter where I am. Whenever I feel alone, I know I can always look up and feel connected to humanity, everyone else looking...
the jsomers.net blog
More people should write More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the...
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More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
Maggie Appleton
Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis Gaining a strange disease and losing my ability to see straight
a year ago
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Tracking Humanity The introduction to my thesis on the Quantified Self movement and the culture of self-tracking
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Sometimes It Works...
Moving from Medium What this runs on I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many...
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What this runs on I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many years since I ran my own site 'properly'. And now that it's practically free, it was about time. For the eagle-eyed among you, you'll know that I sporadically published content to...
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Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place Mary Douglas defined dirt as matter out of place – the crossing of boundaries
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Data retention in Google Analytics
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Excuse me, is there a problem? Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that...
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Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
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Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky 2024-02-23 I often stumble upon large data sets or table...
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Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky 2024-02-23 I often stumble upon large data sets or table layouts across the web. When these tables contain hundreds of rows of content, things become problematic once you start to scroll… This should be a header Look at that table header...
alexwlchan
My Python snippet for walking a file tree I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and...
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I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and they often involve iterating over a folder full of files. The key function for doing this is os.walk in the standard library, but it’s not quite what I want, so I have a wrapper...
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Guile-websocket 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an...
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I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. This release introduces breaking changes that overhaul the client and server implementations in...
Tinloof - Blog
How we build fast Shopify stores It is no surprise that ecommerce page speed is a key factor in user satisfaction, conversion rates,...
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It is no surprise that ecommerce page speed is a key factor in user satisfaction, conversion rates, SEO, and brand perception. Research clearly shows that the slower the ecommerce is, the less likely visitors are going to purchase; 79% of customers are less likely to buy again...
David Gerrells
a perfect blog editor What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
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Coding Horror
Let's Talk About The American Dream A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of...
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A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask
Steve Klabnik
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
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2020 University of Seville CS Commencement speech I was wrapping up an interview when I got a Twitter DM from Pablo. It was an invitation to give the...
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I was wrapping up an interview when I got a Twitter DM from Pablo. It was an invitation to give the commencement speech for the University of Seville’s CS School, where I studied. Wow, I was not expecting that at all. I was humbled and very excited to help as much as I could and...
Joel Gascoigne
How an investor who turned me down ended up sleeping on my couch * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had the great pleasure of grabbing dinner with Jon Bradford [http://twitter.com/jd], and having him stop over at my place on his way to speak on a panel at an event in Jerusalem. The...
Words and Buttons...
Image darning It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
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It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
Tinker, Tamper,...
Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or...
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One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or “WITH queries”. I’ll explain the mental model that helped me make sense of them, and how to use them to execute recursive queries. Afterwards I’ll show how to apply these techniques...
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Recently Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives...
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Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives on how the business and such have gone, but for now, let’s keep this traditional, a good old-fashioned Recently. Reading This month’s theme, looking back on it, was feminism, and...
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Name that Ware, August 2024 The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
10 months ago
Josh Collinsworth
Breaking changes in SvelteKit, August 2022 SvelteKit introduced breaking changes to its routing and data loading in August 2022. Learn how to...
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SvelteKit introduced breaking changes to its routing and data loading in August 2022. Learn how to convert from the old way of doing things to the new.
HTMHell
Makeshift hot reload by Evan Hahn In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh...
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by Evan Hahn In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh your page every second. This is a makeshift "hot reload" for development. It's not perfect, but it can be a quick solution! Hot reloading automatically reloads parts of your page...
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Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git <![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site...
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<![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site generator that publishes as a website a folder stored on Google Drive, Dropbox, or a Git repository. Back then I set up Blot to publish a Google Drive folder but I recently switched...
Vadim Kravcenko
Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return Question: Answer: The post Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
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This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Darek Kay
Handling Enzyme in React 18 React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing...
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React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. However, many projects still contain lots of Enzyme tests from the early days, making migration difficult and time-consuming. At my...
Sometimes It Works...
Code: Selfish Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding...
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Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding selfishly. This isn’t what you think. Coding selfishly is about assessing your motivations, your joys and coding in a way that brings you the most long-term value. It’s really a form of...
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Boop! An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever...
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An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever created. We'll learn how to use React components and hooks to abstract behaviours, and see how to design the perfect API. Even if you're not into animations, I think you'll find it...
A Beautiful Site
Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users...
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The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users who get confused when events of the same name are emitted from different components. Take <sl-details>, <sl-dialog>, and <sl-dropdown>, for example. They all emit sl-show and...
Yale e360
Sometimes, I can't talk Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other. We live in a society, and we...
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Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other. We live in a society, and we have to interact with other people. A lot of that communication happens through language, especially spoken and signed language. For many of us, this language happens so freely and...
Maggie Appleton
Common Misconceptions in AI Common Misconceptions About the Complexity in Robotics vs AI by Dan Ogawa
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Finding Free Food with Python
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A Smart Bear
Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who...
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This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
Yale e360
Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it...
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I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it contains 240 million unique positions1 from 3.8 million games. One of the things it needs to do is quickly find all the games where a particular position occurs. I'd also like it to...
blag
It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of...
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It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of unit tests. But how does that work in practice? Is Python fast to ship?
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven’t seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, July 2024 The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last...
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The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last two images might be killer clues that give away the ware, but they are also so cool I couldn’t not include them as part of the post.
Posts on Nikita...
Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
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A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
Making software...
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side...
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Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I'm writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
TokyoDev
International Developer in Japan Salary Survey 2014 *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* One of the...
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*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* One of the questions I've been asked several times by readers of this blog are [what are salaries of developers in Japan](/articles/software-developer-salaries-in-japan). There is a fair...
Sometimes It Works...
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An...
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You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An Acceptable Risk What else can you do? Enter Ensemble ¶You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies I’ve got a little present for you: you’re enjoying a well-earned break from work!...
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Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript Large web pages, especially documentation, benefit from having a table of contents for navigating...
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Large web pages, especially documentation, benefit from having a table of contents for navigating within document. This article describes how I implemented a compact table of contents for documentation page for my Edna note taking application as well as for this very blog. I was...
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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…
A Smart Bear
Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price? Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other...
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Tablet Platform Showdown Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
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Yale e360
Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we...
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I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we have in place and something clicked for why they feel so wrong despite being so prevalent. I'm not sure what any solutions look like yet, but outlining a problem is the first step,...
bt RSS Feed
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System 2024-04-11 OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220 With the recent...
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OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System 2024-04-11 OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220 With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only...
Maggie Appleton
The Bare Essentials of Greensock Notes on the basics of the Greensock animation llibrary
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TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
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You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
samwho.dev
Turing Machines body { text-wrap: pretty; } @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { * { ...
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body { text-wrap: pretty; } @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { * { transition: none; animation: none; } } turing-machine { width: 100%; display: block; position: relative; padding-bottom: 1em; } turing-machine...
Vadim Kravcenko
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JAMstack for Indie Hackers _This article was [published on Indie...
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_This article was [published on Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/jamstack-for-indie-hackers-b07f7a943d)!_
elementary Blog
Package Releases Are Almost Done, You Won't Believe What Happens Next! This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes,...
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This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes, regression testing, updating metadata, taking screenshots, and releasing packages. We’re getting down to the last few items before we can release elementary OS 8. Read ahead to find out...
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We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the...
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One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
Making software...
CSS Character Unit CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
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CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
Eric Bailey
Dot website I changed this website’s domain from .design to .website as part of my redesign. If you subscribe to...
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I changed this website’s domain from .design to .website as part of my redesign. If you subscribe to my RSS feed (and thank you if you do!), the new URL is: https://ericwbailey.website/feed/feed.xml Before this website was .design it was a .com. I’m not a company, and my...
Blog of Simple...
GDPR Compliance Checklist
over a year ago
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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...
alexwlchan
create_thumbnail: create smaller versions of images I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images. I need...
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I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images. I need image thumbnails in a lot of projects, and I wanted a single tool I could use in all of them rather than having multiple copies of the same code. It takes three arguments: Your...
Irrational...
Extract the kernel. As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication...
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As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication challenges between executives and the folks they work with. The most frequent issue I see is when a literal communicator insists on engaging in the details with a less literal executive. I...
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What if Stripe is the next Google? Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
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Tailwind CSS Color Tokens (tutorial)
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MMapped blog
Fungible tokens 101
over a year ago
Irrational...
How to filter out old email from inbox Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too...
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2 months ago
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with, and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email. Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that...
Joel Gascoigne
The Yin and Yang of a great co-founder relationship * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve always...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve always found it interesting to think about co-founder relationships. I’ve been in a few myself, some which were not completely successful and then more recently working with Leo for the last...
blag
Recurse Center Day 3: Hammock Driven Development TIL Hammock Driven Development
over a year ago
Making software...
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
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Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
Epic Web Dev
Exploring the has Utility in Tailwind CSS (tip)
a year ago
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Designing a Logo I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo:...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-brand-ai-engineering-podcast-help-define-industry-1307842/
Making software...
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big...
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over a year ago
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of "brutalist" or minimalist design, so I'm always inspired...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Trade offs in designing versatile log format This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound. I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design: it should be simple and therefore easy to implement it should be human-readable it...
Josh Comeau's blog
You Don’t Need a UI Framework As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great way to outsource design and save a bunch of time, right? In my experience, this is an unrealistic expectation, and things don’t quite work out that way.
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Networking Essentials: Architecture and Principles Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
over a year ago
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Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux 2023-04-25 Users who work with git patches...
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Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux 2023-04-25 Users who work with git patches through email most likely use a terminal-based program such as aerc or mutt. CLI email clients tend to have built-in support for easily applying patches directly to their local...
Confessions of a...
My Top 15 OS Books: From Theory and Implementation to Systems Programming A personal guide to the most useful books for understanding operating systems
4 months ago
alexwlchan
Making alt text more visible I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text before I publish the site, but that means alt text has often been an afterthought – something I’d dash out at the very end of writing a post. I wanted to give it more attention, and...
Basta’s Notes
My friend, JT I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
4 months ago
Code Of Honor
Uh-oh: was the company site hacked? Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
The Pragmatic...
Speakers for Amsterdam / Netherlands Tech Events I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the Netherlands, or somewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, rarely do talks – I do one conference per year. However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks...
Josh Collinsworth
How to Create Custom Editor Blocks with Block Lab Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the block editor, AKA Gutenberg, the new content editor in WordPress 5.0. This post explains how to use it, even if you only know basic HTML.
Alex MacCaw
The Great CEO Within It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very fortunate to be involved in this project. This is the best book I've read on making the journey from founder to CEO.
Marco.org
The 16-inch MacBook Pro After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on today’s Accidental Tech Podcast! Two years ago, I wrote a wishlist to fix the MacBook Pro, and the 16-inch doesn’t actually deliver most of it. But time and technological progress...
Vadim Kravcenko
Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it wrong, […] The post Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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.
Max Countryman
Three Years to Shake Your Head There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the shakuhachi, "It takes three years to learn to shake your head." This is in reference to the difficulty of mastering even seemingly simple techniques. The only way around this is to...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Use Client Hints to Eliminate Content Layout Shift (tip) Learn how to eliminate CLS using client hints in the Epic Stack.
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
The five stages of incident response The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be down. There's no way it's down. Why would it be down? It isn't down. Sure, my pager went off. And sure, the metrics all say it's down and the customer is complaining that it's...
Making software...
Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
Irrational...
Ex-technology companies. One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a technology company. Most interestingly, this question wasn’t coming from friends or random strangers on the internet, it was coming from the engineers working there! In an attempt to...
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Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since -...
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Ban std::string The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like heresy and you want to burn me at stake. But is it really controversial? Java, C#, Go, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP: they all have immutable strings that are basically 2 machine words:...
David Heinemeier...
We have left the cloud Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take us years to get out as well. But all that work to containerize our applications and prepare them for the cloud actually turned out to make it relatively easy to exit. And now,...
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A Better Way to Get Data > Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
Experimentation Adrift Experimentation Adrift 2018-03-30 You can learn numerous lessons from failure, almost all of them...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Experimentation Adrift 2018-03-30 You can learn numerous lessons from failure, almost all of them bogus. This one I have thought about enough over the years that I think it is worth writing down. I started working on Google+ a few weeks before it publicly launched, and was there...
Irrational...
More (self-)publishing thoughts. I recently got an email asking about self-publishing books, and wanted to summarize my thinking...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently got an email asking about self-publishing books, and wanted to summarize my thinking there. Recapping my relevant experience, I’ve written three books: An Elegant Puzzle was published in 2019 as a manuscript by Stripe Press (e.g. I wrote it and then it was released as...
blag
Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely my own. Early in my career, I did…
Basta’s Notes
Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
over a year ago
The Changelog
Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian. These are my reasons: Raspberry Pi OS has, for years now, specified...
MMapped blog
ONNX introduction
4 months ago
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Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go Go team wrote golang.org/x/sys/windows package to call functions in a Windows DLL. Their way is...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Go team wrote golang.org/x/sys/windows package to call functions in a Windows DLL. Their way is inefficient and this article describes a better way. The sys/windows way To call a function in a DLL, let’s say kernel32.dll, we must: load the dll into memory with...
Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
A Beautiful Site
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
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over a year ago
The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
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The Power of Personal Podcasting Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Announcing rstat.us
over a year ago
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “People Used To Take Me Seriously. Then I Became A Software Vendor” I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a conversation we had several years ago: “Hey, I’ve got a question for you. A long time ago I remember you talking about what an adjustment it was becoming a vendor, how all of a sudden...