TokyoDev
Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The...
10th Jul 2026
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The opportunity to break away from my comfort zone, brave new horizons, and immerse myself in new cultures has probably been the greatest joy I’ve found during my time on this Earth....
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
18th Oct 2018
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website.
Nowadays companies and...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
4th Feb 2024
Max Countryman
Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It
Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can...
24th Dec 2022
Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can dramatically improve your odds of hiring exceptional software engineers.
Steve Klabnik
GitHub is anarchy for programmers
1st Oct 2011
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker.
Most of the time you’ll...
1st May 2024
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker.
Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2.
Step 2: Hit the “Send” button.
Shortly after...
Dan Slimmon
did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I...
14th Mar 2025
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So we’ve got these spikes in WALWrite: the number of processes waiting to write to the write-ahead...
A Smart Bear
COC: A new metric for thinking about cancellations in SaaS business models
Introducing COC: The true cost of cancellations in a scaling SaaS business.
6th Aug 2013
Introducing COC: The true cost of cancellations in a scaling SaaS business.
Liz Denys
Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io.
Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames...
31st Mar 2014
Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames than PGP and verified account linking to popular sites such as Twitter and GitHub. This is awesome because "PGP for humans" is long overdue and because I snatched up the namespace...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2024
A new Pub/Sub Architecture course, lootable chests, and ThePrimeagen’s Git course is only a couple...
1st May 2024
A new Pub/Sub Architecture course, lootable chests, and ThePrimeagen’s Git course is only a couple weeks away. It’s been a good April. glhf.
macwright.com
2025 Predictions
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial...
11th Jan 2025
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial to AI
The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between
websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your
ranking on search engines was pretty easy -...
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
1st Apr 2019
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Sebastian Witowski
Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was...
1st Oct 2019
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was testing it in the interactive Python REPL, the first version turned out to have some bugs (the second and third ones also did 😉).
That's fine - I thought - I will just fix the module...
Joel on Software
A Dusting of Gamification
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe...
13th Apr 2018
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more "A Dusting of Gamification"
A Beautiful Site
Whipping file inputs into shape with Bootstrap
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all...
8th Aug 2013
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all browsers. There's even a pretty slick plugin to help get the job done. Unfortunately, most of these solutions are cumbersome, prone to cross-browser issues, and require...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
7th May 2022
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Expose Platform APIs Over Wrapping Them
From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js:
One of the primary differences...
1st Apr 2024
From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js:
One of the primary differences between enzyme and Testing Library is that while enzyme gave you a wrapper with a bunch of (overly) helpful (dangerous) utilities for interacting with rendered elements, Testing...
Tony Finch's blog
Joining ellipses with matching tangents
In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg,
using curcular arcs that join...
5th Feb 2024
In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg,
using curcular arcs that join where their tangents are at 45°.
I wondered if I could do something similar with ellipses.
As before, I made an interactive ellipse workbench to
experiment with the problem. I got...
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
27th Apr 2023
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
bt RSS Feed
Making a Website Under 1kB
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
2nd Aug 2022
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
Basta’s Notes
AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement
My AI homelab named Daddy
27th Apr 2026
My AI homelab named Daddy
General Robots
What's With All the Humanoid Robots?
If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid...
7th May 2024
If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid robot startups. What's with that? Why humanoids? Why now?
Boot.dev Blog
Breaking Into Tech on Hard Mode: A Supply/Demand Analysis of Career Options
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of...
23rd Nov 2025
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of stock market bubble, but I do believe that most markets are mostly efficient. Everyone out there is looking for a good deal, and despite the well-known irrationalities of human...
swyx's site RSS Feed
What you can do in a decade
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more...
22nd Apr 2026
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more useful reflections.
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental...
9th Feb 2021
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
David Gerrells
is there light at the end of the tunnel
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look...
11th Apr 2022
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look at it.
ntietz.com blog -...
Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza (and javascript)
There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza.
I mean, they distribute the toppings in a...
18th Aug 2025
There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza.
I mean, they distribute the toppings in a normal way.
They're not uniform at all.
The toppings are random, but not the way I want.
The colloquial understanding of "random" is kind of the Platonic ideal of a pizza: slightly...
ntietz.com blog -...
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college.
In that time, I've worked at three...
11th Sep 2022
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college.
In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!).
I've also struggled with depression...
davidyat.es
Signifier flotation devices
27th Sep 2025
David Heinemeier...
Servers can last a long time
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing...
7th Feb 2025
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to fill all the app, job, cache, and database duties we needed. The entire outlay for this fleet was about half a million dollars,...
MMapped blog
IC internals: the ICP ledger
19th Dec 2022
Boot.dev Blog
(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc)
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and...
1st Jan 2020
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and retrieve data, among other useful computational tasks. As a practical example, all user passwords on boot.dev are hashed using Bcrypt to ensure that if an attacker were ever to gain...
Buttondown's blog
March updates
We have lots of great new updates in store!
2nd Mar 2019
We have lots of great new updates in store!
David Heinemeier...
Omarchy is on the move
Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed...
5th Aug 2025
Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-to-Linux enthusiasts. We have about 3,500 early adopters on the Omarchy Discord, 250...
Liz Denys
Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
14th Jan 2019
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions.
I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization.
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
2nd Jan 2023
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
Irrational...
Manage your priorities and energy.
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I...
3rd Aug 2023
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making...
Engineer’s Codex
How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
4th Dec 2023
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
Eric Bailey
A designer developing for Android
8th Nov 2018
Kagi Blog
Kagi search introduces Team plan
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
18th Oct 2022
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
Maggie Appleton
JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around
Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
28th Dec 2019
Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
Founder's blog
Zen Browser review and benchmark vs Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Safari
I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy...
2nd Nov 2024
I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy concerns (Google's tracking empire is alive and well), and Edge is just... too much. Every update shoves another set of “features” down my throat — Copilot, discount coupons, Bing...
Blog System/5
Beginning 3D printing
A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks...
28th May 2025
A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025
We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI...
10th Jun 2025
We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
5th Jan 2022
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system.
Server...
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now...
5th Sep 2024
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work.
And work, they do.
Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
ntietz.com blog -...
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
27th Feb 2019
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, WordPress
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It...
1st Feb 2021
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It transformed my career path and enabled me to do anything I wanted at every point in my journey. So why leave it now?
Jordan Eldredge's...
Why I switched from Vundle to Plug
I've found Plug to be superior to Vundle in several regards.
10th Sep 2014
I've found Plug to be superior to Vundle in several regards.
Kagi Blog
Taking web search through the last mile
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
1st Dec 2019
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
David Gerrells
A Cavalcade of the Olfactory Dimension
We have all been there, at least once in life. The door opens and a special kind of odor slinks its...
2 weeks ago
We have all been there, at least once in life. The door opens and a special kind of odor slinks its way up your nose. The gym.
David Crawshaw
2014-06-13
articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
13th Jun 2014
articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
Computer Things
Software books I wish I could read
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with...
6th Aug 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with a new chapter on code proofs, three chapter overhauls, and more! Full release notes here.
Software books I wish I could read
I'm writing Logic for Programmers because it's a book...
Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
4th Oct 2012
Contraption Co.
Rethinking work beyond the factory
I recently completed a two-week creative residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I split my time on...
27th Feb 2024
I recently completed a two-week creative residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I split my time on the trip between working on Booklet and exploring Japan.
The Almost Perfect residence runs continuously, with two residents at a time. Each residency concludes with a public gallery...
Eliran Turgeman
Godot4 w/ C# in VSCode setup
I spent some time trying to set up my dev environement to be able to run and debug a Godot game...
16th Jun 2024
I spent some time trying to set up my dev environement to be able to run and debug a Godot game written in .Net inside VSCode.
Here are the steps I took to setup:
Install Godot Engine for .Net Link
Install .Net SDK Link
Go into VSCode and install the following extensions
.NET...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Free Edition of Charles Gounod’s Le Crucifix
I typeset a Creative Commons edition of Charles Gounod's a cappella choral work 'Le Crucifix'.
1st Oct 2013
I typeset a Creative Commons edition of Charles Gounod's a cappella choral work 'Le Crucifix'.
Blog of Simple...
Closing the data gap - Simple Analytics x Usercentrics
24th Jun 2025
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
7th Jun 2023
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
TokyoDev
Writing Developer Job Postings
When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a...
28th Aug 2015
When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a developer hears about your company. Despite the posting being the first step in the hiring flow, companies put little effort into them, often having it be little more than a list of...
Tony Finch's blog
I made a keyboard!
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to...
4th Aug 2023
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to the beeb’s 40th anniversary. I called it HHKBeeb:
The HHKBeeb is made from:
keycaps designed by me and printed by WASD
Yiancar HS60 PCB
generic HHKB aluminium / acrylic sandwich...
A Smart Bear
Your target market isn't demographic
How to define your actual target market, which probably isn't traditional demographics and...
7th Sep 2025
How to define your actual target market, which probably isn't traditional demographics and firmographics.
Marco.org
The Overcast Redesign: Part One
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus...
25th Mar 2022
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one.
For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused...
Steve Klabnik
You can't "turn off the borrow checker" in Rust
14th Sep 2018
Alex Meub
Install JSDOM On Windows
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation...
6th Feb 2014
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation of the DOM that makes it super easy to work with pages retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, JSDOM relies on a node package called Contextify that is difficult to get working...
Founder's blog
Clearing Nginx Proxy Cache for Wildcard URLs: A DIY Guide
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a...
2nd Oct 2023
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a specific set of URLs, particularly those following a wildcard pattern like www.website.com/folder/*. Surprisingly, Nginx, in its standard offering, doesn't provide a straightforward way...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Racy git magic
Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement.
And I think there is one known race: the...
30th Nov 2023
Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement.
And I think there is one known race: the index mtime itself is not
race-free.
– Linus Torvalds, Re:git
bugs, 2008
A well-known race condition skulks through git’s plumbing.
And I can demo it via a git magic trick 🪄1
$ tree...
alexwlchan
Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions
The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything.
You create...
18th Aug 2023
The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything.
You create all your resources by writing a file that defines them, and any time you change something, you update the definition in that file.
It’s a nice idea, but easier said than...
A Beautiful Site
Bulletproof Components
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book...
8th Dec 2021
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book Bulletproof Web Design. I purchased it during my first trip to An Event Apart in 2007. This book meant a lot to me back then, and almost 15 years later, many of its concepts still hold...
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer’s evolution and expansion
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote this blog...
20th Aug 2019
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote this blog post about the next step in Buffer’s social media journey. I described Buffer’s multi-product vision of the future, which included Reply and Analyze. This idea was such a
Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination?
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
14th Jan 2021
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
bt RSS Feed
Designers Need Thicker Skin
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
10th Jul 2017
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
Joel Gascoigne
Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
20th Feb 2017
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog
[https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/].
We’ve always done things differently at Buffer. For me, this has always come
from a natural desire to question things.
Why base your company and team in a single location? Why is...
A Smart Bear
Lost confidence
RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without...
21st Jun 2026
RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.
The Changelog
Screen Power Saving in the Linux Console
I just made up a Debian trixie setup that has no need for a GUI. In fact, I rarely use the text...
24th Feb 2026
I just made up a Debian trixie setup that has no need for a GUI. In fact, I rarely use the text console either. However, because the machine is dual boot and also serves another purpose, it’s connected to my main monitor and KVM switch. The monitor has three inputs, and when...
Acko.net
Curvature Beziers
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
...
15th Aug 2026
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
{left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true},
{left: "$", right: "$", display: false},
]});
});
Improving on a timeless recipe
The bezier curve is a staple of CAD and...
orlp.net - Blog...
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search
by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
16th May 2023
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search
by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of
C++ code implementing a binary search:
template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp>
It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
General Robots
Coming soon
This is General Robots.
31st Jan 2023
Alex Meub
Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows
Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows:
1. Allow Remote Connections
Right...
20th Sep 2012
Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows:
1. Allow Remote Connections
Right click on the My Computer icon > Click Properties > Click on the Remote tab
Check the box that says “Allow Users to Connect Remotely to this Computer”
Add your username to the list of...
Eliran Turgeman
First week of Byte-Sized Tech
It has been a week since I announced my telegram channel byte-sized tech.
My main goal in creating...
6th Sep 2024
It has been a week since I announced my telegram channel byte-sized tech.
My main goal in creating this channel was to read tech books. I wanted to summarize them to avoid just skimming.
It hasn’t gained much traffic yet. But, I hope it will resonate with more people so that I...
Alice GG
Stuff I've been working on
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a...
7th Oct 2024
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on.
Meme...
The Codist
Career Retrospective: Being Interviewed
I'm starting a series on what I learned during my four decades as a working programmer. First, I...
4th Apr 2024
I'm starting a series on what I learned during my four decades as a working programmer. First, I will describe my experience of being interviewed.
Interviews are part of being a programmer; every time you find a new job, you will go through interviews, which allow a prospective
Josh Collinsworth
Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split...
8th Apr 2024
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split keyboard has been after about six months of daily use.
Sometimes It Works...
Punctuated Excitement
Punctuated Excitement
Sunsets always lead to sunrises
¶Punctuated Excitement
When I try to tell new...
27th May 2016
Punctuated Excitement
Sunsets always lead to sunrises
¶Punctuated Excitement
When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?”
So I...
Buttondown's blog
Send your RSS digest on any day of the month
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a...
1st Aug 2026
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a given weekday.
Tony Finch's blog
getentropy() vs RAND_bytes()
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months:
There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
1st Oct 2024
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months:
There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of
good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy()
which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting
cryptographically secure random...
Eric Migicovsky's...
10x engineers talk to users
I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers...
6th Mar 2023
I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers and founders need to deeply understand and care…
beep.blog
LambdaQ v2; now with optional task tokens!
Want to use SQS without Step Functions? Now LambdaQ supports SQS without Step Functions.
9th May 2024
Want to use SQS without Step Functions? Now LambdaQ supports SQS without Step Functions.
David Heinemeier...
Coding should be a vibe!
The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire...
13th May 2025
The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire project with AI — appears partly to be based on the fact that so many development environments are deeply unpleasant to work with.
So it's no wonder that all these programmers stuck...
Posts on Nikita...
How Binary JSON Works in YDB
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed...
8th Jun 2022
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed Queries team of YDB. YDB is a Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions. One of my key tasks there was...
A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
2nd Jul 2023
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
sancho.dev
React server components in Reason & OCaml
1st Jan 2024
Buttondown's blog
How Jamie Thingelstad uses Buttondown
Jamie uses his newsletter to explore various tech topics and share his continuous technology...
1st Dec 2025
Jamie uses his newsletter to explore various tech topics and share his continuous technology learning journey with readers.
orlp.net - Blog...
Subtraction Is Functionally Complete
To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point
subtraction is functionally
complete. That means you
can...
28th Sep 2023
To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point
subtraction is functionally
complete. That means you
can construct any binary circuit using nothing but floating point subtraction.
To see how, we must start at the bottom. I quote the IEEE 754-2019 standard, section 6.3:
6.3 The sign...
Oxide Computer...
A Tool for Discussion
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
2nd Feb 2023
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design decisions. They document the processes, APIs, and tools that we use. The workflow for the RFD process is based upon those of the Golang proposal process, Joyent RFD process, Rust...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Rendering Animated .ani Cursors in the Browser
Technical breakdown of how the NPM module ani-cursor converts .ani files into CSS animations in the...
9th Dec 2020
Technical breakdown of how the NPM module ani-cursor converts .ani files into CSS animations in the browser.
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that live in my garage
Some thoughts about machine learning
13th Jan 2025
Some thoughts about machine learning
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Introduction to javascript iterables, iterators, and generators
A quick intro to javascript newly introduced generators and iterators concepts and how they work...
9th Aug 2016
A quick intro to javascript newly introduced generators and iterators concepts and how they work with other javascript features.
Tony Finch's blog
moka pot notes
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it,
I have a very large Bialetti...
1st Jun 2025
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it,
I have a very large Bialetti Moka Express. Recently when I
got it going again after a winter of disuse, it took me a couple of
attempts to get the technique right, so here are some notes as a
reminder to my...
The Web Witch's Blog
Life Check №2
I'm not so sure I like calling these "Life checks"...perhaps going forward I will call them...
9th Sep 2024
I'm not so sure I like calling these "Life checks"...perhaps going forward I will call them something else. Maybe time to bring back The Web Witch's Grimoire but make it monthly.
Much to my dismay, it's already September, and I'm sat here looking back on the last three months...
Basta’s Notes
Don't ask me to embarrass myself.
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
18th Jul 2024
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
markround.com
Sloppy Copies
Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby project in a web...
19th Apr 2026
Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby project in a web framework - Ruby on Rails - that hasn’t been “in fashion” for some time. The blog post gathered some interest and made it to various discussion sites like Hacker News and others. It caused...
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
13th Feb 2025
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
Darek Kay
Fixing long start-up times of the Eleventy dev server
Recently, I've encountered a peculiar issue with Eleventy. The development server stopped...
22nd Dec 2022
Recently, I've encountered a peculiar issue with Eleventy. The development server stopped working:
eleventy --serve
[11ty] Wrote 92 files in 0.48 seconds (5.2ms each, v1.0.2)
[11ty] Watching…
There were no errors. Everything seemed fine, except for the dev server not being...
Basta’s Notes
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?)
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
17th Jan 2024
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
Maggie Appleton
A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases
The absolute minimum you need to know about data storage
10th Mar 2019
The absolute minimum you need to know about data storage
Code Of Honor
The making of Warcraft part 3
The first-ever multiplayer game of Warcraft was a crushing victory, an abject defeat, and a tie, all...
12th Nov 2012
The first-ever multiplayer game of Warcraft was a crushing victory, an abject defeat, and a tie, all at once. Wait, how is that possible? Well, therein lies a tale. This tale grew organically during the writing to include game AI, the economics of the game business, fog of war...
Jordan Eldredge's...
no-unused-binary-expressions: From code review nit to ecosystem improvements
How implementing an ESLint rule led to changes in how people write JavaScript
7th Oct 2024
How implementing an ESLint rule led to changes in how people write JavaScript
charity.wtf
On pain, careers, and doing things the hard way.
Part 1 Seven years ago I was working on backend infra for mobile apps at Parse, resenting MongoDB...
30th Apr 2019
Part 1 Seven years ago I was working on backend infra for mobile apps at Parse, resenting MongoDB and its accursed single write lock per replica with all my dirty, blackened soul. That’s when Miles Ward asked me to give a customer testimonial for MongoDB at AWS reinvent. It was...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2024
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
31st Jan 2024
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
A small freedom area...
Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise
You've most likely heard about gradient noise through the name Perlin
noise, which refers to one...
6th Jun 2025
You've most likely heard about gradient noise through the name Perlin
noise, which refers to one particular implementation with various CPU
optimizations. Because it's an incredible tool for creative work, it's used
virtually everywhere: visual effects, video games, procedural...
Sebastian Witowski
It's 2019 and I'm Still Using Python 2
Here are the slides for my talk called "It's 2019 and I'm still using Python 2. Should I be...
28th Aug 2019
Here are the slides for my talk called "It's 2019 and I'm still using Python 2. Should I be worried?".
Since I update the slides before each conference to incorporate any new ideas that come to my mind and make sure they are up to date, if you are interested in a particular...
A Beautiful Site
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
10th Nov 2009
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
Elad Blog
AI Regulation
There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
18th Sep 2023
There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
Steve Klabnik
How often does Rust change?
11th Apr 2020
Charles Chen
.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels
Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
4th Oct 2023
Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
The Changelog
A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP)
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
4th Feb 2021
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
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....
3rd May 2022
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.
The History of the...
Exploring the web in 1995
By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.
The post Exploring the web...
3rd Jun 2025
By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.
The post Exploring the web in 1995 appeared first on The History of the Web.
the jsomers.net blog
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's...
26th Jul 2015
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Oct 2019 Recap
Hello mailing list friends!
2nd Nov 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2023
✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking...
1st May 2023
✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking forward to spending the next three weeks without travel. I am currently immersed in the developme...
Marc Astbury
Folders are dead, long live folders
Folders, in the digital sense, began life as an ingenious skeuomorphic metaphor. A digital stand-in...
3rd Nov 2025
Folders, in the digital sense, began life as an ingenious skeuomorphic metaphor. A digital stand-in for physical folders and filing cabinets pioneered by Xerox and first seen in their Alto machine. The metaphor helped early computer users map the new digital world onto something...
Words and Buttons...
Rational interpolation
Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines....
5th Mar 2024
Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines. With rational interpolation, you can build functions that run through a set of points and also have vertical asymptotes whenever you want. With this capability, you can now model...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new...
1st Nov 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new features for Postcard - Got a new photo 🤔 Things worth sharing - Reading How to make great coffee ...
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...
22nd Nov 2016
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...
Josh Collinsworth
Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid
How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library...
24th Mar 2022
How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library required!
Sedimental
Announcing FinFam
In my last post, I mentioned founding a startup.
It's called FinFam,
and we're building...
19th Sep 2025
In my last post, I mentioned founding a startup.
It's called FinFam,
and we're building collaborative financial planning.
The GitHub of money, if you will. Enough with the telling, time for the show!
Here's a 3-minute demo:
We launched beta this week and I couldn't be more...
TokyoDev
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few...
23rd Jan 2011
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends
in
Japan](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html?pagewanted=all)
made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three
Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However,...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Even if you can't write assembly like a poet, you can read disassembly like a hunter
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the...
3rd Mar 2023
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the skills to start reading disassembly right now even if you thought it was too complicated for you. It really isn't, see it for yourself.
ntietz.com blog -...
Proving that every program halts
One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem.
In fact, it's widely...
23rd Jun 2025
One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem.
In fact, it's widely thought[1] that you cannot write a program that will, for any arbitrary program as input, tell you correctly whether or not it will terminate.
This is written from the framing of...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed...
5th Jun 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
Elad Blog
**Signup Now** Fireside- Dylan Field: Design, AI, School & Careers
Sign up now for new fireside chat
7th Feb 2023
Sign up now for new fireside chat
Remains of the Day
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:
COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
15th Apr 2018
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:
COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.
If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
Tony Finch's blog
An update on leap seconds
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap
seconds, though I have been...
4th Dec 2022
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap
seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly
frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an
index of threads. But Twitter now seems a lot less likely to stick
around, so I’ll aim to...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - September 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Sep 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in August - Launched FRCTNL, a community of fractional tech workers. - Co...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Novela by Narative (updated)
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
4th Aug 2019
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
alexwlchan
What is psephology?
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
3rd May 2024
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news.
As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine):
Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
The Changelog
Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
2nd Sep 2022
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
Computer Things
"Integration tests" are just vibes
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software...
1st May 2024
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software cause us to miss deadlines, and how we can address some of them. Patreon here.
"Integration tests" are just vibes
You should write more unit tests than integration tests. You should...
Eric Bailey
<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell
The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)...
31st Oct 2022
The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) standard. It allows a property/value declaration in HTML as a way of providing an accessible name for an interactive element.
Accessible names
Accessible names use text to identify...
Matt Keeter
Writing a SIGGRAPH paper (for fun)
21st Aug 2020
bt RSS Feed
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
7th Sep 2017
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I’ve most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome.
But that all changes...
Josh Comeau's blog
Demystifying styled-components
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses...
21st Jun 2021
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how styled-components works by...
David Gerrells
offer up is the tinder of marketplaces
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions,...
24th Oct 2023
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions, and other "gameification" make it trashier than the perception most have of the venerable Craigslist.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
11th Jun 2023
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
Eliran Turgeman
Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding
Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own...
16th Aug 2025
Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own workout app instead of paying another SaaS.
Two weeks ago, I decided to get serious about my workouts again and start logging them.
I looked for an existing solution that has the...
alexwlchan
Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates
I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize,...
7th Dec 2023
I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser.
I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites.
If I tried a simple...
David Crawshaw
Everyone a writer
"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a...
8th Jul 2016
"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! For everyone is pained by the thought of...
Liz Denys
L'Insurrection qui vient
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
7th Jun 2010
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this.
But there are few...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - July 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jul 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I wrote a post about open-sourcing Postcard. The post got picked up by Hacker News...
Grant Slatton
Book Review: 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World'
Excellent book about the history of precision machining
1st Jul 2024
Excellent book about the history of precision machining
Alex Meub
Finding Campsites with Python
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
3rd Aug 2015
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite.
If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
Eric Bailey
A year at GitHub
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today.
On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its...
9th Aug 2023
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today.
On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its design system. The hope here is that the work done there eventually makes its way to the site itself.
It still feels surreal to have this job. I still vividly remember learning that...
Boot.dev Blog
What is Backend Web Development?
The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of...
7th Aug 2023
The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of websites and web applications. It primarily focuses on handling the logic, data processing, and communication between the user’s web browser and the server.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Novela by Narative (updated)
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
4th Aug 2019
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
A small freedom area...
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts
dir: Virgil, the...
18th Nov 2022
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts
dir: Virgil, the Excalidraw font.
That triggered me all sorts of emotions, ranging from laugh to total
incredulity. I initially thought the root cause was a random derping from Valve
but the Internet...
Basta’s Notes
My friend, JT
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
22nd Feb 2025
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
Julia Evans
Some terminal frustrations
A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I...
5th Feb 2025
A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked:
What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you?
1600 people answered, and I decided to spend a few days categorizing all the
responses. Along the way I learned that...
Epic Web Dev
The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article)
Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making,...
11th Mar 2025
Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making, boost your career, and help you build better software.
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
3rd Apr 2024
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
Eric Migicovsky's...
PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 ....
1st Oct 2020
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an…
Dan Slimmon
Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
11th Dec 2023
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
Matt Keeter
Abstraction and instances in graph programming
17th Dec 2016
Josh Collinsworth
Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a...
1st Apr 2015
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a professional branding agency was how to properly handle color output. So I decided to write this post in the hope of saving you some from some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid.
ntietz.com blog -...
Security of the Infinity Ergodox on Mac OS
A friend of mine is very into keyboards and, after seeing his keyboards at work and admiring his...
12th Oct 2016
A friend of mine is very into keyboards and, after seeing his keyboards at work and admiring his Ergodox many times, I took the plunge and built my own. 152 solder joints later, I have this beauty:
It took a few days to get used to it and in the process, I found a bug in layer...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate - We speak your language
Your browser does not support the video tag.
7th Nov 2024
Your browser does not support the video tag.
Patrick Kayongo
AI Isn’t Replacing Open Source
Andrew Baker, the current Group CIO at Capitec Bank wrote an interesting piece on AI and open...
2 days ago
Andrew Baker, the current Group CIO at Capitec Bank wrote an interesting piece on AI and open source, and how these tools that generate code according to one’s specification may replace the general reliance on open source implementations done by contributors around the world. I’d...
Alex MacCaw
Sailing across the Atlantic
16th Dec 2021
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...
7th Jul 2020
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...
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...
15th Dec 2018
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!...
Herman's blog
PIRACYKILLS
How to use piracy to your advantage.
3rd Oct 2025
How to use piracy to your advantage.
alexwlchan
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our...
5th Oct 2022
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case.
I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Book Review: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin
"Ahra", the Eaten One, the high priestess of the Tombs of Atuan
belongs to the Nameless Ones. She...
8th Oct 2016
"Ahra", the Eaten One, the high priestess of the Tombs of Atuan
belongs to the Nameless Ones. She is, herself, nameless. Her name along
with her family and future were taken from her in a ceremony on which
the novel opens. At the beginning of the novel, her 6-year-old life...
Sometimes It Works...
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
¶Why and how to override...
6th Feb 2016
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
¶Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
Maybe like me you like to do things the ‘Laravel way’. So let’s say you’re still using the out-of-the-box Auth flow (can anyone recommend an...
Vadim Kravcenko
🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day?
You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for...
16th May 2022
You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for the […]
The post 🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel Gascoigne
I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written...
19th Feb 2018
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written about yet. So here we are.
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: June 2025
April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting. I'm still recovering from our trip to...
4th Jul 2025
April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting. I'm still recovering from our trip to Seattle at the end of April.
It turns out I never posted my draft covering the month of March and April, so I will attempt to cover the highlights. The excerpt above is from my...
Boot.dev Blog
What Are the Career Options in Computer Science?
The future is bright for career options in computer science with remote work opening up doors that...
1st Aug 2022
The future is bright for career options in computer science with remote work opening up doors that weren’t present before. Trying to navigate through computer science career options can be overwhelming what with all the options at your disposal. While we won’t go through every...
Eric Bailey
Battery Status API: We need to talk
13th Jan 2016
elementary Blog
elementary OS 7 Available Now
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and...
31st Jan 2023
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware. So far, OS 6.1 has been downloaded from our...
Buttondown's blog
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
1st Mar 2025
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate is back
Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription...
a week ago
Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription for $8/month. Anyone with a Kagi account can continue using Translate for free with a limited monthly allowance. For people...
Confessions of a...
x86 Addressing Modes, Part 2: Indirect, Indexed, and Offset-based Modes
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing...
9th Aug 2026
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing modes along with some interesting examples and exercises.
Coding Horror
Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show...
22nd Jun 2026
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow, but we quickly landed on Off By One with
orlp.net - Blog...
When Random Isn't
This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual
code. So please forgive...
10th Jan 2024
This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual
code. So please forgive me if I do not accurately remember all the details. Some
details are also simplified so that anyone that likes computer security can
enjoy this article, not just those who have...
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is now for sale
After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is...
1st Feb 2024
After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all! This is The Moment of Truth where we get to see whether all that excitement turns into credit card swipes. That release rush. I love it.
And I especially love...
Making software...
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
5th Jul 2019
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren't great (and still aren't perfect) but they represented a...
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...
9th Jan 2024
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...
Computer Things
Solving a math problem with planner programming
The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either...
2nd Jul 2024
The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange:
Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
davidyat.es
Review: The Tragedy at Deer Creek
16th Jun 2026
Marco.org
The 2018 Mac Mini
Watch the video review
I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
6th Nov 2018
Watch the video review
I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
Tinloof - Blog
PWA: What it is and why you should try it
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
20th Jan 2023
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users.
Mobile applications...
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop: Major Updates for 2026 (article)
Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved...
22nd Jan 2026
Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved playgrounds, a revamped epicshop CLI, and MCP upgrades.
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