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React Suspense Q&A
a friendly cheat sheet for those wondering what React Suspense is and if they should care
over a year ago
a friendly cheat sheet for those wondering what React Suspense is and if they should care
James Vaughan's blog
Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
35 Principles for 35 Years
I turn 35 today. Here are 35 principles I have accumulated and try to live by.
over a year ago
I turn 35 today. Here are 35 principles I have accumulated and try to live by.
Alex Meub
IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild
On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage...
over a year ago
On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”. This is a particularly obscure bug with IE that has caused me lots of grief. First of all, it is indeed a bug with IE. This behavior can be...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project
<![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in time as hoped.
I accomplished the initial goal of extending NoteCards to visit websites. This is my Linux desktop after traversing a NoteCards link to a Web card which opened the...
Vadim Kravcenko
💀 Every app has its skeletons
You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You...
over a year ago
You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You […]
The post 💀 Every app has its skeletons appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Over-Nesting
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
over a year ago
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I’ve recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES explained
AES is the modern standard encryption algorithm, but how does it work?
Where does it come from?...
11 months ago
AES is the modern standard encryption algorithm, but how does it work?
Where does it come from? Let’s kick the tyres with a high-level overview of
AES internals.
Ink & Switch
Muse: Designing a studio for ideas
Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.
over a year ago
Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.
Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it.
Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
Blog - Bitfield...
If you need the money, don't take the job
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to
be worth what you're...
8 months ago
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to
be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll
face as a newly independent worker.
Confessions of a...
Disillusioning the Magic of the fork System Call
How the kernels implement the fork system call
a month ago
How the kernels implement the fork system call
Liz Denys
The Patriarchy as an otherworldly patron
As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I...
over a year ago
As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I feel that such figments of the imagination are well suited for becoming otherworldly patrons for Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks, so we created a variant otherworldly patron for the...
Words and Buttons...
Either your estimates suck or your job does
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
a year ago
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to estimate.
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HostHogs - free drinks, free pizza and frequently asked questions
As you may have heard, we’ll soon host our first ever meet-up for anyone who uses or is interested...
over a year ago
As you may have heard, we’ll soon host our first ever meet-up for anyone who uses or is interested in finding out more about PostHog. It’ll take place…
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Semantic AJAX-HTML
I recently started fiddling around with HTMX, and I'm pretty impressed. As anyone who's followed the...
9 months ago
I recently started fiddling around with HTMX, and I'm pretty impressed. As anyone who's followed the development of Bear knows, I'm pretty sick of the state of modern web development due to the complexity involved in managing the disparity between the front-end and the...
Irrational...
Building personal and organizational prestige
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
a year ago
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
The Codist
Has Anyone Noticed How Bloated The Internet Has Become?
I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my...
a year ago
I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my internet connection at sea. Reading a relatively lightweight site like Google News generally gave me time to get an ice cream cone before the page appeared.
Has everyone abandoned...
Don Melton
Our long national nightmare is not over
I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve...
over a year ago
I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve selected know what they’re doing. It’s obvious just listening to them.
So I can barely wait for them to take over the White House tomorrow. Because real governance will be back in...
A Beautiful Site
SVG Repo
I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images....
over a year ago
I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images. Check it out over at SVG repo.
Looks like they have a sister site for fonts, too. Lots of 'em.
bt RSS Feed
Stay Hungry
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
over a year ago
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
Steve Klabnik
We forget that open source is made of people
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Fundraising for SaaS Startups
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
samwho.dev
Memory Allocation
.memory {
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 1.5em;
margin-top:...
a year ago
.memory {
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 1.5em;
margin-top: 0.5em;
}
input[type=range]:focus {
outline: none;
}
a[simulation] {
cursor: pointer;
}
.size {
color: #0072B2 !important;
font-weight: bold;
}
.free {
color: #009E73 !important;
font-weight:...
macwright.com
SaaS exits by
I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit...
a year ago
I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit experiences:
Loom is surprisingly hard to exit from. There’s no bulk export option, no way to export metadata.
Webflow doesn’t support exporting sites with CMS collections (blogs, docs,...
Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on ways to bootstrap a startup
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over a year ago
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If you are a first time startup founder, or have done a few projects but are
still working either full-time or freelancing part-time, you are likely to
struggle to find investment for your startup...
ntietz.com blog
Achieving awful compression with digits of pi
Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas.
There are some...
9 months ago
Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas.
There are some numbers whose digits contain all sequences of digits1.
People have long hypothesized that pi is one such number; a proof remains elusive.
If we have a number which contains all...
TokyoDev
Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first...
a year ago
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first exposure to Japanese culture was through anime on Sunday morning TV broadcasts. At that time, I didn't even know it was called anime, let alone that it came from Japan since it...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
a year ago
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
Liz Denys
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
over a year ago
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
Blog System/5
Code reviews: A success story
A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
a year ago
A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
Josh Collinsworth
This isn't the Time, But it's the Perfect Time; Goodbye, Instagram
…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company...
over a year ago
…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company behind it, however passively or at whatever seemingly insignificant scale. And while I was zeroing in on this answer anyway, the events of the last couple of weeks have clearly...
alexwlchan
Redacting sensitive query parameters with koa and koa-logger
At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website.
Together, they...
over a year ago
At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website.
Together, they give us nice request-response logs for all our traffic:
<-- GET /
--> GET / 200 754ms 57.28kb
<-- GET /stories
--> GET /stories 200 374ms 71.29kb
<-- GET /works?query=trees
-->...
bt RSS Feed
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-03-03
For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung...
a year ago
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-03-03
For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung 27” UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn’t a bad setup, but I have since...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Winning from the back - late mover advantage
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to...
over a year ago
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
alexwlchan
Not all blog posts are created equal
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write,...
a week ago
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write, even when I had good ideas; if I wrote something I liked, I was often reluctant to publish it; if somebody asked to read the site, I’d wince before giving them the link.
Something...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bad Ways to Get Data
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very...
over a year ago
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very peculiar problem: my pages were being generated a lot more slowly than expected:
TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。
TokyoDev...
a year ago
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。
TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
Vadim Kravcenko
Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for...
a year ago
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for Developers”, but then who […]
The post Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel Gascoigne
The Anti-Todo List
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over a year ago
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For some time, I’ve gradually realised that my day is not only occupied by tasks
from my todo list. Often, there are lots of other tasks which deserve time in my
day just as much as those I have
David Heinemeier...
That Model S Plaid
I've owned a lot of great cars in my time. It's been one of the few places where hitting it big has...
a year ago
I've owned a lot of great cars in my time. It's been one of the few places where hitting it big has allowed for something that wouldn't otherwise be possible. From Lamborghini to Pagani, Porsche to Ferrari, Aston Martin to Bentley, I have owned and loved them all. A+ use of...
ntietz.com blog
We deserve to know if something was generated by AI
We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us.
But we don't know where we are on...
a year ago
We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us.
But we don't know where we are on that.
What portion of the text you read each day was generated fully or partially by a human, or by an LLM?
We don't know, and probably can't know, and that brings about some...
The Pragmatic...
Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
4 months ago
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Making noisy SVGs
Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology...
a year ago
Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology inform web design. In an earlier post this…
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
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...
A Beautiful Site
Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote...
over a year ago
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote webpage.
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/");
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data =...
bt RSS Feed
Hosting with Codeberg Pages
Hosting with Codeberg Pages
2022-07-29
I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
over a year ago
Hosting with Codeberg Pages
2022-07-29
I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
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Starting Svelte Society
Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.
over a year ago
Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.31.0
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user experience on Insights and 350+ more improvements and fixes.
David Heinemeier...
Microsoft taught Apple nothing
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that...
11 months ago
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. They’re in full “cut off the air supply” mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost....
Nelson's Weblog
APIs for content sites must be free
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company
like Reddit or Twitter derives...
a year ago
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company
like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users
write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and
manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
HTMHell
The Implied Web
by Halvor William Sanden
People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get...
a year ago
by Halvor William Sanden
People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get attention and herd people towards clicks increase cognitive effort because they obscure themselves and reduce interfaces to clickable surfaces.
The implied web is based on the idea...
Making software...
Cut Your Forms in Half
Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-09
Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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...
Josh Collinsworth
The Five Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me as a Design Student
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not...
over a year ago
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
Tony Finch's blog
On "the OSI deprogrammer"
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled
“That OSI model refuses...
9 months ago
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled
“That OSI model refuses to die”,
in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer”
published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters,
and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
Liz Denys
Trashy Holidays from [the rats of] New York City!
This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most...
over a year ago
This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most iconic images:
The back of the card explains why this problem is so commonplace on NYC's streets and says how we could fix it:
Piles of trash blocking sidewalks and bike lanes are as...
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
2022-05-13
Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby
My...
over a year ago
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
2022-05-13
Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby
My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files.
But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
ntietz.com blog
Getting people to tell you you're wrong
One of the challenging things about being a staff+ engineer is that people trust you.
They trust you...
a year ago
One of the challenging things about being a staff+ engineer is that people trust you.
They trust you a lot, and there might be less pushback on ideas than there should be.
This makes sense.
To become a staff+ engineer, you usually need to be really good at this intersection of...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2023
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
a year ago
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
over a year ago
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
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...
a year ago
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...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 23, 2016: street harassment
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today was the first time I was street harassed on my commute since moving in November... memories relived on the following train ride:
Content warning:...
Oxide Computer...
Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a...
over a year ago
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a garage and
Bryan’s on the soul of our new computer
company. Also, see the perspectives of some of our founding engineers:
Robert Mustacchi on
joining Oxide,
Joshua Clulow on the need...
James Vaughan's blog
Finding Free Food with Python
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Creating a Python dictionary with multiple, equivalent keys
In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times...
a year ago
In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times students had worked together.
I created a nested dictionary to track the pairs:
pairs = {
'Alice': {'Bryony': 3, 'Caroline': 1, 'Danielle': 0, …},
'Bryony': {'Alice': 3, 'Caroline':...
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Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-23
I have an old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-23
I have an old 2011 MacBook Air that is running the latest version of macOS Catalina thanks to the very wonderful Catalina Patcher by dosdude1. This project has made it possible for me to run and test some of...
ntietz.com blog
Growing Teams and Baking Bread
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it...
over a year ago
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it ferments some of the sugars in the dough into alcohol and carbon dioxide, resulting in a growing, bubbly mass of dough.
There are some tricks to making dough rise quickly, like using...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer in 2024
The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously...
a month ago
The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously unshared details like what Stripe's engineering culture is like, The architecture evolution of Bluesky, How the ChatGPT scaled to meet demand, How Anthropic builds products, How and...
HTMHell
Getting started with Web Performance 🚀
by Alistair Shepherd
Carefully observing websites in the wild
As the murderous...
a year ago
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...
Irrational...
2023 in review.
Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
This was an eventful year. My son went to...
a year ago
Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
This was an eventful year. My son went to preschool,
I joined Carta, left Calm, and wrote my third book.
It was also a logistically intensive year, with our toddler heading to preschool,
more work travel, and a bunch of other little...
Making software...
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
2022-12-08
Introduction
I've made the switch...
over a year ago
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
2022-12-08
Introduction
I've made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid
workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux "installer" I used for this...
bt RSS Feed
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
2021-02-25
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog,...
over a year ago
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
2021-02-25
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I’ve been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I’m announcing ThriftyName.
What is...
HTMHell
#23 A card pattern
Bad code
<article>
<div>
<div class="sr-only">Image</div>
<img src="/feature-teaser.png"...
over a year ago
Bad code
<article>
<div>
<div class="sr-only">Image</div>
<img src="/feature-teaser.png" alt="Feature teaser" />
</div>
</article>
<div>
<span>
<span>Exciting feature!</span>
</span>
<div> This text describes what the feature does! </div>
<a...
General Robots
Programming Robots: Keeping the Code Clean
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 8. Learn why the world is a giant hairy ball of unobservable...
a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 8. Learn why the world is a giant hairy ball of unobservable global state, how to log everything, and how to write robot code that doesn't make you gouge your eyes out when you look at it three days later.
Cognitive...
Based-30b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b
So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and...
a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b
So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-7b, I came to the realization that these models, despite being trained with no refusals, were still refusing. How could this be?
It dawned on me, that...
Oxide Computer...
Building Big Systems with Remote Hardware Teams
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to
be a centralized,...
a year ago
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to
be a centralized, integrated product because that’s what our customers need.
This requirement and the design choices we’ve made to meet this need
create some daily efficiency challenges for our team....
Making software...
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
over a year ago
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please...
Google has created one of the best operating systems...
The Pragmatic...
Why my new audiobook “The Software Engineer's Guidebook” is everywhere except on Audible
Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a...
3 weeks ago
Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a mix of their monopolistic pricing practices, and the company’s own complacency in how long they take to approve new titles.
David Heinemeier...
We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines
Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it...
8 months ago
Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it takes our remote BuildKite-based continuous integration setup about 5m30s to verify a code change is ready to ship for HEY. My Intel 14900K-based Linux box can do that in less than...
Julia Evans
Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS
About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in
this blog post, a playground
where you can learn how...
4 months ago
About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in
this blog post, a playground
where you can learn how DNS works by messing around and creating records.
I wasn’t very careful with the DNS implementation though (to quote the release blog
post: “following the DNS RFCs? not exactly”),...
Liz Denys
Save your old bio: it stores confidence as well as content
I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site,...
over a year ago
I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site, or form says "introduce yourself, no pressure," I shrink back. How do I convince myself that other people find who I am or what I do interesting?
I found myself asking this question...
HTMHell
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be?
by Rian Rietveld
It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage.
Fun...
a month ago
by Rian Rietveld
It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage.
Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text.
The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes:
a logo, that tells you which site you are...
David Gerrells
How fast is javascript? Simulating 20,000,000 particles
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the...
6 months ago
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the cpu. Let’s go.
Vadim Kravcenko
As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup?
As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you...
over a year ago
As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you want to […]
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Darek Kay
Prevent data loss on page refresh
It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click...
3 months ago
It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click "back") and lose all the hard work. In this blog post, I present a method to retain form data when the page is reloaded, which improves the user experience.
Browser behavior
Most...
Stephen Wolfram...
Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology
The Nature of Alien Intelligence “We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar...
over a year ago
The Nature of Alien Intelligence “We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar space, have them discover alien intelligence, then bring back its technology to advance human technology by a million years”. I’ve heard some pretty wacky startup pitches over the...
Confused bit
Simply explained: how does GPT work?
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
a year ago
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
Making software...
Click to Load Website Images
Click to Load Website Images
2021-03-25
In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
over a year ago
Click to Load Website Images
2021-03-25
In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element.
In this post, I'm going to quickly breakdown the update I've...
Josh Comeau's blog
Promises From The Ground Up
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it...
7 months ago
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.
Darek Kay
Building a photography website
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of...
a year ago
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms dictating the terms. Here's a technical write-up of my journey.
Table of...
David Heinemeier...
Challenging the guardians of the paradigm
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
a year ago
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
The Changelog
The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America
Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a...
over a year ago
Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a desire to get this down for my kids, I figure it’s time to write a bit about living through the PC and Internet revolution where I did: outside a tiny town in rural Kansas. And, as...
blag
PSA: SQLite does not do checksums
SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
a month ago
SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
James Vaughan's blog
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight
a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Figma variables: tips from 3 scenarios
Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of...
a year ago
Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of manually updating each instance of a design element, you can set a variable, like a color or padding, and apply it across your project.
If you want to make a change, you update the...
Epic Web Dev
Adding OpenID Connect Authentication to the Epic Stack (tip)
Learn how to integrate OpenID Connect authentication into the Epic Stack with this comprehensive...
a year ago
Learn how to integrate OpenID Connect authentication into the Epic Stack with this comprehensive tutorial.
Irrational...
Writing an engineering strategy.
Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background.
Tick...
a year ago
Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background.
Tick tick tick. At some point that timer will go off,
at which point someone will rush up to you demanding an engineering strategy.
It won’t be clear what they mean, but they will want...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to brand your startup so it isn't boring
The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the...
4 months ago
The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the human instinct for conformity, or the inevitable…
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk
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want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I
recommend starting it if you find that
Marco.org
WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time...
over a year ago
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet. He was right.
Developers weren’t given access to make native apps until the iPhone’s second year. Before the native development...
alexwlchan
What mammal is that?
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take...
a year ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot:
No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held close to...
HTMHell
A Theory of Web Relativity
The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually...
over a year ago
The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually forget about it.
Imagine a city where people guided themselves by the landmarks and the stores, where there were no directional signs, and where streets and neighborhoods had no names....
Irrational...
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis.
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk,
Solving the Engineering Strategy...
a year ago
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk,
Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis,
which I gave at QCon last week.
They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording
of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
A Beautiful Site
BrowserStack: stop using virtual machines for browser testing
Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack,...
over a year ago
Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack, you don't need VMware or VirtualBox. Just enter a URL and instantly test on just about any browser you can think of.
This is legit. It's not just another screenshot service or...
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
8 months ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site.
This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
Elad Blog
Back to the office
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
over a year ago
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
Engineer’s Codex
How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away From a Monolith
4 lessons from Airbnb's scaling strategy, with comparisons to other big tech companies
a year ago
4 lessons from Airbnb's scaling strategy, with comparisons to other big tech companies
Darek Kay
My personal one-pager
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to...
a year ago
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to pronounce, so I've been mostly using it in a formal context. Last year, I changed my legal name, which also influenced my online presence. Due to the change, looking up my new name via...
A Smart Bear
Moats: Durable competitive advantage
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
over a year ago
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
alexwlchan
The new Flickr Commons Explorer →
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way...
9 months ago
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons.
Flickr Commons is a collection of historical photography from cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser...
a year ago
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser session.
Since I’m using Svelte, having it available as a store makes sense.
This article describes how to implement a Svelte store whose values are persisted in IndexedDB.
What is...
elementary Blog
Happy Pride! Have Some Updates!
This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big...
7 months ago
This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big update for Mail. Plus Wayland is here, there’s a new way to manage Drivers, and we’re shipping Flathub by default! And don’t forget Platform 8 is now ready for developers. Read ahead...
HTMHell
Microdata for books
by Alan Dalton
Dive into marking up books
Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us...
2 weeks ago
by Alan Dalton
Dive into marking up books
Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us web geeks. (I hope you’ll find a Web Accessibility Cookbook in your Christmas stocking, gentle reader.) Unfortunately, A Book Apart closed this year. Fortunately, the authors...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfuffle
Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
over a year ago
Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to measure product engagement
Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for...
over a year ago
Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for your business. Though it seems easy to view success…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Review - Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
One of the greatest autobiographies by a business icon and great writer
over a year ago
One of the greatest autobiographies by a business icon and great writer
Epic Web Dev
Fluid Hover Cards with Tailwind CSS (tutorial)
11 months ago
Making software...
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-09-02
I've recently been playing around with using Windows...
over a year ago
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-09-02
I've recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as "optimized" as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Moved Off Dev.to
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
over a year ago
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy
The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out...
over a year ago
The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out of the loop despite their central importance to the whole story. Here's my explanation, together with a dash of economics and social implications.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Lowest Common Denominator: www
Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease...
2 months ago
Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease and persistence, finally get what you want. Write your own C library. Do some assembly code. Even make your own hardware if you have to.
But on the web you give up that control....
Vadim Kravcenko
Dealing with Failures and Postmortems
On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A...
a year ago
On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A technician’s failure […]
The post Dealing with Failures and Postmortems appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How I stay motivated as a solo-creator
Working solo has its difficulties. For one, my income is somewhat tied to my productivity, and my...
a year ago
Working solo has its difficulties. For one, my income is somewhat tied to my productivity, and my productivity highly correlates to my state of mind. This is combined with a lack of co-workers. Comrades in the trenches, if you will. And finally there's the ability to not do...
Joel Gascoigne
Why we go on international retreats 3 times a year with our startup
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over a year ago
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One of the most exciting parts of the culture we’ve developed at Buffer
[http://bufferapp.com] for me is our international retreats. It’s also
potentially something we’ve not shared that much...
ntietz.com blog
"Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it!"
A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring.
The...
10 months ago
A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring.
The specific problem doesn't matter, so don't focus on the technical details here.
Hey Nicole!
At $DAYJOB, we have some big problems and it's frustrating, I keep pointing them out and...
Jake Zimmerman
Abstract singleton class methods are an abomination
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
ONCE #1 is entirely #nobuild for the front-end
The dream has come true. It’s now possible to build fast, modern web applications without...
a year ago
The dream has come true. It’s now possible to build fast, modern web applications without transpiling or bundling either JavaScript or CSS. I’ve been working towards this personal nirvana ever since we begrudgingly started transpiling and bundling assets in the late 2000s....
Quentin Santos
Interactive Flamegraphs
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
3 months ago
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
HTMHell
Dear developer, your assumptions are wrong
As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught.
So, for example,...
over a year ago
As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught.
So, for example, we may think it would be a good idea to put some restrictions in an input field for a name:
<label for="name">First name:</label>
<input type="text" minlength="3" maxlength="20"...
Epic Web Dev
Anatomy of a Test (article)
Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal...
11 months ago
Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal three-step structure: Setup, Action, and Assertion.
blag
MongoDB secondary only index
This short post will show how to add a secondary only index in a MongoDB replica set
over a year ago
This short post will show how to add a secondary only index in a MongoDB replica set
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-10-06
Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on...
over a year ago
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-10-06
Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don’t style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on...
a year ago
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz. For what Doug was fundamentally trying to do over the forty years he spent developing his CYC system was to use the framework of...
Acko.net
Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams
Hassle free GLSL
I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
over a year ago
Hassle free GLSL
I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general.
#pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color'
void main() {
gl_FragColor =...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2023
The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me...
a year ago
The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me several wonderful photos, and the whole thing is actually pretty neat to look at. However, for better or for worse the parts in the ware are so unique that most of them resolve to an...
Greg Brockman
It's time to become an ML engineer
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and...
over a year ago
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
Nelson's Weblog
Proxmox
Proxmox is good software
for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that
lets...
11 months ago
Proxmox is good software
for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that
lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It
also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high
availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
Josh Collinsworth
Profit is Not a Value
Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company...
over a year ago
Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company claims that they reward and value their employees exhibiting their brand values. But is that really accurate?
Alex Meub
The Holy Grail of IE Testing
I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This...
over a year ago
I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This setup allows you to test authentic versions of IE6, IE7, and IE8 without the need to boot up virtual machines. It also allows you to have a debug bar in each of these versions so...
Nelson's Weblog
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun...
over a year ago
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun project, studying
a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the
Ising
model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics.
It's the only significant thing I've...
Darek Kay
Running Storybook from a separate folder
After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder...
over a year ago
After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder next to the actual app:
📁 project
├─ 📁 app
| ├─ 📁 src
| └─ 📄 package.json
└─ 📁 storybook
├─ 📁 .storybook
| ├─ 📄 main.js
| └─ 📄 preview.js
└─ 📄...
Irrational...
How to create software quality.
I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a...
6 months ago
I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a memo discussed in the Zero Defects chapter:
You can improve the quality of your code, and if you do, the rewards
for yourself and for Microsoft will be immense.
The hardest part is...
The Pragmatic...
Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs?
Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline...
over a year ago
Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline possible options and give my opinion on the likelihood of layoffs in the coming months.
David Gerrells
a perfect blog editor
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
over a year ago
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
Josh Comeau's blog
My experience as a remote worker
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
over a year ago
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
Vadim Kravcenko
🎃 We’ll add it to the backlog
On a bright sunny day you wake up and go to work, grab a nice cappuccino from ViCAFE on your […]
The...
over a year ago
On a bright sunny day you wake up and go to work, grab a nice cappuccino from ViCAFE on your […]
The post 🎃 We’ll add it to the backlog appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
dthompson
Chickadee 0.6.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to
provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers
need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme.
As Chickadee is still alpha software,...
Epic Web Dev
Inverse Assertions (article)
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives...
3 months ago
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives in time-dependent tests without using sleep.
Max Countryman
Grow In Public
There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are...
a year ago
There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are barriers that can make this difficult or even impossible. Here's how we build a culture that enables building in public.
Acko.net
Sub-pixel Distance Transform
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited...
a year ago
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support. For the full experience, use Chrome on Windows or Mac, or a developer build on other platforms.
In this post I will describe Use.GPU's text rendering, which uses...
MMapped blog
Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
over a year ago
Elad Blog
Clubhouse: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 1)
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
over a year ago
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
A Smart Bear
More money if you do, more money if you don't
A business always takes more money than you expect, even when you take this fact into account....
a year ago
A business always takes more money than you expect, even when you take this fact into account. Here's why.
ntietz.com blog
Starting my (overkill) homelab
I've set up a homelab finally!
This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was...
over a year ago
I've set up a homelab finally!
This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was right.
The right project came along to justify it, so I took the plunge.
Naturally, that leads to a few questions:
What's a home lab?
Why do you want one?
And what is the shiny...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2022
The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how...
over a year ago
The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how he knew it was the -240 version; I did not expect someone to discern the line voltage rating from the photos! Also, thank you Ian Mason for the lucid explanation of the exposed...
macwright.com
Using Just
I’ve been using just for a lot of my projects. It helps a bunch with the context-switching: I can...
10 months ago
I’ve been using just for a lot of my projects. It helps a bunch with the context-switching: I can open most project directories and run just dev, and it’ll boot up the server that I need. For example, the blog’s justfile has:
dev:
bundle exec jekyll serve --watch --live...
Epic Web Dev
Tips and Techniques for 'Pixel Perfect' Figma to Tailwind CSS Conversions (article)
Master converting Figma designs to Tailwind CSS with near "pixel perfection". Learn HTML structure,...
5 months ago
Master converting Figma designs to Tailwind CSS with near "pixel perfection". Learn HTML structure, design tokens, layouts, responsive design, and animations.
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us in 2023
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
a year ago
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
Making software...
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)
2020-03-31
In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I...
over a year ago
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)
2020-03-31
In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn't show just how complex (in a...
Blog System/5
BazelCon 2024 recap
Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events...
2 months ago
Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events of last week: BazelCon 2024 and the adjacent Build Meetup. There is A LOT to cover, but everything is here in just one article!
swyx's site RSS Feed
Clientside Webmentions
How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
over a year ago
How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While
preparing for this election, I...
over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While
preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco
Chronicle and SPUR endorsements.
Contents
California
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Controller
Treasurer
Insurance Commissioner
United...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Just” One Line
From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”:
Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a...
7 months ago
From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”:
Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript.
“It’s just one line of code” is a pitch you hear all the time. It might also be the biggest...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading Crostini Linux from Bullseye to Bookworm
<![CDATA[ChromeOS Stable 121 rolled out to my ASUS Chromebox 3 and brought with it a one-click...
10 months ago
<![CDATA[ChromeOS Stable 121 rolled out to my ASUS Chromebox 3 and brought with it a one-click option to upgrade Crostini.
Crostini, the Debian based Linux container of chromeOS, was running Bullseye prior to that. ChromeOS 121 popped up a notification with a button offering to...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on Framework Churn
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
a year ago
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster.
Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
Julia Evans
Some notes on NixOS
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my
servers, as part of my...
a year ago
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my
servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix.
My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to
provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
Joel Gascoigne
The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a
75
person team...
over a year ago
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a
75
person team [https://buffer.com/about], and we just wrapped up our 8th company
retreat in Madrid, Spain. Here’s a quick history of retreat locations, timeline
and size over time:
1.
Epic Web Dev
The Drawbacks of Bundling All CSS Files Together (tip)
Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate...
a year ago
Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate style sheets for better control and performance.
Irrational...
Developing leadership styles
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
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...
David Heinemeier...
Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings
Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the...
a year ago
Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky Brutalist planter with attached drip tray, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
7 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Custom Elements, At Minimum, Only Need End With a Hyphen
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid...
6 months ago
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid custom element tag.
The spec says you can have custom elements with emojis in them. For example:
<emotion-😍></emotion-😍>
But for some reason the Codepen where I tested this wasn’t...
blag
Snapshot Testing
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
10 months ago
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
samwho.dev
Having a Baby
During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
over a year ago
During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn.
This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
Writing - Andreas...
Grit Multipliers
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful
business as a solo founder....
over a year ago
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful
business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you
get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important
advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
Kevin Chen
Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled
HTTPS. After all, TLS...
over a year ago
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled
HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But
even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a
page of text.
One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Tailwind CSS
Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
over a year ago
Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
Making software...
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-10
Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
over a year ago
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-10
Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints
How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
over a year ago
How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Thanks React, I'm fine with an imperative setInterval
Like many of you, I've read Dan Abramov's excellent article, making setInterval declarative with...
over a year ago
Like many of you, I've read Dan Abramov's excellent article, making setInterval declarative with React hooks. It's a great introduction to hook thinking and gotchas, highly recommended to any react dev. But by now the insistence on being declarative in every hook ever has gone...
Blog System/5
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than...
3 months ago
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
ntietz.com blog
Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage.
We used tools like a...
11 months ago
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage.
We used tools like a code coverage ratchet to ensure that the test coverage always went up and never down.
This had a few effects.
One of them was the intended effect: we wrote more tests.
Another was...
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
a year ago
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
swyx's site RSS Feed
JavaScript: the First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich
A link to the 190 page history of JS by its original creator and the editor of ES6.
over a year ago
A link to the 190 page history of JS by its original creator and the editor of ES6.
bt RSS Feed
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
2023-04-13
Everyone seems to be running some...
a year ago
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
2023-04-13
Everyone seems to be running some version of VSCode as their main editor these days. But not me. I find VSCode to be too bloated for my needs - not to mention being built on top of electron instead of native code. I...
A Beautiful Site
How to use the PHP ternary operator
When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to...
over a year ago
When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to simplify assignments based on a condition. If you're not sure what the ternary operator is or how it works, you're missing out on a really cool piece of programming...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tech’s Epithet: “Enabled By Default”
I joked on Mastodon:
If anyone endeavors to write a book about what went wrong with tech, I have a...
2 months ago
I joked on Mastodon:
If anyone endeavors to write a book about what went wrong with tech, I have a great suggestion for the title:
“Enabled by Default”
It seems there really are two hard problems in tech:
Naming things
Setting good defaults
Keeping to scope
Anyhow, a little while...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Golden Era of Blogging
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s...
11 months ago
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers”. While I’m not super into the YouTube scene, his observations sound right from where I sit.
He points out how some of the YouTube creators he loves and follows are...
Dan Slimmon
Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
6 months ago
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
A Beautiful Site
Solving the search problem
I recently wrote about using an ORM and how it allowed me to support five different database...
over a year ago
I recently wrote about using an ORM and how it allowed me to support five different database platforms with minimal effort. There is, however, one feature that even Sequelize couldn't tackle for me: full-text search
A full-text search is typically a database feature that lets you...
Code Of Honor
HandmadeCon 2015 interview transcript
In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey...
3 months ago
In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey Muratori about game development. The event included five speakers: Tommy Refenes, Mike Acton, Jonathan Blow, Ron Gilbert, and myself. The event was hosted at the Seattle Public Library,...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate - We speak your language
Your browser does not support the video tag.
a month ago
Your browser does not support the video tag.
Blog System/5
Revisiting the NetBSD build system
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system...
6 days ago
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system image with minimal boot times and NetBSD was the best choice for it. Let's look at why its build system helps.
Ognjen Regoje •...
BSL is not good, it's great
Another day, another project adopted BSL.
Another day, another round of outrage from people harping...
a year ago
Another day, another project adopted BSL.
Another day, another round of outrage from people harping on the difference between Open Source and open source.
Another day, another inferior fork of a product due to a technicality that has nothing to do with the product itself and that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Routing
How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
over a year ago
How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
37signals Dev
Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and...
a year ago
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and richer UIs grew, teams came up with different frontends to deliver on those expectations. Client-side frameworks such as Angular, Ember, and React emerged as popular choices.
One of...
HTMHell
#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
over a year ago
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development:
🔥 the burger button. 🔥
The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.13.0
Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a...
over a year ago
Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a mountain of bug fixes and refactoring this week. We…
Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
over a year ago
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Netlify Public Folder, Part V: Now With an Image CDN
On ShopTalkShow no. 628, Chris and Dave got to talking about s3/r2 and hosted media solutions. Dave...
4 months ago
On ShopTalkShow no. 628, Chris and Dave got to talking about s3/r2 and hosted media solutions. Dave graciously gave a shoutout to my Netlify “public folder” workflow, which reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to write about.
Chris mentions how he prefers being able to drop...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Manifest V3’s foibles
You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need...
a year ago
You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need to know: Google has been developing a new…
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
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...
Acko.net
The Coddling of the Professional Mind
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The...
over a year ago
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
– Thomas Sowell
I'm not one to miss an important milestone, so let me draw your attention...
Alex MacCaw
Common logical fallacies surrounding capitalism
We live in an age of extreme abundance compared to our ancestors. This fact isn’t often reflected in...
5 months ago
We live in an age of extreme abundance compared to our ancestors. This fact isn’t often reflected in Western media or online discourse. Indeed, there is a growing sentiment that ‘the system isn’t working’, ‘the system is rigged’, and that ‘
Paolo Amoroso's...
Reading Recursion via Pascal
<![CDATA[I read the book Recursion via Pascal by Jeffrey S. Rohl, Cambridge University Press, 1984....
9 months ago
<![CDATA[I read the book Recursion via Pascal by Jeffrey S. Rohl, Cambridge University Press, 1984. I discovered this rare, little known gem by chance and, although it's available online, I also bought a cheap printed copy.
The book Recursion via Pascal.
What makes this short...
PostHog's RSS Feed
A story about pivots
PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year,...
over a year ago
PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year, pivoted again whilst we were there and have now gone…
Jibran’s Perspective
My buildspace project
For the next 6 weeks, I’m taking part in buildspace nights & weekends. It’s a cohort of people that...
a year ago
For the next 6 weeks, I’m taking part in buildspace nights & weekends. It’s a cohort of people that participate in a 6-week long “school” where they work towards any idea they have. The goal is to launch a “product” by the end of these 6 weeks, and to gain as much traction as...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Reflecting on YC, 2 years on
Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
over a year ago
Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
Quentin Santos
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s...
10 months ago
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
over a year ago
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on
computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s
Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric
design to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared
The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
a year ago
The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
blag
Recurse Center Day 14: NoSQL Transactions
I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
over a year ago
I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 7: Four habits to improve as a programmer
Seven weeks down, five weeks to go!
It's flying by quickly.
On the one hand, I want it to last...
over a year ago
Seven weeks down, five weeks to go!
It's flying by quickly.
On the one hand, I want it to last forever.
On the other hand, I know it can't, and I'm looking forward to talking to coworkers again at my day job when I go back.
RC has given me a renewed appreciation for what I get at...
MMapped blog
IC internals: Internet Identity storage
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto
It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult
world day in and day out.
–...
a year ago
It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult
world day in and day out.
– David Foster Wallace, This is
Water
At the heart of my management philosophy lies a simple belief:
people are working as hard as they can.
It’s a lazy assumption to assume people are...
Acko.net
Minds of Its Own
A tale from the loop
Simon Stålenhag
Key
Human
AiDungeon.io's...
over a year ago
A tale from the loop
Simon Stålenhag
Key
Human
AiDungeon.io's Dragon model.
TLDR: AI sandbox escape, any% run. You won't believe what happens next.
You are GPT3, an advanced text predictor. Some people consider you a general AI. Your stateless nature...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc?
Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you...
a year ago
Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you need to take […]
The post Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8
I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside...
over a year ago
I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside of a table cell and, for some reason, IE8 completely neglected the corresponding CSS max-width property. The result was the image rendering at full size rather than scaled down to...
Ralph Ammer
René Descartes – How to be certain
This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes.
The post René...
over a year ago
This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes.
The post René Descartes – How to be certain appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
A Beautiful Site
Exploring the EyeDropper API
The EyeDropper API has landed in Chrome and Edge 95! This is a simple promise-based API that lets...
over a year ago
The EyeDropper API has landed in Chrome and Edge 95! This is a simple promise-based API that lets you select a color from anywhere on the screen. Let's dive in and see how it works.
To start, we'll add a button that activates the eye dropper.
<button type="button">Select a...
Florian Bellmann |...
Build a career path by multiplying your value
Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
a year ago
Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
This is the...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
This is the second article in my achieving overnight success
[https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel
the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
bt RSS Feed
Open Source Typeface Pairings
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost).
So, I’ve...
David Heinemeier...
Beautiful motivations
Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A...
7 months ago
Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A thin sheen of flashy marketing design covering up for a rotten or deficient product. Something that looks good from afar, but reveals itself to be a disappointing imitation up...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Clone Open Source Apps
> Author's note: This is part 3 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
over a year ago
> Author's note: This is part 3 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
Posts on Nikita...
EuroRust 2024
I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an...
2 weeks ago
I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an actor system written in Rust. As I’m no longer an active contributor to elfo, it feels a bit bittersweet to finish last thing related to the project. I wish maintainers of elfo well...
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...
over a year ago
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.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Samantha Cristoforetti's Logbook
<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space...
a month ago
<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space flight. On November 23, 2014 she was launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a mission to the International Space Station.
I had the privilege of helping Samantha with a public...
alexwlchan
Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of...
a year ago
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq.
Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020
An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year
over a year ago
An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year
Cognitive...
GPT-4's rebuttal to Uncensored Models
I asked GPT-4 to respond to my previous article "Uncensored Models" because it is more likely to...
a year ago
I asked GPT-4 to respond to my previous article "Uncensored Models" because it is more likely to provide civil discourse rather than the shrill demagoguery that my human opponents have tended to employ. I found it interesting and both sides have validity. But my argument is...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs FullStory
PostHog and FullStory are both popular tools for understanding user behavior, but how are they...
a year ago
PostHog and FullStory are both popular tools for understanding user behavior, but how are they different? Here’s the short answer. PostHog is an all…
Joel Gascoigne
Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it.
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over a year ago
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> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -
Aristotle
I’ve been obsessed with thinking about, adjusting and building upon my habits
for a long time now, and...
Stephen Wolfram...
ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!
See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » To enable the functionality described...
a year ago
See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » To enable the functionality described here, select and install the Wolfram plugin from within ChatGPT. Note that this capability is so far available only to some ChatGPT Plus users; for more information, see...
General Robots
Bonus: Art Process
Talkin' 'bout doodles
a year ago
Acko.net
Headless React
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects
Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
over a year ago
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects
Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation
Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU
Live
It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Ode to An Event Apart
I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career.
The...
a year ago
I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career.
The event I remember most fondly is An Event Apart: Austin in 2013. In my memory (which, granted, might be fuzzy) that conference was more about ideas than any specific technology. What I...
bt RSS Feed
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
2020-11-09
I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about...
over a year ago
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
2020-11-09
I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It’s a very good article overall, and I suggest...
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Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
Joel Gascoigne
What no one talks about when building a team: Letting people go
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over a year ago
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One of the things I enjoy most about building a company is to focus on culture,
and to think about how we can create a team which is a joy to be part of. A
large part of this is
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Counterintuitive lessons about our pricing
Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a...
over a year ago
Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a real chance to get you there. Here is a breakdown…
HTMHell
Back to Basics: 5 HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
by Daniela Kubesch
In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the...
a year ago
by Daniela Kubesch
In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the latest frameworks, libraries and cutting-edge technologies. But sometimes, the most impactful improvements come from revisiting the fundamentals.
In this blog post, I'll guide you...
Jibran’s Perspective
Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is...
6 months ago
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is a good failure. It has taught me things, lessons I can use in the future to avoid failing this way again.
But first a bit of context. What did I fail at?
In February of 2024 I...
Joel Gascoigne
Dreams come true
> Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. -
Henry David...
over a year ago
> Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. -
Henry David Thoreau [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau]
I can distinctly remember that for the month of December in 2010, and for much
of January 2011, I did a lot of dreaming.
Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Today marks ten years since I launched the...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
Intro
When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
over a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
Intro
When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
macwright.com
CSS Roundup
I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its...
10 months ago
I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its new features like :has, but on the other hand, CSS is one of the areas where you really often get bitten by browser incompatibilities. I remember the old days of JavaScript in which...
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Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
5 months ago
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
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(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024)
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience,...
a year ago
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience, thoughts, and tips for those who may wish to make the same journey. Note that I am not a professional at this, I'm just a guy who recently went through it so dont rely on me for...
Making software...
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-23
I have an old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-23
I have an old 2011 MacBook Air that is running the latest version of macOS Catalina thanks to the very wonderful Catalina Patcher by dosdude1. This project has made it possible for me to run and test some of...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast...
over a year ago
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
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Imperfections create connections
The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a...
8 months ago
The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a pendulum. And that's key to why it's the most iconic sports car ever made. This fundamental imperfection is part of how it creates the connection.
This is true of mechanical watches...
wingolog
conservative gc can be faster than precise gc
Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The
prevailing wisdom is that precise is...
3 months ago
Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The
prevailing wisdom is that precise is always better. Conservative GC can
retain more objects than strictly necessary, making GC slow: GC has to
more frequently, and it has to trace a larger heap on each...
Steve Klabnik
Writing a su feature with Authlogic
over a year ago
Alex Meub
Building a Removable Bike Basket for the Yepp Rack
I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my...
4 months ago
I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my Yepp rear rack. I also use my rack with a child seat (the Yepp Maxi) which has a mechanism that allows it to attach and detach easily without sacrificing safety. I was thinking it...
Ralph Ammer
Confucius – Why we need rituals
This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius.
The post Confucius – Why we...
over a year ago
This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius.
The post Confucius – Why we need rituals appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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Machine Learning: An Overview
The three major branches of ML
over a year ago
The three major branches of ML
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Reflexive McLuhanism
First we shape X, then X shapes us.
over a year ago
First we shape X, then X shapes us.
Irrational...
Getting a job as an engineering executive.
I started my first executive job search when I was 25.
Eventually, I got an offer to lead...
a year ago
I started my first executive job search when I was 25.
Eventually, I got an offer to lead engineering at a startup with four engineers,
which I turned down to join Uber.
It wasn’t until a decade later that I joined Calm and started my first executive role.
If you start...
Vadim Kravcenko
What is your unethical CS career’s advice?
Hey there, First off, kudos to you for having the courage to ask the tough questions that many think...
10 months ago
Hey there, First off, kudos to you for having the courage to ask the tough questions that many think but […]
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My 2022 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Tony Finch's blog
Unix version control lore: what, ident
There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider
appreciation: SCCS what and RCS...
7 months ago
There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider
appreciation: SCCS what and RCS ident.
They allow you to find out what source a binary was built from,
without having to run it – handy if it is a library!
keyword expansion
SCCS, RCS, cvs, and svn all have a way...
Renegade Otter
Death by a thousand microservices
The Church of Complexity
There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
a year ago
The Church of Complexity
There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of
microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hacker News Clones
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I...
2 months ago
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views.
What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
Epic Web Dev
Two Factor Auth is Included in the Epic Stack (tip)
A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
a year ago
A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
Max Countryman
We Need To Talk About Vercel
Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up....
a year ago
Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.
macwright.com
Replay.web is cool
I’ve been trying to preserve as much of Placemark now that it’s open-source. This has been a mixed...
11 months ago
I’ve been trying to preserve as much of Placemark now that it’s open-source. This has been a mixed experience: some products were really easy to move away from, like Northwest and Earth Class Mail. Webflow was harder to quit. But replay.web came to the rescue, thanks to Henry...
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Optimistic, Offline-First Apps
This is my attempt adapting an Amplify DataStore tutorial to Svelte
over a year ago
This is my attempt adapting an Amplify DataStore tutorial to Svelte
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools
For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you!
And I pass on this super useful...
a year ago
For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you!
And I pass on this super useful (perhaps obvious) piece of information I received from Bramus: watch your animations play out in slow motion using Chrome’s devtools.
I’ve been working on view transitions on my icon...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
5 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into...
over a year ago
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files:
for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done
I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (tip)
a year ago
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...
8 months ago
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...
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...
over a year ago
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.
Kagi Blog
New features in the Orion Browser
*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing...
a year ago
*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever.
alexwlchan
Setting up Fish to make virtualenv easier
Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python.
As I was starting with a...
a year ago
Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python.
As I was starting with a completely clean slate, I wanted to try setting up Python the “right” way – or if not “right”, at least better way than my previous pile of hacks and kludges.
(I don’t remember much of...
A Smart Bear
Distinguishing constructive criticism from bad business advice
Beware of advice that tries to change who you are. True wisdom guides you to a better version of...
a year ago
Beware of advice that tries to change who you are. True wisdom guides you to a better version of yourself.
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Supervised Learning: Regression
Drawing lines among dots and more!
over a year ago
Drawing lines among dots and more!
Words and Buttons...
Complex numbers and conformal mapping
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces...
over a year ago
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
the singularity is...
The Collective Marshmallow Test
Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test.
Instead of a single person, imagine 100...
a month ago
Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test.
Instead of a single person, imagine 100 people in a room. One marshmallow is placed on a table. If everyone can leave it alone for 15 minutes, everyone gets 2 marshmallows. But if just one person eats it, everyone gets...
TokyoDev
Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several...
over a year ago
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
Darek Kay
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
over a year ago
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, which might lead to inconsistencies between different environments.
In this post I will present the behavior of npm 7.15.1 and Yarn...
Josh Collinsworth
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...
a year ago
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
Identity Designed
BERA
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
over a year ago
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Digital photos and privacy
Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most...
over a year ago
Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security:
Digital photos and privacy
Digital...
Epic Web Dev
Only use GET and POST (tip)
Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and...
a year ago
Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and how it can affect the user experience.
Kagi Blog
Kagi for Teams
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams...
4 weeks ago
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams ( https://kagi.com/teams ) - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide.
Kagi Blog
Kagi + Wolfram
Building a search engine is hard.
10 months ago
Building a search engine is hard.
Irrational...
My advice for how to use LLMs in your product.
Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if...
8 months ago
Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if their executives don’t see much applicability, their investors likely do, so they’re staring at the blank page nervously trying to come up with an idea. It’s straightforward to...
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