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Good Enough In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best",...
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In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best", you just need "good enough".
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Digging into git commit templates Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been...
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Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. – Eagleson’s Law After scouring git history, I found the correct config file, but someone removed it. Their full commit message read: Remove config. Don't bring...
Miguel Carranza
Technical debt isn't evil Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the...
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Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. There are multiple interpretations of what technical debt is, but I am going to focus on the financial debt metaphor. Like financial debt, technical debt is something...
Liz Denys
How communication breaks down In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their...
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In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their primary advocacy group, the Undergraduate Association. Every year around later February and early March, students who consider themselves relatively politically active request an...
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
5 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Pattern Languages in Programming and Interface Design Notes on pattern languages and Christopher Alexander's legacy on software programming
over a year ago
Irrational...
How to integrate Stripe's acquisition of Index? (2018) While discussions around acquisitions often focus on technical diligence and deciding whether to...
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While discussions around acquisitions often focus on technical diligence and deciding whether to make the acquisition, the integration that follows afterwards can be even more complex. There are few irreversible trapdoor decisions in engineering, but decisions made early in an...
Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past couple of years, I’ve been through a number of interesting experiences through building Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]. One of the things I’ve ended up thinking about a lot is the...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even...
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React...
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On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React what REST APIs are to local-first sync engines. jQuery was manual DOM manipulation. You were in charge of writing the instructions to create, read, update, and delete DOM...
Blog - Bitfield...
Programming with confidence: TDD in Go There’s an easy, pleasant, and reliable way to build software in Go, guided by tests. Let’s find...
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There’s an easy, pleasant, and reliable way to build software in Go, guided by tests. Let’s find out what it’s like to program with confidence, in the first part of this TDD tutorial series.
James Vaughan's blog
Joining Arcol
over a year ago
Jibran’s Perspective
Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post. This is...
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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...
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025 Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
7 months ago
A Smart Bear
How much of success is luck? "You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours,...
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"You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours, perseverance. So… is it lucky?
Josh Comeau's blog
Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes...
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Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker.
Sometimes It Works...
NativePHP is here! You already know this. Unless you've been under a magically floating rock for a couple of...
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You already know this. Unless you've been under a magically floating rock for a couple of weeks. Please go check it out: nativephp.com I'm still working on the Tauri driver, but Marcel did an awesome job getting the Electron version done and dusted in time for Laracon US. You...
A Smart Bear
The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but...
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According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
HTMHell
#13 link or label Bad code <input type="checkbox" id="accept" required> <label for="accept"> <a href="/legal"> I...
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Bad code <input type="checkbox" id="accept" required> <label for="accept"> <a href="/legal"> I accept the confidentiality policy and data… </a> </label> Issues and how to fix them It’s bad practice to nest elements with activation behavior (e.g. click). Users don’t expect a new...
Steve Klabnik
Is npm worth 26MM?
over a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
The Boolean Trap Use enums instead
10 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2024 Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great...
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Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great write-up about the unit, its history, and how it was repaired. I’ll give the prize to Hessel. The guess given was about as close as anything I could have done myself — a pretty...
macwright.com
Hiding Peloton and Zwift workouts on Strava by () I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with...
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I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with Peloton, Swift, and other “integrations.” It’s great for them, but the activities just look like ads for Peloton and don’t have any of the things that I like about Strava’s...
Yale E360
Achieving awful compression with digits of pi Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas. There are some...
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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...
David Heinemeier...
Beans and vibes in even measure Bean counters have a bad rep for a reason. And it’s not because paying attention to the numbers is...
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Bean counters have a bad rep for a reason. And it’s not because paying attention to the numbers is inherently unreasonable. It’s because weighing everything exclusively by its quantifiable properties is an impoverished way to view business (and the world!). Nobody presents this...
Liz Denys
L'Insurrection qui vient I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
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I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this. But there are few...
A Smart Bear
Why I don't like the LTV metric (LifeTime Value) The LTV metric overcomplicates and misleads. Learn why you should use other SaaS metrics instead.
over a year ago
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Big L Notation In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of...
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In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of experience, with `P` peers.
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Notes on Adversarial Interoperability Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability
over a year ago
Making software...
HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode...
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HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode where I explained how to implement a very basic "dark mode" by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute. This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
Darek Kay
Delaying asset requests in Eleventy While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading...
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While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading behavior. One technique is to provide a visual fallback as long as the images are still loading. First, a static background color included in the markup is displayed. As soon as a...
Stephen Wolfram...
Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Inverse Assertions (article) Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives...
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Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives in time-dependent tests without using sleep.
Julia Evans
New playground: integer.exposed Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers and floating point...
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Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers and floating point numbers work. Whenever I make a zine I like to release a playground to go with it, like mess with dns for the DNS zine or the sql playground. For this one, I made a simple playground...
David Heinemeier...
Staying in the arena One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job...
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One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job is why anyone would continue working if they didn't have to. You often see a version of this incredulity when the peanut gallery weighs in on the choices of billionaires. Why do...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Two Quick Tips When Building With React Router I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I...
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I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I had known when I started. So I’m writing them down in case anyone else is about to start a React Router app. 1. Flat Action Data When Using JSON If you’re submitting JSON,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
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Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book. (If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.) This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
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Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST? How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is...
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How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!
Elad Blog
Silicon Valley & Defense Tech Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a...
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Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a defense contract. This has led to claims Silicon Valley is no longer engaging in defense tech, despite tech's roots working with the Department of Defense
David Heinemeier...
Cold reading an ADHD affliction I'm sure there are truly pathological cases of ADHD out there, and maybe taking amphetamines really...
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I'm sure there are truly pathological cases of ADHD out there, and maybe taking amphetamines really is a magic pill for some folks. But there clearly is also an entire cottage industry cropping up around convincing perfectly normal people that they suffer from ADHD, and that this...
Computer Things
Maybe writing speed actually is a bottleneck for programming I'm a big (neo)vim buff. My config is over 1500 lines and I regularly write new scripts. I recently...
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I'm a big (neo)vim buff. My config is over 1500 lines and I regularly write new scripts. I recently ported my neovim config to a new laptop. Before then, I was using VSCode to write, and when I switched back I immediately saw a big gain in productivity. People often pooh-pooh vim...
Irrational...
Service onboarding model for Uber (2014). At the core of Uber’s service migration strategy (2014) is understanding the service onboarding...
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At the core of Uber’s service migration strategy (2014) is understanding the service onboarding process, and identifying the levers to speed up that process. Here we’ll develop a system model representing that onboarding process, and exercise the model to test a number of...
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...
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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':...
Irrational...
Internal comms for executives. Whenever an executive joins a new company, there is an awkward merger between the executive’s...
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Whenever an executive joins a new company, there is an awkward merger between the executive’s preferred communication style and the norms that organization has already established. I remember a recently joined executive complaining that engineers weren’t reading his emails. He...
Jake Zimmerman
Typing instance variables in mixins
3 months ago
Max Countryman
Value Modes and Mud Balls In developing software products, we're often accustomed to prioritizing incremental delivery. This...
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In developing software products, we're often accustomed to prioritizing incremental delivery. This is usually a good way to mitigate the risk of working on the wrong thing. However, sometimes our problems don't fit neatly into accretive methodologies and we need to consider other...
wingolog
partitioning ambiguous edges in guile Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with...
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Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with conservatively-traced references. The context is that I have finally started banging into , initially in a configuration that continues to use the conservative Boehm-Demers-Weiser (BDW)...
Yale E360
Integrate rest into your work and practice The human body has limits, and we break down if we push past them. This can contribute to burnout,...
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The human body has limits, and we break down if we push past them. This can contribute to burnout, lead to stress fractures, or cause a host of other issues. We need to give our bodies time to rest so that we can heal. This is something we often resist, but it's essential. And...
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 04 · Opening the Pre-Alpha Open-souring the code
4 months ago
Eric Bailey
Give me a definition for the word dashboard I finished up a research project a couple of weeks ago, and I'd like to share a detail that...
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I finished up a research project a couple of weeks ago, and I'd like to share a detail that completely threw me for a loop. We were conducting user research with a demographic with a high degree of variability in both skill level and technological literacy. The common thread was...
Seán Barry
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
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Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
Yale E360
Lessons from implementing Hurl I'm proud to announce that Hurl is officially released and done! You can check out the docs on...
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I'm proud to announce that Hurl is officially released and done! You can check out the docs on hurl.wtf. The language itself came out of an interesting question: Python sometimes uses exceptions for control flow, so could we implement a language that eschews normal control flow...
Vadim Kravcenko
How much equity should a CTO ask for? This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s...
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This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s especially awesome […] The post How much equity should a CTO ask for? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Tony Finch's blog
petnames and Zooko's fan Recently the Spritely Institute published an introduction to Petnames, A humane approach to...
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Recently the Spritely Institute published an introduction to Petnames, A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming. I have long been a fan of petnames, and graph naming systems in general. I first learned about them in the context of Mark Miller’s E programming language...
Josh Collinsworth
The blissful zen of a good side project One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.
3 months ago
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,...
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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...
David Heinemeier...
We tried that, didn’t work In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as...
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In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible. That just because someone, somewhere, one time...
alexwlchan
Agile and iterative project management Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project...
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Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project management. I was talking about how READMEs serve as the first point of contact for a project; how they get new users interested in and excited about the project. The cohort calls...
David Crawshaw
2015-07-07 "I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types...
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"I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types and when I came back, my hate was deeper and more nuanced."
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes to Self on Mastodon Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to...
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Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to articulate what I do understand in a way that helps me better understand the differences — and similarities — between Twitter and Mastodon, especially when it comes to owning more of...
David Heinemeier...
Meta is shutting down Workplace The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The...
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The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The traditional wisdom goes that if you buy from a big company, you're going to be safe. It may be more expensive, but big companies project an image of stability and reliability, so buying...
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Why we ditched ‘talk to sales’ for transparent pricing "I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that...
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"I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that embody everything we hate about modern SaaS…
Steve Klabnik
Going vimgan
over a year ago
Oxide Computer...
Reflections on Founder Mode Paul Graham’s Founder Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason that...
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Paul Graham’s Founder Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason that "founder mode" will surely enter the lexicon (and as Graham grimly predicts: "as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it"). When...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Desktop UI frameworks written by a single person Less known desktop UI frameworks Writing desktop software is hard. The UI technologies...
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Less known desktop UI frameworks Writing desktop software is hard. The UI technologies of Windows or MacOS are awful compared to web technology. What can trivially be done with HTML/CSS/JavaScript in few minutes can take hours using Windows’s win32 APIs or Mac’s...
alexwlchan
A flash of light in the darkness I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of...
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I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of the default background texture. I like giving my website a subtle bit of texture, which I think makes it stand out from a web which is mostly solid-colour backgrounds. Both my...
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Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
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We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
The Codist
What I Miss And Don't From Working As A Programmer I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code...
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I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code daily, I do so to support my generative art rather than get paid for it. Most of my career was spent building new applications, and no matter what my title was, I
Neil Panchal
Quantum Lorem Ipsum I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon!...
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I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon! To those who are not familiar, Lorem Ipsum is a piece of latin text, comprised of multiple paragraphs, that is used as a placeholder during the design process of building a page
bt RSS Feed
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices...
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Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices sometimes the best option is to store away the content behind a toggle button. This button would then display the menu items upon interaction. Let me show you how to create such an...
macwright.com
Placemark is now open source Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions...
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Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions welcome Placemark is the map editor software-as-a-service that I built for several years. It’s a website where you can import, create, edit, export, publish, and visualize geospatial data. I’m...
Alex Meub
Apple Captive Network Assistant Slowness Problems on iOS We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the...
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We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the strangest issue. Only on iOS devices, we’d see extreme slowness and unresponsive behavior in the Apple Captive Network Assistant (CNA). Over the course of several days, we made multiple...
37signals Dev
Solid Cache We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and...
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We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and HEY. Solid Cache uses a SQL database as its cache store. We get a much larger cache at a fraction of the storage costs of memory caches like Redis or Memcached. For us, that’s a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Online Handles: A Round-Up After asking about the origin of online handles, I heard back from a number of folks and loved the...
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After asking about the origin of online handles, I heard back from a number of folks and loved the stories. It’s fascinating to see an online name like “Apple Annie”, read the origin story, and see this wonderful, multi-faceted human being with a rich history behind the...
bt RSS Feed
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about...
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It’s a very good article overall, and I suggest...
Making software...
Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
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Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn't as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
orlp.net - Blog...
Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more... Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small...
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Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random. This “deterministic randomness” is incredibly useful for a variety of purposes, such as hash...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
All about Svelte 5 snippets Snippets are a useful addition to Svelte 5. I use them in my Svelte 5 projects like Edna. Snippet...
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Snippets are a useful addition to Svelte 5. I use them in my Svelte 5 projects like Edna. Snippet basics A snippet is a function that renders html based on its arguments. Here’s how to define and use a snippet: {#snippet hello(name)} <div>Hello...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-01 "It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34...
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"It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34 uA/MHz running from flash." www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/break-points/4441091/Subthreshold-transistors-and-MCUs
Blog System/5
A CLI text editor? In my Windows? It’s more likely than you think!
a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base...
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SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base started by me and written by mostly 2 people. The goals of SumatraPDF are to be: fast small packed with features and yet with thoughtfully minimal UI It’s not just a matter of...
Tinker, Tamper,...
On The End of Bitcoin [This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date...
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[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date was May 24th, 2022. I have not added new content.]Is there some scientific literature/scenario planning on the End of Bitcoin? With the next two halvings mining income will shift...
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Reinforcement Learning: Game Theory RL with multiple actors
over a year ago
blag
I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert...
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how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
A Smart Bear
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Blogger with tens of thousands of subscribers launches a new venture… and gets only 2 signups. Not the advantage you thought it was.
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There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values. The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
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When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
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There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make it fast."1 This is a catchy aphorism, and it is often taken as a rule. But in its short form, it misses some crucial nuance. Let's unpack it to see what's missing, then how to do...
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As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. ----------------------- What is Kagi Small Web? ----------------------- To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers...
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Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source...
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Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see…
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Service Throughput Tradeoffs 2018-04-13, David Crawshaw I am currently writing a service that lets users upload files. The typical file size is about 25KB, the maximum is 100MB, with file sizes following a power-law distribution. The nature of the service is that I need to buffer...
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Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
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Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn’t bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
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I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
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Calling Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter API from the browser Here’s what I learned about calling LLM APIs from the browser when building AI chat functionality in...
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Here’s what I learned about calling LLM APIs from the browser when building AI chat functionality in my note taking app Edna. The API I care about is getting LLM response to a question in a streaming way. OpenAI pioneered this and created...
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary...
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary things. The first is that a young toddler can go trick-or-treating in your apartment building and acquire a huge amount of candy. When they are this young they have no interest in the...
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Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs? Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy...
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Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I've come to terms with it. It's fine. It'll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit
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Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
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Negative visualization in practice The most counterintuitive of the Stoic mental exercises is that of negative visualization. Willfully...
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The most counterintuitive of the Stoic mental exercises is that of negative visualization. Willfully imagining all manner of terrible things that might befall you, but haven't yet. Described like this, it sorta sounds like a fancy word of anxiety, but if you look closer, it's in...
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Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
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Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's a way to make sure anyone gets a viable version of your page whatever is their context — slow bandwitdh, oldish browser, etc. — but also making the said page more resilient (e.g....
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Quiche as a method and lightly sweet pâte brisée I love to make and eat quiche. In fact, there was hardly a week last year that would pass where...
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I love to make and eat quiche. In fact, there was hardly a week last year that would pass where there wasn't a quiche in my refrigerator because I just love quiche that much. Why? Well, it's great any time of day, it reheats well, it can feed a crowd, and it doesn't have to be...
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Deploying on Netlify with Apple’s Shortcuts Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I...
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Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I host my personal websites on Netlify. I’ve got a few websites that aren’t the traditional model of: commit to git, push, build triggers on Netlify, website goes live. Sometimes I...
Ink & Switch
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My wireguard IPv6 tunnel Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
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Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6. Yesterday I (at last!) got around to setting up a wireguard IPv6 VPN tunnel between my workstation and my Mythic Beasts virtual private server. There were a few, um, learning...
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Keep a React component mounted The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is...
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The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is remount management. Some portions of the UI can be hidden or shown — sidebars, drop-down menus, modals and draggable widgets are all prominent examples. The basic React pattern for...
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Coming soon This is General Robots.
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Automated Data Scraping with Github Actions A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers
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Sharp-Edged Finalizers in Go 2018-04-05, David Crawshaw For background, see my last post on why in general .finalizers do not work We cannot use an object finalizer for resource management, because finalizers are called at some unpredictable distant time long after resources need...
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I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
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Moving to Hugo some personal notes to remember the migration effort from Pelican to Hugo
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Basta’s Notes
Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
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The Code is your Enemy A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming...
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A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming confirmation that the lesson is correct.
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Linux always toggles DTR & RTS In my previous article, I explained how Arduino makes the life of its users easier by automatically...
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In my previous article, I explained how Arduino makes the life of its users easier by automatically resetting the board when the UART pin DTR (or RTS) transitions from electrically high to low. This exploits the fact that this transition happens automatically when someone or...
A Smart Bear
The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good"...
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How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good" when they really mean "No, I'm not buying."
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Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An...
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You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An Acceptable Risk What else can you do? Enter Ensemble ¶You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies I’ve got a little present for you: you’re enjoying a well-earned break from work!...
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For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an 8-core/16-thread AMD 8745H CPU, which retails for $343 (or €379) as a bare-bone unit, and stays below $550, even after adding 48GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. I'm shocked to report that I really...
alexwlchan
Have a single definition of “now” I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing...
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I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing help: function today(): Date { return new Date(); } It’s not very sophisticated – it just returns the current time – but we use it everywhere we need to get the current time. (You...
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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...
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Where at least I know I'm free I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people...
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I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people delusional. Sure, I'd think, you're not North Korea or Venezuela, but is that really a standard worth celebration? Shouldn't America compare itself to higher alternatives, like...
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Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet...
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You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet someone new, and you're inevitably asking and being asked three questions: Where do you work? Where do you live? How much is your rent? Okay, you don't always encounter that last one,...
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The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be...
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This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be able to remember it in the future. I expect close to zero others to be interested. The C standard library function isspace() returns a non-zero value (true) for the six "standard"...
A Beautiful Site
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I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code. As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
macwright.com
Recently We went apple picking this month in New Jersey, and one of the farms had these two golden retrievers...
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We went apple picking this month in New Jersey, and one of the farms had these two golden retrievers in their own, private, enormous pen. It was a petting zoo, but with two golden retrievers. They defended their space against other dogs who wanted to say hi, but stayed near the...
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Catbird: An experimental game engine for Scheme programmers I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now, and the next one is starting...
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I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now, and the next one is starting on 10/28, and with each attempt I've been accumulating code that forms something resembling a game engine. I'm now attempting to solidify some of the concepts I've been exploring in...
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What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
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A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
Irrational...
Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping. The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of...
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The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of the three core strategy refinement techniques, this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least. Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it highlights how...
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Writing an engineering strategy. Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick...
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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...
Yale E360
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...
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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...
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Realtime Offline-First Chat App in 100 Seconds A quick demo of how easy it is to add realtime, offline persistence to an app with Amplify DataStore
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over a year ago
Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you're bound to come across empty pockets of data. These will be rendered as "blank" table cells, which isn't always the intended outcome. Let's take a quick look at how to target and style empty table...
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Branding Bundles The best way to communicate a group of benefits is to slap a label on it.
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
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Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
A Beautiful Site
Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
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Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
Julia Evans
How to add a directory to your PATH I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels...
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I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for instructions for how to do it, I actually couldn’t find something that explained all of...
macwright.com
SaaS exits by I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit...
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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,...
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Blogging for 7 Years Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven...
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Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven years ago. In that time, quite a lot has changed in my life both personally and professionally. So, I figured it would be interesting to reflect on these years and document it for...
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Understanding TypeScript Generics TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and...
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TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and when to use them.
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: &quot;working in waves&quot; * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer. I’d like to share some of my reflections...
Liz Denys
A meeting of mindsets This spring, I finally had time in the right places in my schedule to incorporate teaching into my...
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This spring, I finally had time in the right places in my schedule to incorporate teaching into my semester. I'm a Learning Assistant (LA) for 6.042: Mathematics for Computer Science, which offers an introduction to discrete mathematics oriented towards computer science and...
On Test Automation
2024 - A year in review Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon,...
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Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon, and since I’m deliberately slowing down this week and will be away from work for two weeks after that, this to me is a great time to look back on 2024 and what it has brought me...
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
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After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
Jibran’s Perspective
Bootstrap with Ruby on Rails 7 If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new...
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If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new <PROJECT> then you can safely follow the following steps to get Bootstrap 5 installed in your project. Install gems Add the following to your Gemfile and run bundle install. gem...
General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
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What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
Confessions of a...
The CAP Theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
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Yale E360
Topologies of Remote Teams When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some...
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When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some point: will we all be in the same office, or will we do this "remote work" thing? There are a lot of factors that go into whether or not remote work will work for your team, like...
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[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
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I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read. The book...
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The state of plugins on PostHog Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part...
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Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part of PostHog, as it is responsible for event…
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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
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How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
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I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
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About antisocialne.ws
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macwright.com
Reading Zanzibar Google published Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a...
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Google published Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a system for authorization – enforcing who can do what – which maxes out both flexibility and scalability. Google has lots of different apps that rely on Zanzibar, and bigger scale...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials of stolen Nazi riches stored in the local salt mine. Eventually, the Americans found the mine and began exploring it, ending up at a vaulted door. Here’s the story, as told by Greg...
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A Beautiful Site
I should have been asking my users this from the start Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users...
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Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users don't tell you? It seems obvious, but here is something I should have been asking my users from the start. Getting the right feedback is critical # When someone signs up for my...
A Smart Bear
"ROI" is the wrong way to sell your product Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't...
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Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't convince them. Here's what to do instead.
HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product...
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Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product Status</h1> <h2>Is the product available?</h2> <div> <h3> <div> <div> <i> <h3 class="message is-success"> It‘s <a>available</a>. </h3> ...
ByteofDev
State of the Web: Deno What is Deno, why does it matter, and how is it currently used for server-side JavaScript?
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Developers are on edge It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are dragging on. The industry has shed more jobs in a shorter period than any time since the dot-com bust over twenty years ago. Seasoned veterans who used to have recruiters banging on...
James Vaughan's blog
Jay Kamat
over a year ago
macwright.com
On Web Components God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read...
a year ago
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a year ago
God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read it Carlana Johnson’s “Alternate Futures for Web Components” had me nodding all the way. There’s just this assumption that now that React is potentially on its way out (after a...
bt RSS Feed
Do You Have an Extra $10? Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it’s a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it’s a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it’s an impulse buy while we’re out shopping for...
Eric Bailey
The Importance of Heading Levels for Assistive Technology
over a year ago
Posts on Nikita...
How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23 Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very different cultural background than me. Russians approach life in their own way and some things might seem strange. Still, this was my path and I would like to share it. My name is...
David Gerrells
How not to use box shadows So you think you know box shadows huh? I bet you didn't know they could do this.
12 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Habits of great software engineers The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While...
a year ago
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a year ago
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […] The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
over a year ago
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
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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.
The Changelog
Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet “OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
Tinloof - Blog
JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for such a source, please check out MDN. In general, the Map data structure is useful when we want to retrieve/add/delete values through a set of unique keys. One of the...
MMapped blog
IC internals: orthogonal persistence
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Something You Need to Know About Web Design and Development You’re doing great at it. (❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race) Email, Twitter, Mastodon
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Nobody understands REST or HTTP
over a year ago
Quentin Santos
Reproducing Espressif’s reset circuit I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily update the code on an Espressif microcontroller. There are actually more subtleties than a quick look would suggest, and I spent a fair bit of time investigating them. This article and...
bunnie's blog
Designing The Light Source for IRIS This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. IRIS allows us to see the insides of certain types of chips, even after they are soldered to a circuit board. This is possible...
Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
Eric Bailey
Oh shit banners I have worked for two newspapers over the course of my career (three if you count my high school...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have worked for two newspapers over the course of my career (three if you count my high school newspaper). One thing I learned there is that the top half of each and every newspaper homepage is a daily battle of priorities. The idea here is that the thing that is highest,...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Late October 2024: Inkling LIVE Presentation A few notes about the presentation, and a link to the video
8 months ago
HTMHell
#11 The trigram for heaven Bad code <span class="nav-toggle"> ☰ Menu </span> Issues and how to fix them A screen reader may...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <span class="nav-toggle"> ☰ Menu </span> Issues and how to fix them A screen reader may announce this as trigram for heaven menu, because ☰ is the unicode character for the trigram for heaven. The purpose of the icon is decorative, it should be hidden from screen...
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The Coronavirus Recession and What it Means for Developers The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
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
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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...
David Heinemeier...
Keeping the lights on while leaving the cloud It was a big year for ops at 37signals. In 2023, we moved seven major applications out of the cloud....
a year ago
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a year ago
It was a big year for ops at 37signals. In 2023, we moved seven major applications out of the cloud. Including HEY, our email service, which had been born there, and has an extremely high level of uptime criticality. Moving out of the cloud could not interfere with that...
macwright.com
Don't use marked With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their...
a year ago
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a year ago
With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their obligation to maintain compatibility, I just have to put it out there: if you have a new JavaScript/TypeScript project and you need to parse or render Markdown, why are you using...
Liz Denys
Leave icebreakers to strangers, or how to spin friends and introduce people My favorite way to meet new people is through my existing set of friends. There are many benefits,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My favorite way to meet new people is through my existing set of friends. There are many benefits, the obvious one being that my friends tend to have great taste in people. But I'm also at least a little bit awkward. Despite consciously thinking about asking thoughtful versions...
TokyoDev
Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on...
a year ago
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a year ago
I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/not-setting-up-find-my-bricked-my-macbook), and how Apple refused to unlock it for me. Well, I did manage to finally get it unlocked. All it took was...
Julia Evans
A list of programming playgrounds I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking the other day about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking the other day about how I didn’t have a great list of playgrounds to refer to. So I asked on Mastodon for links to cool playgrounds. Here’s what I came up with. I’d love to know what I...
alexwlchan
Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour":...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour": "blue" } Notice that sides and colour both appear twice. This looks invalid, but I learnt recently that this is actually legal JSON syntax! It’s unusual and discouraged, but it’s...
Maggie Appleton
Smidgeons Welcome to the smidgeon stream. This is a new kind of content on the Garden. One that was
6 months ago
sancho.dev
Server-side rendering React in OCaml
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Metaphors We Web By A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web
over a year ago
TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
a year ago
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a year ago
You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
A Smart Bear
How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price You can charge much more than you think, if you reposition your value-proposition. Here's how.
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer as a purse So I made a purse shaped like the Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer for a Kill Bill themed party... The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I made a purse shaped like the Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer for a Kill Bill themed party... The spherical shape comes from quilt batting stuffed between the beach ball style outside and a stiff dodecahedron lining. The body is hand-painted, punched out vinyl over black...
the jsomers.net blog
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
blag
How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x...
6 months ago
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This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
A Smart Bear
The mid-market briar patch Mid-sized companies: Small enough to have small budgets, big enough for bureaucratic nightmares.
11 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
How to name your startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Choosing a name...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Choosing a name is one of the parts of a startup I find the most difficult. It’s also something you can easily get hung up on. We all know that the key thing is to move on to actually
Josh Comeau's blog
CSS Variables for React Devs CSS variables are *really* cool, and they're incredibly powerful when it comes to React! This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS variables are *really* cool, and they're incredibly powerful when it comes to React! This tutorial shows how we can use them with React to create dynamic themes. We'll see how to get the most out of CSS-in-JS tools like styled-components, and how our mental frame around media...
Maggie Appleton
Historical Trails Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory...
a year ago
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a year ago
Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory journey
alexwlchan
A script to verify my Netlify redirects I’ve changed the URL design on this website a couple of times. The current structure seems to be...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I’ve changed the URL design on this website a couple of times. The current structure seems to be working fairly well, but I made some dubious decisions when I started out that really didn’t scale. (Like having a single folder for all of my /images/ – of which there are now over...
swyx's site RSS Feed
100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere Simple grab and go upgrade to the base user agent stylesheet to make for readable sites
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Starlink in Nov 2022 My Starlink Internet service has gotten pretty bad; every evening I'm well under 50Mbps and some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My Starlink Internet service has gotten pretty bad; every evening I'm well under 50Mbps and some hours I only get 2Mbps. (Compare 100Mbps+ last year.) I've given up trying to stream 1080p video at night; that's a pretty dismal result for a new Internet service in 2022. Starlink...
Sometimes It Works...
Thinking in packages Thinking in packages Path repository Override PSR-4 Autoloading ¶Thinking in packages If you’re in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Thinking in packages Path repository Override PSR-4 Autoloading ¶Thinking in packages If you’re in the mindset of writing and using your own Composer packages, no doubt you’ve come across the following problem: “How do I keep the (frequently updated) package code in the main...
Yale E360
Where is the source code for ping? Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to deepen my knowledge of networks. I'm just going for a super basic utility here, nothing fancy, not even all the features of ping. But since the language is new to me and my...
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large JSON value query performance Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
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
swyx's site RSS Feed
AmpliBox - a Self Hosted File Storage App with AWS Amplify A demo using AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) using Amplify Storage, Svelte, and Tailwind CSS
over a year ago
Making software...
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn't cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Ryan Dahl Talks Deno on The Changelog Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more broadly. What follows are a few things that stood out to me. His Regrets From Node Are Now in Deno I think it’s interesting that Ryan’s famous talk 10 Things I Regret About Node.js...
Vadim Kravcenko
Managing difficult software engineers In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every project, every failure, and […] The post Managing difficult software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
Yale E360
Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but inefficient state. For example, the taxicab industry: there was little innovation going on in it, and it was stable, but it seemed like it was far from ideal. Along came Uber, intent to...
Sometimes It Works...
Why do many web developers hate jQuery? Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an answer I originally posted to the above question posed over on Hashnode, the developer community. Thought it was worth sharing :) When jQuery was the new thing, people loved it....
Evan Jones -...
Advice on looking for a new software engineering job I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: September 2023
a year ago
Blog System/5
The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we've launched PostHog user surveys Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new...
a year ago
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a year ago
Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new pricing . Short version? Pricing is usage-based, with…
Remains of the Day
Why Information Grows It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting messages. We infuse messages with meaning automatically, fooling ourselves to believe that the meaning of a message is carried in the message. But it is not. This is only an...
Ink & Switch
Inkbase: Programmable Ink What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives on how the business and such have gone, but for now, let’s keep this traditional, a good old-fashioned Recently. Reading This month’s theme, looking back on it, was feminism, and...
alexwlchan
Cats, cross-stitch, and copyright I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually lived with) is the cheetah. This probably goes back to a school project about cheetahs I did when I was nine years old – I had to write about an endangered species for science...
Joel Gascoigne
Questions I ask myself about working as distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a CEO I often...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a CEO I often ponder how I can help the team be as productive and happy as possible. As part of our decision to be a distributed team at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], there have been a number...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. III Previously: The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. I The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. II I wrote about...
a year ago
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a year ago
Previously: The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. I The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. II I wrote about the parallels between making films and making websites, which was based on an interview with Christopher Nolan. During part of the interview, Nolan discusses how he enjoys being a...
the singularity is...
nuke/acc I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be discussed there. Nuclear weapons are the Chekhov’s gun on the world stage. When, if ever, are they going to be fired? When should they be? I suspect this is not a question a lot of people...
General Robots
ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
over a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really sure where I get these crazy ideas, but a friend and I booked the West Coast Trail. It is this multi day thru hike in the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is accessible via...
Founder's blog
No, Wall Street, DeepSeek is not "far superior" I mean, it is! But the whole story about the stock market reacting to the news about DeepSeek V3...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I mean, it is! But the whole story about the stock market reacting to the news about DeepSeek V3 and R1 is a fine example of the knee-jerk nature of mass consciousness in the era of clickbait economics. Briefly, by points: No, DeepSeek isn’t “head and shoulders...
sancho.dev
Learning OCaml in 2023
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++ How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and...
a year ago
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a year ago
How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32. One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app. I encountered this in...
Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
David Crawshaw
2016-01-18 docs.pipelinedb.com/continuous-views.html
over a year ago
Code Of Honor
Uh-oh: was the company site hacked? Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
David Crawshaw
2015-12-20 www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Implementing-a-Shell.html#Implementing-a-Shell
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
A free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript beautifier Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best feature was that it was easy to use and didn't have intrusive advertisements. I sold DirtyMarkup a couple years ago, and since then the new owners slapped on a header that makes...
The History of the...
Beware the cloud of hype We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
a year ago
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a year ago
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (for React) (tip)
10 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components: An Example In my article on HTML web components, I said: But the unique power of web components (in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my article on HTML web components, I said: But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React components cannot do this — full stop. There’s a lot in there I wanted to explain more in-depth, but I just never go to it. Then...
Patrick Kayongo
A New Dog “What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
Epic Web Dev
Replace Remix's unstable_parseMultipartFormData with @mjackson/form-data-parser (tip) Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or @mjackson/form-data-parser with custom file size validation.
HTMHell
What is the Difference Between Alternative Text, Long Description, and Caption? When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and understandable to everyone. Which means you need to include text alternatives to describe the image information or function. Three options are: Alternative Text Long...
Grant Slatton
Algorithms we develop software by Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
11 months ago
samwho.dev
A Commitment to Art and Dogs .dog-line { display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; flex-direction: row; width: 100%; height:...
a year ago
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.dog-line { display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; flex-direction: row; width: 100%; height: 10rem; margin-top: 2rem; margin-bottom: 2rem; } .dog-line img { flex-grow: 1; height: auto; margin: 0; padding: 0; object-fit: contain; } .dog-grid { display:...
swyx's site RSS Feed
What if your Index Page was Smart? Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.21.0 Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into the overall stability of PostHog squashing dozens…
swyx's site RSS Feed
STAR Apps - A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows _Published on CSS Tricks as [STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
_Published on CSS Tricks as [STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows](https://css-tricks.com/star-apps-a-new-generation-of-front-end-tooling-for-development-workflows/)_
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What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second...
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I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second Brain](https://www.swyx.io/obsidian-brain), and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also [back up everything to github](https://github.com/sw-yx/brain), so I dont really experience much data...
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
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Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
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Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
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Solid Queue 1.0 released We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version...
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We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version has come a long way since we published the first version, 0.1.1, back in December 2023, with 132 merged pull requests and 126 closed issues, and the help of multiple...
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Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
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Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files. Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
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For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.” – Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die. I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
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Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 2
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Is development the right career for me? Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling...
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Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling with. It’s one […] The post Is development the right career for me? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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How (and why) our marketing team uses PostHog We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and ...
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We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and their product using PostHog. This is our fault. We…
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Fixing a form validation bug in the Epic Stack (tip) Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step...
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Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step guide and find out how they addressed the issue.
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Fun with IE7 and the Zoom Property This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any...
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This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any invalid numbers. It replaces .my_class{ zoom:1; } with .my_class{ zoom:1px; } Those two characters (“px”) on the zoom property will blow up IE7 as it tries to zoom to a value in...
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Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
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Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
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How To Learn In Private Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn...
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Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn In Public. The majority of the time you are still learning in private. Here are some thoughts on how to do it well.
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Battery Status API: We need to talk
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The History of the...
What happens to what we’ve already created? When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it...
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When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it does to what the world has already created. The post What happens to what we’ve already created? appeared first on The History of the Web.
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But...
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
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Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA Except it isn’t and Joe Biden is a senile moron....
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I loved this talk from Alexander Petros titled “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”. What follows is summation of my note-taking from watching the talk on YouTube. Is what you’re building for future generations: Useful for them? Maintainable by them? Adaptable by...
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Product Owner vs Project Managers During my career as a software developer, I’ve met many different managers. Some were the kind of “I...
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During my career as a software developer, I’ve met many different managers. Some were the kind of “I tell — […] The post Product Owner vs Project Managers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me when I’m on video calls – which made me realise I’ve never posted about it here. It’s a rather nice piece that I’m quite pleased with, and it’s worth sharing. Most of my...
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“Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it creates a self-imposed accountability. But doesn’t it ruin competitive advantage when your competitors can steal your source code and know the salaries of your employees and whether...
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Patek levels of finishing We’re in the final phase of getting the first ONCE product out the door. As with any new...
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We’re in the final phase of getting the first ONCE product out the door. As with any new development, there are a million little details we need to nail for a successful launch that’s up to our standards. That’s usually where the temptation to cut corners on internal quality...
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MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
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Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren't great (and still aren't perfect) but they represented a...
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The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
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This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
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How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
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Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
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The boy who cried risk On a recent project, I worked with a principal engineer. He’s a very prolific contributor and...
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On a recent project, I worked with a principal engineer. He’s a very prolific contributor and involved in several projects. Most of his contributions are related to risk management. That made me think about the other senior-most engineers and what they work on, leading me to...
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You can have two Big Things, but not three No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
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How I grew The A11Y Project to 10k followers on Twitter One thing I’ve been doing for The A11Y project is managing its social media efforts. Since doing so,...
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One thing I’ve been doing for The A11Y project is managing its social media efforts. Since doing so, I’ve slowly grown its Twitter followers to 10,000+. Now, before I get into it, there’s some things worth pointing out: This work was built on top of the efforts of the project...
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Status as a Service (StaaS) Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this...
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Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one. My long break from posting here means that this piece is a collection of what would’ve normally...
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New Edna feature: multiple notes I started working on Edna several months ago and I’ve implemented lots of functionality. Edna is a...
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I started working on Edna several months ago and I’ve implemented lots of functionality. Edna is a note taking application with super powers. I figured I’ll make a series of posts about all the features I’ve added in last few months. The first is multiple notes. By default we...
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4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
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