Cognitive...
Based-30b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b
So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and...
a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b
So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-7b, I came to the realization that these models, despite being trained with no refusals, were still refusing. How could this be?
It dawned on me, that...
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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...
over a year ago
How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!
macwright.com
Recently
The weather is starting to get better.
Listening
Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands
I am still...
a year ago
The weather is starting to get better.
Listening
Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands
I am still really loving the constellation of bands around
Mammal Hands. They just released
a new album, “Gift from the Trees”, and it’s really excellent.
RETURN by tAKX
Their guitarist,...
Confessions of a...
All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure
Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
6 months ago
Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
Steve Klabnik
More rstat.us refactoring
over a year ago
David Gerrells
A lazy dark mode
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
over a year ago
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
A Beautiful Site
Why You Should Prefix Custom Events
Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event...
over a year ago
Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event must also contain a dash. This removes all ambiguity between native events and custom events.
Therefore, I prefix all custom events in Shoelace with sl-. It may seem contradictory...
PostHog's RSS Feed
A non-coder's thoughts on an 'Everybody Codes' culture
One of PostHog’s core values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs previous...
over a year ago
One of PostHog’s core values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs previous experience as a developer or engineer, but we…
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...
over a year ago
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...
The Changelog
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers)
Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often...
over a year ago
Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often not been raised: all of these things require an Internet connection. “Of course,” you might say. “Internet is everywhere these days.” Well, not so much, and it turns out there are...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cat and Mouse
Read more about RSS Club.
When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse...
a year ago
Read more about RSS Club.
When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse problem.
Well, I should say “mice” problem because it was definitely plural and not just one solitary mouse chillin in the house.
As a new homeowner, I was distraught. I tried all kinds...
ntietz.com blog
Personnel update
This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt...
3 months ago
This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt coldly impersonal for such a deeply personal event, so I imagined what it would be like if the same approach were taken to other deeply personal events.
* * *
Subject: Personnel...
TokyoDev
My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter...
a year ago
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter the country, such as a working holiday visa, English teaching, or getting hired by one of the [many wonderful companies](http://www.tokyodev.com/companies), posting jobs on...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC"
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
over a year ago
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship.
In the...
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Quick Guide to setup your React + Typescript Storybook Design System
a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
over a year ago
a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
Blog - Bitfield...
Suite smells: testing legacy code
How do you rescue a legacy codebase that has no tests? Let's look at some
techniques for clawing...
a month ago
How do you rescue a legacy codebase that has no tests? Let's look at some
techniques for clawing your way back to maintainability, one test at a
time.
Making software...
Browser History Sucks
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-20
Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
over a year ago
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-20
Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not.
Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn't changed in years....
The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Tech Layoffs in 2022
I get a lot of scoop sent by readers (thank you!). Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about...
over a year ago
I get a lot of scoop sent by readers (thank you!). Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about companies laying off people. Some of this scoop has not been reported before.
I don't want to broadcast layoffs on Twitter or LinkedIn continuously, but also
Vadim Kravcenko
Getting your Idea to the MVP
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Getting your Idea to the MVP appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Julia Evans
Notes on git's error messages
While writing about Git, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks struggle with Git’s
error messages. I’ve...
8 months ago
While writing about Git, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks struggle with Git’s
error messages. I’ve had many years to get used to these error messages so it
took me a really long time to understand why folks were confused, but having
thought about it much more, I’ve realized...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse
EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple...
over a year ago
EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple ELT contract - You handle the Extract phase, it handles the Load, and exposes a standard UI for you to do dynamic Transforms.
Steve Klabnik
I'm making it dead simple to contribute to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad...
over a year ago
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
Charles Chen
End-to-End Type Safety with .NET7, TypeScript, and OpenAPI -- with Hot Rebuild
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
a year ago
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
Vadim Kravcenko
As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed?
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the...
a year ago
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the process of product development, feeling […]
The post As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work
> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer...
over a year ago
> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer News](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/naked-promises-are-not-safe-for-work/). A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
Cognitive...
Meet Samantha
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-7b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-13b
https://h...
a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-7b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-13b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-33b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-falcon-7b
https://huggingface.co/datasets/ehartford/samantha-data/blob/main/samantha-1.0.json
I have...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on uploads
Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil....
over a year ago
Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil. Users have to be able to view and delete files they upload; but at the same time, I've never felt that it should be an integral part of the app.
Last night I had to face the fact...
ntietz.com blog
The Beginning of Something
It seems like everyone in the software industry goes through a blogging phase. This is the beginning...
over a year ago
It seems like everyone in the software industry goes through a blogging phase. This is the beginning of mine.
I have started this blog time and time again over the last three years. My original inspiration for having a technical blog came from one of my mentors at my internship....
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2024
Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification)...
a month ago
Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification) to perform a fast and sensitive detection of nucleic acid sequences. Thanks again to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware for me to take apart and photograph! Nobody had...
ntietz.com blog
"Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it!"
A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring.
The...
10 months ago
A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring.
The specific problem doesn't matter, so don't focus on the technical details here.
Hey Nicole!
At $DAYJOB, we have some big problems and it's frustrating, I keep pointing them out and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Friendcatchers
Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
over a year ago
Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
blag
Setting up Github Actions for Hugo
Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
over a year ago
Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
bt RSS Feed
Using User-Select
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
over a year ago
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property?
Introducing the CSS property
Simply put, the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: The AARRR pirate funnel explained
Want to build an AARRR funnel in PostHog? Use our AARRR dashboard template to set one up quickly...
a year ago
Want to build an AARRR funnel in PostHog? Use our AARRR dashboard template to set one up quickly and easily. What is the AARRR framework? The AARRR…
A Beautiful Site
Whipping file inputs into shape with Bootstrap
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all...
over a year ago
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all browsers. There's even a pretty slick plugin to help get the job done. Unfortunately, most of these solutions are cumbersome, prone to cross-browser issues, and require...
David Heinemeier...
Cold reading an ADHD affliction
I'm sure there are truly pathological cases of ADHD out there, and maybe taking amphetamines really...
a month ago
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
Refactoring Invariants
(Feeling a little sick so this one will be short.)
I'm often asked by clients to review their...
2 months ago
(Feeling a little sick so this one will be short.)
I'm often asked by clients to review their (usually TLA+) formal specifications. These specs are generally slower and more convoluted than an expert would write. I want to fix them up without changing the overall behavior of the...
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on...
a year ago
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz. For what Doug was fundamentally trying to do over the forty years he spent developing his CYC system was to use the framework of...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Four
It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three...
over a year ago
It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three years of my journey as a first-time technical founder.
2021 was not an exception, and my role as RevenueCat’s CTO kept evolving quite a lot. As expected, my job did not get any...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2023
The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me...
a year ago
The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me several wonderful photos, and the whole thing is actually pretty neat to look at. However, for better or for worse the parts in the ware are so unique that most of them resolve to an...
HTMHell
#28 alert level 1
Bad code
<h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only">
Done
</h1>
Issues...
over a year ago
Bad code
<h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only">
Done
</h1>
Issues and how to fix them
The element is used for communicating status updates, not to structure the page. A div with a role of status or alert is more suitable than a h1.
The heading is...
A Beautiful Site
Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
over a year ago
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons.
Issues with leap years #
A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
Basta’s Notes
The state with the fancy plates
Book typography-style serifs are for lovers
a year ago
Book typography-style serifs are for lovers
Liz Denys
A very MIT signals problem
I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there....
over a year ago
I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there. Signals and systems can be used to describe many different problems because it is simply an abstraction which describes a physical, mathematical, or computational system by the way...
dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released!
Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released!
Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared
library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign
function interface.
New bindings in this...
beep.blog
I've been over-brewing my coffee
Bloody hell, James Hoffmann's ultimate AeroPress technique is good.
a year ago
Bloody hell, James Hoffmann's ultimate AeroPress technique is good.
Tony Finch's blog
Popcorn
Another recent food obsession!
I think the instigation was a YouTube food video which led me to...
12 months ago
Another recent food obsession!
I think the instigation was a YouTube food video which led me to try
making popcorn at home from scratch with Nico. It was enormous fun!
And several weeks later it’s still really entertaining to make
(especially when a stray kernel pops after I take...
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
over a year ago
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
Stephen Wolfram...
Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a...
a year ago
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a human could do. But then ChatGPT burst onto the scene. And suddenly we realized that an AI could write a passable human-like essay. So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this...
David Heinemeier...
There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
a year ago
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies.
This...
Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
over a year ago
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL
Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are...
over a year ago
Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are as similar as grapes and grapefruit. ClickHouse…
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...
over a year ago
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.
David Heinemeier...
Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
4 months ago
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
Stephen Wolfram...
A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
a year ago
This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of...
The Codist
Twitter Was An Awesome Idea But Never A Viable Business
Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry...
a year ago
Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry communications in real-time to people worldwide, creating self-organizing circles of common interests, allowing for easy discovery, and supporting an instant source of information. But, there...
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...
a year ago
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...
James Vaughan's blog
Counting Usernames from Malicious Login Attempts
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding
How IP Addressing evolved over time, how it works today, and how we can transition to IPv6 in future
over a year ago
How IP Addressing evolved over time, how it works today, and how we can transition to IPv6 in future
blag
Recurse Center Day 5: Garbage Collection Algorithms
Learning the basics of GC, mark-sweep algorithm
over a year ago
Learning the basics of GC, mark-sweep algorithm
Coding Horror
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
over a year ago
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
blag
Install Windows 8 UEFI on Legacy BIOS with Clover (and Dual boot with Yosemite)
This tutorial will help you install Windows 8 on a Legacy BIOS in UEFI mode using Clover and dual...
over a year ago
This tutorial will help you install Windows 8 on a Legacy BIOS in UEFI mode using Clover and dual boot with Yosemite.
Tony Finch's blog
On "the OSI deprogrammer"
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled
“That OSI model refuses...
9 months ago
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled
“That OSI model refuses to die”,
in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer”
published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters,
and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
37signals Dev
Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and...
a year ago
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and richer UIs grew, teams came up with different frontends to deliver on those expectations. Client-side frameworks such as Angular, Ember, and React emerged as popular choices.
One of...
A Beautiful Site
Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected
In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript....
over a year ago
In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript. Sometimes, you'd write the same code in two or three different ways to support various browsers. Code such as that shown below allowed webpages to work in browsers like Netscape...
A Beautiful Site
Parsing a JSON string results in an 'Invalid Label' error
Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred...
over a year ago
Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred server-side language. I use JSON whenever I can to pass data between JavaScript and PHP. After all, $.get and $.post both process JSON easily, so it's my data type of choice.
Sometimes,...
Neil Panchal
Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs?
Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy...
over a year ago
Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I've come to terms with it. It's fine. It'll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit
alexwlchan
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our...
over a year ago
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case.
I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
Josh Comeau's blog
My experience as a remote worker
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
over a year ago
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“That’s Another Podcast”
I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The...
a year ago
I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The Postlight Podcast then The Aboard Podcast then Ziade+Ford, and now (again?) The Aboard Podcast.
Through all my listening, one thing I’ve noticed is that they often make comedic...
bt RSS Feed
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-29
Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
over a year ago
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-29
Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
over a year ago
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fibonacci Goals
A system for goalsetting.
over a year ago
A system for goalsetting.
Making software...
CSS: Indenting Text
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-04-05
A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
over a year ago
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-04-05
A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn't an insult - I'm happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Sanding UI
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks,...
3 months ago
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done.
The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a page transition, that means going back...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Creating Some Noise on Behalf of Silence
How do you write about the value of silence?
It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use...
5 months ago
How do you write about the value of silence?
It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use words to extol the value of something whose essence is the very absence of words?
It’s like making a painting of the invisible. Do you use visible means to depict something that...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Coups, Wars, and Corporate Digital Transformations
In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces...
a year ago
In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was formed during the war in Darfur, outside the control of the national army for “special operations”. Because they weren’t under the leadership of the army, normal war...
TokyoDev
International Developer in Japan Salary Survey 2014
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).*
One of the...
over a year ago
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).*
One of the questions I've been asked several times by readers of this blog are [what are salaries of developers in Japan](/articles/software-developer-salaries-in-japan). There is a fair...
A Smart Bear
When should a decision be fast, or slow?
Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really...
a year ago
Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really is smarter to take your time. Here's how to decide.
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
a month ago
Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
over a year ago
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on
computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s
Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric
design to...
A Smart Bear
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad...
over a year ago
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Why I cancelled my Replit subscription
<![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of...
a year ago
<![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of 2023.
Replit is a popular and growing multi language development environment in the cloud. I've been subscribing to the Hacker plan for the past few years and it worked well for my...
Dan Slimmon
Dead air on the incident call
Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll...
9 months ago
Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll present a few incident scenarios and explore the role of the incident commander in breaking (or simply abiding in) dead air.
Don Melton
A metastasis in America
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange...
over a year ago
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange tumor in the White House next week will not be enough to affect a cure.
The malignancy has spread. It didn’t even start with the presidency. We’ve been brewing and self-dosing a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech
What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
over a year ago
What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
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...
over a year ago
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.
somenice
Autumnal equinox 2023
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using...
a year ago
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
Blog System/5
Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the...
8 months ago
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128 pixels, a D-pad, and 3 other buttons. I will cover the prerequisite work to make the port possible, dig into the GPIO and SPI...
The Codist
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Estimates
In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the...
a year ago
In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the 1980s when there was no estimating because no one had any idea how to do it to my last job where estimation was always demanded but never actually relevant.
In
Vadim Kravcenko
Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior
These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior...
10 months ago
These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior developers. To […]
The post Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ntietz.com blog
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college.
In that time, I've worked at three...
over a year ago
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college.
In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!).
I've also struggled with depression...
Acko.net
On Sperging Out
The Boy Who Cried Leopard
Recently there's been a new dust up about Richard Stallman and the Free...
over a year ago
The Boy Who Cried Leopard
Recently there's been a new dust up about Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. For those of you just tuning in: an open letter demands that the entire board of the Free-as-in-speech Software Foundation resign, because of past statements and...
Tony Finch's blog
Purple PCBs for Keybird69
I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I
was at school 30 years ago,...
a year ago
I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I
was at school 30 years ago, and a lot has changed since then! So my
aim for Keybird69’s PCB was to learn my way around the design,
manufacturing, and assembly process.
microcontroller
other components
key...
samwho.dev
Load Balancing
.simulation {
width: 100%;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items:...
a year ago
.simulation {
width: 100%;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
margin-bottom: 2.5em;
}
.load-balancer {
color: black;
font-weight: bold;
}
.request {
color: #04BF8A;
font-weight: bold;
}
.server {
color:...
HTMHell
Revisiting Fundamentals - Semantic lists for Improved Accessibility
by Winnie Bosibori
Lists are one of the fundamental semantic HTML configurations that, when...
a year ago
by Winnie Bosibori
Lists are one of the fundamental semantic HTML configurations that, when implemented appropriately can enhance accessibility.
HTML Lists Refresher
Whenever I visit any website, I have formed the habit of checking for any accessibility issues and delving deeper...
Coding Horror
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
over a year ago
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice:
By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
Jake Zimmerman
Generic methods cannot have non-generic defaults in Sorbet
4 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Big L Notation
In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of...
over a year ago
In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of experience, with `P` peers.
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...
3 weeks 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...
Making software...
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air with Linux Mint. It's a distro I've used a few times in the past, but never set it as one of my main daily drivers until now.
Setting up all my go-to applications (Sublime, LocalWP,...
Blog System/5
Why do I know shell, and how can you?
My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
a year ago
My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
PostHog's RSS Feed
How Spotify (and PostHog) build successful features
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
a year ago
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
A Smart Bear
Selecting the right product metrics
A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but...
a year ago
A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but also stakeholders, executives, and customers.
Maggie Appleton
The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
The fundamental forces of scale
These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective...
a year ago
These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective when harnessed and leveraged.
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL
Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL
The post Happy New Year: solving...
a year ago
Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL
The post Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
ntietz.com blog
TIL: testing in the future using the faketime command
Last week's blog post accidentally got published a few hours early1.
One of the keen-eyed among you...
5 months ago
Last week's blog post accidentally got published a few hours early1.
One of the keen-eyed among you even submitted it to the orange site before it was officially up, since it was in my RSS feed briefly and was picked up by various RSS readers.
Resolving that issue led me to...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Five Tricks for Debug-Logging in JavaScript
Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple...
over a year ago
Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple tricks you can use right now.
We'll be talking about console.log and friends for debugging javascript, mostly in the browser. If you don't use devtools debugger — try it, but I'm...
Epic Web Dev
Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
a year ago
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes from Amir Shevat on Measuring & Managing Developer Relations
Notes from an a16z podcast about developer relations that I thought was valuable
over a year ago
Notes from an a16z podcast about developer relations that I thought was valuable
Darek Kay
Open Graph images: Format compatibility across platforms
While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are...
a month ago
While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are displayed when sharing a link on social media or messaging apps. Here's an example from WhatsApp:
For each photo that I publish, I create a WebP thumbnail for the gallery. I wanted...
Liz Denys
Burnout from unappreciated, unpaid diversity work
A little over a week ago, an unnecessary dick joke was sent to a mailing list I'm on. It's a mailing...
over a year ago
A little over a week ago, an unnecessary dick joke was sent to a mailing list I'm on. It's a mailing list related to a conference I go to, and the joke added absolutely no value to the conversation. Another young woman and I criticized this behavior, citing how it pushes women...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset
4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my...
5 months ago
4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024, and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script, I have Outstanding Episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am...
bt RSS Feed
Sharing The Things We Use
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
over a year ago
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a “uses” page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite Podcasts
250 Podcasts I enjoy listening to
over a year ago
250 Podcasts I enjoy listening to
A Smart Bear
Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't
Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and...
a year ago
Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and exhausting. Manage it with kindness.
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity."
This was of course...
10 months ago
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity."
This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its
competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years
will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
Acko.net
The Bouquet Residence
Keeping up appearances in tech
I saw a remarkable pair of tweets the other day.
In the wake of...
5 months ago
Keeping up appearances in tech
I saw a remarkable pair of tweets the other day.
In the wake of the outage, the CEO of CrowdStrike sent out a public announcement. It's purely factual. The scope of the problem is identified, the known facts are stated, and the logistics of...
The Pragmatic...
Google Shutting down Firebase Dynamic Links
Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS,...
a year ago
Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS, Android, and the web. Now after 7 years, Google is shutting down this product. But why? I asked the Big Tech giant for details.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Digital Trees
Trees have many functions:
they provide shade,
they purify air,
they store carbon,
they grow...
5 months ago
Trees have many functions:
they provide shade,
they purify air,
they store carbon,
they grow fruit,
and they’re aesthetically pleasing.
What’s intriguing to me about trees is their return on investment (ROI).
It takes years, even decades, to grow a tree to the point where you...
HTMHell
#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
over a year ago
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development:
🔥 the burger button. 🔥
The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
I don’t think you should focus on the failure of others, or even the success of others. What...
8 months ago
Reading
I don’t think you should focus on the failure of others, or even the success of others. What you do need to do—and what is surprisingly hard—is to define success for your own part of the world, and work towards that. Non-monetary success, because again, money lags.
I’ve...
Making software...
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
a year ago
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
HTMHell
You don't need HTML!
While browsing Mastodon late one night, I came across this excellent blog post called HTML is all...
over a year ago
While browsing Mastodon late one night, I came across this excellent blog post called HTML is all you need to make a website. It describes a few websites which are pure HTML. No CSS and no JS.
And I thought… do you even need HTML to make a website?
A few hours later, I launched...
Julia Evans
A list of programming playgrounds
I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking
the other day about...
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...
General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs
Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
7 months ago
Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
Ralph Ammer
How to see beauty
Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was...
a year ago
Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was alive with chatter and the joy of yet another sunny day ahead. I made my way through tourists, neighbourhood regulars and other early birds. To escape the buzz, I stepped into the...
The Changelog
I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2
I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years. I want thin, light, portable,...
over a year ago
I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years. I want thin, light, portable, excellent battery life, and a servicable keyboard. For a while, I tried a Lenovo Chromebook Duet. It meets the hardware requirements, well sort of. The problem is with performance and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Create Luck
Your entire worldview changes when you realize you can *create luck*.
over a year ago
Your entire worldview changes when you realize you can *create luck*.
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
a year ago
Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hacker News Clones
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I...
a month ago
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views.
What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
MMapped blog
A swarm of replicated state machines
over a year ago
Posts on Nikita...
Writing JIT Compiler on the Plane
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to...
over a year ago
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to me. You write the code in some language and then it spits out bitcode that a small crystall inside your computer understands.
Some databases ship with a specialized compiler inside...
Making software...
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
2021-05-29
A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
over a year ago
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
2021-05-29
A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 9, 2016
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. On today's commutes to and from work:
A Fine Frenzy's "Rangers" is a much more poetic song than Taylor Swift's awkwardly similar "I Know Places." A hunted...
The Changelog
Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard
I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all...
over a year ago
I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all sorts of hassles and problems, from hangs on suspend to pure failure to boot. I still worry a bit about suspend on unknown hardware, but by and large, the picture of Linux on laptops...
Founder's blog
Clearing Nginx Proxy Cache for Wildcard URLs: A DIY Guide
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a...
a year ago
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a specific set of URLs, particularly those following a wildcard pattern like www.website.com/folder/*. Surprisingly, Nginx, in its standard offering, doesn't provide a straightforward way...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
Acko.net
On Progress
The known unknown knowns we lost
When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
over a year ago
The known unknown knowns we lost
When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter.
Not me though. For whatever reason,...
HTMHell
DOM Clobbering
Motivation
When thinking of HTML-related security bugs, people often think of script injection...
over a year ago
Motivation
When thinking of HTML-related security bugs, people often think of script injection attacks, which is also known as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). If an attacker is able to submit, modify or store content on your web page, they might include evil JavaScript code to modify...
Identity Designed
Bright Barley
Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
over a year ago
Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
HTMHell
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be?
by Rian Rietveld
It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage.
Fun...
3 weeks ago
by Rian Rietveld
It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage.
Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text.
The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes:
a logo, that tells you which site you are...
Charles Chen
Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023
My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
over a year ago
My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
Seldo.com
There's no such thing as the fundamentals of web development
a year ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Semantic AJAX-HTML
I recently started fiddling around with HTMX, and I'm pretty impressed. As anyone who's followed the...
9 months ago
I recently started fiddling around with HTMX, and I'm pretty impressed. As anyone who's followed the development of Bear knows, I'm pretty sick of the state of modern web development due to the complexity involved in managing the disparity between the front-end and the...
alexwlchan
create_thumbnail: create smaller versions of images
I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images.
I need...
4 months ago
I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images.
I need image thumbnails in a lot of projects, and I wanted a single tool I could use in all of them rather than having multiple copies of the same code.
It takes three arguments:
Your...
Vadim Kravcenko
How much a CTO makes and where can I find CTO Jobs?
Question:
Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in...
7 months ago
Question:
Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in terms of $$$, most of the people in the field are secretive about how much they're getting. It's not just about the money (okay, it's a bit about the money), but also understanding if...
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES implementation
The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that
scary in practice. Let’s...
7 months ago
The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that
scary in practice. Let’s take a look at the implementation in the Go
standard library. Even I can understand it!
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components
I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me.
“Web...
a year ago
I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me.
“Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to “React components”. JSX had <MyComponent> and now the web had <my-component>.
But when you try building web components...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
2018: A year in review
It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I...
over a year ago
It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I didn’t, as well as what I can do better next…
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Challenge your performance intuition with C++ magic squares
Let's play a game. There will be twelve rounds, each round is a match between two solutions. Or...
over a year ago
Let's play a game. There will be twelve rounds, each round is a match between two solutions. Or rather between their execution times. Using your intuition and best judgment, please estimate their relative performance.
David Heinemeier...
Why I retired from the tech crusades
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
6 months ago
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
over a year ago
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
David Gerrells
never give up
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
over a year ago
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
Making software...
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
2021-09-08
With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
over a year ago
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
2021-09-08
With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia API reading list
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Five Ways to Become a Better Designer (That Aren't Design)
There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need...
over a year ago
There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need to do is take the time to notice it and learn from it.
HTMHell
Table Like It's 2023
In this article:
Hello, Website Builders!
A little history
What is a table?
Who benefits from...
over a year ago
In this article:
Hello, Website Builders!
A little history
What is a table?
Who benefits from tables?
What does a table look like?
What does a table sound and feel like?
(Re)learning tables (1994 - 2022)
WCAG levels unlocked
When tables get complicated
Go forth, and make good...
Blog System/5
End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate...
a year ago
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries, at least one of which is a CLI tool. But let’s face it: you don’t have end-to-end testing for those tools, do you?
A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision
Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple...
over a year ago
Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple dimensions to evaluate, even when those dimensions cannot be compared to each other. People often reach for the “rubric” for such puzzles, but rubrics often do not clearly identify a...
Tony Finch's blog
I made a keyboard!
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to...
a year ago
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to the beeb’s 40th anniversary. I called it HHKBeeb:
The HHKBeeb is made from:
keycaps designed by me and printed by WASD
Yiancar HS60 PCB
generic HHKB aluminium / acrylic sandwich...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
over a year ago
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
Irrational...
ReadME contribution on reliability programs.
I was excited to contribute an article,
Move past incident response to reliability
to Github’s The...
a year ago
I was excited to contribute an article,
Move past incident response to reliability
to Github’s The ReadME project.
This topic was particularly on my mind when I wrote it towards the end of last year,
when I was focused on my Infrastructure Engineering project.
That project is a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Versioned Docs in 30 Seconds with Amplify Console's Branch Subdomains
Amplify Console just got the ability to create a custom subdomain for every new branch. This makes...
over a year ago
Amplify Console just got the ability to create a custom subdomain for every new branch. This makes creating versioned docs a cinch!
Acko.net
The Hiker's Dilemma
How to take care of your tribe
The other day I read:
"If you're hiking and you stop to let other...
over a year ago
How to take care of your tribe
The other day I read:
"If you're hiking and you stop to let other people catch up, don't start walking immediately when they arrive. Because that means you got a rest and they didn't. I think about this a lot."
I want to dissect this sentiment...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Cool Facts about Cuttlefish
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short...
over a year ago
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short lightning talk on any topic we wished. I picked cuttles. I actually saw one in real life diving in Fiji once!
dthompson
Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but
really it is a multi-paradigm...
over a year ago
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but
really it is a multi-paradigm language, including object-oriented
programming. My Scheme of choice for the past decade has been
Guile. It comes with support for OOP via
GOOPS: The Guile Object Oriented...
Vadim Kravcenko
Asking questions the right way
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
a year ago
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […]
The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
over a year ago
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
Steve Klabnik
Ditching Google Chat with XMPP
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Calculating your growth ceiling
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers...
over a year ago
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers signing up every month, it feels like your revenue will keep growing forever. However, as customers will also cancel their subscriptions (churn), eventually your growth will...
Lennart Koopmann
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips,...
a year ago
In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked on a journey of my own. I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn more about it and why I'll do it again on...
Epic Web Dev
A Deep Dive in Tailwind Font Settings (tip)
Take a deep dive on multiple approaches for controlling typographic settings on an element with...
4 months ago
Take a deep dive on multiple approaches for controlling typographic settings on an element with Tailwind.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The End of Localhost
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site:...
over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
General Robots
Writing Libraries for AIs to Use
Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers...
a year ago
Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” but in the future we have a third category. I think that programs and libraries (and programming languages?) that lend themselves to effective AI assistance will win...
Liz Denys
Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian...
over a year ago
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian before the start of a pandemic was really convenient. Few things beat having a bunch of dried beans, lentils, and veggies plus a bunch of rice on in my pantry while you're figuring...
Josh Collinsworth
If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed
I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best...
2 months ago
I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
Maggie Appleton
How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Zero notifications
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
A couple of...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an
interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my
iPhone. I find this suggestion...
HTMHell
Using SRI to protect from malicious JavaScript
At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively...
over a year ago
At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively enhance using JavaScript. There are few different options of how you add JavaScript. Firstly, we can write our own script using vanilla JS only, and self host the JavaScript file....
alexwlchan
The new Flickr Commons Explorer →
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way...
8 months ago
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons.
Flickr Commons is a collection of historical photography from cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known...
Tony Finch's blog
Unix version control lore: what, ident
There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider
appreciation: SCCS what and RCS...
7 months ago
There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider
appreciation: SCCS what and RCS ident.
They allow you to find out what source a binary was built from,
without having to run it – handy if it is a library!
keyword expansion
SCCS, RCS, cvs, and svn all have a way...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers
an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
over a year ago
an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
The Pragmatic...
Meta’s historic growth challenge
The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position...
over a year ago
The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position than Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft. Why is this and what can the company do to get out of this situation?
Epic Web Dev
Mix Blend Modes (tip)
Learn how to create a stunning text over image effect using mix blend modes.
11 months ago
Learn how to create a stunning text over image effect using mix blend modes.
A Beautiful Site
Buttons and Cursors
There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way...
over a year ago
There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way around social media this week. While the author is correct in his statement that operating system buttons don't have hand cursors, the pattern has become ubiquitous and somewhat...
Epic Web Dev
Check if Custom Fonts are Properly Loaded in Your App (tip)
Learn how to use DevTools to check if the correct font is being applied to your app and troubleshoot...
a year ago
Learn how to use DevTools to check if the correct font is being applied to your app and troubleshoot issues related to loading custom fonts.
swyx's site RSS Feed
If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
over a year ago
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
TokyoDev
The Best Resources for Entrepreneurial Developers
My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about...
over a year ago
My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about business, I've always found other entrepreneurial developers are the best source, as they tend to have faced similar challenges to my own. If you're a developer starting your own...
The Codist
Good Programmers Can Be Anyone, But Not Everyone
In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no...
a year ago
In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no single type of person is good at programming.
I've seen young people who could do amazing work and those without a clue. I've seen programmers
bt RSS Feed
Simple Accessibility
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
over a year ago
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward:
Basic design
Test that your project has the proper...
bt RSS Feed
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
a year ago
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a “downgrade” in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
HTMHell
The devil is in the details: a look into a disclosure widget markup
by Cristian Diaz
Disclosure widgets are one of the most common component patterns you can find on...
a year ago
by Cristian Diaz
Disclosure widgets are one of the most common component patterns you can find on the web. It consists of a button that can hide or show information when you click it. It's also one of the straightforward components to make from a technical standpoint.
Just a...
A Beautiful Site
How to File a Bug Report
They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal...
a year ago
They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal reproduction will give you the best chance of a speedy resolution.
When a potential bug is discovered, many developers' first reaction is to file an issue. That's great, but please exercise...
Tony Finch's blog
An update on leap seconds
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap
seconds, though I have been...
over a year ago
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap
seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly
frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an
index of threads. But Twitter now seems a lot less likely to stick
around, so I’ll aim to...
Computer Things
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet,...
6 months ago
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall?
Maybe. If the two measure is exactly 7 feet than sure, 7 ≤ 7. But you probably didn't line your...
Steve Klabnik
Why I'm partnering with Balanced
over a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
The Making of A New Kind of Science
I Think I Should Write a Quick Book… In the end it’s about five and a half pounds of paper, 1280...
over a year ago
I Think I Should Write a Quick Book… In the end it’s about five and a half pounds of paper, 1280 pages, 973 illustrations and 583,313 words. And its creation took more than a decade of my life. Almost every day of my thirties, and a little beyond, I tenaciously worked on it....
A Beautiful Site
A Web Component Story
Gather 'round, it's story time.
A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a...
over a year ago
Gather 'round, it's story time.
A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a component library for their design system. The one they were replacing was built with AngularJS, but AngularJS was old and rickety and nobody wanted to use it anymore. Plus, many teams...
Steve Klabnik
"C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.25.0
PostHog 1.25.0 is here! Read about our new features, why we're giving 1M events for free to...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.25.0 is here! Read about our new features, why we're giving 1M events for free to everyone, and find out who are the 6 new team members we've onboarded.
A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
a year ago
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
Ralph Ammer
The perfect drawing tool
The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. ...
a year ago
The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. I want every single pen, every brush, every quill, and a sheet of every paper, ranging from crude cardboard to magnificent handcrafted Japanese washi. And yes, I need papyrus. And...
TokyoDev
Facebook didn't try to change the world
A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some...
over a year ago
A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some great insight into how to become a successful entrepreneur.
> **Interviewer:** Where are you taking Facebook, you can expand to those other schools that you're not at, and then...
Making software...
Click to Load Website Images
Click to Load Website Images
2021-03-25
In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
over a year ago
Click to Load Website Images
2021-03-25
In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element.
In this post, I'm going to quickly breakdown the update I've...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2023
The Ware for March 2023 is shown below: Thank again to spida for submitting this ware. I was...
a year ago
The Ware for March 2023 is shown below: Thank again to spida for submitting this ware. I was certainly stumped when I first saw it! Again, some very big “clues” are not shown, which I will add to the post later if it turns out to be too difficult to guess.
samwho.dev
Language Interoperability From the Ground Up
How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin
call a function in...
over a year ago
How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin
call a function in Java?
It's no secret that you can call functions in one programming language from
another. Not only is it possible, it can be done in multiple ways. But how
does it actually...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Job Screening Blog Post
Take a look at these two animated gifs.
First:
Second:
Can you tell the difference between...
a month ago
Take a look at these two animated gifs.
First:
Second:
Can you tell the difference between them?
Do you care?
If not, we might not be a good fit.
#designEngineering
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HTMHell
The hidden depths of the input element
by Phil Nash
The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML.
Most elements behave the...
a year ago
by Phil Nash
The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML.
Most elements behave the same way regardless of their attributes, the type attribute of the <input> element can take 1 of 22 different values that gives it not only different behaviour, but a different...
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2023 Recap
It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and...
a year ago
It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and it was a [conference I helped organise](https://www.dddmelbourne.com). I didn’t know what to expect heading into Matsumoto for [RubyKaigi 2023](https://rubykaigi.org/2023/) this...
The Changelog
The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures)
This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them....
12 months ago
This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them. Now that they’ve enjoyed it, I’m releasing it under the GPL v3. As interactive fiction, it’s like an e-book, but the reader is also the player, guiding the exploration of the...
Vadim Kravcenko
Being a good mentor – a developers guide
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and...
a year ago
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and illuminate the path ahead. I’ve […]
The post Being a good mentor – a developers guide appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Irrational...
Extract the kernel.
As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication...
a year ago
As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication challenges between executives and the folks they work with. The most frequent issue I see is when a literal communicator insists on engaging in the details with a less literal executive.
I...
David Gerrells
love is work and so is css
I love css. And well, to love something, it is not always rainbows :rainbow: and sunshine :sunny:
over a year ago
I love css. And well, to love something, it is not always rainbows :rainbow: and sunshine :sunny:
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?”
Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and...
a year ago
Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and high-performing teams. Honestly I did a terrible job, and I’m not being modest. I had just rolled off a delayed redeye flight; I realized partway through that I had the wrong slides loaded,...
macwright.com
Recently
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
7 months ago
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty
hard problem. It was pretty
well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really
trying not to write a search...
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
a year ago
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions.
I had no idea what that...
TokyoDev
Generating social images with static site generators
With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their...
over a year ago
With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their career in Japan. Being a developer myself, it's been tempting to come up with technical solutions to do this. But I've realized that rather than writing code, my time is better...
Steve Klabnik
A word about _why, Whyday, and Hackety Hack
over a year ago
Neil Panchal
ZFS RAIDZ2 - Achieving 157 GB/s
Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the...
over a year ago
Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the --filename option. Actual bandwidth is approximately 22 GB/s, which is still mighty impressive.
I built a new server that's also going to serve as a NAS. It
Epic Web Dev
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...
a year ago
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.
Josh Comeau's blog
Dynamic Bézier Curves
A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as...
over a year ago
A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as scroll-to-flatten using SVG path instructions, and how to architect our components for maximum readability and reusability.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 3
This is day 3 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
This is day 3 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
Steve Klabnik
"C is not how the computer works" can lead to inefficient code
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Is 150K USD a reasonable rate to build a mobile app?
So, you’ve been quoted a cool 50K for designs and 150K for your mobile app development. That’s a...
a year ago
So, you’ve been quoted a cool 50K for designs and 150K for your mobile app development. That’s a hefty sum, […]
The post Is 150K USD a reasonable rate to build a mobile app? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Irrational...
Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience.
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how
LLMs might impact a...
2 months ago
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how
LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of
the developing software at the company.
In this chapter, we’ll work through:
Summary results...
The Changelog
Roundup of Unique Data/Storage Hosting Options
Recently I have been taking another look at the services at rsync.net and it got me thinking: what...
over a year ago
Recently I have been taking another look at the services at rsync.net and it got me thinking: what would I do with a lot of storage? What might I want to run with it, if it were fairly cheap? Backups are an obvious place to start. Borgbackup makes a pretty compelling option: very...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series...
over a year ago
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series [here](https://livecycle.io/blogs/devx-project-swyx/). Reproducing for posterity.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS
The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website...
over a year ago
The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website if you use Transistor. But also it's a simple guide to do clientside customizations of almost any website whose code you don't control.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples)
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
a year ago
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
Blog System/5
Revisiting the DOS memory models
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to...
2 months ago
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?
Irrational...
Writing an engineering strategy.
Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background.
Tick...
a year ago
Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background.
Tick tick tick. At some point that timer will go off,
at which point someone will rush up to you demanding an engineering strategy.
It won’t be clear what they mean, but they will want...
Charles Chen
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 2
The second part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
over a year ago
The second part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Making sense of TypeScript using set theory
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to...
a year ago
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to my despair, some low-level behaviors still confuse me:
Why does 0 | 1 extends 0 ? true : false evaluate to false?
I'm very ashamed, but I sometimes confuse "subtype" and...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
a year ago
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Counting to Ten
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to...
a year ago
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to the subject of counting to ten.
Realizing everyone in the family can count to ten in a language unique to them at this moment in their life, we go around the table to do it...
David Heinemeier...
Negative visualization in practice
The most counterintuitive of the Stoic mental exercises is that of negative visualization. Willfully...
a year ago
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...
Making software...
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
2020-12-08
I recently published a new open source...
over a year ago
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
2020-12-08
I recently published a new open source project, Flexbox Bar Graphs, and wanted to share a simple breakdown of how it was built. It isn't anything mind-blowing, but I like the idea of placing bar graphs in a web page...
alexwlchan
Getting an Important Internet Checkmark to follow your cursor
Are you an Important Brand?
Do you have an Internet Presence?
Do you worry about being Impersonated...
over a year ago
Are you an Important Brand?
Do you have an Internet Presence?
Do you worry about being Impersonated Or Parodied Online?
Then I may have something for you.
On your social media, you can bask in the warmth of an Important Internet Checkmark which tells your users that they’re...
Kagi Blog
Orion browser features
Orion ( https://browser.kagi.com ) may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with...
over a year ago
Orion ( https://browser.kagi.com ) may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with features.
Joel on Software
A Dusting of Gamification
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe...
over a year ago
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more "A Dusting of Gamification"
Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination?
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
over a year ago
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
Paolo Amoroso's...
How to build Medley Interlisp
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