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#1 button disguised as a link Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website"...
17th Oct 2019
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#1 button disguised as a link

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2019
Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website" src="logo.jpg" title="Name of website"> </button> Issues and how to fix them Wrong usage of the button element. There’s an element for linking to external sites (<a>). Do not change...
elementary OS 7 Available Now It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and...
31st Jan 2023
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elementary OS 7 Available Now

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2023
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware. So far, OS 6.1 has been downloaded from our...
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
10th Oct 2021
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And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2021
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
The Middle Way Login to tech Twitter and you’ll see posts bragging about 40k LoC per day from an unnamed YC member...
2nd May 2026
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The Middle Way

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2026
Login to tech Twitter and you’ll see posts bragging about 40k LoC per day from an unnamed YC member 😛. There’s some hilarity to it, but the vibe shift is real. At Jenni, we’re shipping 3-5x faster than mid-2025. I perpetually have unread notifications in our #shipped channel....
KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a...
7th Feb 2022
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KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Feb 2022
I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a path of trying out some different options before finally landing at an unexpected place: KDE. I say “unexpected” because I find tiling window managers are just about a necessity....
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
12th Jun 2020
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Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jun 2020
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
Kagi Translate is back Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription...
2 weeks ago
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Kagi Translate is back

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription for $8/month. Anyone with a Kagi account can continue using Translate for free with a limited monthly allowance. For people...
Building Itako: an investment tracking application Around 2 years ago, I had some time on my hands and got really interested into investing and playing...
2nd Sep 2025
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Building Itako: an investment tracking application

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2025
Around 2 years ago, I had some time on my hands and got really interested into investing and playing with stock market data. After reading way too many books on the subject, I started building my own tools which led me to creating Itako. It’s a portfolio tracking and data...
Finding Campsites with Python My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
3rd Aug 2015
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Finding Campsites with Python

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Aug 2015
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite. If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
Summer reading list 2024 Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or...
25th Aug 2024
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Summer reading list 2024

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Aug 2024
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or be useful at a fundamental level.
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...
6th Jun 2023
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The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2023
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"...
On over-engineering; Architecture Edition I recently wrote about over-engineering and striking a good balance between making your code “too”...
10th Dec 2024
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On over-engineering; Architecture Edition

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Dec 2024
I recently wrote about over-engineering and striking a good balance between making your code “too” future-proof and not making it future-proof at all. Some time later, I realized it was missing a critical perspective. I hadn’t addressed over-engineering from an architectural...
Real Unfair Advantages It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
19th Jul 2010
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Real Unfair Advantages

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jul 2010
It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
My path to OpenAI I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing...
3rd May 2016
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My path to OpenAI

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2016
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
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"...
7th Apr 2024
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The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2024
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."
25th Apr 2022
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Joining Arcol

from James Vaughan's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Apr 2022
Dashboard and Archives downtime Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
3 weeks ago
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Dashboard and Archives downtime

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered...
23rd Mar 2022
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Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Mar 2022
Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered an undocumented hardware block in the LPC55S69 (our chosen part for our product’s Root of Trust implementation) that could be used to violate security boundaries. This issue...
The best data warehouses for developers, compared With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a...
3 weeks ago
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The best data warehouses for developers, compared

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a permissions grant, and a BI dashboard. And they're all…
Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats? Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject:...
31st Jan 2023
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Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats?

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2023
Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject: Blockchains. Two years ago, Vitalik Buterin revolutionized the nascent field by creating Ethereum. Ethereum was at the time a cryptographic protocol that would allow people to make distributed...
The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics h2 span {color: #a5a5a5;} table.InCell { margin-left: -0.27rem; } #blog .post_content...
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And Suddenly Spring And suddenly it happens one day in March. The sun beams down in a rare cloudless sky. It might be...
20th Mar 2026
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And Suddenly Spring

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Mar 2026
And suddenly it happens one day in March. The sun beams down in a rare cloudless sky. It might be cold as the wind gently blows but The Sun. The Sun beams down and it promises Long nights on the horizon. It promises miserable humid days And lovely warm days. Harsh mid-day...
What I'm up to - February 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2024
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What I'm up to - February 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Hello from Tokyo! I'm here doing a creative residence at Almost Perfect. If you're in...
8th Aug 2022
The OpenAI Mission This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on...
11th Mar 2019
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The OpenAI Mission

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2019
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
Why React Re-Renders In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and...
16th Aug 2022
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Why React Re-Renders

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2022
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the...
20th Jul 2024
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Tote bag

from James Vaughan's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jul 2024
A guide to bookmarklets I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to...
4th Nov 2024
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A guide to bookmarklets

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2024
I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to explain what bookmarklets are and how to use them. In short, a bookmarklet is a browser bookmark containing JavaScript code. Clicking the bookmark executes the script in the context...
llmdevsilo: Using LLMs to develop code securely Over the past few months I've been writing notes for how I would write an LLM-based development...
15th Mar 2026
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llmdevsilo: Using LLMs to develop code securely

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Mar 2026
Over the past few months I've been writing notes for how I would write an LLM-based development tool. Specifically, giving these tools the power to run programs (especially compilers and tests) without having to either check every command for unexpected side-effects or...
Branchless Lomuto Partitioning A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a...
4th Dec 2023
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Branchless Lomuto Partitioning

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2023
A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a predicate) which indicates if an element should be in the first, or second partition. Then it returns two arrays, the two partitions: def partition(v, pred): first = [x for x in v...
To Comment or Not to Comment Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
6th Jul 2023
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To Comment or Not to Comment

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2023
Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18] Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features...
6th Dec 2021
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How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18]

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Dec 2021
Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features since the release of the language. Many devs have gone so far as to say Go’s previous lack of generic types made the language too painful to use at all. Let’s dive into what generics...
I'm shutting down my job tech jobs board after two-and-a-half years I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down...
9th Apr 2024
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I'm shutting down my job tech jobs board after two-and-a-half years

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Apr 2024
I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down permanently, despite a reasonable success in traction. The shutdown was triggered by my vendor – Pallet – discontinuing their job board and talent collective approach. However, I ...
Some good English word datasets I'm working on a silly word game right now, which means I need a list of words for it. I can't rely...
2nd Feb 2026
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Some good English word datasets

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2026
I'm working on a silly word game right now, which means I need a list of words for it. I can't rely on the system word list, since this is for a web project. I'd also like, ideally, multiple lists of words with different criteria: most common words, all words, some subsets. It's...
Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle...
16th Sep 2021
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Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Sep 2021
Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle Hoverson's Library Blanket. I've added the eight new colors to the Library Blanket color palette preview tool I made last April, and I also labeled the discontinued colors as such....
Plaid Layoffs and beyond Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my...
13th Dec 2022
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Plaid Layoffs and beyond

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Dec 2022
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my termination agreement, which makes this week my last week as part of Plaid’s infrastructure team. Kelly Sikkema Moving forward While being laid off and having to leave a very talented...
Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop) Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS...
9th Jul 2024
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Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2024
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS techniques, and Tailwind v4 migration in this workshop.
World66.ai Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides...
2nd Jul 2026
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World66.ai

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2026
Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides updated
The Truth About “MEH-TRICS” First published on 2022-04-13 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/truth-about-meh-trics-metrics A long...
13th Apr 2022
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The Truth About “MEH-TRICS”

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2022
First published on 2022-04-13 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/truth-about-meh-trics-metrics A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I said a lot of inflammatory things about metrics. “Metrics are shit salad.” “Metrics are simply nerfed dimensions.” “Metrics suck,” “metrics...
Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from...
13th Dec 2024
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Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Dec 2024
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from Synology.
You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work...
9th May 2024
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You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2024
One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work in the background. I muted my microphone, and I was coding away[1]. Suddenly, someone asked me a question. "Now, where is that goddamn Teams window so I can unmute my microphone?!"...
Looking back on the first six months of 2025 I can’t believe that it’s July already, in fact, we’re three weeks into July when I write this. In...
23rd Jul 2025
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Looking back on the first six months of 2025

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jul 2025
I can’t believe that it’s July already, in fact, we’re three weeks into July when I write this. In this blog post, I want to take stock of the first six months of 2025, especially the professional side of it. There will also be some more personal subjects I’ll talk about, though....
What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive An explanation of how Linux handles system calls on x86-64 and why they show up as expensive...
16th Sep 2025
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What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Sep 2025
An explanation of how Linux handles system calls on x86-64 and why they show up as expensive operations in performance profiles
TypeIDs are now the default identifier format API version 2026-01-01 returns prefixed IDs like sub_ and em_ instead of bare UUIDs
1st Jan 2026
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TypeIDs are now the default identifier format

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2026
API version 2026-01-01 returns prefixed IDs like sub_ and em_ instead of bare UUIDs
Time for another LinkedIn break Yes, it’s that time again: the season to be jolly and time to stop wasting time on LinkedIn for a...
11th Dec 2025
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Time for another LinkedIn break

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2025
Yes, it’s that time again: the season to be jolly and time to stop wasting time on LinkedIn for a while. I’ve gone on a couple of, admittedly not very successful, LinkedIn breaks before (see here and here), breaks from which I always returned after a few weeks, in part because...
7th Apr 2025
The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024 Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
Excuse me, is there a problem? Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that...
8th Apr 2023
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Excuse me, is there a problem?

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2023
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
Winner, Name that Ware June 2026 The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system....
30th Jul 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware June 2026

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jul 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system. Congrats to Christian for naming it! email me for your prize. This gem of a board was gifted to me by someone at SGI back when I worked there in…I want to say 1998? I even still...
Kyua graduates The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
2nd Aug 2024
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Kyua graduates

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2024
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
Singapore H1B1 Tips ## much of the original piece below is outdated. this is my remaining 2023 updates for fellow...
1st Aug 2018
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Singapore H1B1 Tips

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2018
## much of the original piece below is outdated. this is my remaining 2023 updates for fellow singaporeans.
2015-03-01 gothamist.com/2012/03/08/the_1960_plan_to_put_a_dome_over_mi.php
1st Mar 2015
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2015-03-01

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2015
gothamist.com/2012/03/08/the_1960_plan_to_put_a_dome_over_mi.php
Crash and Burnout In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about...
10th Apr 2023
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Crash and Burnout

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2023
In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about 120,000 miles. I've been working on finishing my book, caught covid, and was diagnosed with bipolar depression and Hashimoto's disease. Additionally, with so much travel, I've had...
Overcast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign! I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume...
17th Sep 2018
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Overcast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign!

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2018
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume widget. You see, Overcast’s previous Apple Watch app really sucked. I did my best with the capabilities of watchOS 1–4, but I couldn’t give people what they really wanted: Standalone podcast...
A Tool for Discussion At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
2nd Feb 2023
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A Tool for Discussion

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2023
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design decisions. They document the processes, APIs, and tools that we use. The workflow for the RFD process is based upon those of the Golang proposal process, Joyent RFD process, Rust...
Eternal shell history 🐢 XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
25th Feb 2024
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Eternal shell history 🐢

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Feb 2024
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash history: $ wc -l < ~/.muh_history 763075 My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history. $...
Anchoring Software to Major Versions In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see...
24th May 2024
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Anchoring Software to Major Versions

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2024
In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see software projects anchor themselves to major versions for long periods of time, usually with the promise of stability. We all know how frustrating it is to upgrade a package and run...
Pain I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
17th Sep 2024
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Pain

from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2024
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is: We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
5th Aug 2024
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First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2024
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language. It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript. This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
14th Jan 2024
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A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jan 2024
Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
3rd Apr 2024
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10 · Beyond prose

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Apr 2024
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
8th Jul 2024
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Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2024
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
9th Oct 2024
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How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Oct 2024
How Fireship wins YouTube
The Fruitfulness of Grunt Work I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS...
30th Apr 2024
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The Fruitfulness of Grunt Work

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Apr 2024
I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS application, doing general maintenance work, which led me down an interesting rabbit hole. I could’ve used an online knowledge tool such as the various LLM-based tools available now. But...
What I'm up to - November 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2024
1

What I'm up to - November 2024

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...
whippet hacklog: adding freelists to the no-freelist space August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on : firstly, an idea with...
7th Aug 2025
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whippet hacklog: adding freelists to the no-freelist space

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2025
August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on : firstly, an idea with muddled results, then a slog through heuristics.my Immix-inspired garbage collector My mostly-marking collector’s main space is called the . Its name comes from its historical...
Winner, Name that Ware December 2025 The Ware for December 2025 is a Spectral Instruments Series 800 camera. I was pretty shocked at how...
31st Jan 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware December 2025

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2026
The Ware for December 2025 is a Spectral Instruments Series 800 camera. I was pretty shocked at how quickly this was guessed given the very small portion of the instrument that was shown, but, then again – that’s how it goes sometimes. Congrats to johslarsen for nailing this one;...
Daily Notes Pages Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
4th May 2022
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Daily Notes Pages

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2022
Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
15th Feb 2026
From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using...
23rd Mar 2021
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I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using [Paperclip](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) to [Active Storage](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html) for storing and processing uploaded files. The approach we took was a bit...
Single-Use Disposable Applications As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to...
9th Jul 2025
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Single-Use Disposable Applications

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2025
As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to find.
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free,...
18th Jun 2020
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HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jun 2020
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business) My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating...
23rd Sep 2022
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The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Sep 2022
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, which she accepted with relish. Molly was smart, driven, and fiercely ambitious, so...
Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
11th Mar 2019
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Getting Closure on React Hooks

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2019
Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a...
12th Apr 2025
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Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Apr 2025
How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a new digital ledger for secure “Bobcoin” transactions.
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
1st Jun 2022
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2022
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
The Inevitability of Change Everything is the same and yet everything is different. That's how I feel sitting on the edge of the...
8th Aug 2024
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The Inevitability of Change

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2024
Everything is the same and yet everything is different. That's how I feel sitting on the edge of the water in West Seattle. I've not been living here since January 2023. I've been back 5 or 6 times in the last year and a half and suddenly the buildings that were steel bones and...
Some notes on NixOS Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my...
1st Jan 2024
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Some notes on NixOS

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
Using systems modeling to refine strategy. While I was probably late to learn the concept of strategy testing, I might have learned about...
4th Nov 2024
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Using systems modeling to refine strategy.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2024
While I was probably late to learn the concept of strategy testing, I might have learned about systems modeling too early in my career, stumbling on Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primer before I began my career in software. Over the years, I’ve discovered a number of...
a whippet waypoint Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language...
9th May 2025
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a whippet waypoint

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2025
Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
The last RailsConf Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started...
7th May 2024
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The last RailsConf

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2024
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
Tags now get auto-grouped Tags now get auto-grouped
5th Feb 2024
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Tags now get auto-grouped

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2024
Tags now get auto-grouped
Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
24th May 2026
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Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2026
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
Logo: Squawkbox Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
14th Jul 2026
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Logo: Squawkbox

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jul 2026
Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
5th Apr 2021
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2021
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency...
4th Jun 2020
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Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2020
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency functions one after the other. For example, if I have a web page that needs to request seven files from the server before it can show the page, I need to asynchronously fetch all those...
Clojure macros continue to surprise me Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely...
15th Jul 2024
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Clojure macros continue to surprise me

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jul 2024
Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely crazy. Here’s the problem: I’m working on Humble UI’s component library, and I wanted to document it. While at it, I figured it could serve as an integration test as well—since I showcase...
The Deployment Fidelity Problem The most important problem that we face as software professionals is this: If somebody thinks of a...
31st Aug 2021
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The Deployment Fidelity Problem

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Aug 2021
The most important problem that we face as software professionals is this: If somebody thinks of a good idea, how do we deliver it to users as quickly as possible? – Continuous Delivery Production is a low-fidelity version of your codebase. Many deployment metrics are just a...
The Web’s Next Transition Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a...
4th Oct 2022
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The Web’s Next Transition

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Oct 2022
Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.
Recomposed: Spring 1 A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about...
1st May 2023
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Recomposed: Spring 1

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2023
A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about JWT tokens, session IDs and OAuth. I am not an engineer and I don't pretend to be one. I have web development chops, but I loathe JavaScript and lean into my design background (CSS...
Email tracking is now off by default Buttondown is turning off analytics by default for all new users
1st Mar 2021
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Email tracking is now off by default

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2021
Buttondown is turning off analytics by default for all new users
Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers A collection of observations on the rise of soft, sparkly, baby pink aesthetics among developers
13th Mar 2021
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Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Mar 2021
A collection of observations on the rise of soft, sparkly, baby pink aesthetics among developers
Visas for Software Engineers in Japan Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in...
2nd Mar 2020
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Visas for Software Engineers in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2020
Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) is relatively easy compared to other countries. It costs a company almost nothing to sponsor your visa, there aren't any quotas on the number of visas issued, and the...
Fireside SF: Clem Delangue CEO of Hugging Face Sign up now - in person space is limited
18th Mar 2023
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Fireside SF: Clem Delangue CEO of Hugging Face

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Mar 2023
Sign up now - in person space is limited
What America has meant to me Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given...
5th Jul 2026
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What America has meant to me

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jul 2026
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s...
2nd May 2024
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Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2024
One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s continuity. I call it a conceit, but I do mostly agree with it: I’ve felt literally sick after hearing about some peer’s unexpected departure, but I’m continually amazed at how resilient...
A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID &...
24th Oct 2014
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A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Oct 2014
Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID & OAuth Unnecessary Access The Idea Why would they pay? Potential Stumbling Blocks Can you really sleep safe on all those passwords? Image "Sweet Dreams…" by pulpoluxA Platform to...
Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and...
1st Sep 2020
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Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2020
My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and more time refactoring our code and tests. As a result, and perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, we’ve noticed a significant increase in our throughput of features and bug fixes.
APIs for content sites must be free Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives...
14th Jun 2023
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APIs for content sites must be free

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jun 2023
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
Merging Responsibly tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing...
28th Apr 2024
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Merging Responsibly

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Apr 2024
tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing MR/PRs git commit git has emerged as the obvious choice for SCCS (Source Code Control System). The consensus is that it is unambiguously better than the previous standard, SVN. There...
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1 The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
1st May 2022
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The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2022
The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
What I’m Using in 2026 This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s...
4th Jan 2026
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What I’m Using in 2026

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s list. Applications Chrome — Chrome was on my list last year, but I’m mentioning it again because I actually used Brave for most of 2025. I like Brave, and honestly I can’t even...
Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here&#x27;s why * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently...
10th Jan 2012
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Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here&#x27;s why

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently received an email asking some advice about co-founders, specifically about whether a 50/50 ownership split makes sense for a startup. This is certainly a topic which has had heated...
Compare to None How do we check if something is None? With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you...
23rd Feb 2023
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Compare to None

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2023
How do we check if something is None? With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you would write is literally the same as the above question: if something is None: It reminds me of this joke: - How do you turn pseudocode into Python? - You add .py at the end of the...
8th Mar 2008
Networking Essentials: Congestion Control Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
7th Oct 2018
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2018
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
Coding at work (after a decade away). Since joining Imprint a bit over six months ago as the CTO of a ~50 engineer team, I’ve merged 104...
19th Nov 2025
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Coding at work (after a decade away).

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Nov 2025
Since joining Imprint a bit over six months ago as the CTO of a ~50 engineer team, I’ve merged 104 pull requests, which is slightly over four per week. Many of them are very minimal configuration and documentation tweaks, and none were the hardest or even most time-sensitive task...
A list of 100 opinions I hold A list of 100 opinions I hold
5th Sep 2022
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A list of 100 opinions I hold

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Sep 2022
A list of 100 opinions I hold
A Splinter In Your Mind Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
15th Nov 2022
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A Splinter In Your Mind

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Nov 2022
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to...
4th Aug 2025
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p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2025
Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to something already described in the literature – if you know of something, please let me know via the links in the footer! The gist is to throw away the tree and interior pointers from...
Why Buying An Apple II+ In 1979 Changed My Life After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had....
16th Mar 2026
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Why Buying An Apple II+ In 1979 Changed My Life

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Mar 2026
After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had. Little did I know that everything that happened after that was not what I expected. I went to graduate school in Chemistry, but my faculty advisor resigned after being denied...
How to create an accessible React modal A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the...
1st Apr 2019
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How to create an accessible React modal

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2019
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the user can’t interact with the rest of the application. Creating a modal in React is fairly easy. There are dozens of resources that explain how to do so, including the React...
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
16th Apr 2020
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Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Apr 2020
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
LinkedIn’s Broken Automation Took Down My Company’s Page Without Warning TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow...
2nd Sep 2024
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2nd Sep 2024
TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow their careers in Japan. Given our focus, it’s not surprising that LinkedIn is the social network that delivers us the most traffic. Typically, about 4% of our total visitors arrive...
Faking 3D Elements with CSS Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
29th Apr 2020
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Apr 2020
Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible. This is...
Manage your priorities and energy. Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I...
3rd Aug 2023
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Manage your priorities and energy.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Aug 2023
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making...
30 Years After all these years, I still get the dreams. ... more ...
13th Jan 2026
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30 Years

from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2026
After all these years, I still get the dreams. ... more ...
Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive... The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work?...
3rd May 2024
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3rd May 2024
The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that surprise us with what they manage to achieve. So what’s the essence of what’s going on? I’m going to concentrate here on biological...
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first...
30th May 2024
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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th May 2024
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
In a git repository, where do your files live? Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does...
14th Sep 2023
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In a git repository, where do your files live?

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Sep 2023
Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does git store your files? We know that it’s in your .git directory, but where exactly in there are all the versions of your old files? For example, this blog is in a git repository, and...
Gig Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in...
2nd Jun 2020
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Gig

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2020
Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in February earlier this year, before the pandemic had really hit in the UK. Feels like a lifetime ago now. I miss it.
Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent...
20th Feb 2024
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Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2024
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent building things. So we never forget to interview for skills at building stuff. Sometimes we ask candidates to write code on the fly. Other times we ask them to whiteboard out a sensible...
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s...
24th Feb 2024
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ViHN: Vim for Hacker News

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Feb 2024
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
Progressions Composing sound-generating tools
12th May 2026
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Progressions

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th May 2026
Composing sound-generating tools
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...
10th Apr 2024
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Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2024
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...
Know your “One Job” and do it first Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be...
7th Mar 2021
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Know your “One Job” and do it first

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2021
Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be upgrading/rolling out a major point release and running load tests against various config options and developing a schema management tool, keep slipping. But she is one of HR’s...
22nd Jun 2017
AI Isn’t Replacing Open Source Andrew Baker, the current Group CIO at Capitec Bank wrote an interesting piece on AI and open...
a week ago
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AI Isn’t Replacing Open Source

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
Andrew Baker, the current Group CIO at Capitec Bank wrote an interesting piece on AI and open source, and how these tools that generate code according to one’s specification may replace the general reliance on open source implementations done by contributors around the world. I’d...
The best general advice on earth These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology,...
26th Jul 2012
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The best general advice on earth

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Jul 2012
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, "Habit": The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at...
Flying Joy Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a...
28th Nov 2022
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Flying Joy

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Nov 2022
Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too! Moments like this make me smile at being a pilot dad. A week ago, I also got to give 8 children and one adult their first ever ride …...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...
12th Feb 2021
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[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2021
This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and over-specification, direct and iterative solvers. The guide should give you enough knowledge to find a proper solution for your task but not enough to implement one efficiently yourself.
On life as an independent contractor right now Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
1st Nov 2024
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On life as an independent contractor right now

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2024
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here. As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
Designing a fast I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a thirsty couch. My eyes find the...
16th Jul 2015
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Designing a fast

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2015
I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a thirsty couch. My eyes find the clock. Cleaning will have to wait. I'm downing water like there's no tomorrow, but really tomorrow starts in one minute. Still drinking. All work is thirsty work if the day is long...
Stellar board I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their...
30th Jul 2015
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Stellar board

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jul 2015
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their board. Digital currencies are still nascent, and my hopes for them remain unchanged. Particularly, we need digital currency protocols like Stellar that work with the existing...
What I'm up to - March 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st Mar 2024
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What I'm up to - March 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - Finished my residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I gave a presentation Rethinking Wo...
Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
2nd Nov 2019
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Oct 2019 Recap

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
Just stop adding people. “Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack...
28th Mar 2023
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Just stop adding people.

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Mar 2023
“Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack is a great way to destroy a workday. You can lose whole days hammering out details with coworkers across a few Slack threads. But communication is the cost you pay for capacity—the...
Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
5th Oct 2024
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Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2024
My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
Barbershop multi-track: Cry I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'Cry'
7th May 2008
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Barbershop multi-track: Cry

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2008
I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'Cry'
🔥 Battling daily procrastination 🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?...
7th Mar 2022
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🔥 Battling daily procrastination

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2022
🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? What […] The post 🔥 Battling daily procrastination appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering Consider your requirements! A reference implementation A final...
6th Feb 2024
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jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2024
jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering Consider your requirements! A reference implementation A final thought 2024-02-06 The year is 2024. I am on vacation and dream up a couple of toy programs I would like to build. It has been a few years since I built a standalone toy, I have...
Rearranging the File Browser menu for Insphex <![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected...
1st Mar 2026
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Rearranging the File Browser menu for Insphex

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2026
<![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected files. The initial implementation called the public API for adding commands at the top level of the menu. To later move the item to the See sumbenu that groups various file...
Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
7th Oct 2014
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7th Oct 2014
When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
How to Properly Use Defer in Golang What is the “defer” keyword in Go? 🔗 In the Go programming language, defer is a keyword that allows...
1st Jun 2021
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How to Properly Use Defer in Golang

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2021
What is the “defer” keyword in Go? 🔗 In the Go programming language, defer is a keyword that allows developers to delay the execution of a function until the current function returns. What throws some people off is that the deferred function’s arguments are evaluated...
Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why? If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at...
4th Jan 2021
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Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why?

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2021
If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at some point you have to figure out if it does or not. This is where load testing comes in: if you want to see whether or not your application can handle scale, just generate scale...
Gauss–Seidel visually explained An interactive demo of the Gauss-Seidel method for solving linear equation systems. When and why...
21st Sep 2025
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Gauss–Seidel visually explained

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2025
An interactive demo of the Gauss-Seidel method for solving linear equation systems. When and why does it work? And why, when you flip the equations, it suddenly stop working? You can now play and see.
Barbershop multi-track: I Love To Sing 'Em (Best tag so far!) I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'I Love To Sing 'Em'
15th Apr 2008
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Barbershop multi-track: I Love To Sing 'Em (Best tag so far!)

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Apr 2008
I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'I Love To Sing 'Em'
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
3rd Nov 2023
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Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2023
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
5th Dec 2013
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5th Dec 2013
This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify’s AI DJ Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word...
26th Feb 2026
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The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify’s AI DJ

from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Feb 2026
Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal? And when an AI behaves stupidly, who’s to blame? The programmers or the AI entity itself? Is it even proper to make a distinction between the two? Or does the...
Using Novela by Narative (updated) With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
4th Aug 2019
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Using Novela by Narative (updated)

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2019
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
Taming Floating-Point Sums Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them. You might naively think...
25th May 2024
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Taming Floating-Point Sums

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th May 2024
Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them. You might naively think you can simply add them, e.g. in Rust: fn naive_sum(arr: &[f32]) -> f32 { let mut out = 0.0; for x in arr { out += *x; } out } This however can easily...
Trivet adds Google sign-in to Ghost A free, open-source project for blogs
3rd Jan 2026
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Trivet adds Google sign-in to Ghost

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2026
A free, open-source project for blogs
What is TypeScript and why should I use it? A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
30th Jun 2020
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What is TypeScript and why should I use it?

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jun 2020
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use it?
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An...
15th Dec 2018
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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Dec 2018
You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An Acceptable Risk What else can you do? Enter Ensemble ¶You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies I’ve got a little present for you: you’re enjoying a well-earned break from work!...
8th Sep 2020
Systems and Processes that Aren't in Code are Terrifying My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten...
3rd Oct 2019
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Systems and Processes that Aren't in Code are Terrifying

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2019
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten about. I don’t know how to find these systems reliably, I don’t know where they came from, what depends on them, and if they are safe to delete. For example, the dreaded 15 6 2 1 *...
June updates We're starting summer with lots of Buttondown updates.
4th Jul 2018
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June updates

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jul 2018
We're starting summer with lots of Buttondown updates.
Self-documenting Makefiles Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
10th Jan 2025
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Self-documenting Makefiles

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2025
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
Yes, I will have coffee with you On meeting up in meatspace
14th Apr 2025
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Yes, I will have coffee with you

from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2025
On meeting up in meatspace
Small Web Just Got Bigger Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart...
12th Mar 2026
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Small Web Just Got Bigger

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2026
Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart of what we do at Kagi. Today, we're adding to the Small Web experience with new browser extensions,...
BBR queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
7th Jan 2017
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BBR

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2017
queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a...
25th Jun 2025
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Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2025
It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a result, Japan needs more international developers. However, most Japanese companies aren’t interested in hiring new graduates from overseas. While it’s easier than in some countries,...
The State of Vector Search in SQLite Making vector search fast, memory-efficient, and natural in SQLite.
1st Sep 2025
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The State of Vector Search in SQLite

from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2025
Making vector search fast, memory-efficient, and natural in SQLite.
Building personal and organizational prestige Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
4th Jul 2023
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Building personal and organizational prestige

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jul 2023
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
Epic Workshop: Major Updates for 2026 (article) Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved...
22nd Jan 2026
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Epic Workshop: Major Updates for 2026 (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jan 2026
Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved playgrounds, a revamped epicshop CLI, and MCP upgrades.
The future of large files in Git is Git .title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} If Git had a nemesis, it’d...
15th Aug 2025
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The future of large files in Git is Git

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2025
.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files. Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone, and wreak havoc on Git forges. In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around problems...
Functional reactive user interfaces with propagators I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote...
8th Jul 2024
188

Functional reactive user interfaces with propagators

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2024
I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote a couple of blog posts back in 2014 describing my experiments. My initial source of inspiration was Elm, the Haskell-like language for the web that once had FRP as a core part of...
How To Center a Div Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
13th Feb 2024
69

How To Center a Div

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2024
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
A Look at Portland Car2Go Data Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
21st Apr 2014
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A Look at Portland Car2Go Data

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Apr 2014
Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s...
20th Nov 2019
31

Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django

from home automation - Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Nov 2019
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s sometimes useful to see the actual SQL queries that Django emitted, which is surprisingly hard. I assumed that that would be such an obvious and common need, that a simple switch...
You Don’t Need a Website You Don’t Need a Website ¶You Don’t Need a Website I came across this Reddit post the other day. The...
29th Jan 2018
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You Don’t Need a Website

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Jan 2018
You Don’t Need a Website ¶You Don’t Need a Website I came across this Reddit post the other day. The gist of it is: Websites are an expensive necessity that companies hate paying for And you can understand why sometimes. Some organisations just have a completely absurd view of...
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and...
7th Oct 2020
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2020
Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won’t go into the post’s specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram...
8th Jun 2023
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Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jun 2023
This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin KitThe New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram LanguagePrompts for Work & Play:...
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.
22nd Apr 2024
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4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2024
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
4th Jul 2024
How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different? Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
1st May 2019
1

How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2019
Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
2015-12-04 www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
4th Dec 2015
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2015-12-04

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2015
www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
Wokeism There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things....
13th Feb 2023
38

Wokeism

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2023
There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things. My followers on Twitter helped me with this. When you Google it, the top two results contain radically different definitions. I googled “wokeism” and got: The first...
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
25th Jun 2016
31

My Essential Tools for WordPress Development

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2016
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1 The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be...
25th Jan 2024
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State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jan 2024
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be challenging when selecting the right tool We are approaching a period where the traditional boundaries between between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses are overlapping. As...
Attention is all you have The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of...
6 days ago
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Attention is all you have

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 days ago
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks. After a little while, you’ll start recognizing familiar Tetromino shapes in clouds, buildings, and everyday objects. You...
I Left my previous job to Work on nzyme Full Time Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that I left my previous position to work on nzyme...
17th Jan 2023
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I Left my previous job to Work on nzyme Full Time

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jan 2023
Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that I left my previous position to work on nzyme full-time. Working as founder and CTO for almost ten years and helping the company grow to more than 125 full-time employees, I have learned a lot that I can now put to work again.
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...
15th Jun 2024
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Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jun 2024
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...
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