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Linkblog archives I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to...
7th Jan 2023
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Linkblog archives

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

7th Jan 2023
I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will have a grey background because I wasn't...
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
15th Dec 2020
1

Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

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

15th Dec 2020
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
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 ...
Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
14th Apr 2023
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Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April

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

14th Apr 2023
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
Fast compilers for fast programs Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the...
14th Apr 2019
27

Fast compilers for fast programs

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

14th Apr 2019
Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the middle The "medium-sized project" moment 2019-04-14 Compiler authors face a tradeoff between compiler speed and executable speed. Take longer to build a binary and you can build a...
What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website? Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...
27th Jun 2009
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What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website?

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

27th Jun 2009
Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
content slop AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
5th Feb 2025
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content slop

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

5th Feb 2025
AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast Merkle Trees in the real world
10th May 2025
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How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast

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

10th May 2025
Merkle Trees in the real world
programming, i hate it There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
1st Aug 2024
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programming, i hate it

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

1st Aug 2024
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
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
Stable Fiddusion Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ ...
1st Oct 2023
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Stable Fiddusion

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2023
Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ {left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true}, {left: "$", right: "$", display: false}, ]}); }); Frequency-domain blue noise generator In computer graphics, stochastic...
Stress And Programming Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern...
9th May 2025
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Stress And Programming

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

9th May 2025
Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern software development processes are far more stressful than when I started. It's not simply that developing software today is more complex than it was back in 1981. In that early...
How I grew The A11Y Project to 10k followers on Twitter One thing I’ve been doing for The A11Y project is managing its social media efforts. Since doing so,...
5th May 2021
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How I grew The A11Y Project to 10k followers on Twitter

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th May 2021
One thing I’ve been doing for The A11Y project is managing its social media efforts. Since doing so, I’ve slowly grown its Twitter followers to 10,000+. Now, before I get into it, there’s some things worth pointing out: This work was built on top of the efforts of the project...
Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I...
15th Apr 2020
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Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart

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

15th Apr 2020
I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I look back at the last year, I look at how much has changed in my professional and personal life. It feels like yesterday and forever ago. I did not think I would be in this spot...
Letters to Joel Spolsky I regret to inform you…
16th Jun 2009
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Letters to Joel Spolsky

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

16th Jun 2009
I regret to inform you…
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
14th Mar 2019
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Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant

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

14th Mar 2019
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
Software Praxis The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period...
27th Jul 2026
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Software Praxis

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

27th Jul 2026
The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period carrying its own set of talking points and controversies, which are almost completely forgotten in the next. In 2026, we find ourselves immersed in the tools and talking points of...
Why I don’t give investment advice When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for...
9th Jul 2023
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Why I don’t give investment advice

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

9th Jul 2023
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better...
31st May 2010
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Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

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

31st May 2010
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better things to worry about and ways to avoid running into gorillas in the first place.
Why Git Has a Variable Named false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it A small C trick that keeps Clang from flagging valid code as unreachable
3rd Jun 2026
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Why Git Has a Variable Named false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it

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

3rd Jun 2026
A small C trick that keeps Clang from flagging valid code as unreachable
2025: A big year for Kidz Fun Art Kidz Fun Art grew a lot in 2025! Many more people use it regularly, many more choose the paid...
20th Dec 2025
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2025: A big year for Kidz Fun Art

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Dec 2025
Kidz Fun Art grew a lot in 2025! Many more people use it regularly, many more choose the paid version & I added far more cool features. Loads of Work… First off, here’s a graph of the number of changes (“commits” in technical terms) that I made. 612 changes in total with a few...
GPG Things Get your fingerprint: gpg --list-secret-keys --fingerprint Get someone elses key Using email gpg2...
3rd Dec 2015
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GPG Things

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

3rd Dec 2015
Get your fingerprint: gpg --list-secret-keys --fingerprint Get someone elses key Using email gpg2 --search-keys EMAIL Using keyid gpg2 --recv-key KEYID Sign keys gpg2 --recv-key KEYID gpg2 --sign-key KEYID gpg2 --send-key KEYID Photos View someone's photo gpg...
Is anyone still using Emacs? Self-answering the question posed in a recent Hacker News discussion
20th Jun 2026
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Is anyone still using Emacs?

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

20th Jun 2026
Self-answering the question posed in a recent Hacker News discussion
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
2nd Mar 2023
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How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2023
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
The Gift of Code In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time...
4th Sep 2024
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The Gift of Code

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2024
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript The post The Gift of Code appeared first on The History of the Web.
MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP! - Revisited 6 months later, where does MCP stand today?
8th Aug 2026
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MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP! - Revisited

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

8th Aug 2026
6 months later, where does MCP stand today?
Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles...
1st Sep 2021
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Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system

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

1st Sep 2021
In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
On being “currently based anywhere” Currently based anywhere. That’s what I landed on when I changed the copy on my homepage indicating...
11th Jun 2022
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On being “currently based anywhere”

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

11th Jun 2022
Currently based anywhere. That’s what I landed on when I changed the copy on my homepage indicating that I was based out of Atlanta. I…
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...
13th May 2022
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The Making of A New Kind of Science

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

13th May 2022
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....
Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
2nd Aug 2022
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Making a Website Under 1kB

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

2nd Aug 2022
Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn't as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me...
31st Mar 2025
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Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time

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

31st Mar 2025
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me because they felt they could use some support. When I first saw the code they wrote, I was pretty impressed. Sure, there were some things I would have done differently, but most of...
Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular...
18th Oct 2017
1

Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Oct 2017
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular software, run as a prelude to the GitHub Universe conference. After being brought up to speed on this year's secret handshake of the software elite, I had a great time in the...
You can now add automatic alt text to your images You can now add automatic alt text to your images
6th Oct 2023
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You can now add automatic alt text to your images

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

6th Oct 2023
You can now add automatic alt text to your images
SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_` Here’s some wild lore inside SQLite’s source code explaining why temp files start with etilqs_
18th Apr 2026
1

SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_`

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Apr 2026
Here’s some wild lore inside SQLite’s source code explaining why temp files start with etilqs_
Partial Keyframes CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial,...
10th Jun 2025
1

Partial Keyframes

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

10th Jun 2025
CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial, I’ll show you something that completely blew my mind, a technique that makes our keyframe animations so much more reusable and dynamic! 🤯
Don't hate on PHP It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
22nd Nov 2016
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Don't hate on PHP

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

22nd Nov 2016
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this: I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP. A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend...
18th Aug 2025
1

The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation

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

18th Aug 2025
I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend rolls around. While I've enjoyed the Grey's Anatomy binge I started during this pregnancy, it feels like a work week ritual -- something to put on in the background or pay half...
exponential rate limiting Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets without the buckets, I reviewed...
3rd Sep 2024
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exponential rate limiting

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

3rd Sep 2024
Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets without the buckets, I reviewed my old notes on rate limiting for Exim. I thought I should do a new write-up of the ideas that I hope will be more broadly interesting. Exponential rate limiting uses an...
Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming...
12th Jul 2021
1

Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project

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

12th Jul 2021
Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming languages offer an alternative to low-level machine code, which makes coding more accessible than ever. Let’s dive into how Golang, a modern higher-level language, matches up to C++, a...
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user...
28th Jun 2020
37

How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2)

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

28th Jun 2020
This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS. In this second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
Kagi for Teams To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams...
5th Dec 2024
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Kagi for Teams

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

5th Dec 2024
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams ( https://kagi.com/teams ) - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide.
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"
27th Mar 2023
Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent...
28th Mar 2025
66

Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible

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

28th Mar 2025
As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be...
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
2nd Dec 2024
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

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

2nd Dec 2024
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
Mission Control — Web You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s...
9th May 2024
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Mission Control — Web

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2024
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web. Today I’m pleased to announce that we are open sourcing Mission Control — Web and you can find it on...
Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine **Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect...
18th Feb 2024
1

Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine

from Nue developer blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Feb 2024
**Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect 2023 how Tailwind CSS was born out of this sentence:
Typing using my keyboard (the other kind) I got a new-to-me keyboard recently. It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore,...
7th Apr 2025
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Typing using my keyboard (the other kind)

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

7th Apr 2025
I got a new-to-me keyboard recently. It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore, so I set it up in my office. It's got 61 keys and you can hook up a pedal to it, too! But when you hook it up to the computer, you can't type with it. I mean, that's expected—it...
Questionable Advice: Can Engineering Productivity Be Measured? I follow you on Twitter and read your blog.  I particularly enjoy this...
7th Jul 2020
1

Questionable Advice: Can Engineering Productivity Be Measured?

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

7th Jul 2020
I follow you on Twitter and read your blog.  I particularly enjoy this post: https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/ I’m reaching out looking for some guidance. I work as an engineering manager for a company whose non-technology...
Stimela 23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya...
28th Jan 2023
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Stimela

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

28th Jan 2023
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya asked this while squashing the newspaper within her clenched fist. Her lips were quivering, her face contorted to hold back the tears of anger and fear. “My brother went to the mines...
Steam nerfed popular upcoming. So what? In the latest Steam client update, Valve unveiled major changes to its store’s home page. One of the...
12th Jun 2026
2

Steam nerfed popular upcoming. So what?

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

12th Jun 2026
In the latest Steam client update, Valve unveiled major changes to its store’s home page. One of the main difference is that the “Popular Upcoming” section, which shows upcoming games now shows a lot fewer games. This seems to worry indie developers who relied on this section 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
1

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.
Who Monitors The Monitor? Monitor The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for...
5th Nov 2025
11

Who Monitors The Monitor?

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

5th Nov 2025
Monitor The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for monitoring your system resources and running processes, including with optional panel indicators. Since its last release, we’ve completed the port to GTK4, rewrote the settings...
Questioning and adjusting our goals * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * People who know...
9th Jan 2011
41

Questioning and adjusting our goals

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

9th Jan 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * People who know me know that I like to make things systematic when I can, and doing so helps me make sense of things and have confidence in my actions. In addition to making things systematic, I...
It's a piece of cake to bake a SIPB cake Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes,...
5th Sep 2010
38

It's a piece of cake to bake a SIPB cake

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

5th Sep 2010
Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes, vanilla buttercream frosting, chocolate buttercream frosting with black food coloring, homemade white vanilla fondant, homemade black chocolate fondant, a bread knife to carve shoes...
Guile-Websocket 0.1 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an...
12th Nov 2022
1

Guile-Websocket 0.1 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2022
I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. source tarball:...
Send teasers of premium emails Send teasers of premium emails
3rd Jun 2022
1

Send teasers of premium emails

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

3rd Jun 2022
Send teasers of premium emails
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control...
22nd Jul 2024
33

finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jul 2024
Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See for more notes. Java’s / seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently with the mutator, by the...
Why I blog The reasons why I started blogging.
23rd Sep 2023
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Why I blog

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Sep 2023
The reasons why I started blogging.
Gzip hates your DRY code How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
13th Mar 2017
1

Gzip hates your DRY code

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

13th Mar 2017
How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
11th Feb 2019
The game Snake in 90 lines of JavaScript I wrote a minimal implementation of the game Snake in JavaScript.
15th Apr 2016
1

The game Snake in 90 lines of JavaScript

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

15th Apr 2016
I wrote a minimal implementation of the game Snake in JavaScript.
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
20th Feb 2022
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Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

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

20th Feb 2022
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
Reading About the Dreyfus Affair One of my 2024 projects is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at the rate of about 10...
27th May 2024
1

Reading About the Dreyfus Affair

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

27th May 2024
One of my 2024 projects is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at the rate of about 10 pages a day, and so far it’s been successful: I’m currently heading towards the end of the 3rd volume, The Guermantes Way. During a long dinner party in this novel, seemingly...
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
11th Jun 2023
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Searching for The Early Founder Cadence

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

11th Jun 2023
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
Oldest recorded transaction The oldest recorded transaction was in 3100 BC
6th Sep 2025
1

Oldest recorded transaction

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2025
The oldest recorded transaction was in 3100 BC
Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
4th Aug 2021
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Querying through shadow roots

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

4th Aug 2021
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
3rd Jan 2024
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 Boot.dev Beat. December 2024 Potions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I’ve been sick for like 10 days...
6th Dec 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2024

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

6th Dec 2024
Potions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I’ve been sick for like 10 days straight… hope your Holidays are staying healthier than mine!
How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data) Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks...
19th Feb 2024
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How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data)

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

19th Feb 2024
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers,...
31st Dec 2021
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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2021
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
How to build a culture of shipping The best time to write is when you're excited about an idea. Strike when the iron is hot.
3rd Jun 2024
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How to build a culture of shipping

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

3rd Jun 2024
The best time to write is when you're excited about an idea. Strike when the iron is hot.
Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup, and why the reasons don&#x27;t matter Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this...
21st Sep 2014
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21st Sep 2014
Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as part of the values of the company [http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04]. Since we defined our value of...
If you build it, they won't come, unless… A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt...
11th Oct 2010
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If you build it, they won't come, unless…

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

11th Oct 2010
A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt and cheese" isn't a recipe.
A quick summary one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the...
11th Oct 2024
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A quick summary

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

11th Oct 2024
one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the ability to summarize things read any AI product’s value prop and it will say a variation of “it frees you up to do higher order/ value tasks” nobody knows what these higher order...
constantly divisionless random numbers Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless...
5th Mar 2025
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constantly divisionless random numbers

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

5th Mar 2025
Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless unbiased bounded random numbers. The idea was to reduce code bloat by eliminating lots of copies of the random number generator in the rarely-executed slow paths. However a simple...
Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example,...
3rd Jul 2023
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Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2023
At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example, we have a staging version of our website, where we test new changes before they’re deployed to the live site. We’re only making changes during UK office hours, so running the...
When you should and shouldn't use React While very popular, React is not always the best web framework to use. In this article, we go over...
27th Aug 2021
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When you should and shouldn't use React

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Aug 2021
While very popular, React is not always the best web framework to use. In this article, we go over when to use React and when not to.
2014-05-06 "No space for poem" twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
6th May 2014
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2014-05-06

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

6th May 2014
"No space for poem" twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for...
15th Jul 2024
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The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next

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

15th Jul 2024
The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for businesses and dev teams – and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like in the future? I tackled these burning questions in my conference talk, “What’s Old is
How HEAD works in git Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they...
8th Mar 2024
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How HEAD works in git

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

8th Mar 2024
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700 votes) were a little surprising to me: 10% “100%” 36% “pretty confident” 39% “somewhat confident?” 15% “literally no idea” I was...
!!Con West 2019 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
24th Feb 2019
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!!Con West 2019 Notes

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

24th Feb 2019
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! At the beginning of last year’s !!Con, I wrote: This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m...
Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2026 It’s four years since I bought a printer. I thought I would provide an update on running costs,...
18 hours ago
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Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2026

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

18 hours ago
It’s four years since I bought a printer. I thought I would provide an update on running costs, print sales, and profit. I’m happy to be completely transparent about all this as I know it can be difficult to figure this out if you are thinking of creating your own printing...
How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how...
1st Aug 2015
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How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2015
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how to configure git emails per directory or per project.
Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote...
8th Apr 2008
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Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP

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

8th Apr 2008
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote webpage. $c = curl_init(); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/"); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data =...
An update on Kagi Translate Some of you might have noticed that Translate no longer works when you're signed out, or that it...
5th Jun 2026
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An update on Kagi Translate

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

5th Jun 2026
Some of you might have noticed that Translate no longer works when you're signed out, or that it shows as offline. This is because we have temporarily turned off free access while we work through the cost of running Translate.
Bulk actions take tag_id, not tag The tag key in a bulk action's metadata is renamed to tag_id
2nd Jan 2025
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Bulk actions take tag_id, not tag

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

2nd Jan 2025
The tag key in a bulk action's metadata is renamed to tag_id
Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own...
16th Aug 2025
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Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding

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

16th Aug 2025
Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own workout app instead of paying another SaaS. Two weeks ago, I decided to get serious about my workouts again and start logging them. I looked for an existing solution that has the...
Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a...
8th Mar 2024
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Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes

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

8th Mar 2024
Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a Kubernetes enjoyer (I even wrote a course on it, but I’m not here to argue about that. The part of the video I do want to discuss has nothing to do with k8s. It’s where Theo draws the...
8th Aug 2011
Put down the compiler until you learn why they're not buying Technical founders, step away from the code. Gather insights from non-buyers, rather than just...
21st Sep 2009
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Put down the compiler until you learn why they're not buying

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

21st Sep 2009
Technical founders, step away from the code. Gather insights from non-buyers, rather than just adding more features.
Q1 planning We're excited for what's in store for 2023!
2nd Jan 2023
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Q1 planning

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

2nd Jan 2023
We're excited for what's in store for 2023!
Article pitch for your consideration A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time...
8th Apr 2025
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Article pitch for your consideration

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2025
A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time publishing blog posts on your website. Your website and contact information will be shared around on these lists, for the purpose of soliciting you for guest posts. If you’re not...
Prevent data loss on page refresh It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click...
1st Oct 2024
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Prevent data loss on page refresh

from Dariusz Winkler | Software development [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2024
It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click "back") and lose all the hard work. In this blog post, I present a method to retain form data when the page is reloaded, which improves the user experience. Browser behavior Most...
RSS-to-email just got even more powerful. RSS-to-email just got even more powerful.
4th Apr 2023
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RSS-to-email just got even more powerful.

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

4th Apr 2023
RSS-to-email just got even more powerful.
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
13th Oct 2019
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SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation

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

13th Oct 2019
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
What I learned in 2017 At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re...
8th Jun 2018
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What I learned in 2017

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

8th Jun 2018
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re more than halfway through 2018, I decided to stop procrastinating and flesh out the details. Some of these things are probably obvious to you, but they were new to me! Being right is...
It needs to map back to a role One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to...
14th Mar 2022
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It needs to map back to a role

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Mar 2022
One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to create experiences that have never existed before. The history of websites, web apps, and native apps is full of countless widgets that let you enter and manipulate content in new...
Array 1.19.0 This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer...
15th Dec 2020
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Array 1.19.0

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

15th Dec 2020
This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer features, as well as our core analytics stack…
Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees) Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
6th Nov 2022
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6th Nov 2022
Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
9th May 2023
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Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies

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

9th May 2023
Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
Alt-Numpad for Linux In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a major stumbling block for me since I am...
26th Jul 2011
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Alt-Numpad for Linux

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

26th Jul 2011
In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a major stumbling block for me since I am annoyingly picky about typography. After spending way too much time Googling I found that these steps work: Hold Ctrl+Shift+U Release the “U” key (while still holding...
The Surprising Power of Documentation I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings...
11th Jun 2023
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The Surprising Power of Documentation

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

11th Jun 2023
I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings the […] The post The Surprising Power of Documentation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
8th Jun 2025
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One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations

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

8th Jun 2025
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
Using global memoization in React When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a...
9th Feb 2022
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Using global memoization in React

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2022
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a hammer that often works well, and makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. But useMemo is not a silver bullet — sometimes it just introduces more useless work instead of making...
A Local-First Task Framework sharing the load
3rd Apr 2026
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A Local-First Task Framework

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

3rd Apr 2026
sharing the load
In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
18th Jul 2026
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors

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

18th Jul 2026
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
25th Mar 2025
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We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking

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

25th Mar 2025
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
Recently I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really, really bad and getting worse in...
4th Feb 2025
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Recently

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

4th Feb 2025
I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really, really bad and getting worse in America. It’s all so unendingly stupid and evil. The tech industry is being horrible, too. Wishing strength to the people who are much more exposed to the chaos than I am. Reading A...
Getting in shape for summer This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
2nd Jun 2023
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Getting in shape for summer

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

2nd Jun 2023
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot! Calculator Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
Winner, Name that Ware April 2026 Seems like I overestimated people’s interest in looking at silicon images! Congrats to k8 for...
31st May 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2026

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

31st May 2026
Seems like I overestimated people’s interest in looking at silicon images! Congrats to k8 for attempting the challenge, I appreciate the participation. email me for your prize! Recall that the list of possible memory dimensions is limited to a list of 28 possible types of...
2nd Oct 2025
What's in, what's out, how it tells your story, and failing to parallel Hamilton's subversive... Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an...
11th Aug 2016
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11th Aug 2016
Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an embarrassingly big grin - after all, I had just experienced Hamilton. Like many others, I'd listened to the soundtrack many times before even acquiring tickets to the musical, and I'd...
Guile-bstructs 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released! About...
12th Mar 2026
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Guile-bstructs 0.2.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released! About guile-bstructs Guile-bstructs is a library that provides structured read/write access to binary data for Guile. A bstruct (short for “binary structure”) is a data type that encapsulates a bytevector and a...
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS...
24th Aug 2024
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How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Aug 2024
If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.
Familiar Lines of Nostalgic Proportions A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to...
1st Feb 2024
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Familiar Lines of Nostalgic Proportions

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2024
A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to invoke an emotion. Happy, sad, psych-up workouts, breakups, love making… all depends. Spending time to record a deliberate mix of songs in order for someone else was devotion. When...
Middle management roles are also a trap. Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles...
8th Aug 2026
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Middle management roles are also a trap.

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

8th Aug 2026
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineering and engineering management aspects of the role made being...
How I Update and Deploy this Site I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and...
5th Sep 2023
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How I Update and Deploy this Site

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

5th Sep 2023
I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and even a rapid CMS can cause an unprepared server to grind to a halt. I used to love running my own servers, but I don't have the time to do it for my personal site - I just want it to...
Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not...
6th Aug 2023
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Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit

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

6th Aug 2023
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
Kagi Translate - We speak your language Your browser does not support the video tag.
7th Nov 2024
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Kagi Translate - We speak your language

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

7th Nov 2024
Your browser does not support the video tag.
Agents are commoditizing the complement Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code...
3rd Nov 2025
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Agents are commoditizing the complement

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

3rd Nov 2025
Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing up demand for the latter.
Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not...
10th Feb 2025
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Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals

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

10th Feb 2025
I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if...
How fast is swift? Heavy Metal Edition (feat Nardi) The challenge, confirm a friends belief that swift is real system language by simulating buckets of...
12th Jul 2025
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How fast is swift? Heavy Metal Edition (feat Nardi)

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

12th Jul 2025
The challenge, confirm a friends belief that swift is real system language by simulating buckets of particles, at least 100m on the cpu, hopefully beating out rust.
26th Mar 2014
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fstl

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Mar 2014
Learn In Public The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
19th Jun 2018
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Learn In Public

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

19th Jun 2018
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
1st Aug 2023
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What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon?

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

1st Aug 2023
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
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...
What I'm up to - July 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jul 2025
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What I'm up to - July 2025

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

1st Jul 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I wrote a post about open-sourcing Postcard. The post got picked up by Hacker News...
17th Feb 2024
Developer variants Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job titles. I'm talking...
9th Aug 2016
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Developer variants

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2016
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job titles. I'm talking about motivations and fulfillment. In my years of writing code and leading projects, I've come to learn a bit about how my teammates, and I, experience success, through a...
Explore vs Execute The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a...
5th Jan 2025
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Explore vs Execute

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

5th Jan 2025
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a culture-shift to switch from one to the other.
Winner, Name that Ware September 2026 The Ware for September 2026 is a tire pressure monitor from a late 80’s to early 90’s model Porsche,...
6 days ago
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Winner, Name that Ware September 2026

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

6 days ago
The Ware for September 2026 is a tire pressure monitor from a late 80’s to early 90’s model Porsche, made by Bosch. According to the submitter: Kind of a crazy piece of hardware for the late 80’s – this would be pretty cutting edge for the time. Nobody quite got what the part was...
The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
27th Jan 2022
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The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite

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

27th Jan 2022
Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
Hiring Employee #1 If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down,...
12th Dec 2011
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Hiring Employee #1

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

12th Dec 2011
If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down, and identify someone who is going to work well in your company?
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
1st Nov 2023
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No more talking to politicians

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

1st Nov 2023
I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
How I Built My Blog An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
20th Apr 2021
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How I Built My Blog

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

20th Apr 2021
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Enjoying the moment * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back...
1st May 2011
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Enjoying the moment

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

1st May 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back on the times I’ve done the most productive work on my startup [http://bufferapp.com], it has always been when I’ve had a great balance of work and rest...
Kubernetes at Work Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren...
20th Jun 2020
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Kubernetes at Work

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

20th Jun 2020
Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren about her experiences with k8s and cloud.
Not apparent “Are you sure you want to move to San Francisco?” my dad asked me as we drove home from the...
1st May 2026
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Not apparent

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2026
“Are you sure you want to move to San Francisco?” my dad asked me as we drove home from the electrical supply store.
The Lindy Effect on startup potential On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
9th Jun 2024
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The Lindy Effect on startup potential

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

9th Jun 2024
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here, but 10x?
Not all blog posts are created equal For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block. I was struggling to write,...
26th Dec 2024
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Not all blog posts are created equal

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Dec 2024
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block. I was struggling to write, even when I had good ideas; if I wrote something I liked, I was often reluctant to publish it; if somebody asked to read the site, I’d wince before giving them the link. Something...
Name that Ware, January 2024 The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
31st Jan 2024
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Name that Ware, January 2024

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

31st Jan 2024
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
A decade of code A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and...
10th May 2024
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A decade of code

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

10th May 2024
A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and CSS exactly ten years ago, reflecting on the lucky turning points that brought me to where I am today.
Stop Trying to Reach the Top Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read...
9th Apr 2015
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Stop Trying to Reach the Top

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

9th Apr 2015
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read this. Were you hit by Google Panda? Will you be hit when they start penalising non-mobile sites? The lesson? Stop trying to reach the top of Google. You’ll live longer/keep more of...
A reality check about cloud native DevOps Wojtek Cichoń from Semaphore speaks with John Arundel, consultant and author of ‘Cloud Native...
3rd Feb 2020
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A reality check about cloud native DevOps

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

3rd Feb 2020
Wojtek Cichoń from Semaphore speaks with John Arundel, consultant and author of ‘Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes’, about how adopting DevOps destroys walls, builds bridges, and influences company cultures for the better. “Sometimes all it takes to put the light back in...
Topologies of Remote Teams When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some...
23rd Aug 2018
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Topologies of Remote Teams

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

23rd Aug 2018
When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some point: will we all be in the same office, or will we do this "remote work" thing? There are a lot of factors that go into whether or not remote work will work for your team, like...
Hyper: Standards first React alternative Hyper is a standards first markup language for building user interfaces. It enables developers (and...
8th May 2025
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Hyper: Standards first React alternative

from Nue developer blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th May 2025
Hyper is a standards first markup language for building user interfaces. It enables developers (and AI models) to generate complex UIs with amazingly clean syntax.
10 Shopify SEO best practices with Sanity and Remix Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives. As a...
1st Feb 2023
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10 Shopify SEO best practices with Sanity and Remix

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

1st Feb 2023
Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives. As a result, CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) increases, pushing ecommerce business owners to look for more affordable lead generation strategies. SEO is one of them. Online store...
A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
24th Sep 2023
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A case for stacked patches 📚

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

24th Sep 2023
I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, [email protected] Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were...
10th Jan 2009
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Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading

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

10th Jan 2009
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were rotating on a page in the form of a slideshow, fading in and out for a nice, smooth transition. One problem, though: in Internet Explorer 7 (and 6, as it turned out), one of the images...
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
11th Mar 2021
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Introducing PageRoast

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

11th Mar 2021
Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
Searching the Creative Internet Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the...
18th May 2018
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Searching the Creative Internet

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

18th May 2018
Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the 1990s. A place where everything was obscure or new. If you saw something mainstream like a Disney princess, it was because someone had taken the time to handcraft an ASCII art...
1st Aug 2025
27th Apr 2026
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AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2026
My AI homelab named Daddy
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
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...
7th Dec 2021
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Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode

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

7th Dec 2021
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...
The 2018 Mac Mini Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
6th Nov 2018
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The 2018 Mac Mini

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

6th Nov 2018
Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
A random man walks into my office and asks if I'm single... It's almost a joke now, how I expect comments from men on my videos for work. When I go to check the...
14th Nov 2021
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A random man walks into my office and asks if I'm single...

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

14th Nov 2021
It's almost a joke now, how I expect comments from men on my videos for work. When I go to check the comments, because I genuinely care about feedback or asks from developers, my heart sinks and my stomach drops when I see comments about my appearance or inquiries about my...
15th Mar 2016
2022 in review. Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
13th Dec 2022
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2022 in review.

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

13th Dec 2022
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak. The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired...
6th Jan 2024
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I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2024
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired 10 people into our team. It's been extremely tiring: around 80 hours of active interviewing, plus writing interview reports, plus screening CVs and take-home assignments, plus...
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
25th Jun 2016
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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...
Announcing Go-TinyTime, Go-TinyDate's Sister Package time.Time is the perfect choice for handling times in Go in most cases, it even comes in the...
2nd Apr 2020
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Announcing Go-TinyTime, Go-TinyDate's Sister Package

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

2nd Apr 2020
time.Time is the perfect choice for handling times in Go in most cases, it even comes in the standard library! The problem is that the time.Time{} struct uses more than 24 bytes of memory under most conditions. Go-TinyTime solves this problem by restricting the available dates to...
No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
15th Sep 2023
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No sacred masterpieces

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2023
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
Rendering Animated .ani Cursors in the Browser Technical breakdown of how the NPM module ani-cursor converts .ani files into CSS animations in the...
9th Dec 2020
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Rendering Animated .ani Cursors in the Browser

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

9th Dec 2020
Technical breakdown of how the NPM module ani-cursor converts .ani files into CSS animations in the browser.
What I'm up to - July 2023 ✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to...
1st Jul 2023
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What I'm up to - July 2023

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

1st Jul 2023
✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to Canada for Tailwind Connect, where I met some interesting people and learned some new CSS techniques....
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.
8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know 1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is...
2nd May 2023
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8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know

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

2nd May 2023
1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is including users in your experiment who aren't actually…
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
22nd Aug 2023
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

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

22nd Aug 2023
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
How I became a machine learning practitioner For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little...
30th Jul 2019
67

How I became a machine learning practitioner

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

30th Jul 2019
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but not impossible, and I think most...
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
10th May 2019
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Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate

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

10th May 2019
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
Lilypad mini quilt While on a short road trip and then recovering from surgery, I hand quilted and hand embroidered a...
5th Jul 2026
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Lilypad mini quilt

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

5th Jul 2026
While on a short road trip and then recovering from surgery, I hand quilted and hand embroidered a linen lilypad quilt. And yes, I did make this little quilt for my Frinos plush from Hades II to have a nice place to rest.
A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes Bringing visual explanations and embodied knowledge to programming tools
1st Apr 2022
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A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes

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

1st Apr 2022
Bringing visual explanations and embodied knowledge to programming tools
What I'm up to - July 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jul 2025
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What I'm up to - July 2025

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

1st Jul 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I wrote a post about open-sourcing Postcard. The post got picked up by Hacker News...
Beware the Complexity Merchants When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not...
15th May 2025
71

Beware the Complexity Merchants

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

15th May 2025
When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not going to have a good time
Winner, Name that Ware July 2026 The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of...
30th Aug 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware July 2026

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

30th Aug 2026
The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of a bandgap voltage reference circuit. As its name implies, a bandgap voltage reference generates a near-constant voltage for use inside chips. The voltage is intended to be fairly...
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
3rd Nov 2021
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist

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

3rd Nov 2021
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door… I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website’s CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It’s pretty amazing to see the problems...
Japanese Language Proficiency, Job Requirements, and You Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be...
1st Aug 2024
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Japanese Language Proficiency, Job Requirements, and You

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2024
Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be vague and confusing, as there is no single, clear-cut system used in Japan to define foreigners’ language proficiencies. There are a few systems commonly used to measure language...
The Many Layers of Packaging The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store. Update: I turned this post into a talk. The...
9th May 2017
1

The Many Layers of Packaging

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2017
The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store. Update: I turned this post into a talk. The video from PyBay is here, the slides are available here. The long-cut video from BayPiggies is coming, but the "Extended Edition" slides are here. One lesson threaded...
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested...
7th Jan 2020
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook

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

7th Jan 2020
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
Fave New Podcasts in 2021 My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
2nd Dec 2021
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Fave New Podcasts in 2021

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

2nd Dec 2021
My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
17th Jan 2020
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