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the singularity is...
Disrupt the Government I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by...
a year ago
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Disrupt the Government

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

a year ago
I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides. The key thing the government is supposed to be able to do is infrastructure. Most of the wealth that we give to...
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David Crawshaw
2015-12-26 news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/23/electronic-photonic-microprocessor-chip/
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2015-12-26

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over a year ago
news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/23/electronic-photonic-microprocessor-chip/
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ByteofDev
JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a...
6 months ago
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JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a solution to this?
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Computer Things
New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers....
a year ago
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New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers. Patreon here. Anyway, I'm off to get a bone graft. Proper newsletter will come later this week when I've got more time to write.
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David Crawshaw
How I program with LLMs How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using...
6 months ago
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How I program with LLMs

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

6 months ago
How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming to learn about them. The result...
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Maggie Appleton
Programmable Notes Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
over a year ago
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Programmable Notes

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

over a year ago
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
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Tinloof - Blog
Why we prefer Sanity over Contentful In this article, we'll explain 5 reasons why we prefer Sanity over Contentful Headless CMS.
over a year ago
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Why we prefer Sanity over Contentful

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over a year ago
In this article, we'll explain 5 reasons why we prefer Sanity over Contentful Headless CMS.
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Epic Web Dev
The Difference Between Clearing, Resetting, and Restoring Mocks (article) Understand the key differences between mock state management methods: mockClear(), mockReset(), and...
8 months ago
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The Difference Between Clearing, Resetting, and Restoring Mocks (article)

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8 months ago
Understand the key differences between mock state management methods: mockClear(), mockReset(), and mockRestore(). Write clean test states.
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Vadim Kravcenko
Is coding bootcamp better than university? Thanks for the question. Navigating the crossroads of your budding tech career is no small feat, and...
a year ago
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Is coding bootcamp better than university?

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

a year ago
Thanks for the question. Navigating the crossroads of your budding tech career is no small feat, and the decision between […] The post Is coding bootcamp better than university? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Marc Astbury
A quick summary one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the...
9 months ago
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A quick summary

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

9 months ago
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...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
over a year ago
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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes

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over a year ago
Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their...
a year ago
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Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for

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

a year ago
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
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Alex Meub
Use the Natural CSS Box Model The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the...
over a year ago
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Use the Natural CSS Box Model

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

over a year ago
The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the document tree. It determines how the content area, padding, border and margin of an element will be displayed. There are two types. The W3C Box Model x ...
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Elad Blog
AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by...
over a year ago
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AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value

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

over a year ago
In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by startups versus incumbents differs. In some waves it all goes to startups, while in others it goes to incumbents or is split between them. Unexpectedly, the prior wave of
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A Beautiful Site
Flushing DNS cache on macOS Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP...
over a year ago
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Flushing DNS cache on macOS

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

over a year ago
Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; say cache flushed Notice that last part — that's why this is the best method. You get an audible "cache flushed" almost instantaneously, and the whole process becomes...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Scrollbar Shenanigans Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
over a year ago
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Scrollbar Shenanigans

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

over a year ago
Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
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David Heinemeier...
Get in losers, we're moving to Linux! I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something...
a week ago
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Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!

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

a week ago
I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something has really changed in the last few years. Maybe Linux just got better? Maybe powerful mini PCs made it easier? Maybe Apple just fumbled their relationship with developers one too...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Zero to Unmaintainable in 1.2 Commands Dave posted “The time to unmaintainable is very low” about how pervasive this idea of “get up and...
a year ago
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Zero to Unmaintainable in 1.2 Commands

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Dave posted “The time to unmaintainable is very low” about how pervasive this idea of “get up and going quick” is: I can burp some npm commands into my terminal, burp some more to setup a deployment pipeline and blam! Website. The time to product demo is so low. But there’s...
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The Changelog
A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since...
a year ago
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A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny

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

a year ago
Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since I wrote that post, most of those issues have been resolved. But then you throw HiDPI into the mix and it all goes wonky. If you’re running X11, basically the story is that you can...
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Making software...
Billing for One CSS Change Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed...
over a year ago
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Billing for One CSS Change

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

over a year ago
Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed back to the client. A simple button color change? Bill them. Additional links added to an existing menu? Send that invoice over. Some basic typeface changes? Don't do it for...
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Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
over a year ago
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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I use Roam Research I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot...
over a year ago
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How I use Roam Research

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

over a year ago
I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot of notes, mobile-first note taking apps (e.g. Google’s Keep) are of no interest to me. To me most important thing is: lowest possible friction in adding new notes fast way of...
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Sometimes It Works...
Slow Tech is Good Tech Avoid the shiny Avoid comparison Some examples Laravel Build tools Typescript and JS frameworks The...
a year ago
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Slow Tech is Good Tech

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

a year ago
Avoid the shiny Avoid comparison Some examples Laravel Build tools Typescript and JS frameworks The Web Platform What I keep up with This morning, I watched a video advertising a course aimed at developers. One of the first sentiments proclaimed is that of feeling left behind,...
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Ferd.ca
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops 2023/06/20 Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops This post contains a transcript of the...
over a year ago
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Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops

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over a year ago
2023/06/20 Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops This post contains a transcript of the talk I wrote for and gave at QCon New York 2023 for Vanessa Huerta Granda's track on resilience engineering. The official talk title was "Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback...
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The Changelog
Using dar for Data Archiving This is the third post in a series about data archiving to removable media (optical discs and hard...
over a year ago
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Using dar for Data Archiving

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over a year ago
This is the third post in a series about data archiving to removable media (optical discs and hard drives). In the first, I explained the difference between backing up and archiving, established goals for the project, and said I’d evaluate git-annex and dar. The second post...
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Seán Barry
Useful reusable functions I use in (almost) every Meteor application Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
over a year ago
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Useful reusable functions I use in (almost) every Meteor application

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

over a year ago
Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
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David Heinemeier...
Working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to...
a year ago
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Working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again

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

a year ago
As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to the office, the competitive hiring advantage for remote-first companies is back. And it's even bigger than before the pandemic, now that so many workers have had a taste of what...
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David Heinemeier...
We need a Right To Compute The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If...
a year ago
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We need a Right To Compute

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

a year ago
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you ought to have the right to...
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Elad Blog
When Executives Break When your company is scaling rapidly due to product market fit, one of the biggest impediments (or...
over a year ago
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When Executives Break

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

over a year ago
When your company is scaling rapidly due to product market fit, one of the biggest impediments (or boosters) to growth will turn out to be the composition of your executive team. If your executives are not able to scale with the company, entire functions may be thrown into...
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bt RSS Feed
Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
over a year ago
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Using User-Select

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

over a year ago
Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
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alexwlchan
How we do bulk analysis of our Prismic content At work, we use Prismic as a headless CMS for our public website. If you see images or text that...
over a year ago
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How we do bulk analysis of our Prismic content

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
At work, we use Prismic as a headless CMS for our public website. If you see images or text that aren’t part of the catalogue, they’re probably managed through Prismic. To help us manage our growing Prismic library, we’ve built a number of tools and scripts to analyse our content...
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Charles Chen
.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
a year ago
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.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels

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

a year ago
Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
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Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back “We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
a year ago
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Getting our focus back

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
“We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the nine unmonetized glances. An...
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Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2022 California general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While preparing for this election, I...
over a year ago
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What’s on my ballot: November 2022 California general election

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

over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While preparing for this election, I consulted: San Francisco Chronicle voter guide SPUR endorsements GrowSF voter guide, which links to questionnaires from many local candidates that are far more detailed than their...
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Alex MacCaw
The Illusion of Free Will One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
over a year ago
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The Illusion of Free Will

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

over a year ago
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
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Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Security stories! Plus, a 2FA zine! The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and...
over a year ago
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: Security stories! Plus, a 2FA zine!

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

over a year ago
The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and I filled the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security with a bunch of our own personal security mishaps: Security stories: lost phones, a compromised computer, and an unexpected...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React...
a year ago
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The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React what REST APIs are to local-first sync engines. jQuery was manual DOM manipulation. You were in charge of writing the instructions to create, read, update, and delete DOM...
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macwright.com
Recently Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun...
a year ago
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Recently

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

a year ago
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new, especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The most useful B2B SaaS product metrics So, you're building a B2B SaaS product. Everyone knows you've got to measure stuff to succeed. This...
over a year ago
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The most useful B2B SaaS product metrics

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

over a year ago
So, you're building a B2B SaaS product. Everyone knows you've got to measure stuff to succeed. This is not news. What, why, and how? These are the…
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alexwlchan
The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser → As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to...
a year ago
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The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser →

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to parse Flickr URLs. For example: $ flickr_url_parser 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727552068/' {"type": "single_photo", "photo_id": "4727552068"} This started...
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A Smart Bear
Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
a year ago
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Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile

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

a year ago
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
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Alex MacCaw
Nothing matters I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
over a year ago
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Nothing matters

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

over a year ago
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn't
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Origin of Online Handles There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example:...
a year ago
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The Origin of Online Handles

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example: Jeremy Keith is “Adactio”. I have no idea what that word means. A quick internet search reveals no hints. Even ChatGPT has no idea. Dave Rupert is davatron5000. I wonder where...
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Tony Finch's blog
Golang and Let's Encrypt: a free software story Here’s a story from nearly 10 years ago. the bug I think it was my friend Richard Kettlewell who...
2 weeks ago
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Golang and Let's Encrypt: a free software story

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

2 weeks ago
Here’s a story from nearly 10 years ago. the bug I think it was my friend Richard Kettlewell who told me about a bug he encountered with Let’s Encrypt in its early days in autumn 2015: it was failing to validate mail domains correctly. the context At the time I had previously...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to deal with fatal: bad object HEAD in git as a cheapo who uses Apple iCloud (the world's worst sync service) as a sync service for my Obsidian...
a year ago
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How to deal with fatal: bad object HEAD in git

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

a year ago
as a cheapo who uses Apple iCloud (the world's worst sync service) as a sync service for my Obsidian Second Brain, I have recently run into this issue a lot:
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A Smart Bear
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best...
over a year ago
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The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies

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

over a year ago
Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
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MMapped blog
Square joy: pre-order
over a year ago
24

Square joy: pre-order

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over a year ago
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Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel...
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Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses

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over a year ago
The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to…
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Eric Bailey
Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently
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Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently

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TokyoDev
Visas for Software Engineers in Japan Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in...
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Visas for Software Engineers in Japan

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over a year ago
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...
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Charles Chen
A Conceptual Model of State in Vue 3.4 A guide to understanding how to think about state and components in Vue with the game changing...
a year ago
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A Conceptual Model of State in Vue 3.4

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A guide to understanding how to think about state and components in Vue with the game changing defineModel
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Steve Klabnik
The CLOSURE companion
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The CLOSURE companion

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exist
Spinning Diagrams with CSS
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Spinning Diagrams with CSS

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Mise en Place Writing How to write more, faster, and better by decoupling writing from pre-writing
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Mise en Place Writing

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over a year ago
How to write more, faster, and better by decoupling writing from pre-writing
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Oxide Computer...
dtrace.conf(24) Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference. Or really, more of a meetup; from the...
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dtrace.conf(24)

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7 months ago
Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference. Or really, more of a meetup; from the primordial e-mail I sent: The goal here, by the way, is not a DTrace user group, but more of a face-to-face meeting with people actively involved in DTrace — either by porting...
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Hixie's Natural Log
Meeting philosophy Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if...
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Meeting philosophy

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a year ago
Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if possible. Decline any meeting without an explicit agenda (I make exceptions for my immediate manager). Decline any meeting where the agenda doesn't seem relevant to your work. Decline any...
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In-depth: PostHog vs FullStory PostHog and FullStory are both popular tools for understanding user behavior, but how are they...
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In-depth: PostHog vs FullStory

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over a year ago
PostHog and FullStory are both popular tools for understanding user behavior, but how are they different? Here’s the short answer. PostHog is an all…
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Blog of Simple...
What is PHI under HIPAA?
a year ago
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What is PHI under HIPAA?

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a year ago
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bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as...
over a year ago
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Setting Up Jekyll on Windows

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over a year ago
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as “optimized” as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my current...
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Alice GG
Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words...
a year ago
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Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B

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a year ago
When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words coming up in the output displayed to users. To solve this problem, I needed a way to detect and filter them out automatically. Do you really need an LLM for that? The problem of...
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Perspectives June 2024
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Privacy Perspectives June 2024

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A Beautiful Site
Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users...
over a year ago
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Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem

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over a year ago
The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users who get confused when events of the same name are emitted from different components. Take <sl-details>, <sl-dialog>, and <sl-dropdown>, for example. They all emit sl-show and...
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Steve Klabnik
Update GitHub Pages with Travis CI
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Update GitHub Pages with Travis CI

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Blog System/5
20 years of blogging A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a...
a year ago
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20 years of blogging

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a year ago
A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a newsletter using Substack.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Little Swarming Gnats of Data Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer...
2 weeks ago
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Little Swarming Gnats of Data

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2 weeks ago
Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer vacation: That’s pretty representative of the flurry of emails I get when I fly, e.g.: Check in now Track your bags Your flight will soon depart Your flight will soon...
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samwho.dev
Memory Allocation .memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top:...
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Memory Allocation

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over a year ago
.memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; } input[type=range]:focus { outline: none; } a[simulation] { cursor: pointer; } .size { color: #0072B2 !important; font-weight: bold; } .free { color: #009E73 !important; font-weight:...
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Liz Denys
Chemistry at its finest: inverted sugar syrup for cocktails Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily...
over a year ago
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Chemistry at its finest: inverted sugar syrup for cocktails

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over a year ago
Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily enough. Simple syrup is traditionally made by dissolving white sugar into water on a stove and then cooling before use, but sometimes, in a pinch, people will shake superfine sugar...
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Ink & Switch
End-user Programming A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
over a year ago
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End-user Programming

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over a year ago
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
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Eric Bailey
Short note: Disavowing Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers...
a year ago
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Short note: Disavowing Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss

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a year ago
I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers this extension is public and transparent. There is another browser extension called “Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss”. It is made by the highly suspicious Firefox user...
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David Heinemeier...
Switching to Android was easy In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android...
a year ago
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Switching to Android was easy

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a year ago
In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android recently. And that turned out to be far easier. Dangerously easy, you might say, if you were in Apple’s shoes. But it’s all down to how deep you’re mired in the platform services soup. I...
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TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
a year ago
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You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech

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a year ago
You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
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Confessions of a...
The System-Level Foundation of Assembly Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
2 months ago
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The System-Level Foundation of Assembly

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2 months ago
Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
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Steve Klabnik
The hardest decision I've ever made
over a year ago
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The hardest decision I've ever made

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over a year ago
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alexwlchan
Writing a Mac app to review my photos I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures...
over a year ago
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Writing a Mac app to review my photos

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over a year ago
I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures in the hope of getting at least one that’s good – and then my camera roll is full of similar images. I always intend to go back and clean up my pictures afterwards – pick the best...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Organic Intelligence Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in...
a year ago
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Organic Intelligence

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a year ago
Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in them: If I use a [knowledge tool] I need to be able to trust [it] is good...I don’t expect perfection, but I also don’t expect to have to constantly be thinking “was this generated by a...
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bt RSS Feed
My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a...
over a year ago
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My Cheapskate Commenting System

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over a year ago
My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
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David Gerrells
too many birthdays I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
over a year ago
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too many birthdays

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over a year ago
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
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PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Snowflake Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake...
over a year ago
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Snowflake

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over a year ago
Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake was fully managed, expensive, and broadly featured…
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
For Sale: Used Domain (**Clean Title**) Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”: He...
8 months ago
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For Sale: Used Domain (**Clean Title**)

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8 months ago
Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”: He buys a domain that seems fine on the surface. When he begins using it, he notices some things aren’t right (organic search traffic, for example, is dead). After some investigation,...
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37signals Dev
Homographic Spoofing: a new Ruby toolkit What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters,...
a year ago
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Homographic Spoofing: a new Ruby toolkit

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a year ago
What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters, but are different. For example, the letters “l” and “ӏ” (Cyrrilic “ӏ”) look the same but are different characters. A homograph attack is a phishing attack where the attacker uses...
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Yale E360
[Review] "The Circle" by Dave Eggers Surveillance has gotten a lot of media attention lately (and a bit of attention on this very blog),...
over a year ago
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[Review] "The Circle" by Dave Eggers

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over a year ago
Surveillance has gotten a lot of media attention lately (and a bit of attention on this very blog), and for good reason. So, it should be no surprise that it's also turning up in our dystopian novels! "The Circle" is a dystopian novel by Dave Eggers. While fiction, it is set in a...
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Epic Web Dev
Use Fetcher Keys for Registering Remix Fetchers (tip) Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve...
a year ago
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Use Fetcher Keys for Registering Remix Fetchers (tip)

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a year ago
Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve user experience and eliminate network delays.
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Nelson's Weblog
Noom is exploitative I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT...
over a year ago
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Noom is exploitative

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over a year ago
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT for upselling customers than CBT for weight loss. Now I’m hoping they’ll delete my sensitive medical data and refund the $3 they tricked me out of. (They did, quickly in...
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A Smart Bear
The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but...
over a year ago
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The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager

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over a year ago
According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
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A Smart Bear
How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10) If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list...
a year ago
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How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10)

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a year ago
If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.
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Why I Enjoy Svelte Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
over a year ago
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Why I Enjoy Svelte

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over a year ago
Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
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Alex Meub
The Perfect Moscow Mule The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious....
over a year ago
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The Perfect Moscow Mule

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over a year ago
The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious. This is a guide to making the perfect Mule. The Perfect Copper Mug The copper mug is essential for a real Moscow Mule. Copper immediately takes on the temperature of the drink keeping...
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Josh Collinsworth
Building accessible toggle buttons (with examples for Svelte, Vue, and React) Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them...
over a year ago
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Building accessible toggle buttons (with examples for Svelte, Vue, and React)

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over a year ago
Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them right, for all users, in any (or no) framework.
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David Heinemeier...
Europeans don't have or understand free speech The new American vice president JD Vance just gave a remarkable talk at the Munich Security...
4 months ago
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Europeans don't have or understand free speech

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4 months ago
The new American vice president JD Vance just gave a remarkable talk at the Munich Security Conference on free speech and mass immigration. It did not go over well with many European politicians, some of which immediately proved Vance's point, and labeled the speech "not...
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A Smart Bear
All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful Identifying useful frameworks for companies, strategy, markets, and organizations, instead of those...
3 months ago
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All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful

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3 months ago
Identifying useful frameworks for companies, strategy, markets, and organizations, instead of those that just look pretty in PowerPoint.
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and... Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
over a year ago
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and Suspense

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

over a year ago
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
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Yale E360
Why I kept my startup job for seven years (and counting) Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing...
a year ago
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Why I kept my startup job for seven years (and counting)

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a year ago
Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing out on opportunities1. And yet, I've made the choice to join and stay at one company for seven years. That's more than half my career to date. Why did I do that? And would I do it...
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Clientside Webmentions How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
over a year ago
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Clientside Webmentions

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over a year ago
How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
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Making software...
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog,...
over a year ago
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ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names

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over a year ago
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I've been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I'm announcing ThriftyName. What is...
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Eric Bailey
The case for adding validation state to your design tokens .verbal-token { border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-radius: 0.5rem; ...
over a year ago
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The case for adding validation state to your design tokens

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over a year ago
.verbal-token { border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-radius: 0.5rem; padding: 0.15rem 0.5rem; } Naming things is hard. One way to go about naming things is via topology, the practice of classifying things by way of their visual characteristics. It is...
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Vadim Kravcenko
How to determine app idea is technically feasible as a non-technical founder? Congratulations on finding an idea worth pursuing. So let’s talk about feasibility and understanding...
a year ago
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How to determine app idea is technically feasible as a non-technical founder?

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

a year ago
Congratulations on finding an idea worth pursuing. So let’s talk about feasibility and understanding if it’s at all possible to […] The post How to determine app idea is technically feasible as a non-technical founder? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: June 2023
over a year ago
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Privacy Monthly: June 2023

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over a year ago
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An engineer's guide to picking a cofounder What could be worse than handing out 50% of your company's equity to a co-founder who doesn't...
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An engineer's guide to picking a cofounder

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over a year ago
What could be worse than handing out 50% of your company's equity to a co-founder who doesn't understand the product as much as you do, and all they…
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Epic Web Dev
Auto Layout in Figma (tip) Figma's Auto Layout feature makes designing layouts feel more like building with Flexbox.
12 months ago
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Auto Layout in Figma (tip)

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12 months ago
Figma's Auto Layout feature makes designing layouts feel more like building with Flexbox.
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Computer Things
The Juggler's Curse I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1...
5 months ago
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The Juggler's Curse

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5 months ago
I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1 I've gotten to the point where I can almost consistently do a five-ball cascade, which I thought was the cutoff to being a "good juggler". "Thought" because I now know a "good...
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A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
over a year ago
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My Stance on AI-generated Code

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over a year ago
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code. As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
Situations in which TDD is the way to go While I’m not a fan of using TDD all the time, here are a few situations where it’s...
a year ago
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Situations in which TDD is the way to go

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a year ago
While I’m not a fan of using TDD all the time, here are a few situations where it’s effective. Bugfix Starting a bugfix by writing the broken test case is often very practical, especially with issues that show up somewhere in the front end, but the fix is somewhere deep in the...
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Ink & Switch
09 · Version history as chat This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
a year ago
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09 · Version history as chat

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a year ago
This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
More Everything With AI From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts...
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More Everything With AI

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over a year ago
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
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Dan Quach Blog
Accurate Predictions In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
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Accurate Predictions

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over a year ago
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
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Blog of Simple...
More troubles for Google Analytics
over a year ago
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More troubles for Google Analytics

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bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
a year ago
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A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage

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a year ago
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
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Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0

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over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
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Blog of Simple...
Add Google Analytics to Convertkit
a year ago
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Add Google Analytics to Convertkit

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a year ago
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Julia Evans
New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies...
over a year ago
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New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years

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over a year ago
Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies I use to learn hard things. I just noticed that they’d released the video the other day, so I’m just posting it now even though I gave the talk 6 months ago. Here’s the video, as...
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Max Countryman
We Need To Talk About Vercel Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up....
over a year ago
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We Need To Talk About Vercel

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over a year ago
Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.
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The Changelog
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
over a year ago
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Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System

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over a year ago
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg I’m a fan of what Ink & Switch is doing in regards to local-first web development. I’ve got a few...
a year ago
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Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg

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a year ago
I’m a fan of what Ink & Switch is doing in regards to local-first web development. I’ve got a few harebrained ideas myself I want to build. And I’ve written notes from a talk by Peter before. Which is all a preface for this set of notes from another talk by Peter. Here’s the talk...
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TokyoDev
The Challenges Faced by Multinational Teams and Japanese Companies It’s a fact that Japan needs more international developers. That doesn’t mean integrating those...
4 months ago
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The Challenges Faced by Multinational Teams and Japanese Companies

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4 months ago
It’s a fact that Japan needs more international developers. That doesn’t mean integrating those developers into Japanese companies, as well as Japanese society, is a simple process. But what are the most common challenges encountered by these companies with multinational...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
React Distros Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today...
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React Distros

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over a year ago
Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today and tomorrow
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Eric Bailey
I don’t want your job
over a year ago
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I don’t want your job

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Steve Klabnik
_why is a role, not a person
over a year ago
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_why is a role, not a person

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over a year ago
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Digging into git commit templates Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been...
a month ago
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Digging into git commit templates

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a month ago
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. – Eagleson’s Law After scouring git history, I found the correct config file, but someone removed it. Their full commit message read: Remove config. Don't bring...
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Making software...
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal...
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design

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over a year ago
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol' Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ...
10 months ago
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We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media

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10 months ago
PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ideas was to share our changelog updates in a…
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Maggie Appleton
Undetected AI Exam Answers A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A...
6 months ago
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Undetected AI Exam Answers

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6 months ago
A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study by Peter Scarfe, Kelly Watcham, Alasdair Clarke, Etienne Roesch
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David Heinemeier...
Where next for DEI? It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural...
a year ago
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Where next for DEI?

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a year ago
It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural world from 2020-2022, the reversal last year was astounding. The Supreme Court ruled the use of race in college admissions illegal, Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracst Research center fell...
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Basta’s Notes
🌈 Pride 2023 #1: Miles As a gay man, I am uniquely qualified to provide these details
over a year ago
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🌈 Pride 2023 #1: Miles

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over a year ago
As a gay man, I am uniquely qualified to provide these details
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Array 1.0.9 We’re in the thick of our release schedule this week! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update ...
over a year ago
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Array 1.0.9

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over a year ago
We’re in the thick of our release schedule this week! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features…
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Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: &quot;working in waves&quot; * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
over a year ago
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Ways to bootstrap a startup: &quot;working in waves&quot;

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer. I’d like to share some of my reflections...
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bt RSS Feed
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
over a year ago
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Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD

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over a year ago
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn’t cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
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Alex Meub
How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have...
over a year ago
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How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites

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over a year ago
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6. This means that visitors won’t be able to access your content with IPv6-only enabled which is not good. On top of that, I think its important to...
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alexwlchan
flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for exploring the Flickr API &rarr; I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a...
a year ago
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flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for exploring the Flickr API &rarr;

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a year ago
I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a couple of command-line tools to make a simple tool for exploring the API. They’re not meant for building “proper” apps, more for quick experiments and seeing what API responses...
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Yale E360
I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009. In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most...
a year ago
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I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009.

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a year ago
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
UI=f(org): UI is a Function of Your Organization The Domino’s “Pizza Tracker” is an intriguing piece of UI. As an end user, it provides the precision...
a year ago
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UI=f(org): UI is a Function of Your Organization

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a year ago
The Domino’s “Pizza Tracker” is an intriguing piece of UI. As an end user, it provides the precision of detail you want in tracking your order: Your order has been received Your pizza is being prepped Your pizza is in the oven Your pizza is being checked for quality by...
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Confessions of a...
Live Session: How Hyper-Threading (Simultaneous Multithreading) Works — A Microarchitectural... Learn about the microarchitecture implementation of SMT & its performance implications
a year ago
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Live Session: How Hyper-Threading (Simultaneous Multithreading) Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective

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a year ago
Learn about the microarchitecture implementation of SMT & its performance implications
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Yale E360
I'm moving my projects off GitHub It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I'm not necessarily advocating...
over a year ago
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I'm moving my projects off GitHub

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over a year ago
It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I'm not necessarily advocating for anyone else to do the same, but if my reasons resonate with you then you may want to consider it. I also don't expect this post to... matter, if that makes sense1. I'm not a...
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Blog of Simple...
How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level
5 months ago
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How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level

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5 months ago
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bt RSS Feed
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community....
over a year ago
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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer

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over a year ago
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Alphabet as Technology Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words: Thinking of a language as a technology...
over a year ago
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The Alphabet as Technology

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over a year ago
Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words: Thinking of a language as a technology or a product is strange at first but the more you look at them the more they resemble microwaves or dishwashers; incredibly complicated under the hood but also sort of boring on...
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MMapped blog
IC internals: orthogonal persistence
over a year ago
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IC internals: orthogonal persistence

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over a year ago
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Alex Meub
Hacking Amazon Dash Buttons The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable...
over a year ago
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Hacking Amazon Dash Buttons

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over a year ago
The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable internet-of-things button. It’s got built-in wifi, an onboard battery and best of all, a $4.99 price tag. How It Works The actual “hacking” of dash buttons has really nothing to do with the...
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HTMHell
Getting started with Web Performance 🚀 by Alistair Shepherd Carefully observing websites in the wild As the murderous...
a year ago
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Getting started with Web Performance 🚀

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a year ago
by Alistair Shepherd Carefully observing websites in the wild As the murderous tortoises start to converge on Ryūji’s hideout, they pull out their phone. It’s a cheap, older device but it’s survived the toils of the tortoise-ageddon well so far. Thankfully...
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David Gerrells
programming, i hate it There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
11 months ago
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programming, i hate it

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11 months ago
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
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Joel Gascoigne
Beware of the social ideas * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I...
over a year ago
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Beware of the social ideas

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I wrote about how to start your startup in 4 steps [https://joel.is/post/5507881155/how-to-start-your-startup-in-4-steps], and the first step I mention is to “Have an idea”. This can...
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David Crawshaw
Smaller Go 1.7 binaries blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
over a year ago
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Smaller Go 1.7 binaries

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over a year ago
blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
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samwho.dev
A Commitment to Art and Dogs .dog-line { display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; flex-direction: row; width: 100%; height:...
a year ago
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A Commitment to Art and Dogs

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a year ago
.dog-line { display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; flex-direction: row; width: 100%; height: 10rem; margin-top: 2rem; margin-bottom: 2rem; } .dog-line img { flex-grow: 1; height: auto; margin: 0; padding: 0; object-fit: contain; } .dog-grid { display:...
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TokyoDev
COVID-19 and IT Jobs in Japan The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially...
over a year ago
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COVID-19 and IT Jobs in Japan

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over a year ago
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially those looking to relocate to Japan from overseas. To help people understand the current situation with regards to IT jobs in Japan, I contacted [every company using...
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David Heinemeier...
Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an...
a month ago
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Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good

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a month ago
For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an 8-core/16-thread AMD 8745H CPU, which retails for $343 (or €379) as a bare-bone unit, and stays below $550, even after adding 48GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. I'm shocked to report that I really...
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A Beautiful Site
Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
over a year ago
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php

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over a year ago
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
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Maggie Appleton
DeepSeek If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you...
5 months ago
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DeepSeek

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5 months ago
If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you might not know what DeepSeek is yet. Bless you.
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Tony Finch's blog
BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be...
a year ago
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BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices

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

a year ago
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be useful in my previous blog posts, but which some readers might find informative. Some of them I learned the hard way, so I hope I can make it easier for others! contents of key...
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David Heinemeier...
Closing the borders alone won't fix the problems Denmark has been reaping lots of delayed accolades from its relatively strict immigration policy...
4 months ago
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Closing the borders alone won't fix the problems

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4 months ago
Denmark has been reaping lots of delayed accolades from its relatively strict immigration policy lately. The Swedes and the Germans in particular are now eager to take inspiration from The Danish Model, given their predicaments. The very same countries that until recently...
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Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
7 months ago
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Fourteen years

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

7 months ago
Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
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Yale E360
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
over a year ago
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Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
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Epic Web Dev
Your code style does matter actually (article) You may be babysitting JavaScript syntax. It's annoying and you don't have to. Fix your formatter!
a year ago
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Your code style does matter actually (article)

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a year ago
You may be babysitting JavaScript syntax. It's annoying and you don't have to. Fix your formatter!
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PostHog's RSS Feed
What I learned attending my first ever hackathon We sponsored the recent hackathon hosted by ElevenLabs – and I got to be in the room in San...
4 months ago
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What I learned attending my first ever hackathon

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

4 months ago
We sponsored the recent hackathon hosted by ElevenLabs – and I got to be in the room in San Francisco as it unfolded, and behind-the-scenes during…
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Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
10 months ago
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The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine

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10 months ago
A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
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Charles Chen
Need for Speed: LLMs Beyond OpenAI with .NET 8 SSE + Channels, Llama3, and Fireworks.ai If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and...
a year ago
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Need for Speed: LLMs Beyond OpenAI with .NET 8 SSE + Channels, Llama3, and Fireworks.ai

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

a year ago
If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and combine that with a backend capable of high-throughput concurrent processing.
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TokyoDev
Working as a Female Software Developer in Japan For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan)...
over a year ago
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Working as a Female Software Developer in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) would be a dream come true. As an Australian software developer who has been in Japan for 6 months, I’m one of those dreamers. If you’ve been looking to work in Japan for a while,...
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blag
Recurse Center Day 14: NoSQL Transactions I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 14: NoSQL Transactions

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over a year ago
I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
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swyx's site RSS Feed
You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox If you fit one of these criteria:
a year ago
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You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox

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a year ago
If you fit one of these criteria:
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Dan Quach Blog
Data Engineering Low Code Tools In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our...
over a year ago
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Data Engineering Low Code Tools

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

over a year ago
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our radar. Low code tools have their own nuances as you will get to operationalize quicker, but the minute you need to customize something outside of the toolbox, you may run into...
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Words and Buttons...
Using logical operators for logical operations is good A folow up on a guessing game with C++ operators. Let's redo a few rounds. The benchmark is the...
over a year ago
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Using logical operators for logical operations is good

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

over a year ago
A folow up on a guessing game with C++ operators. Let's redo a few rounds. The benchmark is the same, the questions are the same. The compiler is the same. The only thing that changes is the platform. This is now CHIP with ARMv7.
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Steve Klabnik
Emoji licensing
over a year ago
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Emoji licensing

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over a year ago
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Vadim Kravcenko
What to expect from the dev agency after MVP is done? Dear JK, Congratulations on reaching this pivotal moment with your MVP. It’s an exciting time, but I...
a year ago
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What to expect from the dev agency after MVP is done?

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

a year ago
Dear JK, Congratulations on reaching this pivotal moment with your MVP. It’s an exciting time, but I understand it’s also […] The post What to expect from the dev agency after MVP is done? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Grant Slatton
A peasant's plight On the shackling of the peasantry
8 months ago
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A peasant's plight

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8 months ago
On the shackling of the peasantry
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The Bear Manifesto An outline of my philosophy and direction for the platform
5 months ago
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The Bear Manifesto

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5 months ago
An outline of my philosophy and direction for the platform
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A Smart Bear
Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an...
a year ago
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Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters

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

a year ago
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
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HTMHell
The Gift You Do NOT Want: A Div in a Button's Clothing by Corina Murg With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a...
7 months ago
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The Gift You Do NOT Want: A Div in a Button's Clothing

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
by Corina Murg With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a button. In accessibility work, we spot these fakes and fix them, but teaching others why and how to do it is just as important. It’s not just about correcting a single mistake; it’s...
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David Heinemeier...
Singularity & Serenity The singularity is the point where artificial intelligence goes parabolic, surpassing humans writ...
3 months ago
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Singularity & Serenity

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3 months ago
The singularity is the point where artificial intelligence goes parabolic, surpassing humans writ large, and leads to rapid, unpredictable change. The intellectual seed of this concept was planted back in the '50s by early computer pioneer John von Neumann. So it’s been here...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
over a year ago
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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win

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

over a year ago
Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Beginner interaction design with Principle Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and...
over a year ago
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Beginner interaction design with Principle

from Daniel Immke's Blog Posts [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and beyond with the animations and…
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: October 2023
a year ago
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Privacy Monthly: October 2023

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a year ago
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Coding Horror
Thunderbolting Your Video Card When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an...
over a year ago
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Thunderbolting Your Video Card

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

over a year ago
When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I'm here to report that the future is now. Yes, that's
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Yale E360
Working with Rust in (neo)vim I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code. My first introduction to it was...
over a year ago
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Working with Rust in (neo)vim

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code. My first introduction to it was being thrown in the deep end in 2009 by my Intro to CS lab assistant, who told us to write our programs using vi1 on the department servers. Why he told us that, I have no idea. But...
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Steve Klabnik
Building StoreEngine
over a year ago
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Building StoreEngine

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over a year ago
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charity.wtf
On Versioning Observabilities (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…10.0?!?) Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker.  As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a...
6 months ago
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On Versioning Observabilities (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…10.0?!?)

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6 months ago
Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker.  As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a preview draft of her post: “PLEASE don’t post this! I feel like I spend all my time trying to help bring clarity and context to what’s happening in the market, and this is NOT...
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somenice
Familiar Lines of Nostalgic Proportions A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to...
a year ago
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Familiar Lines of Nostalgic Proportions

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
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...
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Yale E360
Kill the crunch time heroics Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
over a year ago
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Kill the crunch time heroics

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
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Hixie's Natural Log
The Future is Flutter Despite my departure from Google, I am not leaving Flutter — the great thing about open source and...
a year ago
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The Future is Flutter

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a year ago
Despite my departure from Google, I am not leaving Flutter — the great thing about open source and open standards is that the product and the employer are orthogonal. I've had three employers in my career, and in all three cases when I left my employer I continued my job. With...
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Tony Finch's blog
obfuscated C revisited The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly revamped web site, and the Judges have...
6 months ago
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obfuscated C revisited

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

6 months ago
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly revamped web site, and the Judges have announced the 28th contest, to coincide with its 40th anniversary. (Or 41st?) The Judges have also updated the archive of past winners so that as many of them as possible work on modern...
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Eric Bailey
slashbot
over a year ago
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slashbot

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over a year ago
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Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
a year ago
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Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)

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a year ago
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How to turn your engineers into product people Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our...
over a year ago
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How to turn your engineers into product people

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over a year ago
Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our engineers are encouraged to think about the what and…
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Basta’s Notes
Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
11 months ago
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Don't ask me to embarrass myself.

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11 months ago
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
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Founder's blog
Will AI kill B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7 months ago
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Will AI kill B2B SaaS?

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7 months ago
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Motorcycles, Cars, Websites, and Seams In high school, I had a friend named Joe who owned a Honda Trail 110, a small motorcycle with enough...
a year ago
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Motorcycles, Cars, Websites, and Seams

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a year ago
In high school, I had a friend named Joe who owned a Honda Trail 110, a small motorcycle with enough history for its own Wikipedia page. It didn’t go very fast (40MPH tops if you’re going downhill) but Joe rode that thing to school every day — or at least he tried, it often...
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bt RSS Feed
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
over a year ago
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll

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over a year ago
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
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Miguel Carranza
The privilege of free education There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the...
over a year ago
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The privilege of free education

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over a year ago
There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the closest school to their family home. A particular degree not being taught nearby, or not getting in (mostly due to the limited number of seats) are the main exceptions for traveling...
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Paolo Amoroso's...
The faded world: my experience with cataract <![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
6 months ago
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The faded world: my experience with cataract

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6 months ago
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came. In May of 2024 my ophthalmologist confirmed what I surmised: both of my eyes were affected by cataract. It came earlier than my age would suggest but that's...
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Blog of Simple...
German court rules Meta’s tracking tech violates GDPR
3 days ago
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German court rules Meta’s tracking tech violates GDPR

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3 days ago
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elementary Blog
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...
over a year ago
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elementary OS 7 Available Now

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over a year ago
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...
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David Heinemeier...
We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it...
a year ago
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We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines

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

a year ago
Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it takes our remote BuildKite-based continuous integration setup about 5m30s to verify a code change is ready to ship for HEY. My Intel 14900K-based Linux box can do that in less than...
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General Robots
Nailing the Demo So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to...
over a year ago
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Nailing the Demo

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over a year ago
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC, a potential customer, an executive or a journalist
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Evan Jones -...
Postgres large sub-string query performance Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on...
over a year ago
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Postgres large sub-string query performance

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over a year ago
Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on large variable-length strings. I wanted to check if sub-string queries might be faster than HSTORE or JSONB key lookups. I tested both binary (BYTEA) and Unicode text (TEXT)....
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The Pragmatic...
Who is Still Hiring Software Engineers and EMs? 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one...
over a year ago
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Who is Still Hiring Software Engineers and EMs?

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over a year ago
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here. This article was updated in December 2022. In the midst of gloomy
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Ode to An Event Apart I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The...
over a year ago
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An Ode to An Event Apart

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over a year ago
I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The event I remember most fondly is An Event Apart: Austin in 2013. In my memory (which, granted, might be fuzzy) that conference was more about ideas than any specific technology. What I...
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Julia Evans
How to add a directory to your PATH I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels...
4 months ago
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How to add a directory to your PATH

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4 months ago
I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for instructions for how to do it, I actually couldn’t find something that explained all of...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Job Screening Blog Post Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between...
8 months ago
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Job Screening Blog Post

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8 months ago
Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good fit. #designEngineering Email :: Mastodon :: Twitter #designEngineer
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blag
Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having...
over a year ago
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Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle

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over a year ago
When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having multiple merge commits and issues with keeping the forked repo in sync. This post addresses solutions for some of the problems.
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
On being “currently based anywhere” Currently based anywhere. That’s what I landed on when I changed the copy on my homepage indicating...
over a year ago
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On being “currently based anywhere”

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over a year ago
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…
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Computer Things
What Mob Programming is Bad At Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has...
a year ago
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What Mob Programming is Bad At

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a year ago
Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has been part of the programming milleau since at least the 90's (with extreme programming), while mobbing is more of a 10's thing. I'm going to use them interchangeably from here on out...
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Cognitive...
Uncensored Models I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
over a year ago
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Uncensored Models

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over a year ago
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Building an Infinite Spreadsheet As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think...
over a year ago
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Building an Infinite Spreadsheet

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over a year ago
As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think Figma (infinite canvas) meets Excel (spreadsheet) meets VSCode (IDE). In addition to formulas (e.g. SUM(A1:A5)) every cell in Quadratic can be the result of code (right now it’s...
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TokyoDev
The Best Resources for Entrepreneurial Developers My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about...
over a year ago
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The Best Resources for Entrepreneurial Developers

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over a year ago
My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about business, I've always found other entrepreneurial developers are the best source, as they tend to have faced similar challenges to my own. If you're a developer starting your own...
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blag
Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000 This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
over a year ago
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Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000

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over a year ago
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator (Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in...
over a year ago
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PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator

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over a year ago
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in funding and major new features - including plugins…
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired...
over a year ago
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Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring

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over a year ago
I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired for teams across engineering, ops, people, marketing…
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Genius of Apple's Name An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
over a year ago
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The Genius of Apple's Name

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over a year ago
An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
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Founder's blog
Cross-Post: Migrating a 1TB database from Win to Linux with no downtime For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story...
over a year ago
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Cross-Post: Migrating a 1TB database from Win to Linux with no downtime

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over a year ago
For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story on migrating a huge database from Linux to Windows with no downtime. Check it out. TL;DR: we spawned a Linux version of SQL Server and moved the database using "log-shipping"....
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bt RSS Feed
Stay Hungry Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
over a year ago
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Stay Hungry

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over a year ago
Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
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dthompson
Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow...
over a year ago
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Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 released

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over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow moving project but the last (and only) release was in 2018 so this release is long overdue. Guile-syntax-highlight is a general-purpose syntax highlighting library for GNU Guile. It...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
11 months ago
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Winner, Name that Ware June 2024

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11 months ago
The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
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Irrational...
How to effectively refine engineering strategy. In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice, he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs. His...
6 months ago
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How to effectively refine engineering strategy.

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6 months ago
In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice, he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs. His premise is that you should cheaply test new ideas before fully committing to them. Your organization can only afford firing a small number of cannonballs, but it can bankroll far more...
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The Codist
Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management. I did as well, but a...
a year ago
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Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different

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a year ago
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management. I did as well, but a difference is that I started my career in 1981, long before the hordes of Scrums took root. 1981, you say, so you must have done Waterfall, so you are old and have
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Epic Web Dev
Use Isolation to Solve Complex Problems (tip) When faced with a complex problem, try isolating it by creating a minimal example in a temporary...
over a year ago
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Use Isolation to Solve Complex Problems (tip)

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over a year ago
When faced with a complex problem, try isolating it by creating a minimal example in a temporary project directory.
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Nelson's Weblog
The Sandbaggers I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the...
a year ago
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The Sandbaggers

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a year ago
I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the show name-checks James Bond frequently the soul of it is more of a Le Carré thing. Intelligence as a series of dismal political battles between underpaid civil servants at the home...
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the jsomers.net blog
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
over a year ago
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Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant

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over a year ago
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
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alexwlchan
A day out at the Bure Valley Railway Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north...
over a year ago
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A day out at the Bure Valley Railway

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over a year ago
Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north Norfolk. I came across it quite by chance – I was driving through Aylsham to get to a B&B, and I spotted a sign pointing to the railway. I checked the website for a timetable,...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Shadowing in Python gave me an UnboundLocalError There's this thing in Python that always trips me up. It's not that tricky, once you know what...
3 months ago
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Shadowing in Python gave me an UnboundLocalError

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3 months ago
There's this thing in Python that always trips me up. It's not that tricky, once you know what you're looking for, but it's not intuitive for me, so I do forget. It's that shadowing a variable can sometimes give you an UnboundLocalError! It happened to me last week while working...
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Code Of Honor
HandmadeCon 2015 interview transcript In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey...
9 months ago
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HandmadeCon 2015 interview transcript

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9 months ago
In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey Muratori about game development. The event included five speakers: Tommy Refenes, Mike Acton, Jonathan Blow, Ron Gilbert, and myself. The event was hosted at the Seattle Public Library,...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
250k downloads of Latent Space Pod I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
a year ago
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250k downloads of Latent Space Pod

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a year ago
I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
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Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app back to my personal weight lows!
a year ago
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Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app

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a year ago
back to my personal weight lows!
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Blog of Simple...
Searching for GA4 Alternatives? Top 10 Reliable Options for Google Analyticss
over a year ago
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Searching for GA4 Alternatives? Top 10 Reliable Options for Google Analyticss

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over a year ago
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35 Principles for 35 Years I turn 35 today. Here are 35 principles I have accumulated and try to live by.
over a year ago
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35 Principles for 35 Years

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over a year ago
I turn 35 today. Here are 35 principles I have accumulated and try to live by.
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Maggie Appleton
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
over a year ago
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The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

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over a year ago
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2024 Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification)...
8 months ago
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Winner, Name that Ware September 2024

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8 months ago
Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification) to perform a fast and sensitive detection of nucleic acid sequences. Thanks again to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware for me to take apart and photograph! Nobody had...
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Eric Bailey
accessiBe and the false David vs. Goliath narrative immediately stop creating harm for the people trying to use your website or web app. Remove...
over a year ago
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accessiBe and the false David vs. Goliath narrative

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over a year ago
immediately stop creating harm for the people trying to use your website or web app. Remove accessiBe’s one line of embed code, ride out your contract’s remaining time, and don’t renew—treat the cost as lesson learned. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of accessibility...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Name Things > There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
over a year ago
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How To Name Things

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over a year ago
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
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Alex Meub
A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a...
over a year ago
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A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup

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over a year ago
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x2TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all...
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Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
over a year ago
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators

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over a year ago
A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
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bt RSS Feed
Looping Through Jekyll Collections Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my...
over a year ago
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Looping Through Jekyll Collections

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over a year ago
Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my wife’s personal recipe website (cookingwith.casa) which I hadn’t touched in quite a while. The Jekyll build still worked fine, but I realized I was statically adding each collection by...
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A Beautiful Site
CSS shapes are here Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but...
over a year ago
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CSS shapes are here

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over a year ago
Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but you haven't had a chance to see what can actually be done with CSS shapes yet. (Hint: check out the featured image above.) Razvan Caliman explains it like this: For a long time, web...
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Maggie Appleton
The Knowledge Hydrant Illustrated notes on the Knowledge Hydrant guide to collaborative learning
over a year ago
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The Knowledge Hydrant

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over a year ago
Illustrated notes on the Knowledge Hydrant guide to collaborative learning
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Blog System/5
Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
a year ago
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Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle

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a year ago
A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
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Josh Comeau's blog
Delightful React File/Directory Structure How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a...
over a year ago
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Delightful React File/Directory Structure

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over a year ago
How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a solution I'm really happy with. In this blog post, I'll share how it works, what the tradeoffs are, and how I mitigate them.
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Irrational...
Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles. The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering...
10 months ago
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Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles.

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10 months ago
The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering leadership styles. It’s an interesting chapter to me peronally, precisely because it’s not something I would have agreed with or written five years ago. This past Friday I gave a...
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Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
over a year ago
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Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools

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over a year ago
The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
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Liz Denys
Save your old bio: it stores confidence as well as content I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site,...
over a year ago
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Save your old bio: it stores confidence as well as content

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over a year ago
I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site, or form says "introduce yourself, no pressure," I shrink back. How do I convince myself that other people find who I am or what I do interesting? I found myself asking this question...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Grateful: Colors in console.log() So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every...
9 months ago
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Grateful: Colors in console.log()

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9 months ago
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values. I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50%...
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Irrational...
Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty. Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts...
12 months ago
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Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty.

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12 months ago
Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts here. Although I covered some parts of this in Your first 90 days as CTO (understanding product analytics, shadowing customer support, talking to customers, and talking with your...
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A Beautiful Site
Better Buttons with color-mix() and Custom Properties Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically....
a year ago
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Better Buttons with color-mix() and Custom Properties

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a year ago
Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically. For this experiment, we'll use CSS Custom Properties, color-mix(), and OKLCH to ensure that tints and shades are perceptually uniform. To keep things simple, we'll follow today's...
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Blog System/5
To C or not to C That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend
a year ago
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To C or not to C

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a year ago
That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend
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A Beautiful Site
A user interface is like a joke When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good...
over a year ago
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A user interface is like a joke

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over a year ago
When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good rule of thumb: A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good. And I've heard some websites tell pretty bad jokes...
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Max Countryman
Data for Decisions Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our...
over a year ago
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Data for Decisions

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over a year ago
Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our businesses. That said, the value of data is rarely the data itself but instead the insights we derive from it. In order to ensure these insights are meaningful and impactful it's...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines

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over a year ago
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
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TokyoDev
Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
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Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT

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over a year ago
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.21.0 Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into...
over a year ago
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Array 1.21.0

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over a year ago
Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into the overall stability of PostHog squashing dozens…
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alexwlchan
We all lose when art is anonymised One rabbit hole I can never resist going down is finding the original creator of a piece of...
4 months ago
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We all lose when art is anonymised

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4 months ago
One rabbit hole I can never resist going down is finding the original creator of a piece of art. This sounds simple, but it’s often quite difficult. The Internet is a maze of social media accounts that only exist to repost other people’s art, usually with minimal or non-existent...
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A Smart Bear
The Lindy Effect on startup potential On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
a year ago
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The Lindy Effect on startup potential

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a year ago
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here, but 10x?
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samwho.dev
Having a Baby During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
over a year ago
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Having a Baby

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over a year ago
During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn. This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #17: The personal traits that can't be taught Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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HogMail #17: The personal traits that can't be taught

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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Blogpost Annealing Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
over a year ago
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Blogpost Annealing

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over a year ago
Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
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ByteofDev
Array.map() versus Array.forEach() Learn the difference between Array.map() and Array.forEach() and how to use each in JavaScript
over a year ago
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Array.map() versus Array.forEach()

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over a year ago
Learn the difference between Array.map() and Array.forEach() and how to use each in JavaScript
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Nelson's Weblog
Cronometer is a good food diary Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge...
a year ago
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Cronometer is a good food diary

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a year ago
Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge improvement over MyFitnessPal (MFP) or Lose It and is not exploitative like Noom. The key improvement with Cronometer is accuracy, particularly good data sources for nutrition...
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Eric Bailey
A conversation can be an output
over a year ago
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A conversation can be an output

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over a year ago
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Computer Things
[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth...
3 months ago
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[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers

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3 months ago
My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth playing if you've never enjoyed a video game before. Patreon notes here. (April Cools is a project where we write genuine content on non-normal topics. You can see all the other April...
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for...
over a year ago
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Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition

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over a year ago
It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for Hacktoberfest again. I am in the middle of buying…
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David Gerrells
how to use web workers with typescript A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and...
over a year ago
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how to use web workers with typescript

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over a year ago
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and limits
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Liz Denys
Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced...
over a year ago
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Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry

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

over a year ago
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
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Max Countryman
Grow In Public There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are...
over a year ago
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Grow In Public

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over a year ago
There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are barriers that can make this difficult or even impossible. Here's how we build a culture that enables building in public.
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The Pragmatic...
Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The...
over a year ago
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Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend

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over a year ago
I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The most popular are Cloudflare, Namecheap and Porkbun. Why do devs like them?
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Dan Slimmon
Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As...
over a year ago
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Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability

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over a year ago
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As long as we’re creating standards for incidents, let’s track Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) and Mean-Time-To-Detection (MTTD) and Mean-time-Between-Failures (MTBF)!” they say things...
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Alex Meub
Understanding CSS Position This post is a summary of the different values of the CSS position property. It assumes you have...
over a year ago
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Understanding CSS Position

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over a year ago
This post is a summary of the different values of the CSS position property. It assumes you have knowledge of basic document flow. Absolute Position position: absolute elements are removed from the normal document flow and will be positioned relative to their next parent with...
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Confessions of a...
Why Do Python Lists Multiply Oddly? Exploring the CPython Source Code A look at the internals of list implementation in CPython to understand this weird quirk about them
a year ago
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Why Do Python Lists Multiply Oddly? Exploring the CPython Source Code

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a year ago
A look at the internals of list implementation in CPython to understand this weird quirk about them
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
On being a great gift-giver I received a great gift that I love
9 months ago
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On being a great gift-giver

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9 months ago
I received a great gift that I love
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James Vaughan's blog
Counting Usernames from Malicious Login Attempts
over a year ago
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Counting Usernames from Malicious Login Attempts

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over a year ago
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bt RSS Feed
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
over a year ago
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox

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over a year ago
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven’t seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
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Blog of Simple...
Meta loses key privacy battle
a year ago
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Meta loses key privacy battle

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a year ago
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Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
over a year ago
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We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May

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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
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Irrational...
ReadME contribution on reliability programs. I was excited to contribute an article, Move past incident response to reliability to Github’s The...
over a year ago
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ReadME contribution on reliability programs.

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over a year ago
I was excited to contribute an article, Move past incident response to reliability to Github’s The ReadME project. This topic was particularly on my mind when I wrote it towards the end of last year, when I was focused on my Infrastructure Engineering project. That project is a...
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Eric Bailey
On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes. I could...
a year ago
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On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility

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a year ago
A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes. I could delicately, patiently, and painstakingly debunk the gigantic, misplaced swing of a man who is burning others' lived experience as fuel to propel his increasingly irrelevant career. I could...
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Oxide Computer...
Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and...
7 months ago
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Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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7 months ago
Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and HPC Convergence Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a plan to bring on-premises cloud computing capabilities to the Livermore...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Digital Garden Terms of Service This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who...
over a year ago
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Digital Garden Terms of Service

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

over a year ago
This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.
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Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine

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over a year ago
One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and when?
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the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
over a year ago
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Most book clubs are doing it wrong

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over a year ago
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
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37signals Dev
Thruster is now open source We’ve just released Thruster as open source! Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote...
a year ago
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Thruster is now open source

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a year ago
We’ve just released Thruster as open source! Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote to make it easier to serve a Rails application with great performance and security. It runs alongside your existing Puma process, and adds: HTTP/2 support SSL (via Let’s Encrypt,...
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Dan Quach Blog
Europe These are a mix of stories from Norway, Croatia, and Slovenia from some past trips. Make Serbia...
5 months ago
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Europe

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5 months ago
These are a mix of stories from Norway, Croatia, and Slovenia from some past trips. Make Serbia Great Again Our first stop is the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia, which has become well known being the primary filming location for Game of Thrones seasons 2 – 8.  I watched the series,...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Be Mindful of What You Make Easy Carson Gross has a post about vendoring which brought back memories of how I used to build websites...
2 months ago
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Be Mindful of What You Make Easy

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
Carson Gross has a post about vendoring which brought back memories of how I used to build websites in ye olden days, back in the dark times before npm. “Vendoring” is where you copy dependency source files directly into your project (usually in a folder called /vendor) and then...
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Making software...
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup 2020-08-16 I don't like the idea of throwing away old or outdated tech...
over a year ago
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Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup

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over a year ago
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup 2020-08-16 I don't like the idea of throwing away old or outdated tech (within reason), so I try to find a new purpose for some of my "retired" devices. This article will cover how to switch over a mid-2011 model MacBook Air to utilize Linux...
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Ink & Switch
06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
a year ago
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06 · Simple branching

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a year ago
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
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A Beautiful Site
Generate random passwords in PHP Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
over a year ago
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Generate random passwords in PHP

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over a year ago
Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
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Joel on Software
Strange and maddening rules There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get...
over a year ago
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Strange and maddening rules

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over a year ago
There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work. Read more "Strange and maddening rules"
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Making software...
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
over a year ago
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts

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over a year ago
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it's relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
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Alice GG
Building a container orchestrator Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and...
a week ago
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Building a container orchestrator

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a week ago
Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website...
over a year ago
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How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS

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

over a year ago
The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website if you use Transistor. But also it's a simple guide to do clientside customizations of almost any website whose code you don't control.
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Alice GG
Introducing Mikochi: a minimalist remote file browser Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and...
over a year ago
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Introducing Mikochi: a minimalist remote file browser

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

over a year ago
Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and containers in my free time. One of the things I have running is a Media Server, which I use to access my collection of movies and shows (that I evidently own and ripped myself). To...
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A Beautiful Site
Working with HTML5 data attributes Before HTML5, working with arbitrary data sucked. To keep things valid, you had to stuff things into...
over a year ago
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Working with HTML5 data attributes

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over a year ago
Before HTML5, working with arbitrary data sucked. To keep things valid, you had to stuff things into rel or class attributes. Some developers even created their own custom attributes. Boy, was it a mess. But that all changed with the introduction of HTML5 custom data attributes....
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Vadim Kravcenko
I’m sorry Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
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I’m sorry

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a year ago
Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Maggie Appleton
Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks How to build a digital garden without touching code
over a year ago
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Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks

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over a year ago
How to build a digital garden without touching code
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Copper • A blog...
Making my own sharpening blocks When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use...
9 months ago
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Making my own sharpening blocks

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken. I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel...
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Steve Klabnik
A blip in time
over a year ago
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A blip in time

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over a year ago
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Ink & Switch
Patchwork 10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
a year ago
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Patchwork 10 · Beyond prose

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a year ago
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
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The Pragmatic...
An explosion in software engineers using AI coding tools? GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the...
over a year ago
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An explosion in software engineers using AI coding tools?

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over a year ago
GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the results and add context on how the survey was conducted.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons" My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
over a year ago
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Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons"

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over a year ago
My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
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Yale E360
Fight Burnout, Go For a Run Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We...
over a year ago
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Fight Burnout, Go For a Run

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We need to talk about it. We need to know how to deal with it and recover from it. And we need to recognize that everyone can come back from it, stronger than ever. In the software...
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Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
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Introducing Notez

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over a year ago
Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
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Common Beginner Mistakes with React I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped...
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Common Beginner Mistakes with React

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over a year ago
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a...
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Ralph Ammer
J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson...
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J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world

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over a year ago
A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist. The post J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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Confessions of a...
Recording: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler Yesterday, we did the live session on the internals of remote sampling profilers.
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Recording: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler

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a year ago
Yesterday, we did the live session on the internals of remote sampling profilers.
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alexwlchan
What mammal is that? I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take...
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What mammal is that?

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a year ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held...
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Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or...
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Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow

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4 months ago
I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate. I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
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Grant Slatton
Onsen Unreality Our experience at an onsen 'theme park' in Tokyo
12 months ago
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Onsen Unreality

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12 months ago
Our experience at an onsen 'theme park' in Tokyo
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Alice GG
Why diversification matters for long-term investors? Meet Shannon's Demon Any introduction to finance will mention that diversification is extremely important. Intuitively,...
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Why diversification matters for long-term investors? Meet Shannon's Demon

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over a year ago
Any introduction to finance will mention that diversification is extremely important. Intuitively, it is easy to understand that diversification reduces risks. If I own stocks in two companies, and one of them goes bankrupt, I lose less than if I had invested all my money in...
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