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I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center! It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three...
11th Sep 2022
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I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!

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

11th Sep 2022
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!). I've also struggled with depression...
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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love....
24th Apr 2020
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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket

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

24th Apr 2020
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love. The marled combinations of oranges, pinks, blues, and purples were calling to me, so I ordered a kit right away. Other knitters commented that while they loved the pattern, the...
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Profiling Rust programs the easy way Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
4th Dec 2023
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Profiling Rust programs the easy way

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

4th Dec 2023
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need. So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that? Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
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Hiring Executives & Bad Advice When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of...
2nd Feb 2021
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Hiring Executives & Bad Advice

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

2nd Feb 2021
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at...
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Hotel Guest User Agent Data I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country....
5th May 2012
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Hotel Guest User Agent Data

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

5th May 2012
I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country. This data is very different from say: StatCounter or NetApplications estimates because they rely on getting their data from trackers on specific websites. The data I pulled comes...
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Introducing TongueType I just launched my first macOS app called TongueType. It's voice dictation that runs entirely on...
14th May 2026
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Introducing TongueType

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

14th May 2026
I just launched my first macOS app called TongueType. It's voice dictation that runs entirely on your Mac. Hold a key, speak, release, and your words appear wherever your cursor happens to be. I build small, simple, stable software. TongueType fits that description, and it...
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What I'm up to - September 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing,...
1st Sep 2022
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What I'm up to - September 2022

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

1st Sep 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing, Walden-esque week in Mexico City, spent mostly in Parque México. I spent a lot of time reading - includi...
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in...
3rd Mar 2021
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values

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

3rd Mar 2021
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
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Knowledge Laundering I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
2nd Aug 2023
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Knowledge Laundering

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

2nd Aug 2023
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me: Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
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The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying On Evitability in Use of AI If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it...
3rd Mar 2026
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The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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

3rd Mar 2026
On Evitability in Use of AI If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it is over. Strangely though, despite now years of LLM-powered tooling, the results look, feel and function mostly the same as they ever did: barely. It's undeniable there's a metric...
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Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
16th Feb 2024
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Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Feb 2024
I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
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PHP: Avatar Hack A php script that generates an image for use as an avatar.
9th Oct 2008
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PHP: Avatar Hack

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

9th Oct 2008
A php script that generates an image for use as an avatar.
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Recomposed: Spring 1 A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about...
1st May 2023
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Recomposed: Spring 1

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

1st May 2023
A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about JWT tokens, session IDs and OAuth. I am not an engineer and I don't pretend to be one. I have web development chops, but I loathe JavaScript and lean into my design background (CSS...
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Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and...
7th Nov 2023
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Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire

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

7th Nov 2023
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and richer UIs grew, teams came up with different frontends to deliver on those expectations. Client-side frameworks such as Angular, Ember, and React emerged as popular choices. One of...
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Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general...
22nd Jun 2022
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Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2022
I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general machine learning. From Bayesian beginnings to GANs and CNNs, I’m all about data, ML and all of the promises it’s future holds. The problems it can solve today seemed impossible...
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Thoughts on Framework Churn I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
16th Nov 2023
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Thoughts on Framework Churn

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

16th Nov 2023
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster. Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
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June 2023
1st Jun 2023
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June 2023

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

1st Jun 2023
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On The End of Bitcoin [This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date...
24th May 2022
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On The End of Bitcoin

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

24th May 2022
[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date was May 24th, 2022. I have not added new content.]Is there some scientific literature/scenario planning on the End of Bitcoin? With the next two halvings mining income will shift...
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Ways to bootstrap a startup: "working in waves" * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
5th Dec 2010
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Ways to bootstrap a startup: "working in waves"

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

5th Dec 2010
* 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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Is Computer Science Really that Hard? Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science...
5th Apr 2023
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Is Computer Science Really that Hard?

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

5th Apr 2023
Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science is hard. You want to know if it’s too hard. You want to know if having to learn computer science is going to be a real obstacle in your way to achieving your goal.
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Adding unpack syntax to RCL
7th Dec 2025
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Adding unpack syntax to RCL

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
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Creating order from chaos in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
6th Mar 2011
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Creating order from chaos in a startup

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

6th Mar 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I wanted to share my experiences and...
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ASAP ASAP ¶ASAP When asking for something, it’s really pointless to attach the typical “as soon as...
2nd Nov 2015
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ASAP

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

2nd Nov 2015
ASAP ¶ASAP When asking for something, it’s really pointless to attach the typical “as soon as possible” to the end. Here’s why: What I think you mean when you use the phrase “as soon as possible” or, even worse, “ASAP”: I really want this now or sooner. I don’t care what you’re...
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My career and a thought experiment As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training...
19th Jan 2025
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My career and a thought experiment

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

19th Jan 2025
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training courses to run yet, and since a few of the projects I worked on wrapped up in December, I find myself with a little bit of extra time and headspace on my hands. I actually enjoy these...
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#30 Bullet “list” Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p>...
13th Jan 2022
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#30 Bullet “list”

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2022
Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p> for paragraphs, not lists. The standard way for creating basic lists is <ul> (when the order doesn't matter) or <ol> (when the order matters), and <li> for each item. The “list”...
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Life Check №2 I'm not so sure I like calling these "Life checks"...perhaps going forward I will call them...
9th Sep 2024
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Life Check №2

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

9th Sep 2024
I'm not so sure I like calling these "Life checks"...perhaps going forward I will call them something else. Maybe time to bring back The Web Witch's Grimoire but make it monthly. Much to my dismay, it's already September, and I'm sat here looking back on the last three months...
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Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
8th Jan 2025
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Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook

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

8th Jan 2025
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
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SQLite commits are not durable under default settings SQLite doesn’t do fsync unless specified.
24th Aug 2025
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SQLite commits are not durable under default settings

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Aug 2025
SQLite doesn’t do fsync unless specified.
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Getting $3300 from a casino promotion New York State legalized mobile sports gambling in January 2022. The casinos offered crazy...
22nd Jan 2022
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Getting $3300 from a casino promotion

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

22nd Jan 2022
New York State legalized mobile sports gambling in January 2022. The casinos offered crazy promotions to get people signed up. The craziest offered $3300 of free money. I did the math, and there was a low risk way to claim this money. As long as you placed 11 or more bets, you...
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Ein potenzieller Kunde hat mich fast meinen Google-Account gekostet Read the post here.
29th May 2026
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Ein potenzieller Kunde hat mich fast meinen Google-Account gekostet

from Max Schmitt [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th May 2026
Read the post here.
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Moonlight's pitch deck In 2017, I co-founded Moonlight as a professional community for software developers with Emma...
15th Oct 2020
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Moonlight's pitch deck

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

15th Oct 2020
In 2017, I co-founded Moonlight as a professional community for software developers with Emma Lawler. We were both leaving San Francisco, and wanted to make it easier for all developers to find specia...
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What I'm up to - June 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jun 2025
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What I'm up to - June 2025

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

1st Jun 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - On Contraption Company, I published An app of one's own about building a personal ...
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Thrice charmed at Rails World The first Rails World in Amsterdam was a roaring success back in 2023. Tickets sold out in 45...
6th Sep 2025
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Thrice charmed at Rails World

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

6th Sep 2025
The first Rails World in Amsterdam was a roaring success back in 2023. Tickets sold out in 45 minutes, the atmosphere was electric, and The Rails Foundation set a new standard for conference execution in the Ruby community. So when we decided to return to the Dutch Capital for...
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Meeting philosophy Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if...
8th Sep 2023
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Meeting philosophy

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

8th Sep 2023
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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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating...
2nd Sep 2024
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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console

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

2nd Sep 2024
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
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Website Contrast Ratio in Practice While perusing Hacker News I ran across a single-page site called Contrast Rebellion— which I...
27th Jul 2012
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Website Contrast Ratio in Practice

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

27th Jul 2012
While perusing Hacker News I ran across a single-page site called Contrast Rebellion— which I understand has created a bit of controversy. I think the point espoused by Contrast Rebellion is both well-made and well-taken (despite the host of straw-man style arguments to...
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The profile link relation and you
6th May 2013
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The profile link relation and you

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2013
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My path to OpenAI I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing...
3rd May 2016
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My path to OpenAI

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

3rd May 2016
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
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Personal tools I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking...
3rd Apr 2025
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Personal tools

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

3rd Apr 2025
I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking application, and a keylogger that let me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty charts. I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my...
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A lazy dark mode A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
20th Jun 2020
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A lazy dark mode

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

20th Jun 2020
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
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Year X
7th Apr 2024
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Year X

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2024
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Opening a new window after an async operation I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in...
28th Aug 2018
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Opening a new window after an async operation

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

28th Aug 2018
I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in a new window. However, I needed to fetch the target URL from the server first, then open the window. Kinda like this: const button =...
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The best general advice on earth These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology,...
26th Jul 2012
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The best general advice on earth

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

26th Jul 2012
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, "Habit": The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at...
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
22nd Nov 2018
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid

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

22nd Nov 2018
Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
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How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast Merkle Trees in the real world
10th May 2025
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How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast

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

10th May 2025
Merkle Trees in the real world
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The next iteration of Contraption Company From indiehacker back to venture-funded founder
6th Sep 2024
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The next iteration of Contraption Company

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

6th Sep 2024
From indiehacker back to venture-funded founder
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A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
4th Nov 2024
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A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries

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

4th Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
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Specialization considered harmful It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to...
3rd Apr 2023
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Specialization considered harmful

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

3rd Apr 2023
It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to specialize early in their careers. I think his advice is misguided. In my opinion, having a wide range of knowledge is in many cases more important than being extremely good at a very...
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Timothy Gu
1st May 2018
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Timothy Gu

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

1st May 2018
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how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
13th Oct 2024
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how not to run a saas company

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

13th Oct 2024
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
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Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
1st Dec 2024
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Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python

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

1st Dec 2024
I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
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Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
6th Jan 2019
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Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders

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

6th Jan 2019
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
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Postleaf: reimagined It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
26th Apr 2017
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Postleaf: reimagined

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

26th Apr 2017
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!) Today, I'm...
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Polar Pong
10th Jun 2012
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Polar Pong

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

10th Jun 2012
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Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you Originally posted on the Stack Overflow blog on June 10th, 2024 When I was 19 years old, I dropped...
10th Jun 2024
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Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you

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

10th Jun 2024
Originally posted on the Stack Overflow blog on June 10th, 2024 When I was 19 years old, I dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco. I had a job offer in hand to be a Unix sysadmin for Taos Consulting. However, before my first day of work I was lured away to a […]
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Dynamic Slots Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
19th Jul 2023
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Dynamic Slots

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

19th Jul 2023
Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with them? Here's an interesting technique to use (or abuse) slots in your custom elements. I've been calling the pattern dynamic slots. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at how...
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What I'm up to - October 2022 ✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time...
1st Oct 2022
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What I'm up to - October 2022

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

1st Oct 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time 🐻 - Shipped an archive page, social sharing improvements, and a showcase of customer websites for P...
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The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
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The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

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

22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
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Box combinators
1st Jun 2025
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Box combinators

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2025
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What I'm up to - October 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2024
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What I'm up to - October 2024

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

1st Oct 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - I've started publishing on Contraption Company every Friday. My posts last month: I...
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Entry Level Jobs in Japan *Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...
12th Mar 2012
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Entry Level Jobs in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2012
*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.* When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....
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ReRobot
1st Sep 2010
1

ReRobot

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

1st Sep 2010
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Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to...
10th Jul 2024
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Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad

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

10th Jul 2024
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
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Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced...
18th Aug 2021
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Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP

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

18th Aug 2021
I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to-end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless...
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I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac...
7th Aug 2026
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I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store

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

7th Aug 2026
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac App Store. Today, I decided to pull it. The app isn't a new idea, but it bakes four color tools into a single menu bar app: an eyedropper, a color picker, a palette manager, and a...
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2015-06-01 "Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same...
1st Jun 2015
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2015-06-01

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

1st Jun 2015
"Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same port number on the host, and the same file and fragment of the file. Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be resolved into the same IP...
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with...
19th May 2022
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard

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

19th May 2022
Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with newsletters and blogs as the ways I stay in touch. Not many people have blogs - so I built a bot to le...
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React’s useTransition and state update reordering Clarifying how React will sometimes apply state updates out of order when using concurrent features,...
16th Aug 2025
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React’s useTransition and state update reordering

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

16th Aug 2025
Clarifying how React will sometimes apply state updates out of order when using concurrent features, and a best practice which can help you avoid it.
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What I'm up to - February 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2026
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What I'm up to - February 2026

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

1st Feb 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Busy month at Chroma - including launching a case study with Mintlify who recently ...
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The Startup Drake Equation Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an...
2nd Feb 2025
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The Startup Drake Equation

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

2nd Feb 2025
Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an answer, and a path to increase the chance of success.
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Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests too optimistic...
8th Dec 2024
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Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting

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

8th Dec 2024
Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests too optimistic (assuming the code already works), or too persnickety (testing the irrelevant)?
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental...
9th Feb 2021
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions

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

9th Feb 2021
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
2nd Apr 2023
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201

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

2nd Apr 2023
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a “downgrade” in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
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Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac) Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an...
10th May 2022
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Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac)

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

10th May 2022
Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone. Here are a few options to get around that problem.
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Kyua graduates The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
2nd Aug 2024
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Kyua graduates

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

2nd Aug 2024
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
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Have a single definition of “now” I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing...
4th Jun 2023
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Have a single definition of “now”

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2023
I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing help: function today(): Date { return new Date(); } It’s not very sophisticated – it just returns the current time – but we use it everywhere we need to get the current time. (You...
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Reasoning with Regret Reasoning with Regret 2018-07-16 I avoid looking to biographies for advice, most of all for anyone...
16th Jul 2018
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Reasoning with Regret

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

16th Jul 2018
Reasoning with Regret 2018-07-16 I avoid looking to biographies for advice, most of all for anyone in the business world who is focused on spinning an origin story. There is one however which I read by accident years ago that I keep returning to: … From the .Princeton 2010...
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2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
7th Jan 2020
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2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2020
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
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Ballad of The Lean Startup An ode to validated learning.
26th Sep 2011
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Ballad of The Lean Startup

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

26th Sep 2011
An ode to validated learning.
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Visas for Software Engineers in Japan Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in...
2nd Mar 2020
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Visas for Software Engineers in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2020
Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) is relatively easy compared to other countries. It costs a company almost nothing to sponsor your visa, there aren't any quotas on the number of visas issued, and the...
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Anchoring Software to Major Versions In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see...
24th May 2024
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Anchoring Software to Major Versions

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

24th May 2024
In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see software projects anchor themselves to major versions for long periods of time, usually with the promise of stability. We all know how frustrating it is to upgrade a package and run...
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TouchClock
30th Dec 2010
1

TouchClock

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

30th Dec 2010
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A comprehensive list of failed projects A comprehensive list of failed projects
27th Dec 2021
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A comprehensive list of failed projects

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

27th Dec 2021
A comprehensive list of failed projects
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Goodreads lost all of my reviews Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully...
28th Feb 2022
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Goodreads lost all of my reviews

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

28th Feb 2022
Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I've never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their...
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Are we the baddies? I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every...
5th Jul 2025
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Are we the baddies?

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

5th Jul 2025
I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every morning and feel okay about themselves? Similarly with the tip screens, Uber algorithm, all the zero sum bullshit using all the tricks of psychology to extract a little bit more...
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The many benefits of paying for search “Wait, you PAY for search?” We get this reaction a lot about Kagi.
18th Aug 2025
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The many benefits of paying for search

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

18th Aug 2025
“Wait, you PAY for search?” We get this reaction a lot about Kagi.
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What we lost when we lost comments Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.
2 weeks ago
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What we lost when we lost comments

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

2 weeks ago
Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.
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Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on > Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
20th Feb 2017
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Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on

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

20th Feb 2017
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/]. We’ve always done things differently at Buffer. For me, this has always come from a natural desire to question things. Why base your company and team in a single location? Why is...
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How to clean up after your NextJS dev server Sometimes you need to modify files when building a web application that must be reverted before...
10th Nov 2023
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How to clean up after your NextJS dev server

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Nov 2023
Sometimes you need to modify files when building a web application that must be reverted before committing. In my case I’m building a Chrome extension that reads from a NextJS based web service, and when I’m working on the browser extension it reads from http://localhost:3005, so...
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Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast. Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My...
8th Mar 2024
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Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast.

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

8th Mar 2024
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My approach is derived from a different field in which groups of experts with various levels of context need to reason together about problems in a complex, dynamic system:...
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Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in...
1st Aug 2023
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Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥

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

1st Aug 2023
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself – Junio C Hamano, [email protected]: expired key in junio-gpg-pub Git ships with the maintainer’s public key. But you won’t find it in your worktree—it’s...
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A better way to write config files in PHP How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name...
2nd May 2016
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A better way to write config files in PHP

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

2nd May 2016
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name = 'somedb'; $db_user = 'someuser'; $db_pass = 'somepass'; Then, of course, it gets included and the variables are referenced as globals: include('config.php'); echo $db_host; //...
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The Lindy Effect on startup potential On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
9th Jun 2024
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The Lindy Effect on startup potential

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

9th Jun 2024
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here, but 10x?
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A new home for all my apps: apps.chofter.com Say hello to apps.chofter.com, the new home for everything I build. The speed at which I ship new...
2 weeks ago
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A new home for all my apps: apps.chofter.com

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
Say hello to apps.chofter.com, the new home for everything I build. The speed at which I ship new things has massively increased with the advent of AI, and I’ve been encouraged by the fact that, as I approach my sixth decade, new ideas for useful & fun things to build still...
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Hello world “Start a blog” has been on my todo list for so long, it’s going to leave a gaping void in my life...
27th Dec 2015
1

Hello world

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

27th Dec 2015
“Start a blog” has been on my todo list for so long, it’s going to leave a gaping void in my life when I check it off. There are some things I have been wanting to talk about for a while now, in a way that’s less ephemeral than twitter. Like how the tech industry […]
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Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature the short of it is: they’re cool for appending notes from automated systems (like ticket or build...
19th Nov 2022
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Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature

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

19th Nov 2022
the short of it is: they’re cool for appending notes from automated systems (like ticket or build systems) but not really for having interactive conversations with other developers (at least not yet) – Scott Chacon, GitHub.blog, Aug. 2010 Git notes are almost a secret. They’re...
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What I'm up to - August 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2024
1

What I'm up to - August 2024

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

1st Aug 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in late June + July - Been working hard on Find AI - rolling out lots of feature and updates, st...
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Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
7th Mar 2025
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Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification

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

7th Mar 2025
A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
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Singapore H1B1 Tips ## much of the original piece below is outdated. this is my remaining 2023 updates for fellow...
1st Aug 2018
1

Singapore H1B1 Tips

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

1st Aug 2018
## much of the original piece below is outdated. this is my remaining 2023 updates for fellow singaporeans.
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Safari bug with ruby tag *Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
28th Jul 2019
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Safari bug with ruby tag

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jul 2019
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.* Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ） which renders as ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ） If you control click...
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React.js: The Documentary In mid-2022 I had a great time taking part in a documentary about the JavaScript framework ReactJS...
12th Dec 2022
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React.js: The Documentary

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Dec 2022
In mid-2022 I had a great time taking part in a documentary about the JavaScript framework ReactJS by the good people at Honeypot, along with many wonderful engineers who also played a part in its success. The film focuses on the early years in the life of ReactJS, including...
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"The Surprise Slide" Ukulele Micro Song A micro song for Chelsea, written and recorded while she was in San Diego.
22nd May 2011
1

"The Surprise Slide" Ukulele Micro Song

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

22nd May 2011
A micro song for Chelsea, written and recorded while she was in San Diego.
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5 Ways of Debugging with IPython There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am...
23rd Dec 2019
1

5 Ways of Debugging with IPython

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

23rd Dec 2019
There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am a puts debuggerer", that I enjoyed when I played with Ruby. The gist of it is to show you that, in many cases, you don't need a full-fledged debugger. Don't get me (or Tenderlove)...
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Huh! as a signal We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict,...
6th Feb 2023
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Huh! as a signal

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

6th Feb 2023
We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict, because painful experience has taught us, that some or all of the causes of that failure will be surprising. We can use that!
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Writing a good design document A guide
1st Feb 2025
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Writing a good design document

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2025
A guide
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Baremetal vs. Proxmox vs. ESXi Performance Geekbench Scores I have always wondered about the performance characteristics of virtualization. Despite the caveats...
17th May 2026
1

Baremetal vs. Proxmox vs. ESXi Performance Geekbench Scores

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

17th May 2026
I have always wondered about the performance characteristics of virtualization. Despite the caveats in testing methodology, workloads, etc., it'd be nice to see what the performance penalty is for using Baremetal vs. Proxmox vs. ESXi. Googling for answers results in some ancient...
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did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote? Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I...
14th Mar 2025
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did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?

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

14th Mar 2025
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So we’ve got these spikes in WALWrite: the number of processes waiting to write to the write-ahead...
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A Tour of Winamp2-js Features Demo videos of Winamp2-js' more interesting features with notes on how they are implemented.
8th Mar 2018
1

A Tour of Winamp2-js Features

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

8th Mar 2018
Demo videos of Winamp2-js' more interesting features with notes on how they are implemented.
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Standards for ANSI escape codes Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI...
7th Mar 2025
73

Standards for ANSI escape codes

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

7th Mar 2025
Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understanding of where they were supposed to be defined or whether or not there were...
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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.
10th May 2015
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Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th May 2015
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
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Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
5th Oct 2024
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Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh

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

5th Oct 2024
My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
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Pre-Partner Early yesterday morning, on the second day of Blink On, I received the news that I had officially...
9th Apr 2025
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Pre-Partner

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

9th Apr 2025
Early yesterday morning, on the second day of Blink On, I received the news that I had officially moved from Staff level to Pre-Partner at Igalia. This largely means that I now participate in decision-making with the rest of those Igalians who are pre-partners and partners. I...
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Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
3rd Dec 2019
1

Nov 2019 Recap

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

3rd Dec 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
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Thoughts on comments For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a...
12th Jun 2016
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Thoughts on comments

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

12th Jun 2016
For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a good blog post without a relevant discussion to accompany it? You might find it strange to learn that Postleaf doesn't ship with comments. This is by design, and I'll explain why...
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Adventures in pixel space
30th Mar 2025
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Adventures in pixel space

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Mar 2025
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
29th Apr 2020
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS

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

29th Apr 2020
Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible. This is...
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Questionable Advice: “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the... “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?” — An...
23rd Jan 2021
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Questionable Advice: “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?”

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

23rd Jan 2021
“How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?” — An Engineering Manager Hey, real quick: how long have you been managing? If it’s less than two years, honey, the answer is “you don’t.” Your feelings about your performance don’t mean much in...
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Introduction
29th Apr 2018
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Introduction

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

29th Apr 2018
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The Website that Predicted AI There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in...
13th Nov 2024
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The Website that Predicted AI

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

13th Nov 2024
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995. The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
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A swarm of replicated state machines
1st Dec 2021
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A swarm of replicated state machines

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2021
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
4th Dec 2024
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups

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

4th Dec 2024
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
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Graphene
6th Sep 2016
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Graphene

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

6th Sep 2016
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The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team...
9th Mar 2017
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The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat

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

9th Mar 2017
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team [https://buffer.com/about], and we just wrapped up our 8th company retreat in Madrid, Spain. Here’s a quick history of retreat locations, timeline and size over time: 1.
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Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 The short version: porting from Vue...
27th Jun 2024
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Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5

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

27th Jun 2024
Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 The short version: porting from Vue to Svelte is pretty straightforward and Svelte 5 is nice upgrade to Svelte 4. Why port? I’m working on Edna, a note taking application for developers. It started as a...
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Eternal Robustness "Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take...
10th Sep 2023
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Eternal Robustness

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

10th Sep 2023
"Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take great care to provide you with excellence year after year. Your involvement with us will be predictable and stable."
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the...
7th Dec 2025
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint

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

7th Dec 2025
I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the past 18 months or so. This is a problem that I think is, at minimum, a side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era. Given the sheer number of folks working on this...
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And Suddenly Spring And suddenly it happens one day in March. The sun beams down in a rare cloudless sky. It might be...
20th Mar 2026
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And Suddenly Spring

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

20th Mar 2026
And suddenly it happens one day in March. The sun beams down in a rare cloudless sky. It might be cold as the wind gently blows but The Sun. The Sun beams down and it promises Long nights on the horizon. It promises miserable humid days And lovely warm days. Harsh mid-day...
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OpenAI Five intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch...
6th Aug 2018
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OpenAI Five intro

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

6th Aug 2018
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
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Why Amateur Radio? I always had a diffuse idea of why people are spending so much time and money on amateur radio. Once...
29th Aug 2025
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Why Amateur Radio?

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

29th Aug 2025
I always had a diffuse idea of why people are spending so much time and money on amateur radio. Once I got my license and started to amass radios myself, it became more clear to me. It always seemed like amateur radio was an extremely practical endeavor. The goal appeared to be...
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on...
6th Oct 2019
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile

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

6th Oct 2019
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don't style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
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What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website? Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...
27th Jun 2009
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What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website?

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

27th Jun 2009
Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
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Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular...
18th Oct 2017
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Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Oct 2017
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular software, run as a prelude to the GitHub Universe conference. After being brought up to speed on this year's secret handshake of the software elite, I had a great time in the...
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Good names form Galois connections
1st Apr 2024
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Good names form Galois connections

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2024
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Web We Want Web Apps Survey Results I've started to run initial validation surveys on Web We Want submissions to help determine which of...
5th Oct 2020
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Web We Want Web Apps Survey Results

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

5th Oct 2020
I've started to run initial validation surveys on Web We Want submissions to help determine which of the submissions are worth continuing to investigate. Note that despite some of the scores being negative, this doesn't necessarily mean the submission is invalidated, taking into...
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An API for my Christmas tree
1st Dec 2017
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An API for my Christmas tree

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2017
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Faster archive page Faster archive page
2nd Nov 2022
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Faster archive page

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

2nd Nov 2022
Faster archive page
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Godot4 w/ C# in VSCode setup I spent some time trying to set up my dev environement to be able to run and debug a Godot game...
16th Jun 2024
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Godot4 w/ C# in VSCode setup

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

16th Jun 2024
I spent some time trying to set up my dev environement to be able to run and debug a Godot game written in .Net inside VSCode. Here are the steps I took to setup: Install Godot Engine for .Net Link Install .Net SDK Link Go into VSCode and install the following extensions .NET...
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How to use Next.js middleware Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access,...
1st Nov 2021
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How to use Next.js middleware

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2021
Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access, and more. Let’s take a look.
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Navigating the unpredictability of everything We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
19th Mar 2023
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Navigating the unpredictability of everything

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

19th Mar 2023
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
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JavaScript functions for basename and dirname Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path)...
16th Sep 2007
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JavaScript functions for basename and dirname

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

16th Sep 2007
Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path) { return path.replace(/.*\//, ''); } dirname() # function dirname(path) { return path.match(/.*\//); } Unlike their PHP cousins, these functions do not support paths...
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The possibilities of the color-adjust property
14th Aug 2018
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The possibilities of the color-adjust property

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

14th Aug 2018
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Public descriptions for tags Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
3rd Feb 2026
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Public descriptions for tags

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

3rd Feb 2026
Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
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ioctls from Rust Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
13th Feb 2025
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ioctls from Rust

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

13th Feb 2025
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
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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...
21st May 2025
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Digging into git commit templates

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

21st May 2025
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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A Local-First Task Framework sharing the load
3rd Apr 2026
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A Local-First Task Framework

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

3rd Apr 2026
sharing the load
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter > 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost...
1st Nov 2024
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter

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

1st Nov 2024
> 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost $222.51 one way (44min labor pickup 55min labor dropoff, which i think was fraud, no way dropoff cost more than pickup) and total base fare 38 + 14.5 fee. for the two way move price i...
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Good Design Sells Open Source I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a...
7th Aug 2011
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Good Design Sells Open Source

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2011
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a blogging framework backed by the static site generator [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/). I first read about Octopress a couple of weeks ago on Hacker News. Although Octopress appealed...
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elementary OS 8.0.2 Available Now It’s been about 6 months since our last minor release and the team has been busy! For all of the...
22nd Sep 2025
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elementary OS 8.0.2 Available Now

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

22nd Sep 2025
It’s been about 6 months since our last minor release and the team has been busy! For all of the details about what’s new since OS 8.0.1, make sure to check out our posts from May until now. In this post I’ll just be covering our progress over the last month up until the release...
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Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
1st Jul 2026
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Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents

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

1st Jul 2026
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
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Getting better at the New York Times crossword I started doing crossword puzzles sometime in 2019. After learning the basics of American crossword...
15th Apr 2021
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Getting better at the New York Times crossword

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

15th Apr 2021
I started doing crossword puzzles sometime in 2019. After learning the basics of American crossword puzzles, the best way to improve is to solve daily. As a budding cruciverbalist you develop a few key skills. The NYTimes website has an excellent guide on the basics of solving....
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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...
24th Feb 2015
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Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry

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

24th Feb 2015
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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You probably shouldn’t be annotating focus order Hey there, fellow designer! Chances are good you’ve been linked to this after doing some annotation...
4th Feb 2026
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You probably shouldn’t be annotating focus order

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

4th Feb 2026
Hey there, fellow designer! Chances are good you’ve been linked to this after doing some annotation work on a design you've been creating. First off, I want to thank you for taking the time to address accessibility considerations in your work. No, seriously. I mean...
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clamp / median / range Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison...
2nd Jul 2025
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clamp / median / range

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

2nd Jul 2025
Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison style clamp style clamp is median clamp in range range style style clash? comparison style Some languages such as BCPL, Icon, Python have chained comparison operators, like if...
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2017 by the numbers These are some meaningless numbers. Books read: 34 (goal 50) White trash: the 400-year untold...
31st Dec 2017
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2017 by the numbers

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

31st Dec 2017
These are some meaningless numbers. Books read: 34 (goal 50) White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America by Nancy Isenberg Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Brave New World by Aldous...
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were subscribed on email!), I started a separate AI...
30th Dec 2022
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone

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

30th Dec 2022
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were subscribed on email!), I started a separate AI blog, L-space Diaries, this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2) create a focused feed on a topic rather than a person (I also started DX Tips for devtools/devrel writing,...
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My wireguard IPv6 tunnel Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
30th Apr 2024
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My wireguard IPv6 tunnel

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

30th Apr 2024
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6. Yesterday I (at last!) got around to setting up a wireguard IPv6 VPN tunnel between my workstation and my Mythic Beasts virtual private server. There were a few, um, learning...
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Writing GDScript with Neovim Neovim is by far my favorite text editor. The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation...
1st Nov 2024
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Writing GDScript with Neovim

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

1st Nov 2024
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor. The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming. In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment. Today, I will show you how to use...
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First week of Byte-Sized Tech It has been a week since I announced my telegram channel byte-sized tech. My main goal in creating...
6th Sep 2024
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First week of Byte-Sized Tech

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

6th Sep 2024
It has been a week since I announced my telegram channel byte-sized tech. My main goal in creating this channel was to read tech books. I wanted to summarize them to avoid just skimming. It hasn’t gained much traffic yet. But, I hope it will resonate with more people so that I...
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Accelerometer Poi
20th Mar 2013
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Accelerometer Poi

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

20th Mar 2013
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Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
25th Jun 2021
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Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit

from Don Melton [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2021
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post: On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers
4th Jul 2026
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers

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

4th Jul 2026
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A little taste of fall and home: pumpkin muffins I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her...
9th Nov 2011
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A little taste of fall and home: pumpkin muffins

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

9th Nov 2011
I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her heart-shaped muffin mold, and I'd eat them for breakfast, sneak them into my lunchbox, frost them for dessert after dinner, and snack on them off courts at tennis meets. But I...
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Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
18th Sep 2023
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Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Sep 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
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Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours... On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
9th May 2022
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Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours to capitalize on the news.

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

9th May 2022
On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in its default form), since it transmits IP addresses…
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A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic
3rd Oct 2020
1

A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

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

3rd Oct 2020
A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability...
10th Apr 2025
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now

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

10th Apr 2025
To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability tools help them do this by capturing LLM provider…
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
10th Oct 2017
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox

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

10th Oct 2017
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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Questionable Advice: “How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?” Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and...
5th Jun 2023
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Questionable Advice: “How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?”

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

5th Jun 2023
Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and high-performing teams. Honestly I did a terrible job, and I’m not being modest. I had just rolled off a delayed redeye flight; I realized partway through that I had the wrong slides loaded,...
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Dash it all
4th Jan 2026
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Dash it all

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2026
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Omarchy is on the move Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed...
5th Aug 2025
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Omarchy is on the move

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

5th Aug 2025
Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-to-Linux enthusiasts. We have about 3,500 early adopters on the Omarchy Discord, 250...
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May 2025
25th May 2025
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May 2025

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

25th May 2025
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Chickadee 0.10.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
24th May 2023
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Chickadee 0.10.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2023
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. This release is on the smaller side...
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Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not...
6th Aug 2023
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Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit

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

6th Aug 2023
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
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Messing with bots Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
13th Nov 2025
1

Messing with bots

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

13th Nov 2025
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
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Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production" The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!...
9th Dec 2019
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Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"

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

9th Dec 2019
The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron...
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Eternal shell history 🐢 XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
25th Feb 2024
50

Eternal shell history 🐢

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

25th Feb 2024
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash history: $ wc -l < ~/.muh_history 763075 My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history. $...
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023 We hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over...
3rd May 2023
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023

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

3rd May 2023
We hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over 500,000 lessons completed on the platform! I hope your learnings are going well, and that everything we’re building is helping you, even if it’s in a small way.
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Adding Open Graph to Pelican I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when...
19th Apr 2018
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Adding Open Graph to Pelican

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

19th Apr 2018
I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when people shared my posts, and I figured I'd share the fairly tidy way I went about it in case other people were interested. I only added support for articles, my journal entries,...
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in which our protagonist dreams of laurels I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of hackers—funny, that this is...
17th Dec 2025
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in which our protagonist dreams of laurels

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17th Dec 2025
I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of hackers—funny, that this is the extent of my dreams at the moment; as a parent of three young kids, I don’t get out much—and, there, I was to receive an award and give a speech. (I know, I am a ridiculous...
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How to be an open source gardener
14th Apr 2014
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How to be an open source gardener

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2014
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Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
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Proper UI Hierarchy

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

5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
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You fail to learn if you don't learn to fail If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from? Letting an...
12th Jul 2026
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You fail to learn if you don't learn to fail

from seated.ro [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jul 2026
If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from? Letting an agent rip on full auto is basically doom scrolling. Even worse if you're doom scrolling while the agent runs. We humans love frying our dopamine receptors. This feels great until...
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Maybe not so much with the "optimization" In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun...
22nd Mar 2026
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Maybe not so much with the "optimization"

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22nd Mar 2026
In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun and value of creative work.
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JSX is a Lovechild Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
20th Jan 2019
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JSX is a Lovechild

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

20th Jan 2019
Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
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Three Class Society I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t...
3rd Oct 2023
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Three Class Society

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

3rd Oct 2023
I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t want to live in a free society. A free society requires personal responsiblity. People here want to be managed. They want a ruling class.” I heard something similar once from a...
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Sept 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
1st Oct 2019
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Sept 2019 Recap

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

1st Oct 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
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Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
5th Jun 2023
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Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary

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5th Jun 2023
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production...
1st May 2019
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies

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1st May 2019
VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (___/) || (⌾ㅅ⌾) || / 　 づ — Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) April 12, 2019 So, that happened. I hadn’t seen anyone say something like this in quite a while.  I remember saying things like...
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How to Build Fly Locally With Docker for Mac In my recent side projet, I’ve been deploying to fly.io and really enjoying it. It’s fairly easy to...
2nd Oct 2023
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How to Build Fly Locally With Docker for Mac

from These Yaks Ain't Gonna Shave Themselves [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2023
In my recent side projet, I’ve been deploying to fly.io and really enjoying it. It’s fairly easy to get setup. And it supports my preferred workflow of deploying my changes early and often. I have run into a few snags though. Fly.io builds your project into a docker image and...
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Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog by Stephanie Eckles Have you ever tried to set z-index: 9999 to solve element layering issues? If...
1st Dec 2025
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Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog

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1st Dec 2025
by Stephanie Eckles Have you ever tried to set z-index: 9999 to solve element layering issues? If so, you’ve been fighting a fundamental CSS concept of stacking contexts. The stacking context defines the order things are placed in the third dimension, or the “z” axis. Think of...
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Using a folder other than <code>posts/</code> with Eleventy I just updated this site to use Eleventy. I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more...
22nd Nov 2020
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Using a folder other than <code>posts/</code> with Eleventy

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

22nd Nov 2020
I just updated this site to use Eleventy. I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more a place to centralize all the little tweaks and gotchas of web work, and less a platform for scaffolding websites. In all honestly, enchilada was intended more to be more a simple...
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Asynchronous JavaScript - what is it? (Promises, callbacks, async/await) JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a...
30th Aug 2020
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Asynchronous JavaScript - what is it? (Promises, callbacks, async/await)

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30th Aug 2020
JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a time. First, the code will execute the function and know what to return when getText() is called. Then it assigns the getText() function to the variable text.
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Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of...
9th Dec 2007
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Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery

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9th Dec 2007
A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of checkboxes: <fieldset id="group_1"> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="0" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="1" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="2"...
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Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
4th Jan 2023
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Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022)

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

4th Jan 2023
The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
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The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025 We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible...
4th Aug 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025

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

4th Aug 2025
We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible projects come out of it. Thanks to everyone that participated, I’m excited for the next one!
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Self-avoiding Walk I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
23rd Mar 2025
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Self-avoiding Walk

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

23rd Mar 2025
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
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Most Demanded Helpdesk Features, According to IT Pros We've analyzed professional reviews, user testimonials, and forum discussions from IT professionals...
11th Aug 2025
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Most Demanded Helpdesk Features, According to IT Pros

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

11th Aug 2025
We've analyzed professional reviews, user testimonials, and forum discussions from IT professionals to identify their common pain points and what they value most in existing helpdesk solutions. We've also investigated current trends in helpdesk and IT service management...
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Whatever happened to sandboxfs? Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into...
11th Jun 2025
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Whatever happened to sandboxfs?

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

11th Jun 2025
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and...
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I am building a cloud I am building a cloud 2026-04-22 Today is fundraising . As is the nature of writing for a larger...
22nd Apr 2026
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I am building a cloud

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

22nd Apr 2026
I am building a cloud 2026-04-22 Today is fundraising . As is the nature of writing for a larger audience, it is a formal, safe announcement. As it should be. Writing must necessarily become impersonal at scale. But I would like to write something personal about why I am doing...
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Kirk, Scotty, and Spock
22nd Mar 2026
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Kirk, Scotty, and Spock

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Mar 2026
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