Eric Migicovsky's...
Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
8th Jun 2023
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and...
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
21st Jun 2019
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
Chris Nicholas
How to animate multiplayer cursors
Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real-world conditions are...
5th Jul 2022
Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real-world conditions are taken into account.
Boot.dev Blog
Top 10 Books on Web Development in 2026
If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web...
5th Sep 2023
If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web developer. Makes sense – great pay, solid job security, and interesting work. But beyond that broad goal, you might be looking for some web development reading to satisfy other goals.
Eric Bailey
The possibilities of the color-adjust property
14th Aug 2018
Tom MacWright
Recently
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense....
2 weeks ago
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense. July and August were filled with bike rides, 5K races, friends in town, life changes and logistics.
For a friend's birthday, we rode the rickety Coney Island Cyclone, which was...
Making software...
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-02-08
I think it's safe to assume most web designers and developers...
8th Feb 2023
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-02-08
I think it's safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element's height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
Brendan Gregg's Blog
AI Flame Graphs
Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry --...
28th Oct 2024
Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry -- based on extreme estimates such savings could reduce the total US power usage by over 10% by 20301. At Intel we've been creating a new analyzer tool to help reduce AI costs called...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates.
I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
1st Jul 2025
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates.
I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive.
Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
Boot.dev Blog
The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas
It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the...
2nd Nov 2021
It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the most important part of any product-focused organization. I think there is a misconception in the software industry that product managers have a good sense of “what users want”,...
Boot.dev Blog
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
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.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The...
3rd Dec 2014
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
Eric Bailey
It needs to map back to a role
One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to...
14th Mar 2022
One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to create experiences that have never existed before.
The history of websites, web apps, and native apps is full of countless widgets that let you enter and manipulate content in new...
Sedimental
Announcing FinFam
In my last post, I mentioned founding a startup.
It's called FinFam,
and we're building...
19th Sep 2025
In my last post, I mentioned founding a startup.
It's called FinFam,
and we're building collaborative financial planning.
The GitHub of money, if you will. Enough with the telling, time for the show!
Here's a 3-minute demo:
We launched beta this week and I couldn't be more...
Tony Finch's blog
My wireguard IPv6 tunnel
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several
misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant.
Rather than failing completely when encountering...
2nd Jan 2024
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant.
Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax.
For someone who is...
bt RSS Feed
Plain Text Emails, Please
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most...
9th Sep 2019
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach...
Engineer’s Codex
How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into...
14th Jan 2024
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.
Sebastian Witowski
It's 2019 and I'm Still Using Python 2
Here are the slides for my talk called "It's 2019 and I'm still using Python 2. Should I be...
28th Aug 2019
Here are the slides for my talk called "It's 2019 and I'm still using Python 2. Should I be worried?".
Since I update the slides before each conference to incorporate any new ideas that come to my mind and make sure they are up to date, if you are interested in a particular...
beep.blog
Yes, your Godot game runs faster with static types
Static typing is one of the easiest and most rewarding disciplines you can add to your game...
14th Feb 2024
Static typing is one of the easiest and most rewarding disciplines you can add to your game development.
Steve Klabnik
Porting steveklabnik.com to Workers Sites and Zola
26th Sep 2019
somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
7th Aug 2023
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2023
✨ What I've been up to Wow, it's Q2 already! I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last month,...
1st Apr 2023
✨ What I've been up to Wow, it's Q2 already! I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last month, where I worked remotely and found some amazing coffee. For Postcard - I rebuilt the post-writing ...
The History of the...
Chatting about Shadow DOM
I had a chance to go on Igalia Chats and walk through the history of Shadow DOM with Eric Meyer,...
5th Dec 2025
I had a chance to go on Igalia Chats and walk through the history of Shadow DOM with Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Jeremy Keith. It was a fun, and pretty light discussion, but I learned a ton.
The post Chatting about Shadow DOM appeared first on The History of the Web.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.26.0
PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4...
13th May 2021
PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4 new team members we've onboarded.
Eric Bailey
Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative
17th Jun 2021
bt RSS Feed
Stay Hungry
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
12th Feb 2018
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control...
12th Jan 2022
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control structures
Chapter 5: Arrays
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Structs
Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
Chapter 9: Methods
Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism
Chapter 11: Some advanced...
Making software...
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-10-15
A great deal of my time working as a...
15th Oct 2021
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-10-15
A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
Evan Jones -...
Go: Functional options are slow
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a...
23rd May 2022
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a variable number of arguments, which are themselves functions (a type like ...func(*config). I think it was first introduced by Rob Pike in a 2014 blog post. It is now used by many...
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, WordPress
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It...
1st Feb 2021
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It transformed my career path and enabled me to do anything I wanted at every point in my journey. So why leave it now?
HTMHell Advent...
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
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...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 06 · Simple branching
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
5th Mar 2024
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
David Heinemeier...
Pay yourself first
There'll always be more emails in need of reply, more meetings to attend, and more updates to read....
4th Oct 2025
There'll always be more emails in need of reply, more meetings to attend, and more updates to read. A person can fill the entire workweek with these tasks over and over again. But to stay sane and sharp, you must pay yourself first by doing the work that actually means something...
Alex Meub
Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows
Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows:
1. Allow Remote Connections
Right...
20th Sep 2012
Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows:
1. Allow Remote Connections
Right click on the My Computer icon > Click Properties > Click on the Remote tab
Check the box that says “Allow Users to Connect Remotely to this Computer”
Add your username to the list of...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty...
30th Jul 2023
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone
wants.
Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have
no idea when it’ll be back.
So, driven by the...
ntietz.com blog -...
Reasons to write design docs
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English.
It's half...
2nd Sep 2024
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English.
It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communication as it is about technology.
Probably more, actually.
Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering.
It's...
Acko.net
Occlusion with Bells On
Modern SSAO in a modern run-time
Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my...
23rd Mar 2025
Modern SSAO in a modern run-time
Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts.
The highlights in this release are:
dramatic inspector viewing upgrades
a modern ambient-occlusion (SSAO/GTAO) implementation
newly revised render pass...
Grant Slatton's Blog
Every Man a Microservice
Contra Conway
8th Feb 2026
The Web Witch's Blog
The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation
I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend...
18th Aug 2025
I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend rolls around. While I've enjoyed the Grey's Anatomy binge I started during this pregnancy, it feels like a work week ritual -- something to put on in the background or pay half...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Markdown Today: Journal from any browser
A private, mobile-first web app that writes your journal directly to Dropbox.
7th Apr 2017
A private, mobile-first web app that writes your journal directly to Dropbox.
ntietz.com blog -...
Taking a break
I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years.
I kept it...
5th May 2025
I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years.
I kept it up even when I was very sick last year with Lyme disease.
It's time for me to take a break and reset.
This is the right time, because the world is very difficult for me to move...
A Beautiful Site
Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may...
9th Dec 2012
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise. It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers.
After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
Josh Collinsworth
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...
4th Aug 2023
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
Ruud van Asseldonk
An algorithm for shuffling playlists
22nd Jul 2023
Jordan Eldredge's...
I did an interview for the Changelog Podcast
I talked about Winamp2-js on the Changelog Podcast.
6th Apr 2018
I talked about Winamp2-js on the Changelog Podcast.
dthompson
Haunt 0.3.0 released
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years
since the last release, and many...
19th Feb 2024
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years
since the last release, and many fixes and improvements have been
accumulated so this is long overdue!
About Haunt
Haunt is a static site generator that uses the Guile Scheme as its
configuration language. It...
Josh Collinsworth
Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a...
1st Apr 2015
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a professional branding agency was how to properly handle color output. So I decided to write this post in the hope of saving you some from some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid.
charity.wtf
On Call Shouldn’t Suck: A Guide For Managers
Maybe I need to write a blog post called "On Call For Managers". If you're asking engineers to be on...
3rd Oct 2020
Maybe I need to write a blog post called "On Call For Managers". If you're asking engineers to be on call for their code — and you should — you owe in return: – enough time to fix what's broken– hands to do the work– closely track how often they are interrupted/woken– ..etc —...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - June 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in...
1st Jun 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May - Went to Oaxaca for vacation, which was a culturally rich and walkable place. I enjoyed a lot of ...
Buttondown's blog
You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!
You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!
9th Aug 2023
You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!
macwright.com
Recently
I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now…
Reading
This was a strong month for reading:...
1st Mar 2025
I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now…
Reading
This was a strong month for reading: I finished
The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Useful Not True, and Cyberlibertarianism.
I had a book club that read Cyberlibertarianism so we discussed
it last week. I have a lot of...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5
In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left...
11th Jun 2025
In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left navigation element is only visible when you’re moving the mouse or when mouse is over the element.
Here’s UI hidden:
Here’s UI visible:
The thinking is: when writing, you want...
bt RSS Feed
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
28th Jun 2016
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
orlp.net - Blog...
Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more...
Hash functions are incredibly
neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small...
2nd Nov 2024
Hash functions are incredibly
neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size
output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random.
This “deterministic randomness” is incredibly useful for a variety of purposes,
such as hash...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The Early Days of GitLab - A Chat with Sid Sijbrandij
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is...
3rd Aug 2020
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is that many of the most successful founders will find…
David Gerrells
A lazy dark mode
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
20th Jun 2020
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
macwright.com
Recently
I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really,
really bad and getting worse in...
4th Feb 2025
I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really,
really bad and getting worse in America. It’s all so unendingly
stupid and evil. The tech industry is being horrible, too. Wishing strength to the people who
are much more exposed to the chaos than I am.
Reading
A...
Tom MacWright
Recently
I have a bunch that I want to write about this month, but that'll all be in different posts. Just...
1st Apr 2026
I have a bunch that I want to write about this month, but that'll all be in different posts. Just got back from Atmosphere Conf in Vancouver and settling into a false Brooklyn summer.
Reading
I read so much this month but have little to share here. Despite trying to keep a rich,...
Engineer’s Codex
Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized,...
23rd Feb 2024
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
Basta’s Notes
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?)
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
17th Jan 2024
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
Buttondown's blog
Public descriptions for tags
Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
3rd Feb 2026
Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
Jake Zimmerman
Using my iPhone as a travel laptop
15th Sep 2024
Kevin Chen
!!Con West 2019 Notes
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
24th Feb 2019
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to
computers!
At the beginning of last year’s !!Con, I wrote:
This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech
scene. I’m...
Sedimental
Thanks, 201X!
Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade.
Been a long ten...
2nd Dec 2019
Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade.
Been a long ten years, but it's flown past. This particular decade
happens to coincide with my first years of full-time professional
software engineering.
The Quantity
I can't possibly summarize it...
ntietz.com blog -...
Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem
I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer.
It has me thinking a lot about the systems we...
1st Dec 2022
I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer.
It has me thinking a lot about the systems we have in place and something clicked for why they feel so wrong despite being so prevalent.
I'm not sure what any solutions look like yet, but outlining a problem is the first step,...
Boot.dev Blog
Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗
I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and...
10th Oct 2022
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗
I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and “DevOps” engineers will coalesce to include almost everything that “the user doesn’t see”. There will still be room for specialization, but these roles will become less distinguishable...
Irrational...
Predictability.
Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how...
1st Jan 2024
Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how much it believes that key individuals drive and create industries. It’s an infectious belief, and a necessary one to write a concise, coherent narrative story about the origins of...
Dan Quach Blog
Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking
Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing...
16th Jun 2025
Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater. She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI in Software Development
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how...
20th Apr 2026
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how we create, solve problems, and bring ideas to life.
I didn't always feel this way.. But these days, I use AI regularly in my work and I expect that to continue.
We may not have...
James Vaughan's blog
How To Make HTTP Requests In Elm
12th Dec 2018
The Changelog
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
8th Dec 2022
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
Joel Gascoigne
Treat it as finished
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
One of the most...
3rd Apr 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
One of the most important differences for me personally in how I’ve run my
current startup compared to the last one I founded has been how I treat the
product at each stage of the process. With...
Ink & Switch
A Morphic programming kernel
TODO
a week ago
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: assemblages
3rd Dec 2012
Jordan Eldredge's...
“Alexa, add half & half”
The funniest Alexa interaction I’ve ever had
22nd Jul 2024
The funniest Alexa interaction I’ve ever had
Cognitive...
Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning.
I was watching the excellent video by...
20th Mar 2023
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning.
I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need"
I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Early Stage Company Offsites
this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
6th Oct 2024
this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
Boot.dev Blog
Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course,...
4th Oct 2021
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the...
Sedimental
Developer variants
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job
titles. I'm talking...
9th Aug 2016
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job
titles. I'm talking about motivations and fulfillment.
In my years of writing code and leading projects, I've come to learn a
bit about how my teammates, and I, experience success, through a...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
6th Nov 2021
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
David Crawshaw
Limits of Superintelligence
research.google.com/pubs/pub40565.html
7th May 2016
research.google.com/pubs/pub40565.html
Eric Bailey
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
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...
the jsomers.net blog
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose...
18th May 2014
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example, or sport, or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know....
Maggie Appleton
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first...
30th May 2024
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
Eric Migicovsky's...
Did you know AI is answering our community questions?
AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that...
3rd Oct 2024
AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that try to replace a human in a product support context…
charity.wtf
How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole)
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of...
17th Aug 2023
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you go.🌈✨🥂 In this doc I mention Christine, my wonderful, brilliant cofounder and CEO,...
Dan Slimmon
The World Record for Loneliness
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
6th May 2024
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
Vadim Kravcenko
Self-Organizing Teams
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
17th Dec 2021
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […]
The post Self-Organizing Teams appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Grant Slatton
How to write complex software
A general method
1st Jan 2025
Quentin Santos
The serial TX path seems to be down
The previous series of articles about UART was initially motivated by an error I was getting when...
11th Aug 2025
The previous series of articles about UART was initially motivated by an error I was getting when using the ESP-Prog. I could have jumped straight to the conclusion, but I took the time to really understand what was going on, and we are finally reaching the end of this...
charity.wtf
Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career
I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff...
9th Jul 2025
I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking...
Eric Migicovsky's...
All the cool things we built at our Rome hackathon
As an all-remote team, we know how important getting together in person is (we’ve written about...
6th Oct 2022
As an all-remote team, we know how important getting together in person is (we’ve written about this before ). Our product analytics team (plus…
Maggie Appleton
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
17th Dec 2022
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and...
20th Sep 2018
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and well. I'm not some crazy old fuck who thinks AngularJS is a promising new technology. Nor have I been waiting to publish this post for 3 years. It's just how things turned up for me....
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - July 2023
✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to...
1st Jul 2023
✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to Canada for Tailwind Connect, where I met some interesting people and learned some new CSS techniques....
Marc Astbury
Notes on Improving Churn
Ask any B2C SaaS founder what metric they’d like to improve and most will say reducing churn....
12th Mar 2025
Ask any B2C SaaS founder what metric they’d like to improve and most will say reducing churn. However, proactively reducing churn is a difficult task. I’ll outline the approach we’ve taken at Jenni AI to go from ~17% to 9% churn over the past year. We are still a work in progress...
Eric Bailey
GitHub now has a setting to underline links
A public beta was released for GitHub on Friday the 29th. It allows you to apply or remove an...
2nd Oct 2023
A public beta was released for GitHub on Friday the 29th. It allows you to apply or remove an underline effect to links in body content.
The link underlines are present in Issue and Pull Request comments, as well as other areas of the site. We are still identifying areas where...
Tony Finch's blog
moka pot notes
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it,
I have a very large Bialetti...
1st Jun 2025
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it,
I have a very large Bialetti Moka Express. Recently when I
got it going again after a winter of disuse, it took me a couple of
attempts to get the technique right, so here are some notes as a
reminder to my...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Website Contrast Ratio in Practice
While perusing Hacker News I ran across a single-page site
called Contrast Rebellion— which I...
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...
These Yaks Ain't...
How to Actually Integrate Angular and Nestjs
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But your frontend and backend systems don’t need to be...
15th Sep 2023
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But your frontend and backend systems don’t need to be completely separate.
I started anew side project recently. You know, one of things that allows me to tinker with new technology but will probably never be finished.
I’m using Angular for...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Naked Emperors in Tech
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
6th Nov 2020
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
Boot.dev Blog
Certificates vs Diplomas in Computer Science
When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the...
2nd Dec 2020
When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the difference between a certificate and a diploma was. I was terrified that I’d have to go back to school and spend 2-4 years getting a degree in computer science before an employer would...
Josh Comeau's blog
Dynamic Bézier Curves
A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as...
23rd May 2018
A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as scroll-to-flatten using SVG path instructions, and how to architect our components for maximum readability and reusability.
Quentin Santos
The RP2350-USB-A cannot see devices disconnect
What’s better for New Year’s Eve than debugging some USB hardware issues? In my previous article, I...
1st Jan 2026
What’s better for New Year’s Eve than debugging some USB hardware issues? In my previous article, I explained how the design of Waveshare’s RP2350-USB-A can make the USB-A host connector incapable of detecting certain USB devices, and of any hot-plugging. The solution was to...
Words and Buttons...
Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are...
11th Apr 2019
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are enough. And it's “differential” because it aims to highlight the difference between lexemes. Ideally, the smaller the lexical difference, the greater the color difference should be.
...
ntietz.com blog -...
Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years.
The code in...
1st Jul 2024
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years.
The code in question was not particularly complicated, and had been reviewed by multiple people.
It included a timeout, and is straightforward: allow a Websocket connection to test that the client...
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2023
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately.
It was only in...
31st Dec 2023
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately.
It was only in December that I had meaningful time for writing.
In the 2022 review I set a few targets for the blog in 2023:
Targets for 2023
❎ Publish at least 40 posts
14
✅ Reach at least 150k...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Finding active GitHub forks from the command line
I maintain SumatraPDF on GitHub. People fork it and make their own changes. I want to know which...
18th Jun 2026
I maintain SumatraPDF on GitHub. People fork it and make their own changes. I want to know which forks are active and what they’re working on.
GitHub has a Network tab for this. I find it lousy.
It’s hard to see active forks at a glance. Panning and zooming the UI is slow and...
Jordan Eldredge's...
I Come To the Garden Alone (For George Morris)
I arranged and recorded the hymn 'In The Garden' on ukulele in memory of George Morris.
18th Jul 2011
I arranged and recorded the hymn 'In The Garden' on ukulele in memory of George Morris.
Alex Meub
The Perfect Moscow Mule
The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious....
12th Jan 2015
The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious. This is a guide to making the perfect Mule.
The Perfect Copper Mug
The copper mug is essential for a real Moscow Mule. Copper immediately takes on the temperature of the drink keeping...
elementary Blog
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
5th Aug 2023
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
12th Sep 2023
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Writing a custom Codeception module
How to write a custom Codeception module and distribute it as a Composer package.
19th Mar 2014
How to write a custom Codeception module and distribute it as a Composer package.
Elad Blog
Silicon Valley & Defense Tech
Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a...
13th Oct 2020
Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a defense contract. This has led to claims Silicon Valley is no longer engaging in defense tech, despite tech's roots working with the Department of Defense
bt RSS Feed
The Death of Personality
The Death of Personality
2017-11-01
On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
1st Nov 2017
The Death of Personality
2017-11-01
On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it’s fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple’s iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up...
9th Jul 2025
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up - but we still did manage to get a few new features out the door!
Paolo Amoroso's...
GravityLoops, a gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS
<![CDATA[I started working on GravityLoops, a software that simulates a collection of bodies...
31st May 2026
<![CDATA[I started working on GravityLoops, a software that simulates a collection of bodies interacting under the mutual gravity. I develop it on Medley in Interlisp and its object extension LOOPS, the Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System.
GravityLoops will show an animation...
MMapped blog
Good names form Galois connections
1st Apr 2024
alexwlchan
Creating Caddyfiles with Cog
I’m currently restructuring my site, and I’m going to change some of the URLs.
I don’t want to break...
5th Feb 2026
I’m currently restructuring my site, and I’m going to change some of the URLs.
I don’t want to break inbound links to the old URLs, so I’m creating redirects between old and new.
My current web server is Caddy, so I define redirects in my Caddyfile with the redir...
Sedimental
Python Community Intro
The PSF
just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community",
then autosubscribed a bunch of people and...
22nd Sep 2015
The PSF
just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community",
then autosubscribed a bunch of people and solicited introductions. At
first I was surprised, but I was quickly charmed by
the response and joined in on the action. Here's what
I wrote:
If Alex Martelli is doing it, then...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
31st Dec 2016
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step…
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024.
This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
15th Mar 2024
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024.
This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”.
I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance.
This...
Philip I. Thomas
Advice for marketplace startups
Marketplace businesses connect buyers and sellers, and they typically make money by taking a cut of...
11th May 2021
Marketplace businesses connect buyers and sellers, and they typically make money by taking a cut of transactions. Some of today's largest companies are marketplaces, such as Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. ...
A Day In The Life...
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
22nd Sep 2023
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering.
Older...
18th Jul 2018
Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering.
Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server.
It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The Rsync Algorithm in Python
I’ve often pondered this great and terrible beast –
rsync. It’s spiny, nearly impenetrable...
10th Jul 2017
I’ve often pondered this great and terrible beast –
rsync. It’s spiny, nearly impenetrable command-line
interface. Its majestic and wonderful efficiency. The depths of its man
page, and the heights of its use-cases.
Leaving aside the confusing implications of trailing...
A Beautiful Site
Reflection and Custom States in Web Components
In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both...
5th Jun 2024
In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property.
A...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git annex notes
Setup New repo
init git:
git init
init git annex:
git annex init local
Add S3 Remote named...
13th May 2015
Setup New repo
init git:
git init
init git annex:
git annex init local
Add S3 Remote named public-s3
git annex initremote public-s3 type=S3 encryption=none bucket=tyler.zone chunk=0
Add file to git annex
git annex add [big-file]
copy current directory to public-s3 remote
git...
Josh Collinsworth
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
4th Sep 2015
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
Steve Klabnik
You can't "turn off the borrow checker" in Rust
14th Sep 2018
Maggie Appleton
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
A Smart Bear
AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different
The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous...
3rd Mar 2024
The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
The Web Witch's Blog
2023 Book Roundup
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up...
1st Jan 2024
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up on whether or not I met my goal unless it's really abysmally off target. I ended up reading many 700+ page fantasy books this year so when I average that out, that's nearly 3...
The Codist
Why Are People Still Using C?
C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand...
2nd Aug 2023
C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand why, unless there is a lot of existing code to support, I can't fathom why anyone would start something new in 2023 in C.
I first learned C in
bt RSS Feed
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community....
7th Feb 2020
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
tonsky.me
Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native
In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders:
Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm...
3rd Mar 2026
In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders:
Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app.
If code is free, why aren’t all apps native?
And then argues that the answer is that LLMs are not good...
A Day In The Life...
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
12th Jun 2020
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
Jordan Eldredge's...
Crash Safari with the Web Audio API
Discovering, reproducing, and working around a bug that crashes Safari hard.
15th Aug 2017
Discovering, reproducing, and working around a bug that crashes Safari hard.
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono February Update
Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is...
6th Feb 2022
Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is very much appreciated.
Here is a quick update on the progress:
Website - Berkeleygraphics.com
It is already up: https://berkeleygraphics.com but does not have the Berkeley Mono pages...
alexwlchan
What mammal is that?
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take...
2nd Jan 2024
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot:
No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held close to...
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
24th Oct 2021
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱.
Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
Buttondown's blog
Embeddable subscription widget
We're making it even easier to build up your subscriber base.
1st Sep 2017
We're making it even easier to build up your subscriber base.
Words and Buttons...
A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of
An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
29th Apr 2024
An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
David Crawshaw
Eight more months of agents
Eight more months of agents
2026-02-08
I wrote up my experiences programming with LLMs , and updated...
8th Feb 2026
Eight more months of agents
2026-02-08
I wrote up my experiences programming with LLMs , and updated it for the world of agents . A lot has changed since then, so here is an update.a bit over a year agoeight months ago
We were prototyping our first agent, Sketch, when Claude Code...
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
22nd Feb 2018
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on
computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s
Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric
design to...
General Robots
Dimension Hopper Part 1
2D Platformer using Stable Diffusion for live level art creation
12th Jun 2023
2D Platformer using Stable Diffusion for live level art creation
ntietz.com blog -...
[Talk] Scaling Graphs
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable...
5th Apr 2016
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube:
If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
Charles Chen
MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP!
Understanding the social media zeitgeist around CLIs and the premature death of MCP
14th Mar 2026
Understanding the social media zeitgeist around CLIs and the premature death of MCP
Jordan Eldredge's...
Jazz Ukulele "Love Is a Song" from Bambi
I arranged and recorded 'Love Is a Song' from Walt Disney's Bambi on my new ukulele.
6th Feb 2010
I arranged and recorded 'Love Is a Song' from Walt Disney's Bambi on my new ukulele.
Josh Collinsworth
The Five Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me as a Design Student
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not...
21st Feb 2016
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
Liz Denys
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
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,...
Sometimes It Works...
Stop Trying to Reach the Top
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574
Read...
9th Apr 2015
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574
Read this. Were you hit by Google Panda? Will you be hit when they start penalising non-mobile sites?
The lesson? Stop trying to reach the top of Google. You’ll live longer/keep more of...
David Crawshaw
2016-02-10
"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody...
10th Feb 2016
"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so...
blag
SQLite commits are not durable under default settings
SQLite doesn’t do fsync unless specified.
24th Aug 2025
SQLite doesn’t do fsync unless specified.
Philip Ilic Thomas
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
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...
wingolog
pre-tenuring in v8
Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going over some V8 code
that touched : allocating...
5th Jan 2026
Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going over some V8 code
that touched : allocating objects directly in the old
space instead of the nursery. I knew the theory here but I had never
looked into the mechanism. Today’s post is a quick overview of how...
Jordan Eldredge's...
How Winamp2-js loads native skins in your browser
How we get from a binary Winamp skin file to seeing Winamp2-js take on the look of your favorite...
9th Mar 2015
How we get from a binary Winamp skin file to seeing Winamp2-js take on the look of your favorite skin, all within the limitations of your browser.
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
12th Jun 2021
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.
In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it.
Why website speed matters
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
9th Sep 2024
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
Making software...
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal...
19th May 2021
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol' Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
MMapped blog
A swarm of replicated state machines
1st Dec 2021
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of...
1st Dec 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of signups, which was more than I expected. Overall, a great start! - Did a smaller launch for The Cont...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Thought Lead (2026)
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic...
14th Mar 2026
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't know if I ever really nailed it / have a complete picture, 2) I was somewhat worried if I published...
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Shameless green: TDD in Go
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty...
23rd Jun 2024
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty solutions, without worrying about whether the code is
elegant and readable—yet. Let’s see how to use the TDD technique called
“Shameless Green”.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
My eclipse photography plan
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2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original)
In 2017, I...
31st Mar 2024
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2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original)
In 2017, I opted to skip the crowds and the drive and settle for a
94% solar eclipse. I fully regret that decision.
Weather permitting, I’ll be photographing the full solar eclipse from
the path...
The Codist
Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management.
I did as well, but a...
4th Jun 2024
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management.
I did as well, but a difference is that I started my career in 1981, long before the hordes of Scrums took root.
1981, you say, so you must have done Waterfall, so you are old and have
Sebastian Witowski
You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros
One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work...
9th May 2024
One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work in the background. I muted my microphone, and I was coding away[1]. Suddenly, someone asked me a question. "Now, where is that goddamn Teams window so I can unmute my microphone?!"...
dthompson
Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but
really it is a multi-paradigm...
5th Oct 2022
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but
really it is a multi-paradigm language, including object-oriented
programming. My Scheme of choice for the past decade has been
Guile. It comes with support for OOP via
GOOPS: The Guile Object Oriented...
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2?
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
7th May 2024
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
beep.blog
Writing AWS Lambda functions behind SQS with LambdaQ
I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
11th Apr 2024
I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
Irrational...
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis.
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk,
Solving the Engineering Strategy...
21st Oct 2023
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk,
Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis,
which I gave at QCon last week.
They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording
of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
David Crawshaw
2015-10-13
"So OpenSSL has optional code to reject attempts to use weak DES keys. It, sanely, is not enabled...
13th Oct 2015
"So OpenSSL has optional code to reject attempts to use weak DES keys. It, sanely, is not enabled by default; if you want it you have to compile with DEVP_CHECK_DES_KEY.Last Thursday it was reported to the openssl-dev mailing list by Ben Kaduk that there was a defect in this...
tonsky.me
I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient...
15th Oct 2025
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient yourself in a large file.
Like any tool, it can be used correctly or incorrectly. Let’s see how to use syntax highlighting to help you work.
Christmas Lights Diarrhea
Most color themes...
Basta’s Notes
Happier development
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
26th Mar 2026
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
A Smart Bear
The Startup Drake Equation
Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an...
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.
Daniel Immke
What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
9th Sep 2019
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
ntietz.com blog -...
Covers as a way of learning music and code
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn.
You have to be able...
21st Jul 2025
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn.
You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it.
You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions.
You may want to record your music, and need all...
Josh Comeau's blog
Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back!
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations,...
11th Jan 2021
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations, and spacer GIFs. In this article, we'll see how I use a Spacer component to solve common layout problems, and why it's often a great tool for the job in the modern web.
Alex MacCaw
The problem with US healthcare is not capitalism
Among the world's rich countries, Americans are the most likely to say their healthcare system needs...
24th May 2026
Among the world's rich countries, Americans are the most likely to say their healthcare system needs fundamental change. They are right. They are also wrong about why.
The standard diagnosis runs roughly: too much capitalism, too much profit, too many private companies, too...
Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
9th Nov 2022
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
Civic Hax
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
27th Mar 2019
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
Patrick Kayongo
Software Praxis
The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period...
27th Jul 2026
The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period carrying its own set of talking points and controversies, which are almost completely forgotten in the next. In 2026, we find ourselves immersed in the tools and talking points of...
Eric Bailey
Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a...
5th Nov 2025
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a project-based option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology.
This service...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024
The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete!...
7th Oct 2024
The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete! We have no big plans to make serious modifications (tbh I always say this though, so idk). To be clear, that’s the first half of the track complete - the first 13 courses up to the...
Liz Denys
Route: annoying insurance upsell or online shopping data aggregator?
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart...
5th Oct 2021
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart when I purchase things online:
I went partially through the checkout flow of a shop that uses Route with a $278 item I have no interest in purchasing to illustrate this...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
My Remote Desk, 2024
My desk as of 2024-04-30
Remote companies have to work harder at everything.
The effort goes beyond...
1st May 2024
My desk as of 2024-04-30
Remote companies have to work harder at everything.
The effort goes beyond “remote-friendly”—you need remote
culture.
But once you have a remote culture, it’s hard to imagine going back.
After nine years of working remotely, the only thing I miss...
Matt Keeter
Higher-order reactive graph programming
10th Mar 2017
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Using AWK like grep with envvars
This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s
right, I use DuckDuckGo like a...
6th May 2018
This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s
right, I use DuckDuckGo like a verb). Like everyone who lives the daily
joy (and, frequently, deep frustration) of using the command line to
accomplish day-to-day tasks I am a fairly deft manipulator of...
alexwlchan
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
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...
Sometimes It Works...
Punctuated Excitement
Punctuated Excitement
Sunsets always lead to sunrises
¶Punctuated Excitement
When I try to tell new...
27th May 2016
Punctuated Excitement
Sunsets always lead to sunrises
¶Punctuated Excitement
When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?”
So I...
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IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020
Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
13th May 2020
Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
Daniel Immke
Beginner interaction design with Principle
I was able to pick up this powerful motion design tool in about 10 minutes and you can too!
30th Nov 2017
I was able to pick up this powerful motion design tool in about 10 minutes and you can too!
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