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Rational interpolation Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines....
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Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines. With rational interpolation, you can build functions that run through a set of points and also have vertical asymptotes whenever you want. With this capability, you can now model...
Eric Bailey
Don't Use The Placeholder Attribute
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
I should have been asking my users this from the start Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users...
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Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users don't tell you? It seems obvious, but here is something I should have been asking my users from the start. Getting the right feedback is critical # When someone signs up for my...
TokyoDev
Entry Level Jobs in Japan *Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...
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*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....
Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
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When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
Yale e360
Fight Burnout, Go For a Run Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We...
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Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We need to talk about it. We need to know how to deal with it and recover from it. And we need to recognize that everyone can come back from it, stronger than ever. In the software...
Kevin Chen
Speeding up code with vectorization I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people...
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I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people about my problems, they usually suggest multithreading and general-purpose GPU computing. These both have downsides. Multithreading might not be the best option in systems that...
Eric Bailey
SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
The world does not revolve around your product
over a year ago
Irrational...
Speaking
a year ago
The History of the...
Where does SEO come from? In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It...
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In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It couldn't be owned. The post Where does SEO come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Contraption Co.
Internal tools of Find AI Technical presentation at an AI meetup
9 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Squish Meets Structure Designing with Language Models
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water
4 months ago
Ralph Ammer
How to draw ideas Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process...
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Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process drawing can play four different roles. Let’s say, we want to come up with ideas for a new flower pot. 1. Study: Fill your mind To prepare for our ideation we first draw what we want...
macwright.com
Val.town Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the...
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Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the small, for writing short programs in TypeScript that can link together into something larger. It’s for writing that scheduled web scraper or basic API that you wanted to make but...
Eric Bailey
Global Accessibility Anger Day For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today,...
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For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today, ask: Does the announcement page support basic accessibility considerations (underlined links, captioned videos, valid markup, etc.)? Does the announcement include alternative descriptions...
On Test Automation
First things first - automate the execution of your tests “Well, it works on my machine” I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in...
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“Well, it works on my machine” I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in our career, and we all roll our eyes at them in response. It clearly doesn’t work on your machine… We would do well to apply that exact same philosophy of ‘it shouldn’t just run on...
The Changelog
Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all...
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I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all sorts of hassles and problems, from hangs on suspend to pure failure to boot. I still worry a bit about suspend on unknown hardware, but by and large, the picture of Linux on laptops...
Ferd.ca
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents 2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
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2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
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Website Backups with Apple iCloud Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really...
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Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really well with my iPhone SE (they are in the same ecosystem after all - duh!). Since both of these devices are Apple products, it makes sense that I pay for the optional iCloud service...
Irrational...
Steps to build an engineering strategy. Often you’ll see a disorganized collection of ideas labeled as a “strategy.” Even when they’re dense...
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Often you’ll see a disorganized collection of ideas labeled as a “strategy.” Even when they’re dense with ideas, these can be hard to parse, and are a major reason why most engineers will claim their company doesn’t have a clear strategy even though my experience is that all...
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Scrollbar Shenanigans Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
over a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
Finding Free Food with Python
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Twitter as Universal Meta-Commentary Layer Musing about how Twitter can enhance your Internet reading experience
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
over a year ago
Alex MacCaw
The Beginning of Infinity It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just...
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It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just look up. There are a hundred billion stars in a hundred billion galaxies (that we know of!). What are we but a spec of dust? And don'
A Beautiful Site
Dynamic Slots Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
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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...
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
Stop. Now. Stop. Now. ¶Stop. Now. Stop sharing little bits of junk about your life on social media. Stop...
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Stop. Now. ¶Stop. Now. Stop sharing little bits of junk about your life on social media. Stop reposting other people’s junk. Get your ideas clear in your head and write them down properly, in full and beautiful prose. Take the time to be creative and make something that’s worth a...
TokyoDev
Venture Cafe ![Venture...
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![Venture Cafe](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBZzRsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--ba1e65f25bf034abe1e412b48d5578aafd57c2af/venture_cafe.jpg) [Venture Cafe] had its first event, はたらくモチベーション...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
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over a year ago
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write one…
Josh Comeau's blog
Boop! An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever...
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over a year ago
An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever created. We'll learn how to use React components and hooks to abstract behaviours, and see how to design the perfect API. Even if you're not into animations, I think you'll find it...
Josh Comeau's blog
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...
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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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Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint 2020-06-14 I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air...
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Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint 2020-06-14 I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air with Linux Mint. It’s a distro I’ve used a few times in the past, but never set it as one of my main daily drivers until now. Setting up all my go-to applications (Sublime, LocalWP,...
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My Life as a Con Man Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it...
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Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it everywhere I look.
Computer Things
Keep perfecting your config First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought...
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First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought Logic for Programmers. Seeing the interest is incredible motivation to continue improving it. If you read it and have feedback, please share it with me! Second, I have a new blogpost...
davidyat.es
Print stylesheets
a year ago
Irrational...
Deciding to leave your (executive) job. If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up...
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If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up things are at work. Initiatives are behind, layoffs are happening everywhere, the team is in disarray. Then they’ll laugh, and switch topics. Sometimes one of the executives can’t...
the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
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I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
the singularity is...
A Person of Compute We will define one person of compute as 20 PFLOPS (64 A100s, or a single dense 42U A100 rack). We...
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We will define one person of compute as 20 PFLOPS (64 A100s, or a single dense 42U A100 rack). We are in the era of the 1 rack person, consuming about 30kW to provide those 20 PFLOPS. LLaMA was trained on a cluster of 2048 A100s, with ~312 TFLOPS each. 2048 is currently the...
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How to measure product engagement Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for...
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Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for your business. Though it seems easy to view success…
Acko.net
The GPU Banana Stand Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my...
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Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my declarative/reactive WebGPU library. This includes features and goodies by itself. But most important are the code patterns which are all nicely slotting into place. This continues to be...
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What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second...
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I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second Brain](https://www.swyx.io/obsidian-brain), and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also [back up everything to github](https://github.com/sw-yx/brain), so I dont really experience much data...
Alex Meub
A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a...
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My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x2TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Pendo Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables...
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Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables users to add in tool-tips and in-app messages. It…
Seán Barry
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
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Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
Liz Denys
Early one morning The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
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HTMHell
Native HTML light and dark color scheme switching by Vadim Makeev It’s getting dark early in Berlin in the winter. It’s not even close to evening, but...
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by Vadim Makeev It’s getting dark early in Berlin in the winter. It’s not even close to evening, but my OS and all apps have already switched to dark mode. Well, not all of them, unfortunately. And that’s the thing: dark mode has become a quality-of-life feature for many users,...
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Being a minor AI public figure I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
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I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
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...
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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.
macwright.com
Recently I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon...
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I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon as I got home. It is, crudely explained, like if Zoë Keating dialed up the synths and pedals and rhythm, and it was also a remarkable live show. Distant Intervals by MIZU Reading I...
Grant Slatton
Internet Fiction Collection of amateur stories — mainly sci-fi — that I like
12 months ago
Nelson's Weblog
The Sandbaggers I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the...
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I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the show name-checks James Bond frequently the soul of it is more of a Le Carré thing. Intelligence as a series of dismal political battles between underpaid civil servants at the home...
Grant Slatton
HTML5 Canvas simulations A collection of little HTML5 canvas demos
a year ago
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React Single File Components Are Here React has long eschewed convention in favor of the extreme flexibility of JS. It is time for the...
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React has long eschewed convention in favor of the extreme flexibility of JS. It is time for the next level in React authorship formats.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Stop Being Fancy This is a note to self: Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy. When confronted with,...
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This is a note to self: Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy. When confronted with, “Can this be done?” If the answer is an immediate "Yes", go ahead, do that. But if the answer is, “Well, you could, but you’d have to…" Just stop right there. Don’t go do...
Vadim Kravcenko
10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens Question: Answer: The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Yale e360
Work on tasks, not stories One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the...
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One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the smallest unit of work2. That a ticket should almost always be a story, because that means it's something that delivers concrete value to the users. There are some cases in which this...
Steve Klabnik
Seriously: numbers: use them!
over a year ago
General Robots
Correct vs Good Part 2: Can we have it both ways?
3 months ago
macwright.com
Placemark is now open source Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions...
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Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions welcome Placemark is the map editor software-as-a-service that I built for several years. It’s a website where you can import, create, edit, export, publish, and visualize geospatial data. I’m...
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Find programming work by increasing luck surface area Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote...
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Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote a response centered around increasing luck surface area. This essay expands on it because I’ve seen this a few times now: good developers asking how to find work while botching...
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Netlify Year One - 360 Review I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year...
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I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) Recap. That post was entirely me looking back at myself. It's helpful to see what others said about me at my review.
samwho.dev
Hashing form { padding-top: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; display:...
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form { padding-top: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; display: flex; justify-content: center; gap: 0.3em; } form input[type=text] { flex: 4 1 auto; min-width: 0; border-radius: 0.3em; border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; ...
A Day In The Life...
From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
over a year ago
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On Grind - from Investor to Creator to Founder Sarah asks a provoking question that has been on my mind a lot as I transition from part time...
a year ago
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
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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...
David Heinemeier...
The open source gift exchange I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The...
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I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. It's an intentionally selfish drive first, then a broader benefit second. But, ironically, this...
David Heinemeier...
Europeans don't have or understand free speech The new American vice president JD Vance just gave a remarkable talk at the Munich Security...
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The new American vice president JD Vance just gave a remarkable talk at the Munich Security Conference on free speech and mass immigration. It did not go over well with many European politicians, some of which immediately proved Vance's point, and labeled the speech "not...
alexwlchan
Beware of transparent backgrounds when using AVIF with ImageMagick 6 One of the things I did over my Christmas break was redo all the image handling on this site. Mostly...
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One of the things I did over my Christmas break was redo all the image handling on this site. Mostly I’m catching up on the current “best practices” for images on the web. I’ve written a Jekyll plugin which allows me to use an image in a post like so: {% picture ...
Irrational...
A brief rant on converging compliance regimes. Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has...
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Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has touched on reconciling between product and compliance goals, and over that time I’ve developed something of a pet theory on the evolution of compliance over the next five to ten years:...
The Pragmatic...
How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA) The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What...
a year ago
Identity Designed
OOP Designed by Futura, Mexico City.
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What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to? ---
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Upward assignment in Ruby Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it...
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Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it added rightward assignment (4 => x). Then at RubyConf 2021, Kevin Kuchta explained how to abuse Ruby features to build a downward assignment operator (yes, this really...
Alex MacCaw
Universality and APIs From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been...
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From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been the key to unlocking human progress.
Eric Bailey
A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed is industries with a lot of gravitas thinking that their use...
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A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed is industries with a lot of gravitas thinking that their use cases are somehow different and special. Somehow, the thinking becomes “our UI component is different because we deal with healthcare/banking/taxes/etc.” The opposite, however, is...
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Mise en Place Writing How to write more, faster, and better by decoupling writing from pre-writing
over a year ago
Irrational...
Exploring for strategy. A surprising number of strategies are doomed from inception because their authors get attached to...
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A surprising number of strategies are doomed from inception because their authors get attached to one particular approach without considering alternatives that would work better for their current circumstances. This happens when engineers want to pick tools solely because they...
David Crawshaw
2015-07-27 "Finally we decided to design the processor ourselves, because only in this way, we thought, could...
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"Finally we decided to design the processor ourselves, because only in this way, we thought, could we obtain a truly complete display processor. We approached the task by starting with a simple scheme and adding commands and features that we felt would enhance the power of the...
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Center a Div Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
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Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
alexwlchan
Redecorating my bedroom Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the...
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Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the inspiration to finally redecorate my bedroom – something I’ve been thinking about for two years. My bedroom used to have white walls, a dark grey feature wall, and a purple sliding...
Epic Web Dev
Good Code, Testable Code (article) Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for...
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Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for effective testing.
Words and Buttons...
Why learn about the golden-section search An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a...
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An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a motivation to learn them both. Spoiler alert! One converges better, and the other has a better computational cost.
Tony Finch's blog
Popcorn Another recent food obsession! I think the instigation was a YouTube food video which led me to...
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Another recent food obsession! I think the instigation was a YouTube food video which led me to try making popcorn at home from scratch with Nico. It was enormous fun! And several weeks later it’s still really entertaining to make (especially when a stray kernel pops after I take...
Vadim Kravcenko
Process Debt I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even...
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I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […] The post Process Debt appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years...
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As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main [2019 list](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), then my [2020](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2020) and [2021](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2021) diffs),...
blag
Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Thinking Big and Small It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about...
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It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about other people and what they’re doing. Here’s Paul Ford: I’ll give you a good example. Do you go out and raise venture capital? Well, it would be nice to have more money. But then...
Computer Things
Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things,...
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I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things, I'm completely rewriting the chapter on Logic Programming Languages. I originally showcased the paradigm with puzzle solvers, like eight queens or four-coloring. Lots of other demos...
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Compile Svelte in Your Head by Tan Li Hau Linking to a blogpost I was too lazy to do
over a year ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The Great Scrape Scraper bots are destroying the commons to feed the machine
3 months ago
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The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out of the loop despite their central importance to the whole story. Here's my explanation, together with a dash of economics and social implications.
Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
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over a year ago
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
blag
Catching SIGTERM in Python Simple code example to show catching SIGTERM in a Python script.
over a year ago
Charles Chen
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 2 The second part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
over a year ago
Julia Evans
Some Git poll results A new thing I’ve been trying while writing this Git zine is doing a bunch of polls on Mastodon to...
a year ago
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a year ago
A new thing I’ve been trying while writing this Git zine is doing a bunch of polls on Mastodon to learn about: which git commands/workflows people use (like “do you use merge or rebase more?” or “do you put your current git branch in your shell prompt?”) what kinds of problems...
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example: $ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
Alice GG
Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A...
a year ago
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a year ago
Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price data, which leads to technical analysis often being perceived as similar to astrology. In this article, I will try to see if...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Hexadecimal Sucks Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are exceptions. – Dan...
a year ago
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a year ago
Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are exceptions. – Dan Kaminsky When SSH added ASCII art fingerprints (AKA, randomart), the author credited a talk by Dan Kaminsky. As a refresher, randomart looks like this: $ ssh-keygen -lv -f...
Tinloof - Blog
Guide to content creation with Sanity We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
over a year ago
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How To Add Monaco Editor to a Next.js app ## Bottom Line Up Front
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Is Google Analytics CCPA-compliant?
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Alexander Petros’ “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service” I loved this talk from Alexander Petros titled “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”. What follows...
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a month ago
I loved this talk from Alexander Petros titled “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”. What follows is summation of my note-taking from watching the talk on YouTube. Is what you’re building for future generations: Useful for them? Maintainable by them? Adaptable by...
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The Surprisingly High Table Stakes of Modern Blogs Bottom Line Up Front: You are probably underestimating how much goes into blogging technology these...
over a year ago
Liz Denys
A very MIT signals problem I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there. Signals and systems can be used to describe many different problems because it is simply an abstraction which describes a physical, mathematical, or computational system by the way...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Case study of over-engineered C++ code You’ve heard of over-engineered, unnecessarily complex code but what exactly is it? I believe it’s...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
You’ve heard of over-engineered, unnecessarily complex code but what exactly is it? I believe it’s best to show by example. While it’s not my intention to criticize other people’s code, I think it’s better to show code and how to improve it rather than vaguely talk about...
Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
A Smart Bear
Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money? What can't be solved with money, are the most valuable things.
2 months ago
davidyat.es
Review: Bezos
9 months ago
Founder's blog
Zen Browser review and benchmark vs Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Safari I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy concerns (Google's tracking empire is alive and well), and Edge is just... too much. Every update shoves another set of “features” down my throat — Copilot, discount coupons, Bing...
samwho.dev
Simple Complex Easy Hard You might have noticed the last time you were doing chores or tackling a tricky problem at work,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You might have noticed the last time you were doing chores or tackling a tricky problem at work, that when something is hard it's not always hard in the same way. The hard you experience when doing chores, that mindnumbing , I-can't-be-bothered hard, is different to the hard you...
Lennart Koopmann
Close Access Denial I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for what its WiFi functionality does. The fact that it looks at not only WiFi but also Ethernet data does not help with that problem. If I have a minute to explain it, it’s no problem...
37signals Dev
Navigating personal information with care Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our...
A Beautiful Site
Password protection using .htaccess and .htpasswd The simplest way I know to password protect files and directories using Apache's .htaccess and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The simplest way I know to password protect files and directories using Apache's .htaccess and .htpasswd files. .htpasswd # Create a text file with the following text: username:password The usernames and passwords are stored in this file, one per line, separated by a colon. To...
Making software...
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
Epic Web Dev
Two Factor Auth is Included in the Epic Stack (tip) A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“I Don’t See Why Not” Excuse my rant. Nobel-prize winning CEO of DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, was on 60 Minutes and floored...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Excuse my rant. Nobel-prize winning CEO of DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, was on 60 Minutes and floored me when he predicted: We can cure all diseases with the help of AI. [The end of disease] is within reach, maybe within the next decade or so. I don't see why not. “I don’t see why...
Yale e360
I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009. In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most...
a year ago
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a year ago
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
David Gerrells
How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
8 months ago
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Perspectives June 2024
a year ago
Elad Blog
Early days of AI Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
a year ago
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a year ago
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
blag
In search of a faster SQLite Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using modern programming paradigms like io_uring and disaggregated storage. They demonstrate up to a 100x reduction in tail latency. These are my notes.
A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed? First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the process of product development, feeling […] The post As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Renegade Otter
Your database skills are not ‘good to have’ A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search...
a year ago
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a year ago
A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search experience for its Fashion Week portal. It was one of those projects where technical feasibility was not even discussed with the tech team - a common occurrence back then. Agile...
David Crawshaw
Under the heel of the spirit "Everybody thought Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon were spending four-and-a-half percent of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"Everybody thought Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon were spending four-and-a-half percent of the federal budget each year to prove that America owned Science. This was all a fiction. The Apollo Program was an elaborate demonstration of how even the blandest among us are under the...
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Machine Learning: An Overview The three major branches of ML
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prototyping Magic Tricks and Software In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their favorite ways to design a magic trick is to come up with an idea and then act it out as if they already know how to do it. Here’s Penn: We still start with an idea for a trick, how we...
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
over a year ago
Irrational...
Stuff I learned at Carta. Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years....
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a month ago
Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years. I’ve learned so much working there, and I wanted to end my chapter there by collecting my thoughts on what I learned. (I am heading somewhere, and will share news in a week or two...
Epic Web Dev
Tailwind CSS Color Tokens (tutorial)
10 months ago
TokyoDev
TokyoDev has a new logo! Over the last four years, I’ve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the last four years, I’ve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One project I’ve been working on is improving our branding. Today, I’m delighted to introduce the results of it: TokyoDev’s new logo. ![Our new...
Steve Klabnik
The hardest decision I've ever made
over a year ago
exist
Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document,...
a week ago
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a week ago
CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document, triggered via Ctrl + F. In my note-taking application Edna I wanted something slightly different. This article describes how I implemented it. The UI went from: to: CodeMirror is very...
Blog of Simple...
Data retention in Google Analytics
a year ago
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on September 19, 2016: Monday morning in New York and an emergency alert Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work, after watching two men of color have their bags searched at Grand Army Plaza: I woke up today to my phone beeping in a pattern that wasn't my alarm: WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami,...
TokyoDev
The Challenges Faced by Multinational Teams and Japanese Companies It’s a fact that Japan needs more international developers. That doesn’t mean integrating those...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
It’s a fact that Japan needs more international developers. That doesn’t mean integrating those developers into Japanese companies, as well as Japanese society, is a simple process. But what are the most common challenges encountered by these companies with multinational...
Epic Web Dev
What Is A Test Boundary? (article) Learn automated testing essentials: prepare code, execute actions, verify outcomes. Discover the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn automated testing essentials: prepare code, execute actions, verify outcomes. Discover the importance of mocking and setting proper test boundaries.
Marc Astbury
The Continuum of Design Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past:...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past: the genius designer design through ideology Vignelli, Da Vinci, Le Corbusier etc. master designer will intuit problems and find solutions, a moment of genius designing with atoms...
HTMHell
Common nesting issues in HTML HTML is such a lovely language. Browsers will almost always display something for you, no matter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
HTML is such a lovely language. Browsers will almost always display something for you, no matter what you put in the HTML document. Heck, you could omit all tags, and it will still work. That’s all nice, but as web professionals, we should aim to write valid code. But even...
alexwlchan
How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights → I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the benefits of moving our data storage and processing to the cloud. Building out this infrastructure is a large part of what I’ve been working on for the last six (!) years. It’s been...
Epic Web Dev
Embracing Slow Networks: Improving User Experience (article) How web devs can tackle high latency networks and enhance UX and the role React Server Components...
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The 4 Types of Activity timeouts in Temporal This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each Activity timeout in Temporal does and when to use it.
Josh Collinsworth
This isn't the Time, But it's the Perfect Time; Goodbye, Instagram …Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company behind it, however passively or at whatever seemingly insignificant scale. And while I was zeroing in on this answer anyway, the events of the last couple of weeks have clearly...
A Beautiful Site
Netscape support ending in February 2008 On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web...
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over a year ago
On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web browsers effective February 1, 2008. This doesn't come as much of a surprise, considering the significant decline in Netscape's marketshare over the past decade to more competative...
Stephen Wolfram...
How to Think Computationally about AI, The Universe and Everything Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics....
a year ago
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a year ago
Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics. Logic. These are all ways to formalize the world. And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of...
samwho.dev
Fun With Rust's Traits Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees with this statement. It's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees with this statement. It's a great way to encode shared behaviour between data types, and create flexible APIs. It's also great for writing nonsense like this: use std::f64::consts::PI; use...
Ralph Ammer
The perfect drawing tool The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed.  I want every single pen, every brush, every quill, and a sheet of every paper, ranging from crude cardboard to magnificent handcrafted Japanese washi. And yes, I need papyrus. And...
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Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired for teams across engineering, ops, people, marketing…
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Better Way to Get Data > Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog vs LogRocket LogRocket is a frontend monitoring platform which, like PostHog, combines multiple tools into one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
LogRocket is a frontend monitoring platform which, like PostHog, combines multiple tools into one platform. In this article we’ll explain some of the…
Confessions of a...
How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens
a year ago
MMapped blog
Candid for engineers
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Calculating your growth ceiling When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers signing up every month, it feels like your revenue will keep growing forever. However, as customers will also cancel their subscriptions (churn), eventually your growth will...
Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
a year ago
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a year ago
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
The Changelog
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
Nelson's Weblog
Cronometer is a good food diary Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge improvement over MyFitnessPal (MFP) or Lose It and is not exploitative like Noom. The key improvement with Cronometer is accuracy, particularly good data sources for nutrition...
Darek Kay
Fixing long start-up times of the Eleventy dev server Recently, I've encountered a peculiar issue with Eleventy. The development server stopped...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, I've encountered a peculiar issue with Eleventy. The development server stopped working: eleventy --serve [11ty] Wrote 92 files in 0.48 seconds (5.2ms each, v1.0.2) [11ty] Watching… There were no errors. Everything seemed fine, except for the dev server not being...
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it’s relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
Epic Web Dev
Support Responsive Favicons for a Professional Look (tip) Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Tracking Humanity The introduction to my thesis on the Quantified Self movement and the culture of self-tracking
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Why I don't like factory_girl
over a year ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
Git’s push url
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Ideas for replit bounties Apparently replit asks all Pro users about their thoughts. As it happens, I have a lot of thoughts...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Apparently replit asks all Pro users about their thoughts. As it happens, I have a lot of thoughts about how to improve Replit bounties. Lower transaction costs Currently the process is: I post a bounty one or more people apply I select an applicant they do the work I...
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
macwright.com
Incentives My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives....
a year ago
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a year ago
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large sub-string query performance Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on large variable-length strings. I wanted to check if sub-string queries might be faster than HSTORE or JSONB key lookups. I tested both binary (BYTEA) and Unicode text (TEXT)....
Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that way, it is completely understandable...
ByteofDev
When you should and shouldn't use React While very popular, React is not always the best web framework to use. In this article, we go over...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While very popular, React is not always the best web framework to use. In this article, we go over when to use React and when not to.
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five Finals Intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2: “Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day. First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
Alex Meub
Controlling Wemo Smart Plugs with Arduino «««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
«««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them for controlling lighting and fans. I thought it would be cool to control my Wemo plugs using a physical button (in addition to my phone). In many situations, a button is faster than...
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Fight Link Rot with Server- and Client-side Redirects (Netlify and Gatsby) Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
over a year ago
Grant Slatton
Twitter Essay about how getting on Twitter unexpectedly added a lot of value to my life
a year ago
Yale e360
Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just a fun diversion. I ran into that recently for a side project I'm working on. It wasn't really necessary to test database options semi-rigorously, but here we are. This project is...
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Our new objective: Nail Self Serve The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate strategy as 'Nail X', where X is the thing we need…
Patrick Kayongo
Stimela 23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya asked this while squashing the newspaper within her clenched fist. Her lips were quivering, her face contorted to hold back the tears of anger and fear. “My brother went to the mines...
On Test Automation
On working and contributing to conferences abroad This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want my career to go’ series. I will get back to writing technical and automation blog posts soon, but I need to finish my contract testing course first. One of the things I like to do...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
a year ago
Alex MacCaw
Lifestyle business FAQ I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger...
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I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger business. Lifestyle businesses are intriguing to people, they sound too good to be true but the reality is they are imminently doable. Since I get quite a lot of questions...
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A software engineer's guide to A/B testing As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired...
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a year ago
As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired impact. Track user metrics and run A/B tests to verify…
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Idea for code editors Added a daily notes section to the blog. It’s the one you’re reading right now. Data stored in...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Added a daily notes section to the blog. It’s the one you’re reading right now. Data stored in \daily_notes.md file. Trying Obsidian for editing markdown files I’m always looking for that perfect note taking / markdown editor. I’m even writing one (but it’s web based so not...
Ralph Ammer
Immanuel Kant—What can we know? If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there...
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If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple question: “What can we know?“ And his answer is foundational to how we experience and...
MMapped blog
Enlightenmentware
a year ago
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Early Stage Company Offsites this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
9 months ago
Sometimes It Works...
Finally! I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very...
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over a year ago
I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very much over the past few months (I maybe need to be better at that?), but you may know that I left Elvie back at the end of October 2022. I was there for almost 6 years, the...
Eric Bailey
ARIA is Spackle, Not Rebar
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Speakers for Amsterdam / Netherlands Tech Events I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the...
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I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the Netherlands, or somewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, rarely do talks – I do one conference per year. However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks...
Julia Evans
Notes on git's error messages While writing about Git, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks struggle with Git’s error messages. I’ve...
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While writing about Git, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks struggle with Git’s error messages. I’ve had many years to get used to these error messages so it took me a really long time to understand why folks were confused, but having thought about it much more, I’ve realized...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hedge Words Affirm Creative, Imaginative Thinking Mandy’s note piqued my interest so much, I started reading Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz. So far, I...
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Mandy’s note piqued my interest so much, I started reading Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz. So far, I love it! (I hope to write more about it once I’ve finished, but I’m afraid I won’t because the whole book is underlined in red pencil and I wouldn’t know where to start.) As...
Making software...
Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
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over a year ago
Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
macwright.com
Work hard and take everything really seriously Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or...
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a year ago
Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or bad idea to work hard when you’re young. Like most of these recurring debates, it has generated two opposite archetypes: The anti-capitalist tells the young worker not to trust HR...
TokyoDev
Bringing Your Pets to Japan This is the post in forums that always makes me wince: “I’ve just been hired and am moving to Japan!...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
This is the post in forums that always makes me wince: “I’ve just been hired and am moving to Japan! Can I bring my dog with me?” The reason it causes me pain is that I know the poster is already too late. If they wanted to relocate to Japan with their dog, they needed to start...
blag
Learning C Some resources for learning C
a year ago
HTMHell
#12 accessible poll yes/no Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this...
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over a year ago
Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div> <div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup"> <div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title"> <input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
Making software...
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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over a year ago
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn't mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
Joel Gascoigne
Start something small * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I was listening to Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and and I found it amazing how this book, which has now sold over 15 million copies, originally started: >...
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How to seed, grow, and scale Developer Relations (and how we're doing it at PostHog) Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer Relations journey at PostHog has just begun, and…
Tony Finch's blog
clamp / median / range Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison...
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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...
Vadim Kravcenko
Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for...
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over a year ago
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for Developers”, but then who […] The post Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Nelson's Weblog
Passkey authenticators for consumers (May 2023) After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a...
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over a year ago
After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a consumer. Here’s what I learned. If you want to try it yourself, passkeys.io is a nice demo server. Passkeys work a lot like passwords do today. You create a different passkey for...
Making software...
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
David Heinemeier...
Apple’s new extortion regime to keep big app makers Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a...
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Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a big, revealing moment to a lot of people. Folks who perhaps didn’t think Apple would be “that kind of company”. That they wouldn't so blatantly threaten developers into compliance...
swyx's site RSS Feed
You're Allowed To Make Your Own Tools Making personal side projects for fun and profit.
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Simple Analytics: Privacy-first website analytics
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
7 things you may not know about useState Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some awesome features (and nasty pitfalls) useState offers. Since it's one of my favourite hooks, I decided to help spread a word. Don't expect any huge revelations, but here're the 7 facts...
Yale e360
If it never breaks, you're doing it wrong When the power goes out, most people are understanding. Yet the most livid I've seen people is when...
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a year ago
When the power goes out, most people are understanding. Yet the most livid I've seen people is when web apps or computers they use have a bug or go down. But most of the time, it's a really bad sign if this never happens1. I was talking to my dad about this recently. For most of...
alexwlchan
Good embedded toots In my previous post, there was a first for this site: I embedded a post from Mastodon. Like many...
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5 months ago
In my previous post, there was a first for this site: I embedded a post from Mastodon. Like many social media services, Mastodon has built-in support for embedding posts. If you’re looking at a public post, you can get a snippet of HTML and JavaScript to show that post in another...
Eric Bailey
Keeping track of letter-spacing, some guidelines
over a year ago
Yale e360
Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together. It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends. But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
Maggie Appleton
Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud Some insights into how I collaborative with experts to create illustrated notes on technical topics
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
"How come your website is so nice?" I've been asked this three times today, so I thought I'd explain it from a founder's perspective....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been asked this three times today, so I thought I'd explain it from a founder's perspective. This is what I've learned so far. Figure out if…
David Heinemeier...
Tesla wins When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was...
a year ago
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a year ago
When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was spotty, brakes didn't match the performance, and handling was at best so-so. But it could carry seven, including luggage, was electric, and the dual-motor acceleration was a hoot. So...
Making software...
Dynamic Checkboxes Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you're selecting a pricing plan during a site's sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
Yale e360
Recovering from a lost disk: how I setup, backup, and restore dev machines Last Wednesday just before 3pm, I went pack up my laptop to get ready to drive 7 hours to visit my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last Wednesday just before 3pm, I went pack up my laptop to get ready to drive 7 hours to visit my family in Ohio. Fedora had some updates to apply and when it went to come back on after those, I saw the words no one wants to see: Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed....
David Crawshaw
Everyone a writer "The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! For everyone is pained by the thought of...
Liz Denys
Patina tissue box, 2024 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, matte copper patina glaze
a year ago
Kevin Chen
How Cruise vehicles return to the garage autonomously in heavy rain Cruise doesn’t carry passengers in heavy rain. The operational design domain (ODD) in their CPUC...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Cruise doesn’t carry passengers in heavy rain. The operational design domain (ODD) in their CPUC permit (PDF) only allows services in light rain. I’ve always wondered how they implement this operationally. For example, Waymo preemptively launches all cars with operators in the...
Marc Astbury
End user programming – my experience building an iOS app Update: Sticky was approved on the App Store, you can download it here. The void between users and...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Update: Sticky was approved on the App Store, you can download it here. The void between users and builders of software is seldom considered. A software builder sits in San Francisco and hopefully talks to and observes user needs and behaviors in order to build a product that has...
Ink & Switch
OS of the future and universal version control In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing and introducing our new research project.
TokyoDev
A Guide to Salary Negotiations in Japan’s Tech Industry When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table. I’ve worked as a recruiter sourcing candidates from around the world for a Japanese autonomous driving tech company, and have helped hundreds of English-speaking expats in secure...
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (for React) (tip)
9 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
over a year ago
Irrational...
Architecture
a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
Joining Arcol
over a year ago
Making software...
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn't shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset 4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my...
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4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024, and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script, I have Outstanding Episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am...
MMapped blog
ckBTC internals: event log
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 01 · Universal version control We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators...
a year ago
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a year ago
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
Neil Panchal
Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs? Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I've come to terms with it. It's fine. It'll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using DEV.to as a CMS Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: on the side * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while ago I wrote about one of the ways I think people could bootstrap a startup from zero funds. I called it "working in waves" [https://joel.is/post/2106915988/bootstrapping-waves]. Of...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Become the master of your eslint with no-restricted-syntax The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a file, which ensures a predicatbale CSS order. I spent hours looking for a eslint plugin to do that, but with little luck. Without getting into too much details: The built-in...
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.
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Launching a rocket in the worst possible way Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1 mission. The long and expensive development of SLS has been the subject of much debate, and caused a lot of online rage. I will now induce similar rage at a fraction of the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is user segmentation? User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it mean? In this article we'll explain what user…
Charles Chen
TypeScript is not a Programming Language If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Learn Stuff Quickly As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
Patrick Kayongo
Mammon The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of the occasional car passing by outside. As the cool air gently brushes across her arms, Gladys Tyamzashe’s strands of hair stand up, mounted on the goose bumps of her aged and...
Blog of Simple...
The path to 1M ARR - April 2023
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
About antisocialne.ws
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025 Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
6 months ago
Cognitive...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2023 Recap It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and it was a [conference I helped organise](https://www.dddmelbourne.com). I didn’t know what to expect heading into Matsumoto for [RubyKaigi 2023](https://rubykaigi.org/2023/) this...
Charles Chen
Programmatically Invoke Cloud Run Jobs with Runtime Overrides Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
a year ago
Yale e360
What would a web app canary look like? Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots. Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to. They are an essential component...
Kagi Blog
Introducing the Kagi Family Plan We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the power of Kagi Search together.
TokyoDev
Converting a Japanese Sole Proprietorship to a Company As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in Japan](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/creating-company-japan), I initially ran TokyoDev as a sole proprietorship, but in late 2022 converted it to a company. This involved three steps: 1. Incorporate TokyoDev Inc, a...
Marc Astbury
Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
37signals Dev
Kamal 2.0 released We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers. Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer. With Kamal 2.0...
Blog of Simple...
What are your rights under the CCPA?
a year ago
Confessions of a...
The System-Level Foundation of Assembly Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
2 months ago
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Jobs 1.0 released We’ve just released Mission Control — Jobs v1.0.0, the dashboard and set of extensions to operate...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We’ve just released Mission Control — Jobs v1.0.0, the dashboard and set of extensions to operate background jobs that we introduced earlier this year. This new version is the result of 92 pull requests, 67 issues and the help of 35 different contributors. It includes many...
A Smart Bear
The Code is your Enemy A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming confirmation that the lesson is correct.
Jake Zimmerman
Typing instance variables in mixins
2 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Few Details About My Notes Website A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a...
a year ago
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a year ago
A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a little more about some of my favorite parts of the site. First: It’s Really a Page, Not a Site I’m not sure I should call it a “website”, as I think of a website as a collection...
bt RSS Feed
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create...
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over a year ago
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box and loved the simplicity of it. I’m a sucker for using pseudo elements in creative ways but still managing to make them useful. Of course, this got me...
David Heinemeier...
Our switch to Kamal is complete In a fit of frustration, I wrote the first version of Kamal in six weeks at the start of 2023. Our...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In a fit of frustration, I wrote the first version of Kamal in six weeks at the start of 2023. Our plan to get out of the cloud was getting bogged down in enterprisey pricing and Kubernetes complexity. And I refused to accept that running our own hardware had to be that expensive...
dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign function interface. New bindings in this...
Joel Gascoigne
It takes hard work. Do the hard work. * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is the idea of simply trying harder with everything I choose to spend my time on. It seems like an elusive thing, the idea of optimal focus and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
A new 'Privacy Shield' won't solve big tech's GDPR problem Ten years ago today, the European Commission published the first draft of the General Data...
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over a year ago
Ten years ago today, the European Commission published the first draft of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But, as the recent ruling in…
bt RSS Feed
Fixing Jekyll's dart-sass Dependency on OpenBSD Fixing Jekyll’s dart-sass Dependency on OpenBSD 2024-06-30 I recently wrote about working with...
a year ago
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a year ago
Fixing Jekyll’s dart-sass Dependency on OpenBSD 2024-06-30 I recently wrote about working with multiple Ruby versions on OpenBSD which still works just fine, but I noticed a bug when trying to build a couple of my Jekyll projects locally: NotImplementedError: dart-sass for...
ByteofDev
Migrating ByteofDev from SvelteKit to Astro Why and how I rebuilt my blog in Astro
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 2
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Best Go books for 2024 What are the best Go books for 2024? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go...
a year ago
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a year ago
What are the best Go books for 2024? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go books you should absolutely buy and read right now, whether you’re a beginner or expert Gopher.
Joel Gascoigne
5 varieties of remote working in companies I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the nature of a company...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the nature of a company where the team works from remote locations to accomplish our work. Scaling remote working has been a challenge as the team has grown. Remote companies are still relatively rare,...
The Pragmatic...
Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt? One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman...
a year ago
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One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
A Beautiful Site
The Future of Shoelace It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Wäre July 2023 The Ware for July 2023 is a “KUP 10” by aditec. Also, thanks to FETguy, we now have a schematic of...
a year ago
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The Ware for July 2023 is a “KUP 10” by aditec. Also, thanks to FETguy, we now have a schematic of the ware: The spirit of Name that Ware is about demystifying electronics and encouraging people to learn by taking things apart. Drawing a schematic from an image of a circuit board...
Joel Gascoigne
Maximize your excitement * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge believer of the lean startup movement and the concept of validating ideas as quickly as possible. I think wasted time and resources are disastrous and no matter how much you love an...
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The Many Jobs of JS Build Tools A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS...
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A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS developers.
Julia Evans
ASCII control characters in my terminal Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these...
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8 months ago
Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these “control codes”, like Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W, etc. What’s the deal with all of them? a table of ASCII control characters Here’s a table of all 33 ASCII control characters, and what they...
Alex Meub
Material Rewards for Motivation Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term...
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over a year ago
Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term goals. This isn’t a new idea but I’ve found it to be really helpful in keeping me on track and giving me that extra push to follow through on my goals. Set SMART Goals In order to...
Eric Bailey
Yes, accessibility is also a backend concern There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what...
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There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what someone can see and do on a website or web app—is the only place you need to consider accessibility. This simply isn’t true. Accessibility is a holistic practice that touches every...
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-03 "As if this were somehow a morally inferior form of megadeath to lobbing a couple thousand half...
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"As if this were somehow a morally inferior form of megadeath to lobbing a couple thousand half megaton nuclear missile warheads at your least favorite country. Apparently this is how civilized countries who do not possess enemies with a plurality of coastal cities exterminate...
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Dynamic Checkboxes Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
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Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you’re selecting a pricing plan during a site’s sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Quality Means The Flexibility to Change Here’s Ben Nadal quoting Dave Farley: I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Here’s Ben Nadal quoting Dave Farley: I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in code that makes any sense is our ability to change the code. If it's easy to change, it's high quality; if it's hard to change, it's not. Then Ben comments: I'm sure that some...
Maggie Appleton
A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators Illustrated notes on how JavaScript's comparison operators work
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Switching to Android was easy In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android...
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In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android recently. And that turned out to be far easier. Dangerously easy, you might say, if you were in Apple’s shoes. But it’s all down to how deep you’re mired in the platform services soup. I...
Steve Klabnik
Ditching Google Chat with XMPP
over a year ago
Irrational...
Playing with Streamlit and LLMs. Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools...
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Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools for their teams to make it easy to test LLMs against their internal usecases. I wanted to take a couple hours to see how far I could get using Streamlit to build out a personal LLM...
Tony Finch's blog
Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch build howto main img { border: 1px solid var(--fg); width: 100%; } The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a...
a year ago
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a year ago
main img { border: 1px solid var(--fg); width: 100%; } The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a working MX-style mechanical keyboard switch, but 4x larger in every dimension. I realised at the weekend that the Big Switch should fit nicely in a simple Lego enclosure. Because an...
Making software...
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But...
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over a year ago
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But I've come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
Maggie Appleton
Undetected AI Exam Answers A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study by Peter Scarfe, Kelly Watcham, Alasdair Clarke, Etienne Roesch
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
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...
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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...
Patrick Kayongo
A New Dog “What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
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over a year ago
“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
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Forced to upgrade On finally having to upgrade my iPhone
7 months ago
Making software...
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
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over a year ago
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I've most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome. But that all changes...
Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
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over a year ago
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
dthompson
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
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over a year ago
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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How we do meetings at PostHog Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do...
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over a year ago
Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do nothing but hop into one meeting after another? Even…
TokyoDev
Oh, that's not your job My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese...
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over a year ago
My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese startup](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan). The company had a stellar development team, and in a couple of months of working there I learned more about developing software than I did in my entire computer...
Julia Evans
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood...
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Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood until a few weeks ago. Let’s say you’re running this command to watch for some specific output in a log file: tail -f /some/log/file | grep thing1 | grep thing2 If log lines are...
Contraption Co.
Why Ruby on Rails still matters An old tool endures in a Next.js world
4 months ago
On Test Automation
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...
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5 months ago
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...