The Web Witch's Blog
Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: Day 1 as a New Mom and Remote Tech Worker
I started work back up again yesterday, June 1, as a remote tech worker for an open source...
1st Jun 2026
I started work back up again yesterday, June 1, as a remote tech worker for an open source consultancy. My husband started his paternity leave today. I'm only going back part-time for the moment so my rough plan is to work 3 days a week with the exception of this week, as I...
charity.wtf
Software Sprawl, The Golden Path, and Scaling Teams With Agency
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The company is growing like crazy, your engineering team...
2nd Dec 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The company is growing like crazy, your engineering team keeps rising to the challenge, and you are ferociously proud of them. But some cracks are beginning to show, and frankly you’re a little worried. You have always advocated for...
Buttondown's blog
Navigation updates
You asked, and we listened. We've updated the navigation to be more usable.
17th Oct 2020
You asked, and we listened. We've updated the navigation to be more usable.
Charles Chen
.NET Source Generators with .NET 7
Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
15th Aug 2023
Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
Irrational...
Culture vs systems.
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
3rd Feb 2023
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
The Web Witch's Blog
Exploring the Immersive Web with Wolvic
When I was interviewing for a role with Microsoft Edge in early 2016, I got to my final interview in...
1st May 2024
When I was interviewing for a role with Microsoft Edge in early 2016, I got to my final interview in the loop and I can still remember sitting across from my soon-to-be manager when he asked about the future of the web.
HoloLens had been announced, so I must have had that in my...
A Beautiful Site
Postleaf: reimagined
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
26th Apr 2017
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!)
Today, I'm...
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
5th Apr 2021
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
The History of the...
Thinking more about Netscape Time
Netscape time's influence has gone far beyond Netscape itself, and tis a legacy that we still...
3rd Jun 2026
Netscape time's influence has gone far beyond Netscape itself, and tis a legacy that we still wrestle with on the web. We probably always will.
The post Thinking more about Netscape Time appeared first on The History of the Web.
Eric Migicovsky's...
What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome)
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this...
1st Dec 2022
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are a…
markround.com
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the...
30th Aug 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
ntietz.com blog -...
Covers as a way of learning music and code
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn.
You have to be able...
21st Jul 2025
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn.
You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it.
You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions.
You may want to record your music, and need all...
bt RSS Feed
Simple Accessibility
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward:
Basic design
Test that your project has the proper...
Sometimes It Works...
Smile
Smile
Be thankful
Resist the pressure to own things
Be good to yourself, but no more than...
11th Sep 2018
Smile
Be thankful
Resist the pressure to own things
Be good to yourself, but no more than necessary
Be a friend
Reflect; don’t regret
Fail, learn, repeat
Stop. Think. Speak
Exercise your mind, your body, and your soul
Work hard
Be true
Respect others
Value life
Give openly
Love...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2024
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a...
29th Feb 2024
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a gizmo I picked out of a junk bin in Akihabara. Personally, I could not figure out the grabby motion until I actuated the central plunger manually: So, I was impressed that Ian...
alexwlchan
Quick-and-dirty print debugging in Go
I’ve been writing a lot of Go in my new job, and trying to understand a new codebase.
When I’m...
8th Jan 2026
I’ve been writing a lot of Go in my new job, and trying to understand a new codebase.
When I’m reading unfamiliar code, I like to use print debugging to follow what’s happening.
I print what branches I’m in, the value of different variables, which functions are being called, and...
charity.wtf
Money, power and credibility
I don’t really do “women stuff” (awkward umbrella term for gender-segregated events and spaces). I...
2nd Mar 2018
I don’t really do “women stuff” (awkward umbrella term for gender-segregated events and spaces). I don’t really identify with any gender and I find a lot of the advice to be condescending and overly delicate, and it’s just a really boring thing to think and talk about. For me....
David Heinemeier...
Le Mans 2024
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some...
3rd Apr 2024
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a real race car, and even less time since I made participating in the world's greatest endurance race the ultimate goal. But it almost didn't...
A Beautiful Site
If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
While I nodded, nearly napping,...
19th Nov 2024
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
"'Tis a design system," I muttered, "bringing order to the core—
Ah, distinctly I remember, every button, every splendor,
Each component, standardized,...
On Life and Lisp
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power.
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
28th Mar 2021
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
Making software...
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community....
7th Feb 2020
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn't have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in "web dev" some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
The Changelog
Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but...
3rd Jan 2024
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian. These are my reasons: Raspberry Pi OS has, for years now, specified...
Joel on Software
A Dusting of Gamification
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe...
13th Apr 2018
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more "A Dusting of Gamification"
Buttondown's blog
Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow
Buttondown makes it easy to start collecting subscriptions without having to muck around and...
11th Oct 2019
Buttondown makes it easy to start collecting subscriptions without having to muck around and changing your CMS.
Herman's blog
Messing with bots
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
13th Nov 2025
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
sancho.dev
4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job
9th May 2024
Buttondown's blog
Easy subscriber filters
Want to learn more about your audience. Try subscriber filters!
20th Jun 2019
Want to learn more about your audience. Try subscriber filters!
charity.wtf
In defense of AI mandates
When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most...
2nd Jul 2026
When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most honest way to fund it.
Eric Bailey
Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names
24th Jun 2022
A Beautiful Site
Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8
I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside...
30th Sep 2009
I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside of a table cell and, for some reason, IE8 completely neglected the corresponding CSS max-width property. The result was the image rendering at full size rather than scaled down to...
dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released!
Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
7th Oct 2021
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 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...
Eric Bailey
Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 2
27th Jul 2016
charity.wtf
The Official, Authorized List Of Legitimate Reasons For Deciding to Become a Manager
“Why did you decide to become a manager?” It’s a question that gets asked a lot, in job interviews,...
1st Sep 2020
“Why did you decide to become a manager?” It’s a question that gets asked a lot, in job interviews, 1x1s, and plain old casual conversation. I ask this question a lot, and I am often frustrated (or bored) by the answers I hear back. Most of them can be bucketed in one of three...
Eric Bailey
Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 1
5th Apr 2016
orlp.net - Blog...
Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be?
This article is not about deciding whether two floating
point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are...
27th Jan 2023
This article is not about deciding whether two floating
point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are plenty of resources on
this (often subjective) problem. We simply want to know if ${x \leq y.}$
Suppose that you are a programmer, and that you have two numbers. You want to
know...
Alice GG
Preview Ebitengine shaders with Luluka
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with building games in Ebitengine.
It’s a 2D engine that lets you...
15th May 2026
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with building games in Ebitengine.
It’s a 2D engine that lets you create games using the Go programming language.
To be able to iterate faster on visual effects, I have created a tool that lets me preview shaders: Luluka.
Kage Shaders
For those who...
The Web Witch's Blog
Going on maternity leave
tl;dr summary #
I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where...
12th Dec 2025
tl;dr summary #
I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where the last eight and a half months have gone but here we are! It's a very weird feeling to be prepping and handing off projects. All of my co-workers have been so lovely and...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2025 TokyoDev Developers Survey
The 2025 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living...
4th Sep 2025
The 2025 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please take a few minutes to participate. All questions are optional, and it should take less than 10 minutes to complete. The survey will remain open until September...
Boot.dev Blog
What is Backend Web Development?
The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of...
7th Aug 2023
The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of websites and web applications. It primarily focuses on handling the logic, data processing, and communication between the user’s web browser and the server.
Code Of Honor
Twenty Years of Guild Wars
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars...
30th Apr 2025
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars on April 28, 2005, that it encouraged me to write this little bitty. I was heartened to see an article about Guild Wars in GameRant, which talked about the server infrastructure...
David Gerrells
how to make a game engine
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript no threejs. How hard can it be?
20th Dec 2025
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript no threejs. How hard can it be?
Basta’s Notes
Happier development
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
26th Mar 2026
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
Words and Buttons...
Partial order and non-Boolean logic
Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can...
26th Dec 2020
Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can implement a logic you want within total order or partial order but sometimes even that isn't enough and you need an even more general relation. With operator overloading, you have the...
Remains of the Day
Status as a Service (StaaS)
Editor's Note 1: I have no editor.
Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this...
26th Feb 2019
Editor's Note 1: I have no editor.
Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one. My long break from posting here means that this piece is a collection of what would’ve normally...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental...
9th Feb 2021
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
Liz Denys
French onion soup redux
If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm...
2nd Jan 2012
If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm probably lying a little bit. What most people call French onion soup is mostly a thing of the past for me.
But this soup is very similar. I grew out of the big croutons and the...
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean.
Please note that while I...
A Smart Bear
Why I don't like the LTV metric (LifeTime Value)
The LTV metric overcomplicates and misleads. Learn why you should use other SaaS metrics instead.
7th Oct 2013
The LTV metric overcomplicates and misleads. Learn why you should use other SaaS metrics instead.
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - February 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Busy month at Chroma - including launching a case study with Mintlify who recently ...
Charles Petzold
AI-Supercharged Phishing Emails
It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and...
3 weeks ago
It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and other blunders. Now that scammers are apparently using AI to aid in their phishing emails, the tells are more subtle. ... more ...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Why linting errors should cause tests to fail
Making the case against allowing linting errors in master.
16th Sep 2016
Making the case against allowing linting errors in master.
Josh Comeau's blog
Sneaky Header Blocker Trick
There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often...
23rd Mar 2026
There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often reach out, asking how on earth it works. It feels like it defies the rules of CSS! In this blog post, I’ll break down the surprisingly-straightforward implementation so you can...
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Naked Emperors in Tech
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
6th Nov 2020
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
Maggie Appleton
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
20th Feb 2022
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
Making software...
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
2nd Apr 2023
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2021 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
3rd Sep 2021
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.
Joel on Software
The next CEO of Stack Overflow
We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the...
28th Mar 2019
We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board. Read more "The next CEO of Stack Overflow"
Alice GG
Steam nerfed popular upcoming. So what?
In the latest Steam client update, Valve unveiled major changes to its store’s home page.
One of the...
12th Jun 2026
In the latest Steam client update, Valve unveiled major changes to its store’s home page.
One of the main difference is that the “Popular Upcoming” section, which shows upcoming games now shows a lot fewer games.
This seems to worry indie developers who relied on this section as...
Blog - Bitfield...
Shameless green: TDD in Go
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty...
23rd Jun 2024
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty solutions, without worrying about whether the code is
elegant and readable—yet. Let’s see how to use the TDD technique called
“Shameless Green”.
ntietz.com blog -...
Surveillance, Schools, and Our Children
In 2010, the news broke that Harriton High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, was activating...
7th Mar 2016
In 2010, the news broke that Harriton High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, was activating webcams on student laptops1. When they were at home. In their bedrooms. They captured photos while students were in private spaces, where they never expected to be watched.
A few days...
bt RSS Feed
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of...
2nd Nov 2023
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
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...
7th Jan 2024
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
Kagi Blog
Kagi Search - New Features
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three...
22nd Dec 2022
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three months.
A small freedom area...
A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote
an article about the...
7th Dec 2025
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote
an article about the first one, Red Alp. There, I went into details about the
whole process, so I recommend to check it out first if you're not familiar with
the field.
We will look at 4 demos:...
Blog of Simple...
Big Tech Fails EU’s Digital Services Act: Only Wikipedia Passes the Test
7th Dec 2024
A Beautiful Site
Web standards are just "minor details"
A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He...
2nd Jul 2007
A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He obtained a position as a junior project manager for a web consulting firm in Atlanta. Their work is very professional and their designs are great, but it was immediately evident...
Elad Blog
**Signup Now** Fireside- Dylan Field: Design, AI, School & Careers
Sign up now for new fireside chat
7th Feb 2023
Sign up now for new fireside chat
Nelson's Weblog
PreSonus Eris speakers
PreSonus makes good
computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100
for a...
8th Jun 2024
PreSonus makes good
computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100
for a small set I have my doubts about their referenceness. Fortunately I
have a tin ear and they sound just fine for my computer playing YouTube
videos, compressed music, games. ...
Dan Slimmon
Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin
Queues are everywhere, and they follow mathematical rules. Learn a few of those rules! It'll go a...
25th Jun 2025
Queues are everywhere, and they follow mathematical rules. Learn a few of those rules! It'll go a long way to making you a stronger SRE.
Steve Klabnik
Transmuting Philosophy into Machinery
8th Mar 2012
alexwlchan
Not all blog posts are created equal
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write,...
26th Dec 2024
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write, even when I had good ideas; if I wrote something I liked, I was often reluctant to publish it; if somebody asked to read the site, I’d wince before giving them the link.
Something...
Computer Things
A list of ternary operators
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
5th Nov 2024
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators.
Almost all...
Marc Astbury
Annual Review 2025
As was the case in 2023, I’m back in Yunnan writing the annual review. This time sitting in Matchbox...
2nd Jan 2026
As was the case in 2023, I’m back in Yunnan writing the annual review. This time sitting in Matchbox coffee shop in Shaxi, the sky is pure blue and the farmers fields below are a dusty yellow. My fingers are freezing as I type but the pain is negated by the joy of wearing a...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on being a good manager
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
9th Feb 2015
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day.
When someone has a grievance, take an...
Chris Nicholas
How to write exceptional documentation
Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to...
4th Mar 2025
Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to crafting holistic, comprehensive documentation.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2023
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”....
30th Apr 2023
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”. Congrats to jackw01 for arriving at the correct answer! congrats, email me for your prize. This one was surprisingly difficult to guess from just the PCB alone, but once the associated...
Patrick Kayongo
Stimela
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya...
28th Jan 2023
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya asked this while squashing the newspaper within her clenched fist. Her lips were quivering, her face contorted to hold back the tears of anger and fear. “My brother went to the mines...
Kevin Chen
!!Con West 2019 Notes
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
24th Feb 2019
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to
computers!
At the beginning of last year’s !!Con, I wrote:
This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech
scene. I’m...
Boot.dev Blog
Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"
The podcast is available here.
Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!...
9th Dec 2019
The podcast is available here.
Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron...
Chris Nicholas
A new blog for 2024
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024,...
2nd Jan 2024
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024, it’s time for a complete refresh.
Dan Slimmon
Huh! as a signal
We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict,...
6th Feb 2023
We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict, because painful experience has taught us, that some or all of the causes of that failure will be surprising.
We can use that!
Steve Klabnik
Porting steveklabnik.com to Workers Sites and Zola
26th Sep 2019
Daniel Immke
Behind the syntax: let and const variables
There is a lot more going under the hood than simple syntax changes.
11th Jul 2018
There is a lot more going under the hood than simple syntax changes.
HTMHell
#22 the good ol’ div link
Context: A link to another page.
Bad code
<div>About us</div>
<div...
14th Oct 2020
Context: A link to another page.
Bad code
<div>About us</div>
<div onClick="location.href='about.html'">
About us
</div>
<div data-page="aboutus" data-url="index.php">
About us
</div>
…or any other variation of this pattern where an element other than <a> is used to link to a...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning
Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for...
1st Dec 2021
Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for the first time, on a minimal budget. This is not…
Marco.org
The 2018 Mac Mini
Watch the video review
I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
6th Nov 2018
Watch the video review
I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
orlp.net - Blog...
Taming Floating-Point Sums
Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them.
You might naively think...
25th May 2024
Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them.
You might naively think you can simply add them, e.g. in Rust:
fn naive_sum(arr: &[f32]) -> f32 {
let mut out = 0.0;
for x in arr {
out += *x;
}
out
}
This however can easily...
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.
9th Nov 2024
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
On Test Automation
Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me...
31st Mar 2025
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me because they felt they could use some support. When I first saw the code they wrote, I was pretty impressed.
Sure, there were some things I would have done differently, but most of...
dthompson
Functional reactive user interfaces with propagators
I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for
about a decade now. I even wrote...
8th Jul 2024
I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for
about a decade now. I even wrote a couple of
blog
posts back in 2014
describing my experiments. My initial source of inspiration was
Elm, the Haskell-like language for the web
that once had FRP as a
core part of...
SOS
Translate your UI Strings with AI
TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM...
10th Oct 2024
TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM package.
A few months ago I translated KidzFun.art to multiple other languages, using ChatGPT’s AI for the translations. This worked fine when dealing with a blank slate, but I...
Sometimes It Works...
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
¶Why and how to override...
6th Feb 2016
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
¶Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods
Maybe like me you like to do things the ‘Laravel way’. So let’s say you’re still using the out-of-the-box Auth flow (can anyone recommend an...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
How I Take and Publish Notes
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com.
I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
3rd Dec 2023
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com.
I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design.
But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it.
The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
David Gerrells
how fast is java? Teaching an old dog new tricks
Java, the language everyone loves to hate. Long has it garnered the reputation of a stagnant,...
23rd Oct 2025
Java, the language everyone loves to hate. Long has it garnered the reputation of a stagnant, obtuse, bloated beast only used by those who have no other choice because some enterprise corporate believed the hype train of the 90s. But is that all still true today?
Marco.org
The 16-inch MacBook Pro
After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it.
🎧 Hear more on...
13th Nov 2019
After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it.
🎧 Hear more on today’s Accidental Tech Podcast!
Two years ago, I wrote a wishlist to fix the MacBook Pro, and the 16-inch doesn’t actually deliver most of it. But time and technological progress...
A Beautiful Site
A Web Components Primer
On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple...
4th Feb 2022
On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple thought quickly turned into a series of tweets that folks seem to find useful. I've adapted the thread and I'm posting it here for prosperity.
Overview #
Shadow DOM? Light DOM? Slots?...
markround.com
Disqus - An Apology
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
12th Jun 2024
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
Steve Klabnik
The next iteration of my blog
12th May 2011
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
4th Nov 2018
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
Computer Things
Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds?
Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday...
12th Feb 2025
Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday the piece (about the hierarchy of controls ) was 2000 words and not close to done. So now it'll be a blog post sometime later this month.
I also just released a new version of...
David Gerrells
How fast is swift? Heavy Metal Edition (feat Nardi)
The challenge, confirm a friends belief that swift is real system language by simulating buckets of...
12th Jul 2025
The challenge, confirm a friends belief that swift is real system language by simulating buckets of particles, at least 100m on the cpu, hopefully beating out rust.
charity.wtf
How to survive an acquisition
Last week Facebook announced that they will be shutting down Parse. I have so, so many feelings....
3rd Feb 2016
Last week Facebook announced that they will be shutting down Parse. I have so, so many feelings. But this isn’t about my feelings now. This is about what I wish I had known when we got acquired. When they told us we were getting acquired, it felt like a wrecking ball to the...
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-10-06
Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on...
6th Oct 2019
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-10-06
Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don’t style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
bt RSS Feed
Over-Nesting
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
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...
Boot.dev Blog
Boots, a Wizard Bear that Codes
Boots is the heart and soul of Boot.dev. Not only is he capable of helping you through any lesson on...
8th Jun 2023
Boots is the heart and soul of Boot.dev. Not only is he capable of helping you through any lesson on Boot.dev, but he’s a friendly wizard bear with a charming personality. Some things you should know about Boots:
Charles Petzold
The Best Decade in Music
Like many people who turned 11 years old in 1964, the first record album I bought “on my own” — in...
14th Dec 2024
Like many people who turned 11 years old in 1964, the first record album I bought “on my own” — in other words by pleading “Mom, can you get this album for me?” — was Meet the Beatles!, their first release in the United States. But so what? I have about as much inclination to...
Sebastian Witowski
Writing Faster Python - Introduction
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with...
18th Aug 2020
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with Intel CPU. In 2022, I switched to a new MacBook Pro with M1 CPU and decided to also switch to the latest Python 3.11 version as it offers some nice speed-up improvements.
So all the...
blag
Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store
CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable...
10th May 2022
CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable database from scratch.
Sometimes It Works...
Spelunking desktop apps saves time
Spelunking desktop apps saves time
A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks
0. Quit Tower
1. Edit the...
20th Apr 2020
Spelunking desktop apps saves time
A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks
0. Quit Tower
1. Edit the bookmarks plist
2. Update the Tower database
3. Open Tower
Lessons
¶Spelunking desktop apps saves time
¶A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks
I’m a big fan of Tower, a native Git GUI...
Daniel Marino
What I’m Using in 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s...
4th Jan 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s list.
Applications
Chrome — Chrome was on my list last year, but I’m mentioning it again because I actually used Brave for most of 2025. I like Brave, and honestly I can’t even...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - August 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Aug 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in July Booklet is a product I've been building to help communi...
ntietz.com blog -...
How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft...
22nd Feb 2015
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
Confused bit
Birth of a new blog
What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or...
3rd Jan 2023
What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or dynamic typing? The answer to all these questions and more on “Confused bit”.
This blog is a place to host and share my thoughts on software, crafting, and my experience with various...
Marco.org
Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
5th Oct 2021
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him.
But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world.
He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Barbershop Happy Birthday For Amanda
I multitracked 'Happy Birthday' for my friend Amanda Ortmayer's birthday.
14th Mar 2009
I multitracked 'Happy Birthday' for my friend Amanda Ortmayer's birthday.
The Changelog
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
17th May 2025
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
Josh Collinsworth
Let's Learn CSS Variables!
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
25th Feb 2018
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
TokyoDev
Safari bug with ruby tag
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
28th Jul 2019
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.*
Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
which renders as
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
If you control click...
tonsky.me
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice...
5th Jan 2026
I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice illustration:
accompanied by explanation:
Fast forward to 2025. Apple releases macOS Tahoe. Main attraction? Adding unpleasant, distracting, illegible, messy, cluttered, confusing, frustrating...
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
20th Jun 2023
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
dthompson
Haunt 0.3.0 released
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years
since the last release, and many...
19th Feb 2024
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years
since the last release, and many fixes and improvements have been
accumulated so this is long overdue!
About Haunt
Haunt is a static site generator that uses the Guile Scheme as its
configuration language. It...
Daniel Immke
Laying myself off from Amazon
16th Nov 2022
Words and Buttons...
Gauss–Seidel visually explained
An interactive demo of the Gauss-Seidel method for solving linear equation systems. When and why...
21st Sep 2025
An interactive demo of the Gauss-Seidel method for solving linear equation systems. When and why does it work? And why, when you flip the equations, it suddenly stop working? You can now play and see.
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control...
12th Jan 2022
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control structures
Chapter 5: Arrays
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Structs
Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
Chapter 9: Methods
Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism
Chapter 11: Some advanced...
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization.
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
2nd Jan 2023
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
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Fibonacci Goals
A system for goalsetting.
1st Jan 2021
A system for goalsetting.
The Web Witch's Blog
An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions
While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the...
4th Jan 2023
While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the addition of Trigonometric CSS functions in Firefox caught my eye.
Geometry and trigonometry were my two best math areas in school (I am not an Algebra person and generally did not enjoy...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Implementation-First GraphQL
Defining a meaningful distinction within code-first GraphQL server libraries.
17th Apr 2023
Defining a meaningful distinction within code-first GraphQL server libraries.
Making software...
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
28th Jun 2016
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
Making software...
Designers Need Thicker Skin
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about...
10th Jul 2017
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about "drama" within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared
The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
1st Nov 2023
The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
elementary Blog
Getting in shape for summer
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
2nd Jun 2023
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot!
Calculator
Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks. To me, this...
6th Feb 2025
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks. To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interfaces. The terminology...
seated.ro
two weeks is all you need
two-weeks
I built a website (twoweeksisallyouneed dot com) with just Claude 3.5 Sonnet, zero lines...
21st Nov 2024
two-weeks
I built a website (twoweeksisallyouneed dot com) with just Claude 3.5 Sonnet, zero lines of code written by me.
Why I did this
So a couple weeks back I had a computer vision midterm and i was allowed a single page of notes. I decided to use Claude to generate a cheat...
A Smart Bear
Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better...
31st May 2010
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better things to worry about and ways to avoid running into gorillas in the first place.
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Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds
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2nd Dec 2017
Computer Things
Logical Quantifiers in Software
I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once...
2nd Jul 2025
I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once explained basic logical quantifiers. They're both simple and incredibly useful, so let's do that this week!
Sets and quantifiers
A set is a collection of unordered, unique elements....
Coding Horror
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it...
30th May 2019
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30.
Websites have gotten a lot
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023
We hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over...
3rd May 2023
We hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over 500,000 lessons completed on the platform! I hope your learnings are going well, and that everything we’re building is helping you, even if it’s in a small way.
Vadim Kravcenko
Aging Code
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
5th Sep 2023
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […]
The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Networking Essentials: Architecture and Principles
Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
4th Sep 2018
Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
Elad Blog
Market Ending Moves
Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's...
8th Apr 2025
Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's competitive dynamic
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The Rsync Algorithm in Python
I’ve often pondered this great and terrible beast –
rsync. It’s spiny, nearly impenetrable...
10th Jul 2017
I’ve often pondered this great and terrible beast –
rsync. It’s spiny, nearly impenetrable command-line
interface. Its majestic and wonderful efficiency. The depths of its man
page, and the heights of its use-cases.
Leaving aside the confusing implications of trailing...
Joel Gascoigne
How coffee shops helped my startup
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Right now I’m...
4th Aug 2012
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Right now I’m sat in a great coffee shop in Tel Aviv writing this blog post.
It’s got a casual feel to it which is relaxing, yet there are people here with
laptops hustling away. I come here
Max Countryman
Indie Web Stack of the Future
You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a...
8th Jan 2023
You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a few things that make indie development different and we should design our stack around our unique goals. Let's explore an ideal web stack we can build the future on.
David Crawshaw
Leaving Google
Leaving Google
2018-03-27
Today is my last day at Google.
It has been a wonderful place to work...
27th Mar 2018
Leaving Google
2018-03-27
Today is my last day at Google.
It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers.
I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0.
As an operating system it gets so many things right.
No doubt I will get a chance to be a user.
For the...
macwright.com
Recently
November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most
of New York before the snow...
1st Dec 2022
November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most
of New York before the snow takes over.
Reading
I finally finished Barbarian Days.
I think it took over a month to get through it - kept losing momentum by
taking a few days off from reading during a trip. It...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC"
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
18th Oct 2008
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship.
In the...
Eric Bailey
Sandcastles
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions...
17th Apr 2023
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions about how sandcastles should be built.
A small freedom area...
Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several...
18th Oct 2025
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several approaches to rendering them, but one especially challenging
problem, both mathematically and technically, is computing the distance to
a Bézier curve. For quadratic curves (one control...
Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups
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28th Aug 2011
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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...
SOS
Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image
TLDR: Click here for code to implement a lightweight, resilient clickable YouTube preview.
YouTube...
11th Aug 2025
TLDR: Click here for code to implement a lightweight, resilient clickable YouTube preview.
YouTube videos are expensive to load on a web page. This compounds if you want your page to display many videos at the same time for the user to choose from. Before the user even plays the...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2024
One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June....
10th Jul 2024
One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June. That’s nuts. I was so preoccupied with how cool it is that you all are learning so much that I’m late on this newsletter. Sorry ‘bout that.
Irrational...
Slides for Measuring an engineering organization.
Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco
about...
20th May 2023
Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco
about measuring engineering organizations.
This talk was essentially this blog post,
and here are the slides.
A few topics worth highlighting:
Measurement educates you, and your audience,...
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: Can Engineering Productivity Be Measured?
I follow you on Twitter and read your blog. I particularly enjoy this...
7th Jul 2020
I follow you on Twitter and read your blog. I particularly enjoy this post: https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/ I’m reaching out looking for some guidance. I work as an engineering manager for a company whose non-technology...
MMapped blog
Good names form Galois connections
1st Apr 2024
Dan Cowell
Deadlines Work
If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain,...
18th Mar 2024
If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain, eyes burning with sunblock, sweat and ocean spray, in sub-10°C conditions, I would have called you a filthy liar.
Then yesterday happened.
It was meant to be
Irrational...
Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
1st Dec 2023
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
Irrational...
Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty.
Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts...
17th Jul 2024
Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts here. Although I covered some parts of this in Your first 90 days as CTO (understanding product analytics, shadowing customer support, talking to customers, and talking with your...
Jordan Eldredge's...
I'm glad I factored out jQuery
I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
13th Dec 2014
I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - August 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in late June + July - Been working hard on Find AI - rolling out lots of feature and updates, st...
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What America has meant to me
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given...
5th Jul 2026
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
Darek Kay
Prevent data loss on page refresh
It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click...
1st Oct 2024
It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click "back") and lose all the hard work. In this blog post, I present a method to retain form data when the page is reloaded, which improves the user experience.
Browser behavior
Most...
Eric Bailey
Don’t forget to localize your icons
Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing...
11th Nov 2024
Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing a v-for-victory hand gesture at the assembled crowd. It wasn’t received the way he intended.
What he failed to realize is that this gesture means a lot of different things to a...
Alex MacCaw
Zone of Genius
Aligning the right people with jobs to be done is an age-old problem in company building. And on a...
12th Jun 2019
Aligning the right people with jobs to be done is an age-old problem in company building. And on a micro level, aligning yourself with the right role is also challenging. What should you delegate? Where should you focus your efforts?
I've found the Zone of Genius framework to
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
2nd Mar 2018
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
Boot.dev Blog
Python Functions: How to Define and Call Them
Functions allow you to reuse and organize code. Instead of copying and pasting the same logic...
1st Mar 2026
Functions allow you to reuse and organize code. Instead of copying and pasting the same logic everywhere, you define it once and call it whenever you need it. They’re the most important tool for writing DRY code.
A Beautiful Site
Prefers Reduced Motion
By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not...
19th May 2021
By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not a user prefers, well, reduced motion. You can use this to tone down (or turn off) transitions and animations in your stylesheet to accommodate users with vestibular motion...
Oxide Computer...
RFD 1 Requests for Discussion
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
24th Jul 2020
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet…
…and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it!
The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
Jordan Eldredge's...
"The Surprise Slide" Ukulele Micro Song
A micro song for Chelsea, written and recorded while she was in San Diego.
22nd May 2011
A micro song for Chelsea, written and recorded while she was in San Diego.
charity.wtf
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in...
7th Aug 2024
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
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Designers Need Thicker Skin
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
10th Jul 2017
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
A Smart Bear
Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
4th Feb 2024
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
The Web Witch's Blog
2023 Book Roundup
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up...
1st Jan 2024
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up on whether or not I met my goal unless it's really abysmally off target. I ended up reading many 700+ page fantasy books this year so when I average that out, that's nearly 3...
A Beautiful Site
What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website?
Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...
27th Jun 2009
Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer
Note: this was originally posted on the...
25th Feb 2022
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
Eric Bailey
Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days
Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much.
Like...
14th Jul 2025
Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much.
Like Marc, I am also motivated by FOMO. Trying to stay on top of things in a fast-paced industry has been made difficult on account of social media fragmentation.
RSS has its own place in...
A Smart Bear
Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't
Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and...
3rd Dec 2023
Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and exhausting. Manage it with kindness.
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2023
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
30th Dec 2023
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
Buttondown's blog
Managing your drafts through the API
Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
1st Jul 2019
Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
Acko.net
Curvature Beziers
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
...
15th Aug 2026
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
{left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true},
{left: "$", right: "$", display: false},
]});
});
Improving on a timeless recipe
The bezier curve is a staple of CAD and...
Liz Denys
Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
1st Nov 2023
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
charity.wtf
Nail polish: the superior paint
Nail polish: the toughest, brightest, sparkliest, absolute best paint in the world. It makes...
4th Apr 2016
Nail polish: the toughest, brightest, sparkliest, absolute best paint in the world. It makes everything prettier and better and you should use it on all of your electronic devices to make them shine.
Eliran Turgeman
Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a...
17th Oct 2024
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a while. Whenever I wanted to launch something new or set up a waiting list, I couldn’t find a simple, flexible, and free tool to collect emails. Most options out there are either too...
David Gerrells
what is a favicon?
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app...
11th Nov 2025
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app which sports the default favicon (favorite icon) of whatever framework, tool, or library used to make said project, website, or app, I cannot help but be disappointed. Nay, more than...
Sedimental
Designing a version
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a
proper versioning scheme.
Weak...
23rd Feb 2016
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a
proper versioning scheme.
Weak version management neglects clients like lack of source control
neglects collaborators. Dependency management and migration rely on
versions. Beyond the technical, a project's...
Quentin Santos
A few spikes in Pico cos()
A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x),...
15th Aug 2026
A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x), ranging from 0 to 2π. The orange line shows the result of evaluating cosf(x), which looks exactly as expected. The blue line shows the time it took to evaluate cosf(x) for each x, in...
Code Of Honor
Stay Awhile and Listen
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for...
31st Oct 2013
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for blogging as I’ve started creating a new game. After a two-year stint helping other folks publish their games I’m back to coding and game design full-time and having a wonderful time. But...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Apr 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I published How to host web apps on a Mac Mini, a follow-up to my piece A mini dat...
Evan Jones -...
gRPC is easy to misconfigure
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think...
14th Mar 2021
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is...
Alex Meub
Must-have Windows Apps
Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever
Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows
Paint.net -...
10th Apr 2012
Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever
Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows
Paint.net - Fast, lightweight image editor
Foobar2000 - Fast, lightweight, music player (supports FLAC)
IrfanView - Awesome, lightweight, image viewer for all formats
Media Player Classic -...
Max Schmitt
Next.js: How to Get and Set Cookies (2023)
Read the post here.
11th Jul 2023
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