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Ralph Ammer
The perfect drawing tool The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. ...
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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...
A Beautiful Site
Downloading a list of URLs automatically I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to...
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over a year ago
I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to the bucket — I only had a list of URLs. There were too many to fetch one by one, so I wanted to fetch them automatically. Here are a couple ways I found to do that. Using curl # Curl...
Yale e360
Lessons from implementing Hurl I'm proud to announce that Hurl is officially released and done! You can check out the docs on...
a year ago
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a year ago
I'm proud to announce that Hurl is officially released and done! You can check out the docs on hurl.wtf. The language itself came out of an interesting question: Python sometimes uses exceptions for control flow, so could we implement a language that eschews normal control flow...
Ralph Ammer
Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The post Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The post Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
alexwlchan
Hyperfocus and hobbies → One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it affects my cross-stitch. I’m really proud of this one, and I hope you’ll consider reading. Writing for Stories was one of my “bucket list” items while working at Wellcome, and I...
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...
Steve Klabnik
Sparrow
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
sudon't My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the practices and security processes...
a year ago
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a year ago
My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the practices and security processes that use and recommend sudo, the reasons for using it are mostly bullshit. When I started my career in the late 1990s, I was already aware of really(8) and userv because one of my...
the singularity is...
choose your own adventure In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile...
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In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile phone. Barring a catastrophe, these are facts. What does the future look like for humanity? The only reason we killed all the animals is because the Earth is small. The longest...
MMapped blog
Rust at scale: packages, crates, and modules
over a year ago
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...
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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...
Eric Bailey
Accessible SVGs in High Contrast Mode
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
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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...
TokyoDev
How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in Japan At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard...
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At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard Chin](https://twitter.com/lchin) gave a presentation entitled "How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in a Foreign Land". Although the presentation is for a Japanese audience, it is based on his experience...
Eric Bailey
Consistently Inconsistent: The Pitfalls of Abandoning External Consistency
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
Lennart Koopmann
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips,...
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In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked on a journey of my own. I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn more about it and why I'll do it again on...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Actually Structured Journaling (Jan 2025) I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was...
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5 months ago
I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was disappointed by the recommendations:
Eric Bailey
Should I use an accessibility overlay
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Extracting domain models: a practical example
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make...
a year ago
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a year ago
After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make that decision, and why I may or may not stick with it.
ntietz.com blog -...
Python is an interpreted language with a compiler After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted languages in common usage," and that they "wish Python was more widely recognized as a compiled language." This got me thinking: what is the distinction between a compiled or...
Tony Finch's blog
BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be...
a year ago
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Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be useful in my previous blog posts, but which some readers might find informative. Some of them I learned the hard way, so I hope I can make it easier for others! contents of key...
Posts on Nikita...
Rust streams and timeouts gotcha Imagine we have a list of paths to Parquet files on R2. We need to fetch Parquet footer of each...
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Imagine we have a list of paths to Parquet files on R2. We need to fetch Parquet footer of each file. However, we don’t know in advance whether we will need footers of all files and we want to avoid fetching extra. Rust has a streams abstraction. It is kind of like an iterator,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Life and Death the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
a year ago
Jibran’s Perspective
Cookie Based Auth for Django and NextJS If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the code here. I’m currently working on my first project after deciding that I needed to fail more and practice finishing projects instead of abandoning them midway once they got...
Maggie Appleton
Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis Gaining a strange disease and losing my ability to see straight
a year ago
Marc Astbury
A quick summary one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the...
8 months ago
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one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the ability to summarize things read any AI product’s value prop and it will say a variation of “it frees you up to do higher order/ value tasks” nobody knows what these higher order...
macwright.com
On Placemark Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really...
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Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really given an update on Placemark, the product and business, in a while. Writing about an operating business is a different thing that writing feature announcements or essays about...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood...
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a year ago
I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood out: For the best [prompt] results, combine: Domain knowledge of the thing you're working on Understanding how the models work Intuition gained from playing around with them a lot I am...
A Beautiful Site
Is it possible to be an introverted entrepreneur? A tweet by Remy Sharp sparked my thoughts about being an introvert and starting a company. I don't...
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A tweet by Remy Sharp sparked my thoughts about being an introvert and starting a company. I don't hate human beings, but I do tend to keep to myself. How has this impacted my ability to run a successful business? Launching a product is hard # If you don't have a good network,...
Liz Denys
The night sky and finding hope in the dark I found inspiration for this pitcher's glaze design in the night sky. Whenever I feel lost, I know...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I found inspiration for this pitcher's glaze design in the night sky. Whenever I feel lost, I know I can always look up and be under the same night sky, no matter where I am. Whenever I feel alone, I know I can always look up and feel connected to humanity, everyone else looking...
David Heinemeier...
Workfeed goes to America During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd...
a year ago
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a year ago
During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd work towards becoming profitable, remaining in the country, and avoiding the VC timebomb. The one that has already fulfilled all the objectives is Workfeed, and now they're ready to...
HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
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by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
Eric Bailey
Global Accessibility Anger Day For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Steve Klabnik
DayZ
over a year ago
wingolog
conservative gc can be faster than precise gc Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is always better. Conservative GC can retain more objects than strictly necessary, making GC slow: GC has to more frequently, and it has to trace a larger heap on each...
alexwlchan
Agile and iterative project management Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project...
over a year ago
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Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project management. I was talking about how READMEs serve as the first point of contact for a project; how they get new users interested in and excited about the project. The cohort calls...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A language for designing slides
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Invite your friends to read Confessions of a Code Addict Thank you for reading Confessions of a Code Addict — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
a year ago
Elad Blog
Clubhouse: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 1) This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
over a year ago
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This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
Herman's blog
Forced to upgrade On finally having to upgrade my iPhone
7 months ago
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
a year ago
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If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
swyx's site RSS Feed
Measuring Developer Relations DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor.
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...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to timeout a promise Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request...
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Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request to an endpoint and a response does not, for whatever reason, come soon, we act as if the request failed and fall back to plan B — try again, show an error message and let the user...
exist
Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
over a year ago
the singularity is...
The World’s Computer This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
a year ago
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This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer. In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Writing raft ✏️⚡🔪 The club that’s write or die. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
✏️⚡🔪 The club that’s write or die. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. – Stephen King, “On Writing” In 2022, I made a Ulysses pact to force myself to write—either write or feel the white-hot shame of (temporary)...
TokyoDev
How to create your own company in Japan Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk...
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over a year ago
Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk in the park, I think it is easier than the general perception is. Part of the problem is the lack of English-language information about it. I hope by sharing my experiences I can...
Epic Web Dev
Git Fundamentals (tutorial)
a year ago
David Crawshaw
2015-07-17 books.google.com/googlebooks/error.html
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is a front-end readout board from the KASCADE muon detector. Thanks again...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Ware for January 2023 is a front-end readout board from the KASCADE muon detector. Thanks again to cpresser for contributing the ware, and also congratulations to AZeta for nailing it! email me for your prize.
Oxide Computer...
Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered...
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over a year ago
Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered an undocumented hardware block in the LPC55S69 (our chosen part for our product’s Root of Trust implementation) that could be used to violate security boundaries. This issue...
The Changelog
Music Playing: Both Whole-House and Mobile It’s been nearly 8 years since I last made choices about music playing. At the time, I picked...
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over a year ago
It’s been nearly 8 years since I last made choices about music playing. At the time, I picked Logitech Media Server (LMS, aka Slimserver and Squeezebox server) for whole-house audio and Ampache with the DSub Android app. It’s time to revisit that approach. Here are the things I’m...
Basta’s Notes
Microwaves piss me off If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about microwaves.
Daniel Marino
JS13K 2018 Retrospective In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a...
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over a year ago
In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a video game. I asked my JavaScript-whiz buddy, Brad, if he was interested in building a game with me. Without hesitation, he said “Yes!” Concept A couple of years ago I came up with...
Code Of Honor
Tough times on the road to Starcraft I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
macwright.com
CSS Roundup I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its new features like :has, but on the other hand, CSS is one of the areas where you really often get bitten by browser incompatibilities. I remember the old days of JavaScript in which...
A Beautiful Site
Testing Support for :focus-visible The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in developers adding this to their stylesheets: /* Please don't do this */ button:focus { outline: none; } While unsightly to mouse users, a clear focus indicator is essential for proper...
Maggie Appleton
Frequently Asked Questions Questions I am often asked to answer
over a year ago
Making software...
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing[^1] software is a complex...
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over a year ago
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing[^1] software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. III Previously: The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. I The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. II I wrote about...
a year ago
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a year ago
Previously: The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. I The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. II I wrote about the parallels between making films and making websites, which was based on an interview with Christopher Nolan. During part of the interview, Nolan discusses how he enjoys being a...
exist
Non-Empty Recursion in Elm
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from? Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
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Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
Steve Klabnik
The next iteration of my blogs
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop Diff Tab Demo (tip)
9 months ago
bt RSS Feed
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
a year ago
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a year ago
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you’re wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
Irrational...
Better to micromanage than be disengaged. For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Dune 2 the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
a year ago
Yale e360
RC Week 2: Pairing is Awesome The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going too quickly. My batch is twelve weeks long, so I'm 17% through. Only ten weeks left! This is a precious time, so I'm trying to make the most of it, but also trying to not increase...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky hexagonal teacups, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
12 months ago
On Test Automation
Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations. I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Raising money is less stressful than bootstrapping Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are lots of myths around what it's like run a business…
A Beautiful Site
Moving from Stencil to LitElement Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of the library won't see much of a difference, this was a major overhaul of Shoelace's internals. Naturally, such a big change brings questions from the community, such as "what were...
Dan Quach Blog
A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares...
2 months ago
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Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL: Implementing a typechecker in Rust
11 months ago
Eric Bailey
How to not make a résumé in React I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like recently. They all promise the same thing, namely how to use React to create a résumé. I mean, I get it. It’s important to have something to build towards when learning a new skill,...
Epic Web Dev
Turn Progressive Enhancement up to 11 (tip) Learn how to create a progressive enhancement image uploader that works for users with or without...
a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
Braces Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by...
a year ago
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Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by Dentist Chung (in Vietnamese I called him Bác Sĩ Chung – which means Dr Chung translated directly) and his sister running the office. The office was in Garden Grove, in between the...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
A Modern CSS Reset I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles!
Irrational...
Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy. Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy actually exists within any...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy actually exists within any engineering organizations. I imagine that they, reading through the steps to build engineering strategy, or the strategy for navigating private equity ownership, are not impressed....
Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy. I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy, and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
Acko.net
The Hiker's Dilemma How to take care of your tribe The other day I read: "If you're hiking and you stop to let other...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to take care of your tribe The other day I read: "If you're hiking and you stop to let other people catch up, don't start walking immediately when they arrive. Because that means you got a rest and they didn't. I think about this a lot." I want to dissect this sentiment...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Don't register your idea as a company * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to incorporate is one of those topics which comes up time and time again, and there is much conflicting advice out there. I’m lucky enough to have a number of different experiences and...
Maggie Appleton
A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators Illustrated notes on how JavaScript's comparison operators work
over a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
I accepted the Blog Question Challenge <![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about their background and motivations, tools, and workflows. It is a variation by Kev Quirk of a challenge originally created by Ava at Bear Blog. I have accepted this fun challenge and...
macwright.com
Placemark is now open source Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions...
a year ago
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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...
Steve Klabnik
New blog: Words
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and...
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over a year ago
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and the […] The post 🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Steve Klabnik
Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
Software I’m thankful for Software I’m thankful for 2021-11-25 A few of the things that come to mind, this thanksgiving. Most...
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over a year ago
Software I’m thankful for 2021-11-25 A few of the things that come to mind, this thanksgiving. Most Unix-ish APIs, from files to sockets are a bit of a mess today. Endless poorly documented sockopts, unexpected changes in write semantics across FSs and OSes, good luck trying to...
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MongoDB secondary only index This short post will show how to add a secondary only index in a MongoDB replica set
over a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
Accurate Predictions In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
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In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
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Array 1.21.0 Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into...
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Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into the overall stability of PostHog squashing dozens…
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta2 release
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The early bird sees the sunrise I’ve found that you eventually get bored or at least used to every form of material trapping you can...
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a year ago
I’ve found that you eventually get bored or at least used to every form of material trapping you can buy. Cars, watches, cameras, computers, whatever. It’s not that fancy stuff stops being nice, but it does stop being wow. That’s the essence of the hedonic treadmill. But do you...
A Beautiful Site
Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into...
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over a year ago
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files: for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!
Eric Bailey
An Introduction to macOS Voice Control
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Switching to Android after 13 years of iOS I have used iPhone/iOS for the longest time. Last month I switched to OnePlus 6T/Android. Here are...
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a...
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5 days ago
It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a result, Japan needs more international developers. However, most Japanese companies aren’t interested in hiring new graduates from overseas. While it’s easier than in some countries,...
Blog of Simple...
Web Analytics and Consent
a year ago
HTMHell
Preventing form submission with zero Javascript Want to trigger an action? Use a button element. They’re great. Want to also prevent form submission...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Want to trigger an action? Use a button element. They’re great. Want to also prevent form submission when someone clicks that button? Put down the JavaScript, friend. I have a better suggestion: <button type="button"> Button action goes here </button> And that’s it! No ...
Charles Chen
Vue 3x3 - A Mental Model for Building Fast A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
tolower() with AVX-512 A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using SWAR tricks. A couple of days...
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A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using SWAR tricks. A couple of days ago I was interested by Olivier Giniaux’s article about unsafe read beyond of death, an optimization for handling small strings with SIMD instructions, for a fast hash function...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Subversive Hyperlink The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an...
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a year ago
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link. This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of...
HTMHell
Table Like It's 2023 In this article: Hello, Website Builders! A little history What is a table? Who benefits from...
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over a year ago
In this article: Hello, Website Builders! A little history What is a table? Who benefits from tables? What does a table look like? What does a table sound and feel like? (Re)learning tables (1994 - 2022) WCAG levels unlocked When tables get complicated Go forth, and make good...
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Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Have you tried the exact opposite? Have you thought about doing the opposite of whatever you're doing or considering? It's a really...
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a month ago
Have you thought about doing the opposite of whatever you're doing or considering? It's a really helpful way to test your assumptions and your values. What does the opposite look like, how would it work? It's so easy to get stuck in a groove of what works, what you believe to be...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 004: Universal version control and rich text on Automerge In this dispatch we’re sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
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Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
Charles Chen
The Inverted Reactivity Model of React A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other...
5 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.0.10 Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Release notes Users in Trend Graphs Whilst we have…
Yale e360
Gaining depth perception In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly...
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a year ago
In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly full depth perception. When I was a kid, I was always the one who was bad at ball sports. Not for lack of trying, either. I'd run after a ball to catch it, only to be off by a few...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Empowering Design System Users The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite...
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The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite a bit. For example, if a button spec only calls for primary, secondary, and tertiary variants, should we still expose parts and custom properties so users can make further...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some...
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a year ago
I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some of my highlighted excerpts and notes. It’s always hard reading a book like this because I highlight so much and have so many thoughts that I could spend hours and hours rehashing...
Nelson's Weblog
Toto C5 Washlet power usage I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I...
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a year ago
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses. About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is without the seat...
alexwlchan
Getting the base directory of an sbt project This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $...
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over a year ago
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $ sbt --batch -error "project $PROJECT" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d "\n" For example: $ sbt --batch -error "project ingests_api" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d...
Sometimes It Works...
A-A-Ron! Aaron Francis is a rising star in the Laravel community. Over the past couple of years he's rocketed...
a year ago
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a year ago
Aaron Francis is a rising star in the Laravel community. Over the past couple of years he's rocketed up because he's a genuinely thoughtful, intelligent and funny guy. I like him. I met him very briefly at Laracon US this year and I've had some great public and private...
Eric Bailey
How 3 hours of conversation saved a company hundreds of thousands of dollars
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Grateful: Colors in console.log() So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values. I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50%...
Words and Buttons...
Bi-whatever transformations An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or...
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over a year ago
An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or even linear-cubic work, and how to craft your own that fits your particular task the best.
MMapped blog
Designing error types in Rust
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
Fast compilers for fast programs Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the middle The "medium-sized project" moment 2019-04-14 Compiler authors face a tradeoff between compiler speed and executable speed. Take longer to build a binary and you can build a...
Tony Finch's blog
Slower DNS name decompression In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this diagram so that we do less of it: names < pointers < labels < bytes Last week I had a bright idea about that leftmost step, moving per-pointer work to per-name, using some...
Josh Comeau's blog
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
a year ago
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useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
Epic Web Dev
Fully Typed Web Apps The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries.
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: December
a year ago
Acko.net
Headless React Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Live It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
Confessions of a...
Binary Arithmetic and Bitwise Operations for Systems Programming Understand how computers represent numbers and perform operations at the bit level before diving...
2 months ago
Josh Collinsworth
First impressions of the MoErgo Glove80 ergonomic keyboard How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my...
a year ago
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a year ago
How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my impressions after the first few weeks of use.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tag, You’re It I saw these going around, but didn’t think I’d ever see myself get tagged — then Eric assuaged my...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I saw these going around, but didn’t think I’d ever see myself get tagged — then Eric assuaged my FOMO. As I’ve done elsewhere talking about how I blog, I’m gonna try and impose a character limit to my answers (~240). I’m not sure if that makes my job as the writer easier or...
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...
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over a year ago
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"
PostHog's RSS Feed
What we learned about hiring from our first five employees Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five hires PostHog ever made, how we made them, and why…
37signals Dev
Prometheus metrics with Rails and Kamal We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of...
a year ago
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a year ago
We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of components in our infrastructure, such as MySQL, Redis and the servers hosting our applications. My colleague, Victor, previously wrote in detail about Prometheus metrics at...
Engineer’s Codex
How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast Merkle Trees in the real world
a month ago
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
Posts on Nikita...
Rust Nation UK 2024 A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at...
a year ago
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a year ago
A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at the conference. One of the speakers got COVID and I was chosen to be their replacement. I had less than 48 hours to prepare the slides, which was a fun challenge, but very...
Computer Things
GitHub Search for research and learning Hi everyone! I have a new blog post out: An RNG that runs in your brain. It's a mix of cool tricks...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hi everyone! I have a new blog post out: An RNG that runs in your brain. It's a mix of cool tricks and math analysis done with an exotic gremlin language. Patreon is here. Also TLA+ workshop on Feb 12 etc etc use the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT for $100 off etc Anyway I've been all...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to promote your SaaS without being an ass? There’s several things to remember when promoting your SaaS without coming off as an ass: Always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s several things to remember when promoting your SaaS without coming off as an ass: Always provide value when promoting. […] The post How to promote your SaaS without being an ass? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Sometimes It Works...
2023: The Rollercoaster Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal...
a year ago
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a year ago
Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal Things This year has been quite a ride! 🎢 It's felt like the first real year since 2020 that things have been somewhat "normal". However, looking back, it's been anything but...
Engineer’s Codex
The most valuable trait of great software engineers A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable...
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
Kagi Blog
We moved mountains (of cotton) to deliver on our promise Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ?...
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9 months ago
Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ? Well, hold onto your search bars, because they’re finally ready to ship! TL;DR: Kagi Store ( https://store.kagi.com ).
orlp.net - Blog...
Branchless Lomuto Partitioning A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a...
a year ago
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a year ago
A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a predicate) which indicates if an element should be in the first, or second partition. Then it returns two arrays, the two partitions: def partition(v, pred): first = [x for x in v...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Pen-driven symbolic programming An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using...
a year ago
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a year ago
An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using formulas. We want a way of inputting formulas that is as “pen-driven” as possible.
Alex Meub
The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing 3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to...
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6 months ago
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to create products that provide real value, products that didn’t exist before I designed them. On top of that, it’s satisfied my desire to ship products, even if the end-user is just...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 007: Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates, LIVE workshop Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
8 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 Public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time so have the short form.
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
The different ways of traveling * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the incredible side-effects of doing retreats 3 times a year with my startup [https://joel.is/post/79092725144/why-we-go-on-international-retreats-3-times-a-year-with] is that I get the...
Daniel Marino
Self-avoiding Walk I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
Ink & Switch
Summit 010 Berlin Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
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over a year ago
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
David Heinemeier...
Apple approves the HEY Calendar I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s own history as a preview for people who don’t have an account. And I didn’t give the gambit better than 30% odds of succeeding, but lo and behold, it did! Apple has approved our...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program: Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client. It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack. I...
HTMHell
Revisiting Fundamentals - Semantic lists for Improved Accessibility by Winnie Bosibori Lists are one of the fundamental semantic HTML configurations that, when...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Winnie Bosibori Lists are one of the fundamental semantic HTML configurations that, when implemented appropriately can enhance accessibility. HTML Lists Refresher Whenever I visit any website, I have formed the habit of checking for any accessibility issues and delving deeper...
orlp.net - Blog...
Subtraction Is Functionally Complete To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point subtraction is functionally complete. That means you can...
a year ago
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a year ago
To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point subtraction is functionally complete. That means you can construct any binary circuit using nothing but floating point subtraction. To see how, we must start at the bottom. I quote the IEEE 754-2019 standard, section 6.3: 6.3 The sign...
The Pragmatic...
The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time,...
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a year ago
How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time, and is it still relevant half a century on – or does it belong in a museum, alongside floppy discs?
Making software...
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
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over a year ago
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
Steve Klabnik
Against Names
10 months ago
David Crawshaw
2015-06-24 "Cherokee is the first Unicode language in which lower case runes have smaller values than upper...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"Cherokee is the first Unicode language in which lower case runes have smaller values than upper case runes." golang.org/cl/11286
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are...
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Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are as similar as grapes and grapefruit. ClickHouse…
TokyoDev
The 2023 TokyoDev Developer Survey results are live! In October 2023, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. The results are...
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a year ago
In October 2023, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. The results are now live, please [check them out!](https://2023.surveys.tokyodev.com/en-US) This year’s survey had a total of 713 respondents, up 28% from last year’s survey. This is an amazing...
Hixie's Natural Log
How big is the Flutter team? I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter. It's a hard question to answer because...
a year ago
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a year ago
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter. It's a hard question to answer because "contribute" is a very vague concept. There's tens of thousands of packages on pub.dev, all of which are written by contributors to the community. There's over 100,000 of issues...
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of not being considered […] The post How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TokyoDev
Coworking Spaces and Other Places you can Work Remotely in Tokyo So you’ve finally made it to Tokyo, and you’re looking for a place to work remotely in peace. Maybe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So you’ve finally made it to Tokyo, and you’re looking for a place to work remotely in peace. Maybe you’re all set with a home office, but maybe you live in a one room studio apartment or you’re stuck in a tiny hotel room. Whatever your reason, what are your options for places...
The Codist
If You Don't Give A Crap, This Is the Shit That You Get Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing broken or poor functionality in web and mobile apps. I always cared about what we were putting out, even if it was sometimes unimportant to my employer. When I see things that are easy...
MMapped blog
Book summary: Building a Second Brain
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Why you should probably be using SQLite
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
What is my browser? This tool will tell you Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier. As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.24.0 Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP...
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Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP 🏆 This release cycle's Community MVP goes to…
Computer Things
Unusual basis types in programming languages TLA+ Workshop TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you...
a year ago
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a year ago
TLA+ Workshop TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you start building them. I've been saying the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT gives $50 off, but that's wrong because I actually set it up for $100 off. Enjoy! Unusual basis types in...
Sometimes It Works...
Laravel Nova Import v0.7 Why Nova? What about Filament? Is a package really necessary? I recently spent a little time on my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Why Nova? What about Filament? Is a package really necessary? I recently spent a little time on my Laravel Nova CSV Import package, one of my main open source packages. This came at the request of a sponsor. This gave me the opportunity to level-up some of the UI and spend some...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How (and why) we treat pricing like a product "Pricing is important" is common knowledge – price determines profit margin, which directly or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"Pricing is important" is common knowledge – price determines profit margin, which directly or indirectly determines nearly everything else. What isn…
The History of the...
Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1 The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web.. The post Expanding Access: The History of...
Steve Klabnik
Software and community
over a year ago
Oxide Computer...
RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020 We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a car accident in Cairo on Friday night. Those of us who have known Khaled for years have known him to be a bold investor who appreciated hard technical problems – and also a profoundly...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Thanks React, I'm fine with an imperative setInterval Like many of you, I've read Dan Abramov's excellent article, making setInterval declarative with...
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over a year ago
Like many of you, I've read Dan Abramov's excellent article, making setInterval declarative with React hooks. It's a great introduction to hook thinking and gotchas, highly recommended to any react dev. But by now the insistence on being declarative in every hook ever has gone...
Eric Bailey
Myth: Alternate text and automation
over a year ago
Dan Slimmon
Dead air on the incident call Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll...
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Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll present a few incident scenarios and explore the role of the incident commander in breaking (or simply abiding in) dead air.
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Follow Up Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
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Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
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PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator (Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in...
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over a year ago
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in funding and major new features - including plugins…
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES encryption AES is an amazing, state-of-the-art encryption system, and it’s built right in to Go as part of...
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AES is an amazing, state-of-the-art encryption system, and it’s built right in to Go as part of the standard library. It’s also incredibly easy to use. Let’s see how!
bt RSS Feed
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to...
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over a year ago
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to different versions of ruby. Although there exist many step-by-step instructions on installing and configuring rvm for most Linux distros, there aren’t many focused on Alpine “daily...
Chris Nicholas
Dark mode by local sunlight Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable...
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Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable automatically?
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
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Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
samwho.dev
A Commitment to Art and Dogs .dog-line { display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; flex-direction: row; width: 100%; height:...
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.dog-line { display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; flex-direction: row; width: 100%; height: 10rem; margin-top: 2rem; margin-bottom: 2rem; } .dog-line img { flex-grow: 1; height: auto; margin: 0; padding: 0; object-fit: contain; } .dog-grid { display:...
davidyat.es
The Last Battle
a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 Million ARR - June update
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alexwlchan
What mammal is that? I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
11 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Reflexive McLuhanism First we shape X, then X shapes us.
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop) Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS...
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11 months ago
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS techniques, and Tailwind v4 migration in this workshop.
David Heinemeier...
Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an...
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a month ago
For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an 8-core/16-thread AMD 8745H CPU, which retails for $343 (or €379) as a bare-bone unit, and stays below $550, even after adding 48GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. I'm shocked to report that I really...
Coding Horror
Password Rules Are Bullshit Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If...
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over a year ago
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv — Jeff Atwood
Kagi Blog
Kagi Small Web As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the...
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a year ago
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. ----------------------- What is Kagi Small Web? ----------------------- To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers...
Eric Bailey
Saying no to Diez (for now)
over a year ago
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
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6 months ago
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
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9 months ago
I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
Liz Denys
Striped pitcher, 2024 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, denim satin glaze
a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way. story time Two years ago I...
a year ago
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a year ago
My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way. story time Two years ago I planned to make a typical acrylic sandwich case for HHKBeeb, in the style of the BBC Micro’s black and yellowish beige case. But that never happened because it was too hard to choose...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't thank Chat GPT In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not...
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a year ago
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not only is there no logical reason to add pleasantries to your chat with GPT, but it also takes tokens for it to remove them and get to the point of your message. Don't thank Chat...
HTMHell
#24 A placeholder is not a label Bad code <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> Issues and how to fix them Every form input...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> Issues and how to fix them Every form input element needs a label. When screen reader users access a form field, the label is announced with the field type (e.g. first name, edit text). If it’s missing, users might not know...
Florian Bellmann |...
The late night coding session A small reflection on the joy of late night coding session
a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Binary search The page contains interactive plots to play with different strategies and distributions.
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
The Transcantábrico Train We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
a year ago
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a year ago
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in 2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here. The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
David Heinemeier...
What you know that just ain't so The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower...
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The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower or leave it alone? Should we chase these customers over here or those customers over there? Should we add more features or polish the ones we have? There's endless variation in...
blag
Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
8 months ago
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...
Irrational...
Who gets to do strategy? If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they...
3 months ago
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If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just...
Alex Meub
Building a Removable Bike Basket for the Yepp Rack I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my...
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I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my Yepp rear rack. I also use my rack with a child seat (the Yepp Maxi) which has a mechanism that allows it to attach and detach easily without sacrificing safety. I was thinking it...
David Heinemeier...
We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it...
a year ago
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a year ago
Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it takes our remote BuildKite-based continuous integration setup about 5m30s to verify a code change is ready to ship for HEY. My Intel 14900K-based Linux box can do that in less than...
Josh Comeau's blog
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag.
Stephen Wolfram...
Twenty Years Later: The Surprising Greater Implications of A New Kind of Science See also: “A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View”. From the Foundations Laid by A New Kind of...
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over a year ago
See also: “A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View”. From the Foundations Laid by A New Kind of Science When A New Kind of Science was published twenty years ago I thought what it had to say was important. But what’s become increasingly clear—particularly in the last few years—is...
Ralph Ammer
René Descartes – How to be certain This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes. The post René...
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This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes. The post René Descartes – How to be certain appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Computer Things
You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial Hi nerds, I'm back from Systems Distributed! I'd heartily recommend it, wildest conference I've been...
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6 days ago
Hi nerds, I'm back from Systems Distributed! I'd heartily recommend it, wildest conference I've been to in years. I have a lot of work to catch up on, so this will be a short newsletter. In an earlier version of my talk, I had a gag about unit tests. First I showed the test...
Words and Buttons...
Lagrange polynomial as a gateway drug to basis splines This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis polynomial, and how come it's a polynomial in the first place.
macwright.com
Web pages and video games An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
a year ago
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a year ago
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons: Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
Maggie Appleton
A Metaphorical Reading Collection A collection of my favourite books on conceptual metaphor theory
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is Babel? Illustrated notes on how Babel works
over a year ago
Making software...
Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
HTMHell
#34 a button is not a link Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target...
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7 months ago
Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target description</button> Issues and how to fix them A button opening a link will be unexpected behavior for screen reader users. No matter how it is styled. Links disguised as buttons...
blag
Recurse Center Day 15: B Tree Algorithms I translated B Tree Algorithms from CLRS to Python
over a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
james.land, a place for me to share my scrappy fiddles
8 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Creating a printable website using print stylesheets I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean version of the webpage that I'm looking at. These little icons are indeed a beautiful sight from the user's perspective. No more having to modify printer settings or copy and paste...
Darek Kay
GitHub developer statistics Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee: 1002 pull requests shipped 3062 pull requests reviewed 5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise) LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
TokyoDev
Reduced Hours and Remote Work Options for Employees with Young Children in Japan Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees...
3 months ago
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Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees with children under three. However, the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act was amended in May 2024, with some of the new provisions coming into effect April 1 or October 1,...
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Array 1.7.0 This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data from graphs, better user friendliness, and much…
MMapped blog
Universal domain types
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop) Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more in the Authentication Strategies & Implementation Workshop!
davidyat.es
Up to eleven
2 months ago
samwho.dev
Hashing form { padding-top: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; display:...
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over a year ago
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; ...
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
4 months ago
Alex Meub
Must-have Windows Apps Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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 -...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.17.0 Having launched major features in our previous release such as Session Recording and apps ,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Having launched major features in our previous release such as Session Recording and apps , over the past two weeks we worked extremely hard to…
TokyoDev
Transferring from the Philippines to be a QA Engineer in Japan Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace...
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a year ago
Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace Icay](https://www.tokyodev.com/authors/mary-grygjeanne-grace-icay) (Gray in the [TokyoDev Discord community](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV)) managed to do it. She originally worked...
Eric Bailey
Swearing and automatic captions Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make pop. Throw in a shitload to create a motherfucking verbal curry, layers of delicious goddamn meaning to unpack. Swearing is also present in every culture I can think of, with culture...
samwho.dev
Reservoir Sampling header h1 { padding: 0; margin-top: 0.2rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; } button { ...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
header h1 { padding: 0; margin-top: 0.2rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; } button { margin: 0.5rem; padding: 0.5rem 1rem; background-color: #444444; color: white; border: none; border-radius: 8px; cursor: pointer; touch-action:...
Yale e360
When to use cute names or descriptive names I've previously written that project names should be cute, not descriptive. That post talks about...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've previously written that project names should be cute, not descriptive. That post talks about services and does not talk at all about modules or variables. It's different in the latter context: those names should often be descriptive. What's the difference, and how do you...
Alex Meub
Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files. Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
Josh Comeau's blog
Promises From The Ground Up The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it...
a year ago
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a year ago
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.
A Beautiful Site
Finding the Closest Element Through Shadow Roots A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is Element.closest(). // Starts at el and walks the DOM until it finds a parent element // that matches the selector. In this case, it will return the // <body>...
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us in 2023 It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
The Changelog
Asynchronous Email: Exim over NNCP (or UUCP) Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with...
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over a year ago
Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with modern encryption and onion routing, here is the first of my posts showing how to put it into action. Email is a natural fit for async; in fact, much of early email was carried by...
Steve Klabnik
How to not rely on rubygems.org for development
over a year ago
Coding Horror
The Existential Terror of Battle Royale It's been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probably the single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer, and everything else I've done professionally after that. I
Making software...
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a...
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over a year ago
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: assemblages
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key values at Buffer [http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter, not...
Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
BHAGs Recently, [I asked tweeple](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1158902677289472001):
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that there’s a maximum size for a PDF document: Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...
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over a year ago
This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and over-specification, direct and iterative solvers. The guide should give you enough knowledge to find a proper solution for your task but not enough to implement one efficiently yourself.
Steve Klabnik
Closure
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Web Analytics for Crypto Companies
10 months ago
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...
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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...
HTMHell
Getting Oriented with HTML Video by Scott Jehl A couple years back, I was in a window seat on a flight from Amsterdam to New York....
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by Scott Jehl A couple years back, I was in a window seat on a flight from Amsterdam to New York. The weather was gray and drizzly as the plane took off, but as it punched through the clouds a very different scene revealed itself. Out my window, it looked like a Maxfield Parrish...
David Heinemeier...
Europeans don't have or understand free speech The new American vice president JD Vance just gave a remarkable talk at the Munich Security...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The new American vice president JD Vance just gave a remarkable talk at the Munich Security Conference on free speech and mass immigration. It did not go over well with many European politicians, some of which immediately proved Vance's point, and labeled the speech "not...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Service as a Service Before you start offering Software as a Service, perhaps just offer a Service.
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.4.0 Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
Joel Gascoigne
Pricing your product: It doesn&#x27;t have to be so complicated * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last week...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last week I’ve talked with a few early stage startup founders about pricing. It seems pricing is often a large block for many. It’s understandable, since there are so many decisions to...
Vadim Kravcenko
🔥 Do things, tell people 🤖 When I was younger, I liked to build things (still do), and I was very often surprised that...
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over a year ago
🤖 When I was younger, I liked to build things (still do), and I was very often surprised that people […] The post 🔥 Do things, tell people appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill. I did find a couple functions that returned the duplicates, but they didn't include the first occurrence (I...
Maggie Appleton
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
JAMstack or 'Pilha de Atolamento'? i18n in Gatsby + Netlify _Originally published on...
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over a year ago
_Originally published on [Scotch.io](https://scotch.io/@sw-yx/jamstack-or-pilha-de-atolamento-let-your-user-decide-i18n-in-gatsby-netlify)_
Founder's blog
I'm finally dumping Visual Studio After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and frustrating, and I've decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code. While as a C# developer I'm still unsure if I can replicate every aspect of my workflow in VS Code, I'm...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2024 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
7 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Traffic Engineering What is Traffic Engineering?
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Will write for food In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went from self-unemployment...
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11 months ago
In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went from self-unemployment to founding the world’s tiniest publishing empire.
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5 Things I Learned from The DynamoDB Book Reviewing Alex DeBrie's new the DynamoDB Book
over a year ago
The Changelog
Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance...
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2 months ago
From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance call for me then. Later, I ran a mail server in my apartment, then ran it as a VPS at various places. But running an email server got difficult. You can’t just run it on a …...
Computer Things
Requirements change until they don't Recently I got a question on formal methods1: how does it help to mathematically model systems when...
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2 months ago
Recently I got a question on formal methods1: how does it help to mathematically model systems when the system requirements are constantly changing? It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time proving a design works, and then deliver the product and find out it's not at all what...
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HogMail #19: Which meetings should you kill? Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
A Beautiful Site
JSON Feed JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec, introduced just last week, but it's been getting some major coverage and a number of applications have already started supporting it. Since Postleaf was built for the modern...
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Google is about to make it a lot harder to track website and app users without third-party cookies Google says they intend to deprecate the use of third-party cookies in 2023. But why is this...
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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over a year ago
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...
Ink & Switch
Capstone: A tablet for thinking Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Lyft in Trouble Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just stepped down and a former Amazon executive is the new CEO. What does this major change mean?
davidyat.es
Year X
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Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust
over a year ago
Making software...
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I've become obsessed with trying to see...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I've become obsessed with trying to see what I can create using only HTML and CSS (besides websites of course). Since playing with the concept of faking 3D elements, I wanted to circle back around to an older CodePen I...
HTMHell
#27 <a6> Context: Visually a list of links. Bad code <h6>Popular Cities</h6> <div> <h6...
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over a year ago
Context: Visually a list of links. Bad code <h6>Popular Cities</h6> <div> <h6 class="footerLinks">Amsterdam</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Rotterdam</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Utrecht</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Den Haag</h6> <h6...
Ruud van Asseldonk
The yaml document from hell
over a year ago
Computer Things
I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go. The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
Liz Denys
Sometimes, the outside is inside Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
Eric Bailey
#WorstWorkWednesday This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a conversation how people don’t share negative things on social media, especially in the context of a professional account. #WorstWorkWednesday, the title of this post, is a hashtag coined...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style...
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A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style website called White House Wire. According to Axios, a White House official said the site’s purpose was to serve as “a place for supporters of the president’s agenda to get the real...
Steve Klabnik
Announcing rstat.us
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Tinloof design principles Tinloof focuses on key principles to consistently create pleasant and practical designs. We're not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tinloof focuses on key principles to consistently create pleasant and practical designs. We're not tied to any specific style - Swiss, Linear-like, neobrutalism, a certain typography or color palette. Instead, we stick to basics that make our process smooth, please our users,...
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Beginning 3D printing A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks...
a month ago
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a month ago
A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.
macwright.com
Recently This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll...
a year ago
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a year ago
This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll write a standalone post again, soon enough. It’s been another busy year and I’m as aware as ever of the challenge of keeping all of my habits and outputs going. Some, like...
Tony Finch's blog
RIPE DNS Hackathon This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the RIPE DNS Hackathon. About 50 people gathered with several...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the RIPE DNS Hackathon. About 50 people gathered with several ideas for potential projects: things like easier DNSSEC provisioning, monitoring DNS activity in the network, what is the environmental cost of the DNS, … At the start of the weekend...
A Smart Bear
In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.