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Write on the Boot.dev Blog We’ve just opened up the Boot.dev Blog to public contributions! We’re really excited to see all the...
2nd Sep 2022
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Write on the Boot.dev Blog

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

2nd Sep 2022
We’ve just opened up the Boot.dev Blog to public contributions! We’re really excited to see all the great stories that our readers and students will create.
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Trade offs in designing versatile log format This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
25th Mar 2019
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Trade offs in designing versatile log format

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

25th Mar 2019
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound. I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design: it should be simple and therefore easy to implement it should be human-readable it...
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More Everything With AI From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts...
2nd Apr 2023
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More Everything With AI

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

2nd Apr 2023
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
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Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
15th May 2020
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Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized

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

15th May 2020
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Hacker News Clones Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I...
2nd Nov 2024
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Hacker News Clones

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

2nd Nov 2024
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views. What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
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2022 Book Roundup In 2021 I only read 6 out of 12 books for my reading challenge. Though to be fair, 4 of those books...
29th Dec 2022
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2022 Book Roundup

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

29th Dec 2022
In 2021 I only read 6 out of 12 books for my reading challenge. Though to be fair, 4 of those books were 900-1000+ page books (The final 4 books of The Wheel of Time). In 2020 I read even less, but pre-2020 I was reading upwards of 24 books a year. In an effort to try to get back...
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Linux Pipes are Slow Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have...
25th Aug 2024
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Linux Pipes are Slow

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Aug 2024
Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have included errata, but the results might not be reliable, so take this with pinch of salt! vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster...
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A message from the Captain of the S.S. Layoff Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the...
4th Oct 2023
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A message from the Captain of the S.S. Layoff

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

4th Oct 2023
Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the numbers better is to stop feeding and sheltering people and their families. Nothing personal.
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The siren call of wrong-way dependencies Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design...
21st Sep 2024
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The siren call of wrong-way dependencies

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2024
Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design mistakes one can make.
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Feeling Less Lonely I'm reflecting on a lot of really interesting responses I got last month to my article about feeling...
7th Oct 2025
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Feeling Less Lonely

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

7th Oct 2025
I'm reflecting on a lot of really interesting responses I got last month to my article about feeling lonely on the web. And maybe now, I'm feeling a bit less so. So thank you to everyone who responded. The post Feeling Less Lonely appeared first on The History of the Web.
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You look tired "You look tired." Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent...
5th Jun 2025
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You look tired

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

5th Jun 2025
"You look tired." Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent myself from throwing up, while needing to force myself eat every 2 hours despite not really exercising and needing to sleep for what seems like 12 hours a day all totaled up, and then...
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Embed your subscribe form in the middle of your writing Use {{ subscribe_form }} to let folks subscribe faster!
8th Mar 2022
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Embed your subscribe form in the middle of your writing

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

8th Mar 2022
Use {{ subscribe_form }} to let folks subscribe faster!
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The 2018 Mac Mini Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
6th Nov 2018
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The 2018 Mac Mini

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2018
Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
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Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect
8th Jul 2026
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Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates

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

8th Jul 2026
How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect
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Memory Safety is a Red Herring
21st Dec 2023
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Memory Safety is a Red Herring

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

21st Dec 2023
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Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens? No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about....
26th May 2024
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Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens?

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

26th May 2024
No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a payload, and a signature or...
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Occlusion with Bells On Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my...
23rd Mar 2025
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Occlusion with Bells On

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

23rd Mar 2025
Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts. The highlights in this release are: dramatic inspector viewing upgrades a modern ambient-occlusion (SSAO/GTAO) implementation newly revised render pass...
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Scam applicants are an increasing problem in Japan この記事は日本語でもお読みいただけます。 Over the last six months, TokyoDev has received a handful of reports from our...
3rd Jun 2026
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Scam applicants are an increasing problem in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2026
この記事は日本語でもお読みいただけます。 Over the last six months, TokyoDev has received a handful of reports from our clients about fraudulent applications, in which candidates purport to be different people than they actually are. As a relatively niche job board that helped Japanese companies...
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Observer Theory The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But...
11th Dec 2023
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Observer Theory

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2023
The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
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Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS 2024-10-21 I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on...
21st Oct 2024
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Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS

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

21st Oct 2024
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS 2024-10-21 I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on Linveo. For just $15 a year they provide: AMD KVM 1GB 1024 MB RAM 1 CPU Core 25 GB NVMe SSD 2000 GB Bandwidth It’s a pretty great deal and I suggest you look more into it if you’re...
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My Hacktoberfest 2019 Hardest I've ever worked for a free t-shirt.
26th Oct 2019
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My Hacktoberfest 2019

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

26th Oct 2019
Hardest I've ever worked for a free t-shirt.
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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious...
4th Jan 2025
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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks

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

4th Jan 2025
Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it
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Experimenting with a 7 day work week * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
10th Jun 2013
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Experimenting with a 7 day work week

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

10th Jun 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two weeks of last month, I religiously tried to follow a new routine I created for myself: a 7 day work week routine. The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7
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Firing myself, again I've written in the past about how I see the role of a...
26th Jan 2014
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Firing myself, again

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

26th Jan 2014
I've written in the past about how I see the role of a CEO [https://joel.is/post/42713179646/expert-of-nothing] to be one where you are repeatedly firing yourself. Joe Kraus [http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/first-fire-thyself/] brought my attention to thinking about the role in...
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Data Engineering Low Code Tools In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our...
3rd May 2023
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Data Engineering Low Code Tools

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2023
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our radar. Low code tools have their own nuances as you will get to operationalize quicker, but the minute you need to customize something outside of the toolbox, you may run into...
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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The AI Land Grab Looks Familiar In May of 2013, Yahoo announced plans to buy Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa...
11th May 2026
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The AI Land Grab Looks Familiar

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

11th May 2026
In May of 2013, Yahoo announced plans to buy Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, stood in front of the press and said, “We promise not to screw it up”.
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Death of the Visceral Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane...
22nd Jan 2025
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Death of the Visceral

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

22nd Jan 2025
Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane sideways to fit, a missile on your tail and closing, hitting the turbo, feeling the g force, coming up on the end of the corridor, pulling back hard on the stick the second the corridor...
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Poll: How anxious are you before an interview? From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
11th Mar 2023
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Poll: How anxious are you before an interview?

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2023
From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview? To qualify the choices a bit: Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure. A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
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Finding Campsites with Python My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
3rd Aug 2015
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Finding Campsites with Python

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

3rd Aug 2015
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite. If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
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One year of dependable software Today I'm introducing a new part of Contraption Company: Essays covering thoughts and opinions on...
10th Nov 2023
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One year of dependable software

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

10th Nov 2023
Today I'm introducing a new part of Contraption Company: Essays covering thoughts and opinions on online work, dependability, tools, and craft. My name is Philip, and I'm the founder and owner of Contraption Company. I started this company as an idea in February 2020. I tinkered
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What I'm up to - March 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Mar 2026
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What I'm up to - March 2026

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

1st Mar 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in February - Published Three-ring binder and A fresh coat of paint on Contraption Co. - Launching a proj...
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And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
10th Oct 2021
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And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2021
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
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External popup links using jQuery With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has...
15th Nov 2007
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External popup links using jQuery

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

15th Nov 2007
With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
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SumatraPDF 3.0 released We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 3.0 of Sumatra, a multi-format reader (PDF,...
29th Oct 2014
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SumatraPDF 3.0 released

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

29th Oct 2014
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 3.0 of Sumatra, a multi-format reader (PDF, epub and mobi ebooks, comic books, etc.) for Windows. You can download it from official SumatraPDF website The biggest change in this version is addition of tabs, contributed by...
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Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's...
12th Feb 2023
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Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives

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

12th Feb 2023
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the...
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Write the most clever code you possibly can I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the...
8th May 2025
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Write the most clever code you possibly can

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th May 2025
I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the first-draft late this week. Warning, unedited thoughts ahead! New Logic for Programmers release! v0.9 is out! This is a big release, with a new cover design, several rewritten chapters,...
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AI alignment starter pack
9th Jun 2024
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AI alignment starter pack

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

9th Jun 2024
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2023: The Rollercoaster Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal...
29th Dec 2023
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2023: The Rollercoaster

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

29th Dec 2023
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...
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eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is...
27th Apr 2023
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eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2023
eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is and using them for security monitoring would be like driving your car into the ocean and expecting it to float. Observability tools are designed have the lowest overhead possible so...
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Lowering the Barrier to Blogging I really want to blog more. The problem is that most of the posts to this blog are fairly long-form....
2nd Sep 2016
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Lowering the Barrier to Blogging

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

2nd Sep 2016
I really want to blog more. The problem is that most of the posts to this blog are fairly long-form. This will probably change as I do blog more. I've also moved to Pandoc for rendering posts via ikiwiki-pandoc. In that process, I've also come to realize that pandoc handles...
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Databases: how they work, and a brief history
19th Nov 2019
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Databases: how they work, and a brief history

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

19th Nov 2019
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A New Dog “What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
6th May 2023
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A New Dog

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2023
“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
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An introduction to economics under capitalism
10th Mar 2015
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An introduction to economics under capitalism

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

10th Mar 2015
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A simple adversarial model for dual contouring
23rd Apr 2023
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A simple adversarial model for dual contouring

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

23rd Apr 2023
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Trying to Make Sense of Casing Conventions on the Web (I present to you my stream of consciousness on the topic of casing as it applies to the web...
4th Sep 2025
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Trying to Make Sense of Casing Conventions on the Web

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

4th Sep 2025
(I present to you my stream of consciousness on the topic of casing as it applies to the web platform.) I’m reading about the new command and commandfor attributes — which I’m super excited about, declarative behavior invocation in HTML? YES PLEASE!! — and one thing that strikes...
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My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
10th Jan 2018
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My first podcast appearance

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2018
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
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What I'm up to - August 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2025
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What I'm up to - August 2025

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

1st Aug 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Back to eating solid foods after my jaw surgery. - Playing with gpt-oss on my com...
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Workflows are now in Alpha and I already broke mine We've been building Workflows for a while now: this is our Zapier-style automation builder you can...
3rd Nov 2025
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Workflows are now in Alpha and I already broke mine

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

3rd Nov 2025
We've been building Workflows for a while now: this is our Zapier-style automation builder you can use to trigger actions based on live user…
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Kagi status update: First three months Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago (...
1st Sep 2022
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Kagi status update: First three months

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

1st Sep 2022
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).
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What I'm up to - October 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2024
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What I'm up to - October 2024

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

1st Oct 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - I've started publishing on Contraption Company every Friday. My posts last month: I...
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What I'm up to - August 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Aug 2026
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What I'm up to - August 2026

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

1st Aug 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in July Concluded my trip to Japan and posted more photos to the Tsundoku pop-up newsletter. I am having a lot of fun exploring photography as a hobby.
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Restic Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local...
5th Feb 2024
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Restic

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

5th Feb 2024
Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local and remote options. It is well documented, easy to set up, secure, and quite fast. It’s a very professional product. I am now backing up all my Linux systems with it. Note it’s a...
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions
18th Feb 2026
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions

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

18th Feb 2026
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There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security Remember "cybersecurity"? Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .....
21st Sep 2018
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There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2018
Remember "cybersecurity"? Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to? Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the...
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Computer Use Models Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command...
18th Dec 2025
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Computer Use Models

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

18th Dec 2025
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command line. I’m blown away with how good Claude Code is. I assume it was long context RLed in similar environments. I’m excited for open models to get this good, I tried GLM, Qwen3, and...
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Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
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Proper UI Hierarchy

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5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
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My 2021 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
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My 2021 New Mac Setup

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5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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Exploiting Firebase Apps with Baserunner: Bibliography
20th Aug 2025
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Exploiting Firebase Apps with Baserunner: Bibliography

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20th Aug 2025
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How to make an ineffective 404 page 404 pages are what a server will show you if you request something that isn’t there. Another way to...
4th Apr 2021
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How to make an ineffective 404 page

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

4th Apr 2021
404 pages are what a server will show you if you request something that isn’t there. Another way to say this: 404s are a last-ditch effort to help visitors get what they want if a webpage isn’t there anymore. There’s plenty of articles out there about how to make entertaining,...
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Saving $167,000 on Groceries
26th Feb 2018
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Saving $167,000 on Groceries

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

26th Feb 2018
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January 2026
2nd Jan 2026
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January 2026

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

2nd Jan 2026
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Email explained from first principles
7th May 2021
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Email explained from first principles

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7th May 2021
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How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on...
11th May 2025
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How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2025
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on short-term visas, or who plan to move frequently from city to city, it’s perfectly possible to live and work in Japan without one. However, if you want to work a full-time job, rent an...
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025 Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children...
2nd Jan 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025

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2nd Jan 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
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What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time? Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it...
19th Jul 2026
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What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?

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19th Jul 2026
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
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Q&A: The Reality of Labour Contracts in Japan In Japan labour contracts mainly fall into several categories: permanent employment (正社員,...
16th Jan 2026
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Q&A: The Reality of Labour Contracts in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jan 2026
In Japan labour contracts mainly fall into several categories: permanent employment (正社員, seishain) contract employment (契約社員, keiyaku shain) temporary dispatch (派遣社員, haken shain) outsourcing (業務委託契約, gyoumu itaku) When signing a contract, it is vital to understand the...
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Familiar Spirits The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the...
14th Dec 2022
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Familiar Spirits

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Dec 2022
The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the fourth watch of the night. The blue radiance of the moon and the stars fill in for the lights darkened by stage 5 loadshedding. As the nighttime creatures prepare for their...
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Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of...
9th Dec 2007
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Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery

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

9th Dec 2007
A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of checkboxes: <fieldset id="group_1"> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="0" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="1" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="2"...
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How to use “real” UART I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This...
10th Apr 2025
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How to use “real” UART

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This is just a recap of the basics to help put things in context. Many tutorials focus on using UART over USB, which adds many layers of abstraction, hiding what it actually is. Here,...
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One happy Rails World Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the...
7th Oct 2023
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One happy Rails World

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

7th Oct 2023
Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the coolest conference venue possible in Amsterdam was epic. Safe to say, Rails World was a roaring success. Which is deeply satisfying to conclude, because it really wasn't a given outcome...
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Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️ Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my...
19th Feb 2023
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Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️

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

19th Feb 2023
Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my weather center Despite their best efforts, all weather apps will eventually lie. Weather is often hyper-local. For example, trying to suss out the temperature this...
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April updates Another great month, with lots of updates!
4th May 2018
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April updates

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4th May 2018
Another great month, with lots of updates!
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
19th Dec 2018
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS

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19th Dec 2018
Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
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ChatGPT Atlas isn't competing against other browsers “Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words...
22nd Oct 2025
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ChatGPT Atlas isn't competing against other browsers

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

22nd Oct 2025
“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that's using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say...
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Spelunking desktop apps saves time Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the...
20th Apr 2020
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Spelunking desktop apps saves time

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20th Apr 2020
Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the bookmarks plist 2. Update the Tower database 3. Open Tower Lessons ¶Spelunking desktop apps saves time ¶A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks I’m a big fan of Tower, a native Git GUI...
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The Middle Way Login to tech Twitter and you’ll see posts bragging about 40k LoC per day from an unnamed YC member...
2nd May 2026
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The Middle Way

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2026
Login to tech Twitter and you’ll see posts bragging about 40k LoC per day from an unnamed YC member 😛. There’s some hilarity to it, but the vibe shift is real. At Jenni, we’re shipping 3-5x faster than mid-2025. I perpetually have unread notifications in our #shipped channel....
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Observability is a Many-Splendored Definition Last weekend, @swyx posted a great little primer to instrumentation titled “Observability Tools in...
3rd Mar 2020
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Observability is a Many-Splendored Definition

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

3rd Mar 2020
Last weekend, @swyx posted a great little primer to instrumentation titled “Observability Tools in JavaScript”.  A friend sent me the link and suggested that I might want to respond and clarify some things about observability, so I did, and we had a great conversation!  Here is a...
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My path to OpenAI I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing...
3rd May 2016
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My path to OpenAI

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

3rd May 2016
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
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Keep a React component mounted The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is...
2nd Dec 2018
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Keep a React component mounted

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

2nd Dec 2018
The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is remount management. Some portions of the UI can be hidden or shown — sidebars, drop-down menus, modals and draggable widgets are all prominent examples. The basic React pattern for...
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024 ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed...
5th Jun 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024

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5th Jun 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
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Expose Platform APIs Over Wrapping Them From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js: One of the primary differences...
1st Apr 2024
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Expose Platform APIs Over Wrapping Them

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

1st Apr 2024
From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js: One of the primary differences between enzyme and Testing Library is that while enzyme gave you a wrapper with a bunch of (overly) helpful (dangerous) utilities for interacting with rendered elements, Testing...
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Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle...
16th Sep 2021
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Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool

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

16th Sep 2021
Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle Hoverson's Library Blanket. I've added the eight new colors to the Library Blanket color palette preview tool I made last April, and I also labeled the discontinued colors as such....
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Rails has two default stacks
14th Jan 2013
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Rails has two default stacks

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14th Jan 2013
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question
17th Aug 2024
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025 The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The...
27th Apr 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025

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27th Apr 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you...
11th May 2026
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

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11th May 2026
I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just...
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Consider Part-Time Work It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and...
26th Sep 2016
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Consider Part-Time Work

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26th Sep 2016
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and have more leisure time, but we continue to fall short of that promise. In many ways, we're working harder and longer, with more stress, than previous generations did. I think that...
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines

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3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
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Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
10th Jul 2020
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

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10th Jul 2020
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
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How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole) This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of...
17th Aug 2023
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How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole)

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

17th Aug 2023
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you go.🌈✨🥂 In this doc I mention Christine, my wonderful, brilliant cofounder and CEO,...
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A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the...
7th Dec 2025
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A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the first one, Red Alp. There, I went into details about the whole process, so I recommend to check it out first if you're not familiar with the field. We will look at 4 demos:...
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What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
9th Sep 2019
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What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government

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

9th Sep 2019
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
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Fuck It, We'll Do It Live How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time...
24th May 2023
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Fuck It, We'll Do It Live

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

24th May 2023
How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time internals are implemented, which drive Use.GPU. Some pre-existing React and FP effect knowledge is useful. I have written about Live before, but in general terms. You may therefor have...
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A Return to the Office (RTO) Wave? Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with...
8th Dec 2022
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A Return to the Office (RTO) Wave?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2022
Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with software engineers and managers at these companies. Are we seeing the start of a trend?
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Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here&#x27;s why * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently...
10th Jan 2012
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Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here&#x27;s why

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

10th Jan 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently received an email asking some advice about co-founders, specifically about whether a 50/50 ownership split makes sense for a startup. This is certainly a topic which has had heated...
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Bugs Block Blogs
21st Jan 2026
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Bugs Block Blogs

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jan 2026
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What's new with "The Rust Programming Language"
15th Aug 2016
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What's new with "The Rust Programming Language"

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

15th Aug 2016
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Anduril & Defense Tech The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of...
17th Jun 2021
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Anduril & Defense Tech

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

17th Jun 2021
The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of threats to our country and world. Examples of this include issues responding to the COVID pandemic, the cybersecurity ransomware attacks on critical US infrastructure such as our
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CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
15th Apr 2024
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CSS in React Server Components

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

15th Apr 2024
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on...
6th Oct 2019
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile

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

6th Oct 2019
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don't style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
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A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian &rarr; I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed...
4th Nov 2022
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A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian &rarr;

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2022
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too. To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin. When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
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How I Take and Publish Notes I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
3rd Dec 2023
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How I Take and Publish Notes

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

3rd Dec 2023
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design. But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it. The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
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Public postmortem: database connection exhaustion Our public postmortem for the incident on March 31st, 2026.
1st Apr 2026
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Public postmortem: database connection exhaustion

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

1st Apr 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on March 31st, 2026.
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024 Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024

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

5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
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A Web Component Story Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a...
30th Sep 2022
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A Web Component Story

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

30th Sep 2022
Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a component library for their design system. The one they were replacing was built with AngularJS, but AngularJS was old and rickety and nobody wanted to use it anymore. Plus, many teams...
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The Internet explained from first principles
5th Aug 2020
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The Internet explained from first principles

from Explained from First Principles [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2020
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Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
1st Dec 2023
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Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities

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

1st Dec 2023
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
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Git explained: Commit ranges Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
6th Jul 2021
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Git explained: Commit ranges

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2021
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
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Chelsea's Text Tone [Ukulele] A tiny ukulele track for Chelsea's iPhone text tone.
26th Aug 2012
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Chelsea's Text Tone [Ukulele]

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

26th Aug 2012
A tiny ukulele track for Chelsea's iPhone text tone.
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
5th Jul 2019
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again

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

5th Jul 2019
Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren't great (and still aren't perfect) but they represented a...
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Crafting a support network Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
3rd Jan 2021
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Crafting a support network

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

3rd Jan 2021
Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
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Self-hosting your code on Gitea Afraid of GitHub suddenly enshittifying their product? The best way to shield yourself from that is...
16th Oct 2025
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Self-hosting your code on Gitea

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

16th Oct 2025
Afraid of GitHub suddenly enshittifying their product? The best way to shield yourself from that is to start self-hosting your code repositories. I have been running a self-hosted instance of Gitea for around two months, and so far the process has been pretty close to...
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
1st Jul 2025
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF

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

1st Jul 2025
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
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A Craigslist Early Notification Exploit I wrote this post on November 23rd, 2020 when I reported the issue via Craigslist’s vulnerability...
15th Apr 2021
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A Craigslist Early Notification Exploit

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

15th Apr 2021
I wrote this post on November 23rd, 2020 when I reported the issue via Craigslist’s vulnerability disclosure process. I didn’t want to publish it until I confirmed the issue was fixed, but it appears to have been fixed on February 28th, 2021 so I am posting it...
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Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
12th Jul 2024
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Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux

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

12th Jul 2024
A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection model.
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How To Learn Stuff Quickly As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can...
19th Jul 2021
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How To Learn Stuff Quickly

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

19th Jul 2021
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
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If you build it, they won't come, unless… A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt...
11th Oct 2010
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If you build it, they won't come, unless…

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

11th Oct 2010
A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt and cheese" isn't a recipe.
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ZRH Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
22nd Aug 2012
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ZRH

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

22nd Aug 2012
Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
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How to build remote teams properly This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
26th Jun 2021
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How to build remote teams properly

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Jun 2021
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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ephemerons vs generations in whippet Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about . I thought I was done with them, but it seems they...
9th Jan 2025
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ephemerons vs generations in whippet

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2025
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about . I thought I was done with them, but it seems they are not done with me. The question at hand is, how do we efficiently and correctly implement ephemerons in a generational collector? ‘s answer turns out to be simple but...
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Archiving Postleaf Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it...
3rd Feb 2021
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Archiving Postleaf

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

3rd Feb 2021
Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it back as something different. Maybe an open source project. Maybe a SaaS product. I'm not sure at this point. The world still needs a simple platform to encourage blogging and the...
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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...
5th Jun 2024
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I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jun 2024
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...
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Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
20th Feb 2025
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Humanity's Last Exam

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

20th Feb 2025
Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
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Covers as a way of learning music and code When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able...
21st Jul 2025
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Covers as a way of learning music and code

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

21st Jul 2025
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it. You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions. You may want to record your music, and need all...
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Adventures in latent space
19th Oct 2023
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Adventures in latent space

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

19th Oct 2023
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Sharing The Things We Use Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
24th Jul 2021
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Sharing The Things We Use

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

24th Jul 2021
Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a “uses” page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
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a whippet waypoint Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language...
9th May 2025
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a whippet waypoint

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2025
Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
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Early simulations with GravityLoops <![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on...
13th Jul 2026
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Early simulations with GravityLoops

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jul 2026
<![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on the screen. The program now animates a body of mass like the Moon interacting under gravity with a body of mass like the Earth. The dots in the simulation window here are the bodies...
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HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free,...
18th Jun 2020
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HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jun 2020
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
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How I program with Agents How I program with Agents 2025-06-08 This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to...
8th Jun 2025
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How I program with Agents

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

8th Jun 2025
How I program with Agents 2025-06-08 This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to adapt my programming experience to a world with computers that talk. The first part, , covered ways LLMs can be adapted into our existing tools (basically, autocomplete) and how...
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A comprehensive list of failed projects A comprehensive list of failed projects
27th Dec 2021
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A comprehensive list of failed projects

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

27th Dec 2021
A comprehensive list of failed projects
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The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 13 May 2022 15 May 2022 My life has been a bundle of joy since I moved into Seattle from Redmond in March, and I...
15th May 2022
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The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 13 May 2022

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

15th May 2022
15 May 2022 My life has been a bundle of joy since I moved into Seattle from Redmond in March, and I couldn't be happier. I've managed to get out and paddle board a few times though the weather has been largely abysmal. It's still snowing in the mountains but the snowpack is well...
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Using Machine Learning to Generate Winamp Skins I used thousands of screenshots of Winamp skins and StyleGAN2 to train an ML model generate more...
7th Jul 2021
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Using Machine Learning to Generate Winamp Skins

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

7th Jul 2021
I used thousands of screenshots of Winamp skins and StyleGAN2 to train an ML model generate more Winamp skins.
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Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and...
13th Dec 2021
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Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater

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

13th Dec 2021
I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and works amazingly well. It has more than enough grill space for me and is pretty minimalist on features, which I like. Last Thanksgiving, many people wished they didn’t get the...
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Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8 I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside...
30th Sep 2009
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Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8

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

30th Sep 2009
I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside of a table cell and, for some reason, IE8 completely neglected the corresponding CSS max-width property. The result was the image rendering at full size rather than scaled down to...
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Want to join the Rust docs team?
24th Mar 2017
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Want to join the Rust docs team?

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

24th Mar 2017
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More Topics on Store-And-Forward (Possibly Airgapped) ZFS and Non-ZFS Backups with NNCP Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and...
4th Jan 2021
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More Topics on Store-And-Forward (Possibly Airgapped) ZFS and Non-ZFS Backups with NNCP

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

4th Jan 2021
Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In my previous post, I introduced a way to use ZFS backups over NNCP. In this post, I’ll expand on that and also explore non-ZFS backups. Use of nncp-file instead of nncp-exec...
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What I'm up to - August 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2025
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What I'm up to - August 2025

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

1st Aug 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Back to eating solid foods after my jaw surgery. - Playing with gpt-oss on my com...
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Git squash is not nice history Today I read a brilliant article about effective use of git bisect, but I disagreed with a small...
5th Oct 2020
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Git squash is not nice history

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

5th Oct 2020
Today I read a brilliant article about effective use of git bisect, but I disagreed with a small nuance of one of its conclusions (and, by internet law, was honor bound to write a blog post about it): Had this happened in a code base with a ‘nice history’ (as the...
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2024 The aracnum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month’s boss fight....
4th Sep 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2024

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

4th Sep 2024
The aracnum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month’s boss fight. 88,297,514 xp was gained over the course of the event, and 90,000,000 was all that was needed to secure victory. It’s a shame, but we can’t win them all. The hound will return soon.
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users! At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
17th Apr 2025
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users!

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

17th Apr 2025
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
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Focusing on Focus Styles
29th Mar 2018
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Focusing on Focus Styles

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

29th Mar 2018
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Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees) Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
6th Nov 2022
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Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees)

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

6th Nov 2022
Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
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on taking advantage of ragged stops Many years ago I read one of those Cliff Click “here’s what I learned” articles in which he was...
6th Sep 2024
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on taking advantage of ragged stops

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2024
Many years ago I read one of those Cliff Click “here’s what I learned” articles in which he was giving advice about garbage collector design, and one of the recommendations was that at a GC pause, running mutator threads should cooperate with the collector by identifying roots...
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Announcing CalVer It's about time. Technologists expect things to get better with time. Your current laptop has more...
22nd Jun 2016
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Announcing CalVer

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2016
It's about time. Technologists expect things to get better with time. Your current laptop has more RAM than the last, your current car is safer than its predecessor, and the latest version of your code is certainly the best ever. What if the same be said of versioning...
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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...
31st Dec 2024
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Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2024
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...
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A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID &...
24th Oct 2014
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A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer

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

24th Oct 2014
Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID & OAuth Unnecessary Access The Idea Why would they pay? Potential Stumbling Blocks Can you really sleep safe on all those passwords? Image "Sweet Dreams…" by pulpoluxA Platform to...
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2015-06-01 "Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same...
1st Jun 2015
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2015-06-01

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

1st Jun 2015
"Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same port number on the host, and the same file and fragment of the file. Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be resolved into the same IP...
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How to change custom domain on Substack Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
17th Mar 2023
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How to change custom domain on Substack

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

17th Mar 2023
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
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Kyua graduates The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
2nd Aug 2024
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Kyua graduates

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

2nd Aug 2024
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
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L'Insurrection qui vient I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
7th Jun 2010
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L'Insurrection qui vient

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

7th Jun 2010
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this. But there are few...
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Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check The following incredibly small sorting algorithm has an $O(n^{4/3})$ worst-case runtime: def...
31st Dec 2025
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Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2025
The following incredibly small sorting algorithm has an $O(n^{4/3})$ worst-case runtime: def fibonacci_sort(v): a, b = 1, 1 while a * b < len(v): a, b = b, a + b while a > 0: a, b = b - a, a g = a * b for i in range(g, len(v)): ...
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Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those...
19th Nov 2023
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Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It

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

19th Nov 2023
You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...
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What I'm up to - January 2024 Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2024

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

1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
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A Great Bumper Sticker I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago...
24th Mar 2015
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A Great Bumper Sticker

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

24th Mar 2015
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing: It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland): If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
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never give up Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
30th Sep 2021
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never give up

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

30th Sep 2021
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
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Reflection and Custom States in Web Components In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both...
5th Jun 2024
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Reflection and Custom States in Web Components

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

5th Jun 2024
In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property. A...
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Single-Use Disposable Applications As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to...
9th Jul 2025
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Single-Use Disposable Applications

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2025
As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to find.
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The path to 1M ARR - April 2023
2nd May 2023
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The path to 1M ARR - April 2023

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2023
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Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately. Last night...
2nd Jul 2026
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Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2026
Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately. Last night reminded me that I probably owe my subscribers a “still alive” message. Literally still alive. So here it is. I’m still alive. As for the site, I haven’t written a new piece for...
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“’S Wonderful” by George Gershwin Snuck in a few minutes to record myself playing through this Gershwin tune on the piano
13th Nov 2025
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“’S Wonderful” by George Gershwin

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

13th Nov 2025
Snuck in a few minutes to record myself playing through this Gershwin tune on the piano
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors

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

9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
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Meta’s historic growth challenge The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position...
6th Oct 2022
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Meta’s historic growth challenge

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Oct 2022
The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position than Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft. Why is this and what can the company do to get out of this situation?
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Web Witch's Grimoire: June 2025 April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting. I'm still recovering from our trip to...
4th Jul 2025
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Web Witch's Grimoire: June 2025

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

4th Jul 2025
April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting. I'm still recovering from our trip to Seattle at the end of April. It turns out I never posted my draft covering the month of March and April, so I will attempt to cover the highlights. The excerpt above is from my...
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Why We Force You to Learn Multiple Programming Languages I’ve been building Boot.dev as a side-project for the last couple of years, and have recently had...
13th Jun 2022
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Why We Force You to Learn Multiple Programming Languages

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

13th Jun 2022
I’ve been building Boot.dev as a side-project for the last couple of years, and have recently had many new students ask the same question:
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Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
2nd Jun 2020
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Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup

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

2nd Jun 2020
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
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RIP Stuey Weills Beloved Nevada City community member passed away, a nice obituary of her impact on our small town
2nd Apr 2026
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RIP Stuey Weills

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Apr 2026
Beloved Nevada City community member passed away, a nice obituary of her impact on our small town
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A basic introduction to functional programming principles in ReasonML Functional programming is a programming paradigm based on several principles such as immutability...
1st Mar 2019
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A basic introduction to functional programming principles in ReasonML

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2019
Functional programming is a programming paradigm based on several principles such as immutability and purity. ReasonML extends the functional language OCaml and compiles to JavaScript. This article aims to introduce you to some very basic functional principles present in...
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Simple Apps Without package.json - Problem (tip)
5th Dec 2025
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Simple Apps Without package.json - Problem (tip)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2025
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Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need
7th Feb 2019
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Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need

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

7th Feb 2019
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Golang vs Java: 6 Key Comparisons Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences,...
4th Aug 2021
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Golang vs Java: 6 Key Comparisons

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

4th Aug 2021
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences, there are also key similarities in how and where they’re used by programmers.
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Questionable Advice: “How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?” Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and...
5th Jun 2023
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Questionable Advice: “How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?”

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

5th Jun 2023
Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and high-performing teams. Honestly I did a terrible job, and I’m not being modest. I had just rolled off a delayed redeye flight; I realized partway through that I had the wrong slides loaded,...
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Overcast 4.2: The privacy update Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast...
27th Apr 2018
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Overcast 4.2: The privacy update

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2018
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
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Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why? If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at...
4th Jan 2021
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Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why?

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

4th Jan 2021
If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at some point you have to figure out if it does or not. This is where load testing comes in: if you want to see whether or not your application can handle scale, just generate scale...
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2024 One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June....
10th Jul 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2024

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

10th Jul 2024
One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June. That’s nuts. I was so preoccupied with how cool it is that you all are learning so much that I’m late on this newsletter. Sorry ‘bout that.
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Moving from Stencil to LitElement Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of...
2nd Mar 2021
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Moving from Stencil to LitElement

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

2nd Mar 2021
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...
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[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth...
1st Apr 2025
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[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2025
My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth playing if you've never enjoyed a video game before. Patreon notes here. (April Cools is a project where we write genuine content on non-normal topics. You can see all the other April...
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Knowledge Laundering I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
2nd Aug 2023
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Knowledge Laundering

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

2nd Aug 2023
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me: Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
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Interactive Graphical Arithmetic When called upon to perform basic arithmetic these days, most of us grab the nearest device with a...
8th Apr 2024
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Interactive Graphical Arithmetic

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

8th Apr 2024
When called upon to perform basic arithmetic these days, most of us grab the nearest device with a calculator app. On the rare occasions when the power is out and the batteries have run down, we might need to resort to doing the calculation by hand. In either case, we’re...
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Understanding CSS Position This post is a summary of the different values of the CSS position property. It assumes you have...
10th Mar 2014
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Understanding CSS Position

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

10th Mar 2014
This post is a summary of the different values of the CSS position property. It assumes you have knowledge of basic document flow. Absolute Position position: absolute elements are removed from the normal document flow and will be positioned relative to their next parent with...
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Strategic choices: When both options are good Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the...
22nd Feb 2026
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Strategic choices: When both options are good

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

22nd Feb 2026
Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the painful ones you don't like.
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Gzip hates your DRY code How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
13th Mar 2017
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Gzip hates your DRY code

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

13th Mar 2017
How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
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Custom Gradients in Kidz Fun Art For a long time in Kidz Fun Art, the tablet app I built, you could draw with a rainbow brush, which...
17th Jan 2025
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Custom Gradients in Kidz Fun Art

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jan 2025
For a long time in Kidz Fun Art, the tablet app I built, you could draw with a rainbow brush, which is the favourite feature of many people. I noticed my eldest daughter trying to use it in such a way so to only use a subset of the colors and it was really awkward, so I added...
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What I'm up to - December 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2025
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What I'm up to - December 2025

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

1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
2nd Aug 2023
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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack

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

2nd Aug 2023
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
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I doubled-down on RSS Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the...
6th Mar 2023
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I doubled-down on RSS

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

6th Mar 2023
Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the mall. The quarter that is its imminent demise is revolving faster and faster and will probably drop out of sight sooner than later. Part of mourning the communities I once had there...
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Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary...
4th Aug 2026
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Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt

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

4th Aug 2026
The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary landfill. For those unfamiliar, creating a sanitary landfill involves taking landfill waste, spreading it into thin layers, compacting it, then paving over it. It enjoyed popularity as a...
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Have a single definition of “now” I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing...
4th Jun 2023
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Have a single definition of “now”

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2023
I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing help: function today(): Date { return new Date(); } It’s not very sophisticated – it just returns the current time – but we use it everywhere we need to get the current time. (You...
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Ein potenzieller Kunde hat mich fast meinen Google-Account gekostet Read the post here.
29th May 2026
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Ein potenzieller Kunde hat mich fast meinen Google-Account gekostet

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

29th May 2026
Read the post here.
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Fundraising for SaaS Startups This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
1st Jul 2022
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Fundraising for SaaS Startups

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2022
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Spring 2021 We have some great new features launching in the next few weeks.
18th Aug 2021
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Spring 2021

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

18th Aug 2021
We have some great new features launching in the next few weeks.
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May updates This past month has been focused on bug bashing, but also some fun product updates!
5th May 2019
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May updates

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

5th May 2019
This past month has been focused on bug bashing, but also some fun product updates!
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Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A Watch out, Databricks
1st Aug 2026
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Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2026
Watch out, Databricks
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#define CTO OpenAI It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I...
9th Jan 2017
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#define CTO OpenAI

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

9th Jan 2017
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. I’ve finally found that role, though not by seeking it — instead, I sought out a problem more important to me than my role within it,...
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Hiring Executives & Bad Advice When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of...
2nd Feb 2021
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Hiring Executives & Bad Advice

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

2nd Feb 2021
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at...
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What I'm up to - May 2023 ✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking...
1st May 2023
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What I'm up to - May 2023

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

1st May 2023
✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking forward to spending the next three weeks without travel. I am currently immersed in the developme...
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Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently
5th Jun 2020
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Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently

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

5th Jun 2020
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Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all...
13th Nov 2021
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Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard

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

13th Nov 2021
I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all sorts of hassles and problems, from hangs on suspend to pure failure to boot. I still worry a bit about suspend on unknown hardware, but by and large, the picture of Linux on laptops...
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