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Joel Gascoigne
Two important and often overlooked aspects of creating a lasting morning routine * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that get up at 5am rule the world" - Robin Sharma Those who know me, know that I love my morning routine. I’m always making adjustments to it, and at its core it revolves around waking...
TokyoDev
8 Proven Strategies for Making Every Candidate Fall in Love with Your Company Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan...
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Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan market. My recruitment career has taken me across both agency and in-house roles, with the most recent one being at [Indeed](https://www.tokyodev.com/companies/indeed) (a proud...
David Heinemeier...
We have left the cloud Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take...
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Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take us years to get out as well. But all that work to containerize our applications and prepare them for the cloud actually turned out to make it relatively easy to exit. And now,...
A Smart Bear
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is...
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over a year ago
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” This turns out to be incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If your model is incorrect, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here is...
somenice
The Micro One-Armed Bandit Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython...
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over a year ago
Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython using the Adafruit 5×5 NeoBFF Led Matrix. A micro switch, or limit switch is used to ‘pull’ the slot machine arm. A Piezo buzzer bleeps and bloops familiar tones and may signal a win....
HTMHell
Web Components FTW! by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create...
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a year ago
by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create reusable custom elements, with built-in interactivity, automatically scoped (or encapsulated) from the rest of your code. They have a wide range of features and functionality (some...
Marc Astbury
The Gnarly Bits of Product Design As designers, we focus on the core interaction and forget the bits and pieces around it. The stuff...
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a year ago
As designers, we focus on the core interaction and forget the bits and pieces around it. The stuff that some people refer to as ‘polish’. Here is a brain dump of my top easy to forget but important design stuff. defining which events should be tracked did we consider loading...
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (for React) (tip)
9 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
How I Take and Publish Notes I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
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a year ago
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...
Blog of Simple...
What are your rights under the CCPA?
a year ago
Dan Slimmon
The queueing shell game Queues are not just architectural widgets that you can insert into your architecture wherever...
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10 months ago
Queues are not just architectural widgets that you can insert into your architecture wherever they're needed. Queues are spontaneously occurring phenomena, just like a waterfall or a thunderstorm.
macwright.com
Tidbyt without the company (async () => { const colors =...
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2 months ago
(async () => { const colors = ['fb6b1d','e83b3b','831c5d','c32454','f04f78','f68181','fca790','e3c896','ab947a','966c6c','625565','3e3546','0b5e65','0b8a8f','1ebc73','91db69','fbff86','fbb954','cd683d','9e4539','7a3045','6b3e75','905ea9','a884f3','eaaded', '8fd3ff', '4d9be6',...
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
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a year ago
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
37signals Dev
Exploring server-side diffing in Turbo We did a lot of exploratory work before coming up with the Turbo improvement we presented in Rails...
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a year ago
We did a lot of exploratory work before coming up with the Turbo improvement we presented in Rails World. One of those experiments included diffing in the server instead of in the client. The idea The inspiration for this idea came, again, from Phoenix Live View, a library I find...
Maggie Appleton
Tracking Humanity The introduction to my thesis on the Quantified Self movement and the culture of self-tracking
over a year ago
Neil Panchal
Chart of Accounts for Startups and SaaS Companies Accounting is fundamental to starting a business. You need to have a basic understanding of...
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a year ago
Accounting is fundamental to starting a business. You need to have a basic understanding of accounting principles and essential bookkeeping. I had to learn it. There was no choice. For filing taxes, your CPA is going to ask you for an Income Statement (also known as P/L...
alexwlchan
Adding locations to my photos from my Apple Watch workouts A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest...
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a year ago
A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest Slovenia. It’s a very photogenic landscape, so I was taking some pictures with my “nice” camera. It’s an Olympus that takes better photos than my iPhone, but it’s quite old and it doesn’t have...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
The Changelog
Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an...
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I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an opportunistic mesh that can be deployed privately or as part of a global-scale network. Each node gets a stable IPv6 address (or even an entire /64) that is derived from its public key...
Dan Quach Blog
Accurate Predictions In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
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In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
Josh Collinsworth
Converting from Gridsome to SvelteKit I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project...
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over a year ago
I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project before. So when I found myself looking for a new platform for this site as SvelteKit entered open beta, it seemed like perfect timing.
HTMHell
#34 a button is not a link Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target...
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7 months ago
Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target description</button> Issues and how to fix them A button opening a link will be unexpected behavior for screen reader users. No matter how it is styled. Links disguised as buttons...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Reflecting on YC, 2 years on Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
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Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
Tony Finch's blog
A qp-trie for BIND In 2021, I came up with a design for a new memory layout for a qp-trie, and I implemented a...
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In 2021, I came up with a design for a new memory layout for a qp-trie, and I implemented a prototype of the design in NLnet Labs NSD (see my git repo or github). Since I started work at ISC my main project has been to adapt the NSD prototype into a qp-trie for use in BIND. The...
bt RSS Feed
Happily Paying For macOS Apps Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
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Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS1 systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinates Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with...
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Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with geometry: 3D-graphics, image processing, physical simulation, — the answer is obvious. Knowing the mathematics behind your framework enables you to write more efficient code. But even if...
Steve Klabnik
thank u, next
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years? Why did the company do so? I’ve talked with people involved in organizing the competition for more...
over a year ago
Yale e360
How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft...
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Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
Making software...
Do You Have an Extra $10? Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
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over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it's a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it's a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it's an impulse buy while we're out shopping for...
Blog System/5
Self-documenting Makefiles Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
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Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
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over a year ago
Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol. Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Joel Gascoigne
How to start your startup in 4 steps * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Having started...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Having started my latest venture [http://bufferapp.com] just over 5 months ago, and having just reached ramen profitability [http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html], I want to share some...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I...
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Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco Chronicle and SPUR endorsements. Contents California Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State Controller Treasurer Insurance Commissioner United...
alexwlchan
How I create static websites for tiny archives Last year I wrote about using static websites for tiny archives. The idea is that I create tiny...
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4 months ago
Last year I wrote about using static websites for tiny archives. The idea is that I create tiny websites to store and describe my digital collections. There are several reasons I like this approach: HTML is flexible and lets me display data in a variety of ways; it’s likely to...
Acko.net
Who Doesn't Go Nazi? The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a...
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The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a fictional dinner party, we are introduced to various characters and personalities. Thompson analyzes whether they would or wouldn't make particularly good nazis. Supposedly it comes down...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Is Google Analytics HIPAA compliant? HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, regulates how...
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over a year ago
HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, regulates how individuals and organizations are required to secure…
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to turn user interviews into actionable snapshots Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an...
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over a year ago
Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an efficient way to share what you learn. At PostHog…
A Beautiful Site
Smaller volume increments in macOS Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You...
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over a year ago
Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You already know you can increase and decrease your Mac's volume with the keyboard, but sometimes the intervals are a bit too much. I usually end up adjusting my external speakers just to...
Julia Evans
How do Nix builds work? Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
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Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here. I started by complaining on Mastodon: are there any guides to nix that...
Vadim Kravcenko
Mental Health in Software Engineering Question: Answer: The post Mental Health in Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric “Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
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over a year ago
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail to produce the best answers, and fail to create explanations that help others understand why they’re the best answers. This system works.
A Beautiful Site
How to get faster and better help from support It's tempting to take out your frustrations on the support person answering your email, but don't...
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over a year ago
It's tempting to take out your frustrations on the support person answering your email, but don't send out a message raging about their incompetence. Don't tell them how their product sucks or doesn't work the way you expect it to. Don't TYPE IN ALL CAPS to make sure they...
Epic Web Dev
Good Code, Testable Code (article) Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for...
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Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for effective testing.
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
Joel Gascoigne
Don&#x27;t register your idea as a company * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to incorporate is one of those topics which comes up time and time again, and there is much conflicting advice out there. I’m lucky enough to have a number of different experiences and...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Cleaner ways to build dynamic JS arrays Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you...
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Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you need some items to appear based on a condition. So you add an if (condition) array.push(item). Then you need to shuffle things around and bring in an unshift or two, and maybe even...
Steve Klabnik
A Happy Day for Rust
4 months ago
Maggie Appleton
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I A case study showing how I make illustrations for abstract programming concepts
over a year ago
General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
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What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019 I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
Steve Klabnik
Announcing rstat.us
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
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over a year ago
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
Steve Klabnik
Introducing the rails-api project
over a year ago
Julia Evans
Some terminal frustrations A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I...
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A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you? 1600 people answered, and I decided to spend a few days categorizing all the responses. Along the way I learned that...
alexwlchan
The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser &rarr; As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to...
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As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to parse Flickr URLs. For example: $ flickr_url_parser 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727552068/' {"type": "single_photo", "photo_id": "4727552068"} This started...
Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics data collection
over a year ago
Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
Engineer’s Codex
How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps The Burnout Playbook for software engineers
a year ago
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition) I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the...
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I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the last 8 months the number of tech startups worth $1B or more ("unicorns") has grown by 43% from 487 Unicorns to 701. This is almost double the 361 unicorns in June 2019
David Heinemeier...
Microsoft taught Apple nothing Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that...
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Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. They’re in full “cut off the air supply” mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost....
TokyoDev
COVID-19 and IT Jobs in Japan The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially those looking to relocate to Japan from overseas. To help people understand the current situation with regards to IT jobs in Japan, I contacted [every company using...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Your Greatest Strength Is Also Your Greatest Weakness Referring to product management, my old boss used to say, “There is no right or wrong, only...
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Referring to product management, my old boss used to say, “There is no right or wrong, only trade-offs.” This applies to technology too (and, if you really think about it, life generally — but we won’t go that far). As an example, what makes npm great? It’s so easy to install a...
Charles Chen
3 Tips to Help Dev Teams Build Speed My observations on practices that help all teams build speed.
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Is your babel's transform-runtime getting lazy? You better check. IE11 is not dead yet, and our library is supposed to run there and make russian grandmas happy. As...
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over a year ago
IE11 is not dead yet, and our library is supposed to run there and make russian grandmas happy. As you can guess, we rely on babel's preset-env a lot. We also don't want our code to be 55% babel helpers, so we use babel's transform-runtime — it should make babel import someHelper...
The Pragmatic...
Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to...
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a year ago
At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to go along with what looked like fraud. They obliged in two out of three cases, landed in hot water, and now face jail time. A reminder why it’s never a good idea to go along with...
Stephen Wolfram...
The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its...
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This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit Turning LLM Capabilities into Functions So far, we mostly think of LLMs as things we...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Product Pseudoscience In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the...
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a month ago
In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the pseudoscientific approach to product building prevalent across the software industry: when folks at tech companies talk about data they’re not talking about a well-researched study from a...
Grant Slatton
How to write complex software A general method
6 months ago
Blog System/5
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
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The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bottom-Up Idea Exploration My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
My Top 15 OS Books: From Theory and Implementation to Systems Programming A personal guide to the most useful books for understanding operating systems
4 months ago
Code Of Honor
Stay Awhile and Listen Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for...
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Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for blogging as I’ve started creating a new game. After a two-year stint helping other folks publish their games I’m back to coding and game design full-time and having a wonderful time. But...
A Day In The Life...
From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Tests or Types: Why Not Both? _Published on CSS Tricks as [Types or Tests: Why Not...
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over a year ago
_Published on CSS Tricks as [Types or Tests: Why Not Both?](https://css-tricks.com/types-or-tests-why-not-both/)_
James Vaughan's blog
Running around Albany
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
How to see beauty Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was alive with chatter and the joy of yet another sunny day ahead. I made my way through tourists, neighbourhood regulars and other early birds. To escape the buzz, I stepped into the...
exist
Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
The managerial fear of the unknown There is nothing as inevitable as a re-org when a new VP joins. When a new executive joins they’re...
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There is nothing as inevitable as a re-org when a new VP joins. When a new executive joins they’re often overwhelmed by the amount of context they need to absorb to start being effective. The more seasoned ones aren’t pertrubed by this: they understand that gathering this context...
Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
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Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
Epic Web Dev
Understand Authentication
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Happy Leap Day! 29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
a year ago
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a year ago
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why to use a date library when you can.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How I build things My process for starting new projects
8 months ago
Making software...
Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux 2023-04-25 Users who work with git patches...
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Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux 2023-04-25 Users who work with git patches through email most likely use a terminal-based program such as aerc or mutt. CLI email clients tend to have built-in support for easily applying patches directly to their local...
Irrational...
Writers who operate. Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have...
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a year ago
Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have rejected that option because I believe that writers who operate (e.g. write concurrently with holding a non-writing industry role) are best positioned to keep writing valuable work...
Epic Web Dev
Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
a year ago
Yale e360
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
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over a year ago
People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
Kagi Blog
Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good Google search is in the news.
10 months ago
Eric Bailey
I restyled my Mastodon instance More than one thing can be true at the same time. For this post, it’s that: Have recently felt a...
a year ago
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a year ago
More than one thing can be true at the same time. For this post, it’s that: Have recently felt a lack of control in many of aspects of my life, I’m still technically a designer, and that I like CSS a lot. Because of this, I’ve found a new worry stone: my Mastodon...
Ink & Switch
02 · Tracking provenance Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
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Steve Klabnik
Announcing Emoji 1.0
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Follow Up: An Analysis of YouTube Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website After publishing my Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website, Tina Nguyen, political...
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3 days ago
After publishing my Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website, Tina Nguyen, political correspondent at The Verge, reached out with some questions. Her questions made me realize that the numbers in my analysis weren’t quite correct (I wasn’t de-depulicating links...
Yale e360
I'm scared, and hopeful, and you can help Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and...
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a year ago
Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and I'm excited to meet all my coworkers in person. The travel is, on whole, going to be a good experience. But there is a lot surrounding the travel that is stressful and scary. I'm...
Vadim Kravcenko
🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and...
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over a year ago
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and the […] The post 🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Oxide Computer...
March 2020 Update Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in...
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over a year ago
Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in which we are all united. Our thoughts go out to everyone working hard to help those in need. We wish you and your families health and resilience. Hard at work…​ and growing A lot...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Miss the Product for the Artifacts Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger...
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6 months ago
Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger picture because you’re focused on the minutia? Feels like the tech equivalent is: Don’t miss the product for the artifacts. Here’s Ryan Rendle in a recent piece on design...
Charles Chen
Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
7 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Product Owner vs Project Managers During my career as a software developer, I’ve met many different managers. Some were the kind of “I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
During my career as a software developer, I’ve met many different managers. Some were the kind of “I tell — […] The post Product Owner vs Project Managers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Making software...
CSS Video Backgrounds CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
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over a year ago
CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS. Example: .video-background { background-image:...
Josh Comeau's blog
Announcing “use-sound”, a React Hook for Sound Effects By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps,...
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over a year ago
By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps, which interact with three of our human senses (sight, sound, and touch, through haptic feedback). I just released a library to make it easy to add sound to your React app, and I make...
The Pragmatic...
What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events...
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Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry?
David Crawshaw
Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes 2018-04-02, David Crawshaw The Go standard library...
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over a year ago
Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes 2018-04-02, David Crawshaw The Go standard library includes , a generic SQL interface. It does a good job of doing exactly what it says it does, providing a generic interface to various SQL database servers. Sometimes that is what you want....
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Every Web Performance Test Tool Check your site's speed quickly with a battery of tests
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Developer Exception Engineering It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the...
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over a year ago
It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the uncomfortable ones.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Git-Centric Workflow _Published on [the Netlify...
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_Published on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/09/26/git-centric-workflow-the-one-api-to-rule-them-all/)_
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
Blog System/5
Bazel at Snowflake two years in Two and a half years ago, I joined Snowflake to help their mission of migrating to Bazel. Here are...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Two and a half years ago, I joined Snowflake to help their mission of migrating to Bazel. Here are the articles we have published so far.
On Life and Lisp
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
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over a year ago
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
Tony Finch's blog
Unix version control lore: what, ident There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider appreciation: SCCS what and RCS...
a year ago
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There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider appreciation: SCCS what and RCS ident. They allow you to find out what source a binary was built from, without having to run it – handy if it is a library! keyword expansion SCCS, RCS, cvs, and svn all have a way...
TokyoDev
Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
Nelson's Weblog
Angkor Wat resources I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I found useful about the Khmer empire in...
Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
macwright.com
Don't use marked With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their...
a year ago
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a year ago
With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their obligation to maintain compatibility, I just have to put it out there: if you have a new JavaScript/TypeScript project and you need to parse or render Markdown, why are you using...
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible? Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users! At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
2 months ago
TokyoDev
How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan “Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
“Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. So I began my very first, brief and spontaneous trip to any Asian country, in February of 2024. I’m sure I wasn’t the first or last tourist with such ideas...
Blog of Simple...
How does the HIPAA compare to the CCPA and GDPR?
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Who's lying? Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
wingolog
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See for more notes. Java’s / seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently with the mutator, by the...
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Want Better Design/CSS Skills? Spot the Difference! A quick exercise to improve your attention to detail when implementing/designing with CSS.
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Getting it right To my awesome users: I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To my awesome users: I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes, the betas were pretty awesome, but they weren't what I wanted them to be in terms of design, code, and function. I can do better, and you deserve nothing less than my very best. The...
Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳 ::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture...
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over a year ago
::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
David Heinemeier...
Universal Basic Dead End While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer ready for the big question of "what are we all going to do when the jobs are gone": Just pay everyone enough to loaf around as they see fit! Problem solved, right? Wrong. The...
A Smart Bear
JIT selection from independent streams: An alternative to the “big backlog” of work We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of the future, however this confuses “prioritization” with “work-planning,” and forces the comparison of un-comparable things. Here’s how to solve those problems.
Ognjen Regoje •...
Green flags for investable founders Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication. Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will: a) be for their company, not for them b) be the sales pitch, not a...
Irrational...
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Eric Bailey
Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 2
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached out and thanked me for my previous post Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator, I thought I would continue to share more of my own custom Automator Quick Actions....
Eric Bailey
Forbidden noodles My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware of: Bucatini The FDA banning the import of this beloved pasta was one of the many tragedies 2020 visited on us. If there is any consolation, know that the De Cecco pasta factories have...
Nelson's Weblog
Legal aid charities for immigrants (2024) The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear...
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The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear what’s coming, my biggest fear is a violent display of fascism. (Don’t call them camps!) But even if it’s a polite legal process it will be chaotic and disruptive to many...
Joel Gascoigne
50 books that transformed my business and my life As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books completely. I even remember...
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over a year ago
As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books completely. I even remember a time where I couldn't imagine reading books at all. After I graduated and started to be interested in business and startups, I realized the immense power and knowledge contained...
Founder's blog
How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS default 64 plus one). ••• On my recent mountain biking trip to France I accidentally booked an Airbnb without WiFi. Bummer. But hey, 5 minutes of googling and I found a...
Maggie Appleton
Smidgeons Welcome to the smidgeon stream. This is a new kind of content on the Garden. One that was
5 months ago
Eric Bailey
Saying no to Diez (for now)
over a year ago
Elad Blog
Clubhouse: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 1) This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
Eric Bailey
Keeping track of letter-spacing, some guidelines
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.16.0 Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And, given that scalability was the focus of the previous…
Ink & Switch
Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles...
over a year ago
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In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
swyx's site RSS Feed
10x-ing Svelte (Svelte Summit 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Selecting the right product metrics A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but also stakeholders, executives, and customers.
A Beautiful Site
Determining your app's base directory in Node.js Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight forward as you'd think in Node. Here's a little trick to get a globally available reference to your app's root directory. Add this somewhere towards the start of your main app...
Josh Comeau's blog
Effective Collaboration with Product and Design How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.
A Smart Bear
How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price You can charge much more than you think, if you reposition your value-proposition. Here's how.
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Ham biscuit on There is a tweet from a suspended Twitter user that shows a “ham biscuit sign” in its dark and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a tweet from a suspended Twitter user that shows a “ham biscuit sign” in its dark and lit-up state. Here’s a screenshot of it: Reddit. The sign is used to indicate if that particular McDonald’s had Country Ham Biscuits left in stock. Presumably, they’re a popular...
Eric Bailey
Accessible SVGs in High Contrast Mode
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Is There a Japanese Equivalent of Glassdoor? When interviewing with a Japanese company, you’ll naturally want to know: “Is this a good place to...
a month ago
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a month ago
When interviewing with a Japanese company, you’ll naturally want to know: “Is this a good place to work?” And while Glassdoor is the standard in English-speaking countries for employees leaving online reviews, the site is only rarely used in Japan, and then primarily by...
Seldo.com
On AI, ML, LLMs and the future of software
a year ago
Joel on Software
Kinda a big announcement The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"
Eric Bailey
Sabbath mode and assistive technology features There’s a secret mode that comes with almost all large ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers, and other...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a secret mode that comes with almost all large ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers, and other large kitchen appliances. It is called Sabbath mode, and there is a very specific reason it is provided by the manufacturer. No, it is not a mode made to placate Ozzy Osbourne....
Vadim Kravcenko
10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens Question: Answer: The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Passkey authenticators for consumers (May 2023) After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a...
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over a year ago
After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a consumer. Here’s what I learned. If you want to try it yourself, passkeys.io is a nice demo server. Passkeys work a lot like passwords do today. You create a different passkey for...
Steve Klabnik
An API ontology
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Can we useRef, but without the .current? Let's try! Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've used it instead of useState to optimize re-renders. But typing ref.current over and over is just annoying. Come on, Vladimir, startX.current is just the same as this.startX in a...
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Super Easy Automated Scraping with AWS Amplify A tutorial on data scraping with AWS Amplify
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
User-Agent: moz://a
over a year ago
Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
Sometimes It Works...
My Biggest Mistake… So Far My Biggest Mistake… So Far or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity The Benefits of Being The Right...
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over a year ago
My Biggest Mistake… So Far or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity The Benefits of Being The Right Amount of Selfish ¶My Biggest Mistake… So Far ¶or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity Check out this video from a couple of weeks ago: Selfless vs SelfishDid you notice the...
Coding Horror
Thunderbolting Your Video Card When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an...
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over a year ago
When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I'm here to report that the future is now. Yes, that's
Julia Evans
Confusing git terminology Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s idiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s confusing about it. So I asked people on Mastodon: what git jargon do you find...
Maggie Appleton
Algorithmic Transparency Algorithms that make their reasoning visible
over a year ago
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five Finals Intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
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over a year ago
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2: “Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day. First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
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The 9 best mobile app A/B testing tools A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it...
a year ago
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a year ago
A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it comes to mobile apps, there are many different A/B…
Joel Gascoigne
Focus on the line, not the dot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring? [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half a...
David Heinemeier...
Challenging the guardians of the paradigm I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
a year ago
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a year ago
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
Blog - Bitfield...
Things fall apart The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but...
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3 months ago
The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but handles them sensibly. Let’s see how, by returning to our line-counter project.
David Heinemeier...
MEGA Trump is back at the helm of the United States, and the majority of Americans are optimistic about...
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Trump is back at the helm of the United States, and the majority of Americans are optimistic about the prospect. Especially the young. In a poll by CBS News, it's the 18-29 demographic that's most excited, with a whopping two-thirds answering in the affirmative to being...
Darek Kay
Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcripts. In this post, I use interactive examples to show the difference. I also provide related success criteria from...
Posts on Nikita...
RustLab 2024 I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4...
6 months ago
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I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4 conferences in one year was a bad idea. I was exhausted and overwhelmed, but I still had a blast meeting new people and answering the questions after the talk. It had the following...
Computer Things
How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also...
9 months ago
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Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also short. Logic for Programmers v0.4 Now available! This version adds a chapter on TLA+, significantly expands the constraint solver chapter, and adds a "planner programming" section to...
Charles Chen
Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees) Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
over a year ago
MMapped blog
Universal domain types
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of...
6 months ago
blag
Now This is a /now page. Work I work at Turso Database. Learning Rust and C.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Keep a React component mounted The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Ink & Switch
01 · Versioning and provenance for empirical research Introducing Jacquard: a project exploring better collaborative editing environments for empirical...
11 months ago
Patrick Kayongo
Of Mountains and Hills It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
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It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
Steve Klabnik
More rstat.us refactoring
over a year ago
blag
Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
over a year ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 16: Open Source merged few open pull requests on my projects
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2023 The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model number, based on this photo alone — if not simply because in its era there were fewer consumer electronics devices to choose from. I tested the image against Google Image search and...
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Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile, longest-running social fissures in America. So of course the recent ruling from the Supreme Court making its use in college admissions illegal was going to light a political fire. The...
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In my article on HTML web components, I said: But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React components cannot do this — full stop. There’s a lot in there I wanted to explain more in-depth, but I just never go to it. Then...
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As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in Japan](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/creating-company-japan), I initially ran TokyoDev as a sole proprietorship, but in late 2022 converted it to a company. This involved three steps: 1. Incorporate TokyoDev Inc, a...
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What is the Difference Between Alternative Text, Long Description, and Caption? When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and...
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When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and understandable to everyone. Which means you need to include text alternatives to describe the image information or function. Three options are: Alternative Text Long...
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Digital release of Engineering Executive's Primer. Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical...
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Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical copies will be available in March. Also, as of this moment, you can purchase the digital edition on Amazon, and read the full digital release on O’Reilly. (You can preorder physical...
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The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices...
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While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices for statement terminators. . is very appealing, or !. Ultimately, I might make the "boring" choice of using either ; or significant whitespace. But that had me asking: why is it...
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The wrongness of relativism Comparing yourself to other startups? Focus on yourself instead.
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Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new...
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Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy. I have been procrastinating this migration for years, and I avoided learning anything much about dnssec-policy until this month. I’m writing this from the perspective of a DNS...
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the...
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
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Hiding Peloton and Zwift workouts on Strava by () I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with...
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I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with Peloton, Swift, and other “integrations.” It’s great for them, but the activities just look like ads for Peloton and don’t have any of the things that I like about Strava’s...
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How to seed, grow, and scale Developer Relations (and how we're doing it at PostHog) Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer...
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Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer Relations journey at PostHog has just begun, and…
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Designing The Light Source for IRIS This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
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This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. IRIS allows us to see the insides of certain types of chips, even after they are soldered to a circuit board. This is possible...
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What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plants Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
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Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
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A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering...
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HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax. For someone who is...
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Never underestimate HTML by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”,...
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by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”, “Updating the UI should be a simple task once the backend is ready.”—these and other similar statements reached my ears time and again during my career as a web developer. Very often,...
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You don't need a special place, or a special time, or even special clothes, to meditate. It's just letting the mind rest when it's not needed, and that's the case more often than you might think.
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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I’ve recently been using Arch Linux...
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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I’ve recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It’s been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it’s nice to use...
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I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up to a 15 lb propane tank at home where it gets regular use. It is small, but it heats up quickly and cooks food better than any other grill I’ve tried. However, I recently noticed...
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A brief introduction to interval arithmetic You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet,...
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You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall? Maybe. If the two measure is exactly 7 feet than sure, 7 ≤ 7. But you probably didn't line your...
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Ban std::string The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like...
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The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like heresy and you want to burn me at stake. But is it really controversial? Java, C#, Go, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP: they all have immutable strings that are basically 2 machine words:...
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Learn how to use DevTools to check if the correct font is being applied to your app and troubleshoot issues related to loading custom fonts.
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Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few...
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I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few months, I’ve flown a drone as part of a stakeout to understand how they work. And I’ve taken a deep dive into an apparent Waymo outage to find the company charging its electric vehicles...
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Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
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As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired. A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
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No Wrong Doors. Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide...
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Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide help–often health or mental health services–to individuals even if they show up to the wrong agency to request help. The core insight is that the employees at those agencies are far...
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Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
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NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
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Array 1.33.0 Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity...
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Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity Cloud support for ClickHouse, configuring your instance from the PostHog UI and 290+ improvements/fixes.
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In our *Ambsheets* project, we are exploring a small extension to the familiar spreadsheet: **what if a single spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at once**?
A Smart Bear
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According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
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We just made PostHog Open Source 1000x more scalable via ClickHouse We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few...
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We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few weeks, our team have been hard at work moving over…
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Blogging for 7 Years Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven...
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Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan’s...
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Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan’s work on Dribbble and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it’s a half-way decent copy...
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Give your JPEGs alpha channels If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem...
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If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem is that PNGs are lossless and can grow in file size very quickly — much larger than your average JPEG. So what if there was a way for JPEGs to support alpha channels? I discovered...
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JavaScript functions for basename and dirname Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path)...
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Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path) { return path.replace(/.*\//, ''); } dirname() # function dirname(path) { return path.match(/.*\//); } Unlike their PHP cousins, these functions do not support paths...
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The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as...
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If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”.  It's time to see how any of that carried over through the 16-bit to 64-bit evolution.
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Formlabs Form 4 Teardown Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of...
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Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of course, I jumped on the chance to do a teardown of the printer; I’m grateful that I was able to do the same for the Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3 generations. In addition to learning...
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How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
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Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways different from most people. People who are blind, for example, use screen readers to convert website content into audio. Some use braille displays. There are also people who use...
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I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and immediately gave him up for adoption. My mother died two decades ago so details are hard to come by. My brother worked for years to find us. I'm glad he succeeded! And I feel sad...
Joel Gascoigne
Feeling like a fraud while doing startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Before I had any...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Before I had any success with Buffer, I helped many startups with their ideas. I attended events, spoke at events and even created my own meetup for startups. These were not particularly big...
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Install Windows 8 UEFI on Legacy BIOS with Clover (and Dual boot with Yosemite) This tutorial will help you install Windows 8 on a Legacy BIOS in UEFI mode using Clover and dual...
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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...
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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,...
Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally...
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In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project. Outcome Carousels in UI are practical interactive elements that efficiently display images or content pieces without taking up too much vertical...
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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
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A new thing I’ve been trying while writing this Git zine is doing a bunch of polls on Mastodon to learn about: which git commands/workflows people use (like “do you use merge or rebase more?” or “do you put your current git branch in your shell prompt?”) what kinds of problems...
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Behind the syntax: let and const variables Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more...
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Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more colloquially known as ES6 – was released…
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Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
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Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
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IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
A Smart Bear
Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But...
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How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But these guiding questions can help.
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You can now reverse ETL into PostHog with Hightouch We're delighted to announce that Hightouch has released an integration with PostHog so you can...
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We're delighted to announce that Hightouch has released an integration with PostHog so you can sync modeled data from your data warehouse into…
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: More security stories! The latest Loose Leaf Security is out, a handful of Geoffrey and my own security adventures,...
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The latest Loose Leaf Security is out, a handful of Geoffrey and my own security adventures, including concerns about Twitter's "favorites" evolved into "likes," and some juicier news stories: Security stories: surveillance databases, unlocking apps, unexpected photo booths, and...
Yale e360
Drawbacks of developing in containers It seems like everyone these days is developing in containers. Specifically, I mean running your...
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It seems like everyone these days is developing in containers. Specifically, I mean running your local development environment almost entirely in containers. There's a lot to be said for it, especially when you're bringing new developers into a project: it can be an invaluable...
Yale e360
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
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In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
Elad Blog
When Executives Break When your company is scaling rapidly due to product market fit, one of the biggest impediments (or...
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When your company is scaling rapidly due to product market fit, one of the biggest impediments (or boosters) to growth will turn out to be the composition of your executive team. If your executives are not able to scale with the company, entire functions may be thrown into...
Making software...
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks 2020-12-08 I recently published a new open source...
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Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks 2020-12-08 I recently published a new open source project, Flexbox Bar Graphs, and wanted to share a simple breakdown of how it was built. It isn't anything mind-blowing, but I like the idea of placing bar graphs in a web page...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little...
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After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL doesn’t match the order in which they are displayed on screen. Why’s this happening? I have a bunch of links in my HTML document,...
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Animated Card Tiles Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive...
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Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let's build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS. What we will be building...
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What can you do with a single <div>? If I told you to make something using only CSS and a single <div>, would you be able to create...
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If I told you to make something using only CSS and a single <div>, would you be able to create something incredible? That's exactly what Lynn Fisher has been doing with A Single Div. Using only a single HTML element and some CSS, she's created some shockingly complex artwork...
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
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Redacting sensitive query parameters with koa and koa-logger At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website. Together, they...
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At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website. Together, they give us nice request-response logs for all our traffic: <-- GET / --> GET / 200 754ms 57.28kb <-- GET /stories --> GET /stories 200 374ms 71.29kb <-- GET /works?query=trees -->...
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The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
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The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
A Beautiful Site
Is your product the reason your startup is failing? The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very...
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The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very appealing. Perhaps that's why so many people risk doing it. The problem is, many of them don't succeed. There are hundreds of reasons a startup can fail, but let's focus on one for a...
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Making alt text more visible I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text...
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I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text before I publish the site, but that means alt text has often been an afterthought – something I’d dash out at the very end of writing a post. I wanted to give it more attention, and...
Computer Things
A list of ternary operators Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
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Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators. Almost all...
bt RSS Feed
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
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Disentangling the three languages: customers, product, and the business Stop talking past each other. Translate between the three "languages" of customer desires, product...
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Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
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Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
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What would a web app canary look like? Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...
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Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots. Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to. They are an essential component...
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Beginner interaction design with Principle Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and...
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Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and beyond with the animations and…
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Tribble, Tribs, Tribby P, little guy, little dude, bud, buddy. You’re my best friend’s cat, but I’m the next-of-kin on the pet-sitter paperwork. You’re not mine, but I’m definitely a part of you. You’ve been a presence and a comfort through most of my adult life. I’d like to...
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Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone. Here are a few options to get around that problem.
Vadim Kravcenko
What does a CTO actually do? In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small...
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In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small […] The post What does a CTO actually do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff...
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I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking...
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Disillusioning the Magic of the fork System Call How the kernels implement the fork system call
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Branchless Lomuto Partitioning A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a...
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A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a predicate) which indicates if an element should be in the first, or second partition. Then it returns two arrays, the two partitions: def partition(v, pred): first = [x for x in v...
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How PostHog's new VP focused the company on nailing funnels in his first week Ramping up fast in any senior product role requires understanding as much context as possible across...
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Ramping up fast in any senior product role requires understanding as much context as possible across 3 axes (Market, Product and People). I’ll talk…
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Different topologies for an org chart, wrong answers only Traditionally, an org chart is represented as a tree. You start at the top with the root of the...
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Traditionally, an org chart is represented as a tree. You start at the top with the root of the tree, probably the CEO. And then everything comes down from there hierarchically. It doesn't have to be that way, though! We can imagine other topologies for companies which would...
Julia Evans
New zine: How Git Works! Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It...
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Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, or get an 14-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table...
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Punctuated Excitement Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new...
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Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?” So I...
A Beautiful Site
Passing data from PHP to JavaScript Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated...
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Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated trying to escape the output properly. Here's a way that always works—no escaping necessary. Let's say we have the following variable in PHP: $name = 'Bob Marley'; And we want to...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
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Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
A Smart Bear
Ballad of The Lean Startup An ode to validated learning.
over a year ago
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Waterfall The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they...
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The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they are completely ignorant of each other. I figured I would make a quick note to compare and contrast them!
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Omarchy is out My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated...
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My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager. With everything configured out-of-the-box to give you exactly the same setup that I now run every day. My...
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Working with `git` Patches in Apple Mail Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this...
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Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this process in a more streamlined way, but for most use cases this workflow should be fine. I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it...
Basta’s Notes
What have I been up to lately? Just a little update, because I've been quiet
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What is user segmentation? User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it...
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User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it mean? In this article we'll explain what user…
Steve Klabnik
Twitter is too important to be owned by Twitter
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David Heinemeier...
Introducing Omakub Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a...
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Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a rite of passage in certain parts of the community where becoming an expert in the intricacies of every tool and its theming is required to prove you're a proper nerd. I think that's a...
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Making noisy SVGs Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology...
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Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology inform web design. In an earlier post this…
A Beautiful Site
Surreal CMS acquires PageLime Nearly a decade ago, I launched my first SaaS application. It was a new take on content management —...
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Nearly a decade ago, I launched my first SaaS application. It was a new take on content management — a hosted CMS that reads/writes directly to a web server and uses class attributes to define content regions. It was a great idea. Such a great idea that it inspired others to do...
Eric Bailey
A designer developing for Android
over a year ago
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Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older...
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Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server. It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
Jake Zimmerman
Using my iPhone as a travel laptop
9 months ago
A small freedom area...
GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I...
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Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I was minding my own business having fun writing integer arithmetic code. Life was good, when suddenly… zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped). That code wasn't messing with memory much...
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The maths cross-stitch that hangs behind me I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me...
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I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me when I’m on video calls – which made me realise I’ve never posted about it here. It’s a rather nice piece that I’m quite pleased with, and it’s worth sharing. Most of my...
Computer Things
Verification-First Development A while back I argued on the Blue Site1 that "test-first development" (TFD) was different than...
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A while back I argued on the Blue Site1 that "test-first development" (TFD) was different than "test-driven development" (TDD). The former is "write tests before you write code", the latter is a paradigm, culture, and collection of norms that's based on TFD. More broadly, TFD is...
A Beautiful Site
Complacency on the Front End We live in a world where front end developers are fatigued from the framework wars. Most have...
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over a year ago
We live in a world where front end developers are fatigued from the framework wars. Most have settled into a niche — especially the React crowd — and they’re happy to not have to think outside that box. They are, by far, the hardest crowd to sell web components to. I'm not...
Quentin Santos
Interactive Flamegraphs In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
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In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
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Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
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Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the “golden age” in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
Irrational...
Wardley mapping the service orchestration ecosystem (2014). In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python...
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In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python monolith to a services-oriented architecture while also scaling with user traffic that doubled every six months. This Wardley map explores how orchestration frameworks were...
Making software...
CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
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CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn't an insult - I'm happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...