Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented Oembed Proxy for GitHub
Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub
I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I...
over a year ago
Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub
I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I need to include code snippets.
Notion has support for code blocks but it’s not good enough for my use case.
I want to make sure the code compiles so I write small programs and...
Computer Things
Be Suspicious of Success
From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems:
You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not...
2 months ago
From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems:
You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not find a violation of a liveness property... you should also be suspicious if [it] finds no errors when checking safety properties.
This is specifically in the context of...
TokyoDev
All code is technical debt
Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward...
over a year ago
Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development.
This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Netlify Public Folder, Part V: Now With an Image CDN
On ShopTalkShow no. 628, Chris and Dave got to talking about s3/r2 and hosted media solutions. Dave...
4 months ago
On ShopTalkShow no. 628, Chris and Dave got to talking about s3/r2 and hosted media solutions. Dave graciously gave a shoutout to my Netlify “public folder” workflow, which reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to write about.
Chris mentions how he prefers being able to drop...
Tinloof - Blog
How to make your own SplitPane React component with 0 dependencies
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that...
over a year ago
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that separates them. Based on its layout, a SplitPane can be horizontal or vertical. If you've ever used the Chrome dev tools, you probably came across both versions of the SplitPane. For...
Liz Denys
Where books travel
i
I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen...
over a year ago
i
I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen years ago, but at a higher premium," and deeply internalize my physical constraints for the next six hours. A small box outlined by my seat, the side of the plane with its tiny...
Alex Meub
Upgrading the Weber Q Grill
I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up...
over a year ago
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using DEV.to as a CMS
Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
over a year ago
Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Racy git magic
Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement.
And I think there is one known race: the...
a year ago
Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement.
And I think there is one known race: the index mtime itself is not
race-free.
– Linus Torvalds, Re:git
bugs, 2008
A well-known race condition skulks through git’s plumbing.
And I can demo it via a git magic trick 🪄1
$ tree...
Steve Klabnik
Fire Mario not fire flowers
over a year ago
Kagi Blog
What's next for Kagi?
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a...
6 months ago
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web.
Joel Gascoigne
From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
over a year ago
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog
[https://open.buffer.com/from-startup-to-scaleup-what-were-changing-as-we-make-the-transition/]
.
In the past couple of months, I’ve had a number of thoughts around the growth
Buffer has experienced in the last year and some...
macwright.com
Competition
For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na
board of competition. Every time I saw something...
a year ago
For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na
board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was
competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list.
Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies
and...
David Heinemeier...
Open source royalty and mad kings
I'm solidly in favor of the Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) model of open source stewardship....
2 months ago
I'm solidly in favor of the Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) model of open source stewardship. This is how projects from Linux to Python, from Laravel to Ruby, and yes, Rails, have kept their cohesion, decisiveness, and forward motion. It's a model with decades worth of...
David Heinemeier...
The price of managed cloud services
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
a year ago
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
David Heinemeier...
Tesla wins
When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was...
a year ago
When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was spotty, brakes didn't match the performance, and handling was at best so-so. But it could carry seven, including luggage, was electric, and the dual-motor acceleration was a hoot. So...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The chaotic beauty of street art
I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up...
a year ago
I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up groceries, feels more delightful because of the organic gallery that is my city. Especially when a new piece of art pops up on a previously unremarkable stretch of street. What a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Get You Some Practical Accessibility
Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for...
a year ago
Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for pre-order right now.
I’ve never met Sara in person, but have been an online follower for some time. She is one of those people who has the discipline and eye to make everything they...
charity.wtf
How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole)
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of...
a year ago
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you go.🌈✨🥂 In this doc I mention Christine, my wonderful, brilliant cofounder and CEO,...
blag
How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x...
8 hours ago
This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Build better libraries, use dev warnings
Suppose you're making a cool library that sums numbers in an array. You add a new option, inital,...
over a year ago
Suppose you're making a cool library that sums numbers in an array. You add a new option, inital, that lets users specify an initial value for the summation:
sum([1, 1, 1], { inital: 10 }) // 13
Oh no! You made a typo — of course you meant initial, not inital. What's done is...
Liz Denys
Curried pumpkin soup
Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the...
over a year ago
Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the first thing that comes to mind in winter is creamy squash soups. In the haze of moving, Mystery Hunt, and working on writing 6.042 problems this IAP, I somehow neglected making soup...
macwright.com
Takeaway from using CO₂ monitors: run the exhaust fan
For the last few years, I’ve had Aranet 4 and AirGradient sensors in my apartment. They’re fairly...
8 months ago
For the last few years, I’ve had Aranet 4 and AirGradient sensors in my apartment. They’re fairly expensive gadgets that I have no regrets purchasing – I love a little more awareness of things like temperature, humidity, and air quality, it’s ‘grounding’ in a cyberpunk way. But...
Confessions of a...
Recording of Live Session on CPython Virtual Machine Internals
Yesterday we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython virtual machine (VM) or the...
7 months ago
Yesterday we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython virtual machine (VM) or the bytecode interpreter implementation.
TokyoDev
Renaming an Active Record has_one_attached Attachment: A Step-by-Step Guide
Recently, we had a piece of code that looked something like this:
~~~
has_one_attached...
a year ago
Recently, we had a piece of code that looked something like this:
~~~
has_one_attached :resumee
~~~
Does it look a little off to you? I’m sure you’ve seen (or even perpetrated) a scenario like this before, where you name something and when you revisit the code later you...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 9 best GDPR-compliant analytics tools
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use...
a year ago
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use tools like Google Analytics to track and collect user…
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
Nelson's Weblog
Phanpy, a Mastodon client
Phanpy is good software for reading
Mastodon or other Fediverse posts. Astonishingly it’s an open...
6 months ago
Phanpy is good software for reading
Mastodon or other Fediverse posts. Astonishingly it’s an open source
passion project from a single developer, Chee
Aun. Its quality is extraordinary, better than most commercial social
media software.
There’s so many good things about Phanpy...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing the Avo Inspector app
We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance...
over a year ago
We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance platform which enables you track data consistently and…
Ognjen Regoje •...
Situations in which TDD is the way to go
While I’m not a fan of using TDD all the time, here are a few situations where it’s...
a year ago
While I’m not a fan of using TDD all the time, here are a few situations where it’s effective.
Bugfix
Starting a bugfix by writing the broken test case is often very practical, especially with issues that show up somewhere in the front end, but the fix is somewhere deep in the...
Letters of Note
Better Letters of Note
Dear all, It gives me untold amounts of pleasure to announce that the Letters of Note website has...
over a year ago
Dear all, It gives me untold amounts of pleasure to announce that the Letters of Note website has been given its first facelift since I naively launched it in 2009 using a bog-standard Blogger template. I would like to thank, profusely but from a very safe distance, the patient...
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
a year ago
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
A Beautiful Site
Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were...
over a year ago
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were rotating on a page in the form of a slideshow, fading in and out for a nice, smooth transition. One problem, though: in Internet Explorer 7 (and 6, as it turned out), one of the images...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Set Up SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS
A quick 3 step guide for myself on how to set up Svelte with Tailwind CSS
over a year ago
A quick 3 step guide for myself on how to set up Svelte with Tailwind CSS
sancho.dev
Don't use Tailwind for your Design System
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Children of You
The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low...
3 months ago
The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low people are starting to worry about a national extinction. In other places, including all of Europe (average 1.5, Spain 1.29), it's merely bad and alarming. And nobody seems to...
bt RSS Feed
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...
a year ago
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Lowest Common Denominator: www
Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease...
2 months ago
Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease and persistence, finally get what you want. Write your own C library. Do some assembly code. Even make your own hardware if you have to.
But on the web you give up that control....
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2024
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
10 months ago
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
David Heinemeier...
Design for the web without Figma
By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at...
a year ago
By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at 37signals, and I'm sure most every other software shop has too. Adobe didn't pay $20 billion for nothing. But we don't do the bulk of our design work with or in Figma when developing...
the jsomers.net blog
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose...
over a year ago
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example, or sport, or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know....
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Genius of Apple's Name
An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
over a year ago
An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
Blog - Bitfield...
If you need the money, don't take the job
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to
be worth what you're...
7 months ago
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to
be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll
face as a newly independent worker.
swyx's site RSS Feed
CFP Advice
Some thoughts on writing your first few CFPs
over a year ago
Some thoughts on writing your first few CFPs
Darek Kay
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
over a year ago
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, which might lead to inconsistencies between different environments.
In this post I will present the behavior of npm 7.15.1 and Yarn...
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie
I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
2 months ago
I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
Epic Web Dev
The Epic Stack
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to...
a year ago
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to production more efficiently.
the singularity is...
p(doom)
Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky
This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of...
a year ago
Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky
This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of the debate is whether AIs will look more like formal systems or like inscrutable weight matrices.
I think it’s the latter, and I think it’s the something like the latter forever....
Kagi Blog
Kagi + Wolfram
Building a search engine is hard.
9 months ago
Building a search engine is hard.
macwright.com
Recently
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
7 months ago
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty
hard problem. It was pretty
well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really
trying not to write a search...
Steve Klabnik
The first week of rstat.us: users, press, and scaling, oh my!
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc?
Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you...
a year ago
Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you need to take […]
The post Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel Gascoigne
Bright & Early Podcast with Brian Rhea
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above,...
over a year ago
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above, and see more details here.
swyx's site RSS Feed
What if Stripe is the next Google?
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
over a year ago
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
Chris Nicholas
Which blend mode?
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for...
over a year ago
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for use in the wild.
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
2 months ago
Reading
It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you.
Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
Irrational...
Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called
My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity...
2 weeks ago
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called
My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools,
which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time:
Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learn
Instrumenting metrics...
David Heinemeier...
Le Mans 2024
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some...
8 months ago
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a real race car, and even less time since I made participating in the world's greatest endurance race the ultimate goal. But it almost didn't...
Irrational...
Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty.
Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts...
5 months ago
Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts here. Although I covered some parts of this in Your first 90 days as CTO (understanding product analytics, shadowing customer support, talking to customers, and talking with your...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Google Analytics 4
Want to understand how PostHog and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) are different? Here's the short answer:...
a year ago
Want to understand how PostHog and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) are different? Here's the short answer: Google Analytics is primarily designed for…
ntietz.com blog
It's getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I'm afraid for the free web
A couple of months ago, every video call I had on my personal computer ended up using Chromium.
I...
8 months ago
A couple of months ago, every video call I had on my personal computer ended up using Chromium.
I tried using Firefox and it looked good on my end: I could see and hear the other person.
But they just saw a blank video feed and heard nothing.
Firefox showed me that it's sending,...
bt RSS Feed
My Cheapskate Commenting System
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of…
I went down a...
over a year ago
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of…
I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
TokyoDev
Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several...
over a year ago
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
Vadim Kravcenko
💀 Every app has its skeletons
You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You...
over a year ago
You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You […]
The post 💀 Every app has its skeletons appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Tony Finch's blog
C is Turing complete
Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether
or not C is Turing...
4 months ago
Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether
or not C is Turing complete.
The consensus in the StackOverflow question is,
no, because the C abstract machine is a (large) finite state
machine,
or maybe yes, if you believe that unaddressable local...
alexwlchan
Cats, cross-stitch, and copyright
I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually...
a year ago
I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually lived with) is the cheetah.
This probably goes back to a school project about cheetahs I did when I was nine years old – I had to write about an endangered species for science...
Engineer’s Codex
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
5 months ago
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
ntietz.com blog
The phrase "good enough" isn't fit for purpose
Words matter.
First impressions matter.
I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and...
a year ago
Words matter.
First impressions matter.
I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and there's a section titled "Good-Enough Software".
In it, the authors expand that "the phrase 'good enough' does not imply sloppy or poorly produced code" and that it must still meet...
ntietz.com blog
My portable ergonomic setup
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
6 months ago
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms.
It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids.
That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally.
One guaranteed trigger...
Joel Gascoigne
5 things that seem essential that we launched Buffer without
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
It’s a long time...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
It’s a long time ago now, however I still remember it very well. When I first
went about creating the Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product] for Buffer,...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The two kinds of writing
There are two kinds of writing. Writing for yourself, and writing for others. Both of these can,...
11 months ago
There are two kinds of writing. Writing for yourself, and writing for others. Both of these can, naturally, be broken down into various subcategories. For example:
Personal
Journaling
Note-taking
Poetry (although this can be public)
Public
Blogging
Academic papers
Letter...
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard?
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
8 months ago
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
Josh Comeau's blog
Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be...
over a year ago
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
Joel Gascoigne
Use the happiness advantage
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Looking back to...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Looking back to the start of Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], one of the things I
think may have helped a lot with gaining traction fast was to involve users in
the validation process and tell these...
Irrational...
Who runs Engineering processes?
Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was...
a year ago
Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was created as a deliberate non-acronym–but was otherwise a fairly typical review process. When I first joined, we’d review one or two specs each week.
The volume of requested reviews...
The Pragmatic...
Pollen’s enormous debt left behind: exclusive details
Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the...
over a year ago
Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the company has accumulated, most of which will not be paid. The highest offer to buy Pollen’s business assets - but without its liabilities - currently stands at only $250K. Details.
Irrational...
Modeling driving onboarding.
The How should you adopt LLMs? strategy explores how Theoretical Ride Sharing
might adopt LLMs. It...
2 months ago
The How should you adopt LLMs? strategy explores how Theoretical Ride Sharing
might adopt LLMs. It builds on several models, the first is about LLMs impact on Developer Experience.
The second model, documented here, looks at whether LLMs might improve a core product and business...
A Beautiful Site
Postleaf: reimagined
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
over a year ago
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!)
Today, I'm...
Elad Blog
Things I Don't Know About AI
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
10 months ago
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
The Pragmatic...
Paying down tech debt: further learnings
In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more...
3 months ago
In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more confidence in a new codebase, and can start to move faster.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fight Link Rot with Server- and Client-side Redirects (Netlify and Gatsby)
Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
over a year ago
Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Takes Over Because of Human Hype, Not Machine Intelligence
Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”:
The idea that businesses are already waging...
a year ago
Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”:
The idea that businesses are already waging an “AI arms race”…that one those very companies, Microsoft, can invest $11 billion into OpenAI while laying off the folks responsible for keeping AI, um, responsible…that real...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The End of Localhost
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site:...
over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.34.0
PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for projects, smart names for all insights, an entire Data Management tool as well as support for horizontal scalability!
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by ()
ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
a year ago
ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view.
You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
Joel Gascoigne
How to start your startup in 4 steps
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Having started...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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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...
ntietz.com blog
PyOhio
This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted...
over a year ago
This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted soon, so I will opt to link to those as they come in, but first, here are some of the highlights:
Ed Finkler of OSMI gave a great talk on mental illness in tech, resources that are...
ntietz.com blog
Running an Effective Book Club at Work
Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for...
over a year ago
Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for learning.
And they're great for group learning, too!
We've run a book club at work a few times.
Some sessions were more successful than others.
The main way our book clubs faltered...
Steve Klabnik
Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
over a year ago
macwright.com
A shortcut for bash using tt by ()
I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new...
a year ago
I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new temporary directory, moving into that, and creating a short-lived project. Finally I automated that and have been actually using the automation:
I wrote this tiny zsh function...
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
11 months ago
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example:
$ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md
This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
David Heinemeier...
I could have been happy with Windows
After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple....
8 months ago
After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple. I've simply not been in the market for another computing platform in decades. Sure, I've dabbled a bit here and there, but never with true commitment. It wasn't until Cupertino...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be...
11 months ago
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be challenging when selecting the right tool We are approaching a period where the traditional boundaries between between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses are overlapping. As...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Apollo and App Icons
As a self-proclaimed app icon-noisseur, I’ve followed Apollo from the sidelines for a while. I...
a year ago
As a self-proclaimed app icon-noisseur, I’ve followed Apollo from the sidelines for a while. I absolutely love all the great app icon variations Christian has commissioned for the app. (Photo from @BasicAppleGuy.)
It’s sad to see Apollo go. As I noted, Christian was a...
Making software...
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It's no secret that I'm passionate about open...
over a year ago
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It's no secret that I'm passionate about open source software, but I'm also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
Max Countryman
We Need To Talk About Vercel
Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up....
a year ago
Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.
bt RSS Feed
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
over a year ago
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I’ve most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome.
But that all changes...
Evan Jones -...
Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
a year ago
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product.
Bad code
<h1>Product...
over a year ago
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product.
Bad code
<h1>Product Status</h1>
<h2>Is the product available?</h2>
<div>
<h3>
<div>
<div>
<i>
<h3 class="message is-success">
It‘s <a>available</a>.
</h3>
...
TokyoDev
Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped
BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin...
over a year ago
BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin transactions per day](https://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions), I was flabbergasted: **there are only about 60,000 transactions per day.** I graphed the number relative to [the...
macwright.com
Recently 2024
Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be...
a week ago
Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be able to remember and carve out the time around New Years to write this, so here’s some end-of-year roundup, ahead of schedule!
Running
This was my biggest year for running on...
A Beautiful Site
Using the classList API
jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff...
over a year ago
jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff wasn't built into JavaScript. But wait — it is now!
What your looking for didn't exist until IE10, but it's been in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera for some time now. It's...
Josh Comeau's blog
Accessible Animations in React
I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In...
over a year ago
I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In this tutorial, we'll see how to ensure that we respect user preferences, and create animations that can be disabled.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
Tips for Speakers Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
over a year ago
Tips for Speakers Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
David Heinemeier...
Living with Linux and Android after two decades of Apple
It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to...
5 months ago
It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to switch off the Apple stack and stick to my choice. That's what two decades worth of entrenched habits will do to your belief in change! But not only was it possible, it's been...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Shortcodes vs MDX
Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
over a year ago
Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
Josh Comeau's blog
Animated Sparkles in React
In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or...
over a year ago
In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or images and watch them twinkle! This neat trick is a perfect way to emphasize positive or exciting things.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
Nelson's Weblog
Goodreads lost all of my reviews
Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user,
some 600 books and 250 carefully...
over a year ago
Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user,
some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and
unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of
being online I've never encountered a company with such callous
disregard for their...
HTMHell
Getting started with Web Performance 🚀
by Alistair Shepherd
Carefully observing websites in the wild
As the murderous...
a year ago
by Alistair Shepherd
Carefully observing websites in the wild
As the murderous tortoises start to converge on Ryūji’s hideout, they pull out their phone. It’s a cheap, older device but it’s survived the toils of the tortoise-ageddon well so far. Thankfully...
ntietz.com blog
Profiling Rust programs the easy way
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust.
It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
a year ago
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust.
It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need.
So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that?
Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
Chris Nicholas
How to use Next.js middleware
Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access,...
over a year ago
Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access, and more. Let’s take a look.
Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
a year ago
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
Jibran’s Perspective
Cookie Based Auth for Django and NextJS
If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the...
9 months ago
If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the code here.
I’m currently working on my first project after deciding that I needed to fail more and practice finishing projects instead of abandoning them midway once they got...
Acko.net
On Sperging Out
The Boy Who Cried Leopard
Recently there's been a new dust up about Richard Stallman and the Free...
over a year ago
The Boy Who Cried Leopard
Recently there's been a new dust up about Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. For those of you just tuning in: an open letter demands that the entire board of the Free-as-in-speech Software Foundation resign, because of past statements and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The God Endpoints will continue until morale improves
a brief meditation on why we keep trying to build God Endpoints and why we will fail until we figure...
over a year ago
a brief meditation on why we keep trying to build God Endpoints and why we will fail until we figure out interfaces.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
over a year ago
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
Julia Evans
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS
periodically runs out of...
a month ago
I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS
periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed.
This hasn’t been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a few
minutes while it restarts, and it only happens once a day at most, so I’ve...
A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
2 months ago
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Width and Height in CSS
In his video “Secret Mechanisms of CSS”, Josh explains (among other things) how width and height...
a year ago
In his video “Secret Mechanisms of CSS”, Josh explains (among other things) how width and height work in CSS. I loved his explanation so much, I am going to re-write it here for my own benefit. Hopefully the next time I have to explain it — to someone else, or to myself in my...
Darek Kay
Handling Enzyme in React 18
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing...
over a year ago
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. However, many projects still contain lots of Enzyme tests from the early days, making migration difficult and time-consuming. At my...
Irrational...
Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement.
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that
prematurely applying...
2 months ago
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that
prematurely applying pressure to a strategy’s rollout prevents evaluating whether the strategy is effective.
Pressure changes behavior in profound ways, and many of those changes are intended to make...
Alice GG
Plaid Layoffs and beyond
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people).
Today I signed my...
over a year ago
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people).
Today I signed my termination agreement, which makes this week my last week as part of Plaid’s infrastructure team.
Kelly Sikkema
Moving forward
While being laid off and having to leave a very talented...
Joel Gascoigne
We spent $3.3M buying out investors: Why and how we did it
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors.
Starting the conversations, negotiations, and process of this buy out was one
Alex MacCaw
The AI is coming
May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in...
over a year ago
May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in artificial-intelligence, especially image-generation, are putting that curse to the test.
In the last year we’ve seen some incredible breakthroughs in image-generation with the release of...
bt RSS Feed
They Won't Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites
They Won’t Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites
2019-06-25
Your website is probably slow. I’m not...
over a year ago
They Won’t Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites
2019-06-25
Your website is probably slow. I’m not trying to make you feel bad or dismiss all the hard work you’ve put into your project. Heck, performance might have been a core value of the design. But websites can always be...
TokyoDev
Calculating your growth ceiling
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers...
over a year ago
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers signing up every month, it feels like your revenue will keep growing forever. However, as customers will also cancel their subscriptions (churn), eventually your growth will...
Vadim Kravcenko
🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and...
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.
Josh Collinsworth
Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate
After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make...
a year ago
After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make that decision, and why I may or may not stick with it.
Tony Finch's blog
My wireguard IPv6 tunnel
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several
misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
7 months ago
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several
misfeatures is a lack of IPv6. Yesterday I (at last!) got around to
setting up a wireguard IPv6 VPN tunnel
between my workstation and my Mythic Beasts virtual private
server.
There were a few, um, learning...
Don Melton
Our long national nightmare is not over
I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve...
over a year ago
I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve selected know what they’re doing. It’s obvious just listening to them.
So I can barely wait for them to take over the White House tomorrow. Because real governance will be back in...
Coding Horror
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
2 weeks ago
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?
teaching the aliens how to exit Vim
(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
Seldo.com
Biographies of every US president as audiobooks
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
2024-09-02
Important: I do not support pirating...
3 months ago
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
2024-09-02
Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
Tony Finch's blog
petnames and Zooko's fan
Recently the Spritely Institute
published an introduction to Petnames, A humane approach to...
3 weeks ago
Recently the Spritely Institute
published an introduction to Petnames, A humane approach to secure,
decentralized naming.
I have long been a fan of petnames, and graph naming systems in
general. I first learned about them in the context of Mark Miller’s
E programming language...
alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
a year ago
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library.
I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space.
(My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
a month ago
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
Vadim Kravcenko
🔥 Battling daily procrastination
🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?...
over a year ago
🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? What […]
The post 🔥 Battling daily procrastination appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Basta’s Notes
We need to be liked, and it might be the fault of social media.
If our god is a benevolent one, then why did he make us crave approval?
a year ago
If our god is a benevolent one, then why did he make us crave approval?
Tinloof - Blog
A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly
We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
over a year ago
We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and LaunchDarkly.
Paolo Amoroso's...
My ChromeOS to Linux migration: requirements and setup
<![CDATA[I'm going back to Linux after nine years of ChromeOS.
In 2015 I had been using Linux for a...
5 months ago
<![CDATA[I'm going back to Linux after nine years of ChromeOS.
In 2015 I had been using Linux for a couple of decades. Exasperated by the frequent maintenance issues, that year I migrated to ChromeOS. I was living in the browser anyway and ChromeOS seemed like a stable...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer
Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely...
over a year ago
Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely my own. Early in my career, I did…
Julia Evans
ASCII control characters in my terminal
Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious
about all these...
a month ago
Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious
about all these “control codes”, like Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W, etc. What’s
the deal with all of them?
a table of ASCII control characters
Here’s a table of all 33 ASCII control characters, and what they...
The Pragmatic...
PagerDuty alternatives
12 alternatives to the market-leading alerting tool, PagerDuty.
a year ago
12 alternatives to the market-leading alerting tool, PagerDuty.
Elad Blog
AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value
In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by...
over a year ago
In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by startups versus incumbents differs. In some waves it all goes to startups, while in others it goes to incumbents or is split between them. Unexpectedly, the prior wave of
A Smart Bear
The unfortunate math behind consulting companies
Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely...
a year ago
Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies.
Julia Evans
git branches: intuition & reality
Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from
people that they find...
a year ago
Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from
people that they find the way git branches work to be counterintuitive. It got
me thinking: what might an “intuitive” notion of a branch be, and how is it
different from how git actually works?
So in...
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be happy and successful? Bring happiness to others
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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For the last 3...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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For the last 3 months I’ve regularly been meeting startup founders here in Hong
Kong to try and help them with the biggest challenges they have. It’s been truly
enjoyable and fascinating. I feel...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Scaling Coding Communities
People who can scale coding communities are 🔥 🔥 🔥
over a year ago
People who can scale coding communities are 🔥 🔥 🔥
blag
Recurse Center Day 24: Hacking Go compiler to add a new keyword
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
over a year ago
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
The Codist
A Programming Career By The Numbers
As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be...
11 months ago
As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be interesting to describe my long career with numbers. If you wind up working for four decades, your experience may vary.
Years Active: 1981-2021, totaling 39.5 years. Irrespective of...
HTMHell
Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what...
over a year ago
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what we intended. This is especially true on the web, where there are many ways to consume content. The language, browser type, device model, using a screen reader, navigating with or...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Golden Era of Blogging
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s...
10 months ago
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers”. While I’m not super into the YouTube scene, his observations sound right from where I sit.
He points out how some of the YouTube creators he loves and follows are...
bunnie's blog
Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White...
a year ago
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
over a year ago
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
HTMHell
Back to Basics: 5 HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
by Daniela Kubesch
In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the...
a year ago
by Daniela Kubesch
In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the latest frameworks, libraries and cutting-edge technologies. But sometimes, the most impactful improvements come from revisiting the fundamentals.
In this blog post, I'll guide you...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Online Handles: A Round-Up
After asking about the origin of online handles, I heard back from a number of folks and loved the...
10 months ago
After asking about the origin of online handles, I heard back from a number of folks and loved the stories.
It’s fascinating to see an online name like “Apple Annie”, read the origin story, and see this wonderful, multi-faceted human being with a rich history behind the...
Engineer’s Codex
How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer
How Fireship wins YouTube
2 months ago
How Fireship wins YouTube
Julia Evans
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section.
A little while ago I started...
a year ago
Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section.
A little while ago I started using a Mac, and one of my biggest
frustrations with it is that often I need to run Linux-specific software. For
example, the nginx playground I
posted about the other day only...
Maggie Appleton
The Cultural Anthropology of React
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous...
5 months ago
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous multithreading) implementation in Intel’s x86 processors.
TokyoDev
Tips for Interviewing at Japanese Tech Companies
I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in...
a year ago
I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in Japan](https://medium.com/japonica-publication/tips-for-landing-a-job-in-japan-b1b94315f177), as well as some [job sites](https://todorokis.medium.com/job-hunting-websites-to-get-an-it-job-in-japan-c7516846ce5) that...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Group Analytics is now available in PostHog
Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale /...
over a year ago
Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale / Enterprise users and those on PostHog Cloud…
Julia Evans
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE
filesystem for a git...
a year ago
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE
filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns
out the answer is yes! There’s giblefs,
GitMounter, and git9 for Plan 9.
But FUSE is pretty annoying to use on Mac – you need to...
A Beautiful Site
Business cards
VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist...
over a year ago
VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist playing with them.
I decided to go conservative with the design, relying a bit on curiosity to draw attention to the business. Nevertheless, I am pleased with the way they turned...
Oxide Computer...
The Cloud Computer
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first
commercial cloud computer —...
a year ago
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first
commercial cloud computer — along with
our $44M Series A financing.
From the outset at Oxide, and as I outlined in
my 2020 Stanford talk,
we have had three core beliefs as a company:
Cloud computing is the...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte stores: the curious parts
We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in...
a year ago
We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in svelte components. But not all state belongs in components — sometimes we want app-global state (think state manager), sometimes we just want to reuse logic between components....
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware November, 2022
The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most...
over a year ago
The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most sensitive analog traces; I would love it if someone could teach me why the soldermask is removed for these guard rings. I imagine there must be some motivation to retain this motif...
ntietz.com blog
Reflecting on 2023, preparing for 2024
This is one of those cliched posts:
Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's...
11 months ago
This is one of those cliched posts:
Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's goals, and talking about hopes and goals for next year.
They're cliche, and they're also useful.
The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other...
Lennart Koopmann
Close Access Denial
I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for...
a year ago
I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for what its WiFi functionality does. The fact that it looks at not only WiFi but also Ethernet data does not help with that problem. If I have a minute to explain it, it’s no problem...
A Beautiful Site
The Future of Shoelace
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
over a year ago
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
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YC adds PostHog to top valued companies for July 2021
Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits...
over a year ago
Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits as of July 2021. "Um… what?" I know, I know. You…
alexwlchan
How I name my computers
I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac.
I’ve already done most of the...
a month ago
I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac.
I’ve already done most of the setup, and this blog post is one of the first things I’ll make with it.
I’m quite pleased with how quickly I can get up and running with a new machine.
There’s one hard part of...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Please put units in names
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner
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over a year ago
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This is the second article in my achieving overnight success
[https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel
the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
A Smart Bear
In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup
Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage...
a year ago
Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.
A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision
Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple...
over a year ago
Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple dimensions to evaluate, even when those dimensions cannot be compared to each other. People often reach for the “rubric” for such puzzles, but rubrics often do not clearly identify a...
A Beautiful Site
How to get the dominant colors of an image with Color Thief
You know how Dribbble shows a color palette for each shot users upload? They always look perfect...
over a year ago
You know how Dribbble shows a color palette for each shot users upload? They always look perfect right? Here's a tool that can give you the same quality results using pure JavaScript.
I played with Color Thief a few months ago but surprisingly never posted about it. For me,...
bt RSS Feed
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
over a year ago
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be “injected” via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one’s hands. So, the least I can do is...
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Learn Stuff Quickly
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can...
over a year ago
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
8 months ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site.
This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
We’re All Content Creators for Machines
Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since...
a month ago
Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since [checks archives] 2005. As of late his writing has gone quiet, but he’s got a new book due out early next year and I think he’s starting up blogging again to help drum up interest....
Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
a year ago
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
Making software...
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
2021-12-06
I recently decided to switch my personal, static...
over a year ago
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
2021-12-06
I recently decided to switch my personal, static site's hosting from Netlify to sourcehut pages. The process went fairly smoothly with only a couple minor hiccups; nothing rage-inducing. After everything was up and running smoothly, I...
ntietz.com blog
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...
a year ago
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...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Thanks React, I'm fine with an imperative setInterval
Like many of you, I've read Dan Abramov's excellent article, making setInterval declarative with...
over a year ago
Like many of you, I've read Dan Abramov's excellent article, making setInterval declarative with React hooks. It's a great introduction to hook thinking and gotchas, highly recommended to any react dev. But by now the insistence on being declarative in every hook ever has gone...
Epic Web Dev
Creating Glassmorphism Effects with Tailwind CSS (tip)
Learn how to create glassmorphism effects using the backdrop blur in Tailwind CSS and achieve...
a year ago
Learn how to create glassmorphism effects using the backdrop blur in Tailwind CSS and achieve realistic translucent credit card designs.
Making software...
Improving Receipt UX
Improving Receipt UX
2019-05-15
There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago...
over a year ago
Improving Receipt UX
2019-05-15
There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further.
What was the...
Julia Evans
Some notes on upgrading Hugo
Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest
to people who are...
2 months ago
Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest
to people who are trying to upgrade Hugo from a very old version to a new
version. But what are blogs for if not documenting one’s very boring yakshaves
from time to time?
So yesterday I decided to...
Making software...
Billing for One CSS Change
Billing for One CSS Change
2019-11-29
Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed...
over a year ago
Billing for One CSS Change
2019-11-29
Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed back to the client. A simple button color change? Bill them. Additional links added to an existing menu? Send that invoice over. Some basic typeface changes? Don't do it for...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Organic Intelligence
Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in...
6 months ago
Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in them:
If I use a [knowledge tool] I need to be able to trust [it] is good...I don’t expect perfection, but I also don’t expect to have to constantly be thinking “was this generated by a...
Cognitive...
Playing with ChatGPT API
I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code...
a year ago
I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code is located here:
I wanted it to be conversational, so it will remember your conversation history as you type.
Similar to chatgpt-wrapper. ...
bt RSS Feed
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
2021-04-27
Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
over a year ago
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
2021-04-27
Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS.
The Demo
Live CodePen Example
The...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Personal Websites Are As Vulnerable As Us
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of...
3 months ago
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of personal web design, I will call it quits.”
Then I read a post by them later and they say something like, “Gah! I just really don’t like where I’m at with my personal website.”
And in...
Julia Evans
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop
called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I...
a year ago
A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop
called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I think some things are hard
to learn and ideas for how we can make them easier.
Here’s the video, as well as the slides and a transcript of (roughly) what I
said in the talk.
the...
ntietz.com blog
What's in my software engineering tool belt?
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I...
a year ago
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I use.
When I read a post recently about a data journalist's data tool belt, well...
I knew I'd have to share my own software engineering tool belt, too.
So, here's my software...
Alex MacCaw
The Stars
Technology's ability to improve lives and alleviate suffering is undeniable. It has swept through...
a year ago
Technology's ability to improve lives and alleviate suffering is undeniable. It has swept through our lives like a tidal wave, lifting us from the depths of ignorance and suffering. It continues to reshape the world and grants us access to tools and knowledge previously...
Renegade Otter
I am not your Cloud person
Jack of all clouds
In an episode of
Screaming in the Cloud podcast,
Corey Quinn, a cloud services...
a year ago
Jack of all clouds
In an episode of
Screaming in the Cloud podcast,
Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn
inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
over a year ago
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
3 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“That’s Another Podcast”
I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The...
a year ago
I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The Postlight Podcast then The Aboard Podcast then Ziade+Ford, and now (again?) The Aboard Podcast.
Through all my listening, one thing I’ve noticed is that they often make comedic...
Jake Zimmerman
A trick for invariant generics in Sorbet
6 months ago
Maggie Appleton
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
over a year ago
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
Vadim Kravcenko
Fundraising for SaaS Startups
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Another Week with Bad Software
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why —...
over a year ago
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why — probably because I could. I had a hotel booked via booking.com, but once I arrived there the receptionist told me it was the first time he's heard of my booking, and he told me that...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Counting to Ten
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to...
a year ago
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to the subject of counting to ten.
Realizing everyone in the family can count to ten in a language unique to them at this moment in their life, we go around the table to do it...
Patrick Kayongo
Online Communication & Social Hierarchy
There are a plethora of ways to communicate online, both with people you know, and people you’ve...
a year ago
There are a plethora of ways to communicate online, both with people you know, and people you’ve never met. But something the makers of these tools fail to mould to, is the social hierarchy and human structures in which they are used. There are three examples that come to mind....
macwright.com
Homeownership
Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house
and they can’t, or...
a year ago
Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house
and they can’t, or they’ve bought a house. The desire to own ones own home is
almost universal in the people I know in the US. It’s even stronger for folks
who live outside of major cities. And people...
somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
a year ago
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
Greg Brockman
How I became a machine learning practitioner
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little...
over a year ago
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but not impossible, and I think most...
Engineer’s Codex
The most valuable trait of great software engineers
A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable...
a year ago
A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable software engineers.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
over a year ago
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
bt RSS Feed
Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5
Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5
2024-06-02
I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my...
6 months ago
Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5
2024-06-02
I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my clubs/projects while using my personal laptop (X220 ThinkPad) which is runs OpenBSD. Since I recently upgraded to OpenBSD 7.5 I thought it could be helpful for others if I shared my...
Liz Denys
Why I left Instagram
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising
Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
over a year ago
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising
Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
The Changelog
A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP)
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
over a year ago
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
blag
MongoDB secondary only index
This short post will show how to add a secondary only index in a MongoDB replica set
over a year ago
This short post will show how to add a secondary only index in a MongoDB replica set
Alice GG
Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou
Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software.
To make the journalist’s...
6 months ago
Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software.
To make the journalist’s job easier, it’s a good idea to put together a press kit.
The press kit should contain all the information someone could want to write an article about your product,
as well as...
Seán Barry
Presentation: Pushing Compute to the Browser
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose...
over a year ago
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose technical and real-world problems. Using a number of modern solutions like HTTP 2, web workers and careful state management with redux we can offload the work to the browser and deliver...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How we made our pre-commit check 7x faster
As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our...
over a year ago
As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our company, I've spent the last couple of months woried about the performance of our pre-commit checks. We have around 50 projects on a standard react + typescript stack, and a...
blag
Recurse Center Day 10: Learning Distributed Systems
How does one start learning to build distributed systems?
over a year ago
How does one start learning to build distributed systems?
Making software...
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
over a year ago
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different.
Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How Bear does analytics with CSS
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great...
a year ago
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there, but I wanted to build one native to Bear.
tldr;
One of my constraints for Bear is to not use client-side javascript. This...
alexwlchan
How I set up my Obsidian vaults
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve...
a year ago
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve been using it for nearly three years.
Time flies when you’re organising information!
I’ve grown to really like it, and I expect to keep using it for a while to come.
Its approach...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.5.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile that is built on top
of SDL2 and OpenGL. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that
parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games
in...
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The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
The Pragmatic...
Who is Still Hiring Software Engineers and EMs?
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one...
over a year ago
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here.
This article was updated in December 2022.
In the midst of gloomy
Ruud van Asseldonk
A language for designing slides
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
over a year ago
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
Joel Gascoigne
Steady yourself, those world-changing thoughts are not productive
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over a year ago
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Whilst building my latest startup, which I’m glad to say is picking up nicely,
there have been times when things have started to go a little crazy. It might be
being featured in a big blog, lots...
Liz Denys
Adding Open Graph to Pelican
I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when...
over a year ago
I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when people shared my posts, and I figured I'd share the fairly tidy way I went about it in case other people were interested. I only added support for articles, my journal entries,...
Computer Things
I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
6 months ago
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go.
The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
Joel Gascoigne
Beware of the social ideas
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over a year ago
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Last time I wrote about how to start your startup in 4 steps
[https://joel.is/post/5507881155/how-to-start-your-startup-in-4-steps], and the
first step I mention is to “Have an idea”. This can...
TokyoDev
Heroku + Travis CI: Tokyo Rubyist Meetup Report
While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist...
over a year ago
While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp), thanks to all the great people who attended, we were able to turn it into a lively event. Anchoring the night were presentations about...
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...
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...
Vadim Kravcenko
Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering
As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned...
a year ago
As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting […]
The post Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bunnie's blog
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been...
3 months ago
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe. I respectfully disagree. Our militaries...
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)" revisited
over a year ago
Acko.net
On Variance and Extensibility
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job
Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very...
over a year ago
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job
Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
bt RSS Feed
Sharing The Things We Use
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
over a year ago
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a “uses” page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
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An introduction to product analytics and how it works
What is product analytics? At the most basic level product analytics refers to the process of...
over a year ago
What is product analytics? At the most basic level product analytics refers to the process of gathering data about how a product is used, then…
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2024
The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
4 months ago
The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
Julia Evans
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and
one question I’ve...
a year ago
I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and
one question I’ve gotten a few times is – why does the x86 architecture use 8-bit bytes? Why not
some other size?
With any question like this, I think there are two options:
It’s a historical accident,...
Liz Denys
Differences
Acrylic on canvas, version 2. On display in the Living Room at Saint Peter's Church for the Members...
over a year ago
Acrylic on canvas, version 2. On display in the Living Room at Saint Peter's Church for the Members and Friends exhibition March to April 2013.
Basta’s Notes
The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts
A bit of a rant about Apple
a year ago
A bit of a rant about Apple
The Changelog
Asynchronous Email: Exim over NNCP (or UUCP)
Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with...
over a year ago
Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with modern encryption and onion routing, here is the first of my posts showing how to put it into action. Email is a natural fit for async; in fact, much of early email was carried by...
Neil Panchal
ZFS RAIDZ2 - Achieving 157 GB/s
Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the...
over a year ago
Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the --filename option. Actual bandwidth is approximately 22 GB/s, which is still mighty impressive.
I built a new server that's also going to serve as a NAS. It
A Beautiful Site
Determine file extensions using JavaScript
A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension.
function fileExt(path) {
return...
over a year ago
A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension.
function fileExt(path) {
return path.substr(path.lastIndexOf('.') + 1);
}
Blog - Bitfield...
Shameless green: TDD in Go
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty...
6 months ago
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty solutions, without worrying about whether the code is
elegant and readable—yet. Let’s see how to use the TDD technique called
“Shameless Green”.
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Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
over a year ago
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
ntietz.com blog
What's hidden behind "just implementation details"
Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the...
6 months ago
Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the hard part is figured out, and the rest is just implementation details."
This typically means they've created an algorithm to do something, and the rest of it is all the supporting...
Elad Blog
Back to the office
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
over a year ago
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's...
a year ago
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the...
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Donating $10k to FreeCodeCamp
I benefited from FreeCodeCamp and would like to give back
over a year ago
I benefited from FreeCodeCamp and would like to give back
The Changelog
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
over a year ago
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
bt RSS Feed
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-11-15
A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
over a year ago
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-11-15
A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout).
This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
over a year ago
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
bt RSS Feed
Designers Need Thicker Skin
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
over a year ago
Designers Need Thicker Skin
2017-07-10
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
Ink & Switch
01 · Universal version control
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators...
10 months ago
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
HTMHell
Common nesting issues in HTML
HTML is such a lovely language. Browsers will almost always display something for you, no matter...
over a year ago
HTML is such a lovely language. Browsers will almost always display something for you, no matter what you put in the HTML document. Heck, you could omit all tags, and it will still work.
That’s all nice, but as web professionals, we should aim to write valid code. But even...
James Vaughan's blog
Micro reviews: Bun, Cursor, Cloudflare Pages, and more
a year ago
Liz Denys
Dan dan mian, the clearly Not Chinese way
Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This...
over a year ago
Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This isn't it.
In fact, I've never actually made it because I couldn't acquire all of the ingredients without going out of my way. Also, I don't really like committing to making a certain...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 1
Livecoding my own Dev.to CMS with Next.js + Preact + TypeScript + Tailwind UI
over a year ago
Livecoding my own Dev.to CMS with Next.js + Preact + TypeScript + Tailwind UI
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your laptop and desktop computers
Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop...
over a year ago
Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop computers:
Physical attacks to your computers and disk encryption
Liz and Geoffrey are back with a look at physical computer security - just how much trouble could someone cause if...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The secrets of PostHog query performance
We want PostHog to become the first choice for product analytics at any scale. To do that, users...
over a year ago
We want PostHog to become the first choice for product analytics at any scale. To do that, users should have a smooth experience exploring their…
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2023
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different...
a year ago
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different era…but what does it do? Thanks to artemb for contributing this ware!
Dan Slimmon
Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent...
10 months ago
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent building things. So we never forget to interview for skills at building stuff. Sometimes we ask candidates to write code on the fly. Other times we ask them to whiteboard out a sensible...
HTMHell
The Form Attribute - Enhancing Form Layout Flexibility
by Alexander Muzenhardt
Consider a scenario where you have a login form containing two input fields...
a year ago
by Alexander Muzenhardt
Consider a scenario where you have a login form containing two input fields with corresponding labels, alongside a submit and a reset button. If you submit the form, the action of the form gets triggered, and you can work with the formData.
The layout...
dthompson
Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from
eBay. I loved that laptop,...
over a year ago
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from
eBay. I loved that laptop, but
time marches on and old hardware eventually becomes too slow for
modern development needs. After a lot of indecision, I bought a 10th
generation Thinkpad X1 with an Intel Core...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 4: Gratitude and emotions
Wow, my RC batch is one-third done.
I've just finished my fourth week, and there are eight weeks...
over a year ago
Wow, my RC batch is one-third done.
I've just finished my fourth week, and there are eight weeks left.
Time is flying by.
I feel like I've settled into a decent groove.
Taking a step back, it is setting in how much I've learned so far and how much I've accomplished.
In these four...
Liz Denys
Crafting a recipe: creamy Vidalia onion soup
I often find myself cooking, or sometimes even baking, without recipes or even measuring cups and...
over a year ago
I often find myself cooking, or sometimes even baking, without recipes or even measuring cups and spoons. The latter, especially with baking, is some linear combination of adventurousness - things haven't gone badly yet as I have always managed to produce the results I've wanted...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I don't shield my team from bad news
I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could
actually be quite...
over a year ago
I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could
actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a
company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and
other negative aspects that are inevitable on
Daniel Marino
How I Manage Projects
As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there...
over a year ago
As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there is a right or wrong way to manage projects, I do think there are some methods that can yield better results. I’m hardly an expert in this area, but I’d like to share some of the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Single Line Comments in CSS
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found...
a year ago
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass.
Having mostly abandoned Sass on personal projects, I was curious what he felt was missing.
He mentioned nesting media queries,...
Joel Gascoigne
Firing myself, again
I've written in the past about how I see the role of a...
over a year ago
I've written in the past about how I see the role of a CEO
[https://joel.is/post/42713179646/expert-of-nothing] to be one where you are
repeatedly firing yourself. Joe Kraus
[http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/first-fire-thyself/] brought my attention to
thinking about the role in...
Dan Slimmon
Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
a year ago
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
macwright.com
Running motivation hacks
Things that have worked to get me back on a running regimen and might work for you:
Try to run all...
9 months ago
Things that have worked to get me back on a running regimen and might work for you:
Try to run all the streets in my neighborhood. I use CityStrides, there are many similar apps.
Run the same exact route, every time, at any speed: focus on consistency-only. Repetition...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Speeding up PostHog builds with Depot
PostHog recently swapped out Docker for Depot in their container image builds within GitHub Actions....
over a year ago
PostHog recently swapped out Docker for Depot in their container image builds within GitHub Actions. The results are outstanding, taking the average…
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, September 2024
The Ware for September 2024 is shown below: This ware was a gift, but I won’t credit the donor until...
2 months ago
The Ware for September 2024 is shown below: This ware was a gift, but I won’t credit the donor until the solution is revealed, because the credit itself might give a clue about the ware. My first reaction to seeing this board is: “this thing has a high BOM cost”. My second...
TokyoDev
Software Developer Salaries in Japan
Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software...
a year ago
Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software development doesn’t pay exceptionally well: according to [a 2022...
The Codist
How Many Hours Can You Code?
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down?...
4 days ago
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down? Even more important is how many weeks and months of that max effort you can still be effective.
In my life, there have only been three periods where I
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...
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...
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