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Josh Comeau's blog
The End of Front-End Development Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a...
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Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on Twitter. I'm much more optimistic about what these AI advancements mean for the...
Quentin Santos
Beware Rust Buffering This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much...
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This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much time to figure it out, I made this article as a reminder. Also, there is a post scriptum, also about buffers, but not about Rust. While writing my article about Linux pipes, I needed...
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
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Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
David Heinemeier...
Buying the seller We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity...
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We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity market, so this was less about pining for a specific feature or even working to reduce the bill. This was about buying from Tom Rossi, the technical cofounder of HigherPixels (who...
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences...
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If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning...
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2025 Recap In 2023 I attended RubyKaigi for the first time and also wrote my first recap, which I’m pleased to...
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In 2023 I attended RubyKaigi for the first time and also wrote my first recap, which I’m pleased to say was well-received! This was my third time attending RubyKaigi, and I was once again really impressed with the event. I’m eternally grateful to the conference organizers, local...
Liz Denys
Puffed millet and qui'nola I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been...
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I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been obsessed. All I want for breakfast these days is a bowl of this granola with some plain yogurt. UPDATE: I no longer order from Sqirl after hearing about their jam mold and the deeper...
Tony Finch's blog
against /tmp I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea, which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp...
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I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea, which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp security bugs were common in the 1990s when I was learning Unix, but they are pretty rare now so I can see why less grizzled hackers might not be familiar with the problems. I...
A Smart Bear
Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine Blogger with tens of thousands of subscribers launches a new venture… and gets only 2 signups. Not...
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Blogger with tens of thousands of subscribers launches a new venture… and gets only 2 signups. Not the advantage you thought it was.
A Beautiful Site
Shoelace 2.0 It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has...
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It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has amassed over 300 million monthly hits on jsDelivr and, as of today, it is jsDelivr's 73rd most popular project. And that was just the beta version. Today, I'm happy to announce that...
David Crawshaw
2014-01-17 "pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel...
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"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel coming into the engine, reducing engine pressure, causing more fuel to come in and increasing engine pressure again." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation
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...
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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.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Thoughts on C/C++ killer There are several programming languages that are “better C/C++”: zig, odin, jai, D. The problem is...
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There are several programming languages that are “better C/C++”: zig, odin, jai, D. The problem is adoption: it’s hard to break from all the code already written in C/C++. It’s too expensive to rewrite large code bases in new language. My idea on how to improve adoption: perfect...
Nelson's Weblog
GAS I’ve been listening to the same music every night when I go to sleep 10+ years now. Weird...
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I’ve been listening to the same music every night when I go to sleep 10+ years now. Weird endorsement; I’ve listened to it with more attention plenty of times too. But it’s particularly good for going to sleep; calm, interesting, and comfortably familiar. That music is GAS,...
charity.wtf
Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager? The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
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The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
Alex Meub
The Holy Grail of IE Testing I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This...
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I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This setup allows you to test authentic versions of IE6, IE7, and IE8 without the need to boot up virtual machines. It also allows you to have a debug bar in each of these versions so...
swyx's site RSS Feed
10,000 Loose Fans I broke past 10,000 Twitter followers on Saturday. Obviously this is a completely arbitrary...
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I broke past 10,000 Twitter followers on Saturday. Obviously this is a completely arbitrary milestone and pretty minor in the hierarchy of needs. I'm not celebrating.
Stephen Wolfram...
The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics h2 span {color: #a5a5a5;} table.InCell { margin-left: -0.27rem; } #blog .post_content...
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h2 span {color: #a5a5a5;} table.InCell { margin-left: -0.27rem; } #blog .post_content .inline-table-of-contents { background-color: #ebf9f8; border: solid 1px #89cac7; } #blog .post_content .inline-table-of-contents div a { color: #783f19; } #blog...
Eric Bailey
Global Accessibility Anger Day For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today,...
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For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today, ask: Does the announcement page support basic accessibility considerations (underlined links, captioned videos, valid markup, etc.)? Does the announcement include alternative descriptions...
Irrational...
Layers of context. Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each...
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Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each time he suggested an approach, his team agreed with him, but his peers in the organization disagreed and pushed back. He wanted advice on why his peers kept undermining his...
Patrick Kayongo
Technology & The Hollowing Middle Class IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in...
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IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in great cost-savings, yet with unquestioned social effects. In his book Rhodes & His Banker, Richard Steyn narrates the founding and the early years of the bank we now know as Standard...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Estimated Reading Time Widgets Beware ye who enter, here be personal opinions. I’ve never understood reading time estimation...
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Beware ye who enter, here be personal opinions. I’ve never understood reading time estimation widgets. Why did these get so popular? Is it because they’re easy? I mean, you can grab one off npm no problem. Baldur suggests a theory in his piece about estimated reading times: At...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink deformation You can think of informal ink as a superset of formal ink: it starts out with less structure, but...
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You can think of informal ink as a superset of formal ink: it starts out with less structure, but structure can be added over time, by the sketcher or the system.
Epic Web Dev
What does “Full Stack” mean for Epic Web
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Our new objective: Nail Self Serve The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate...
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The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate strategy as 'Nail X', where X is the thing we need…
Neil Panchal
Introducing Berkeley Mono Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial:...
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Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono It will be available through Berkeley Graphics agency as a first release. Berkeley Mono Typeface Berkeley Mono is a love letter to the golden era of computing....
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to harness the awesome power of growth loops A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs...
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A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs repeatedly power the series to exponentially grow…
Blog of Simple...
Why is my Simple Analytics data different from Google Analytics?
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Apple actually lost a court case for once, but they refuse to comply in good faith Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app...
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Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app developers the right to link to their own websites. And it seems like Apple had been preparing for this outcome, because immediately thereafter, Apple revealed an elaborate bad-faith...
A Smart Bear
Sometimes never compete on price The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon,...
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The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon, Costco, IKEA, Vanguard) is in leveraging intentional weaknesses.
On Life and Lisp
The first conformant M1 GPU driver Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the...
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Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux! For existing Asahi Linux users, upgrade your system with dnf upgrade (Fedora) or pacman -Syu...
Tony Finch's blog
the penultimate conditional syntax About half a year ago I encountered a paper bombastically titled “the ultimate conditional syntax”....
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About half a year ago I encountered a paper bombastically titled “the ultimate conditional syntax”. It has the attractive goal of unifying pattern match with boolean if tests, and its solution is in some ways very nice. But it seems over-complicated to me, especially for...
General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Browser Defaults We Throw Away Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a...
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Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a JS approach that includes writing event.preventDefault all the time is kinda off. The browser defaults are great, and yet we're rollin' our own for years now. 🤔 I’ve been thinking...
Quentin Santos
Reproducing Espressif’s reset circuit I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily...
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I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily update the code on an Espressif microcontroller. There are actually more subtleties than a quick look would suggest, and I spent a fair bit of time investigating them. This article and...
blag
Install Windows 8 UEFI on Legacy BIOS with Clover (and Dual boot with Yosemite) This tutorial will help you install Windows 8 on a Legacy BIOS in UEFI mode using Clover and dual...
over a year ago
Grant Slatton
Ghost Side Control Escape System (BJJ) A video instructional on my preferred side control escape system
10 months ago
Dan Cowell
"balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet. I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline...
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I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency. Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast,
somenice
The Micro One-Armed Bandit Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython...
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Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython using the Adafruit 5×5 NeoBFF Led Matrix. A micro switch, or limit switch is used to ‘pull’ the slot machine arm. A Piezo buzzer bleeps and bloops familiar tones and may signal a win....
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is SaaS without the aaS It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve...
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It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve already sold more than quarter of a million dollars worth of this beautifully simple installable chat system. People are using it to replace existing systems costing tens of thousands...
Ink & Switch
09 · Version history as chat This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
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This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
Steve Klabnik
How to squash commits in a GitHub pull request
over a year ago
Alice GG
Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to...
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In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to implement a GitOps workflow, which means using a Git repository as the source of truth for the state of your cluster. Flux introduces multiple new objects in your Kubernetes...
Maggie Appleton
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I A case study showing how I make illustrations for abstract programming concepts
over a year ago
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP...
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I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any dedicated engineering managers....
Ferd.ca
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems 2022/12/15 The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems One of the things I knew right when I started at...
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2022/12/15 The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems One of the things I knew right when I started at my current job is that a lot of my work would be for "nothing." I'm saying this because I work (as Staff SRE) for an observability vendor, and engineers tend to operate under the...
bt RSS Feed
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
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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...
TokyoDev
Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their...
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Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their pay rising as their seniority increases. So uniform is compensation that common wisdom even gives [a formula](https://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw1745758) for what your monthly...
Steve Klabnik
Announcing Emoji 1.0
over a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My Hacktoberfest 2019 This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and...
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This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and really wanted to participate, but I had…
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Logical Fallacies, Biases, and Useful Heuristics A list of logical fallacies and biases I found useful for a better understanding of human behavior...
over a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Equifax Data Breach, Credit Freezes, and Beholden Design Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start?...
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Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start? This is a kind of experience I call “Beholden Design.” Full of Dark Patterns and pain, Beholden Design is the evil, goatee-wearing twin of Universal Design. It forces people to...
Vadim Kravcenko
Security at Startup In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets...
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In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets focused on until […] The post Security at Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Acko.net
Who Doesn't Go Nazi? The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a...
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The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a fictional dinner party, we are introduced to various characters and personalities. Thompson analyzes whether they would or wouldn't make particularly good nazis. Supposedly it comes down...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is SSO and why you should enable it for PostHog Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used...
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Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used and appreciated by both IT teams and everyday…
Yale e360
[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
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I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read. The book...
Making software...
Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD 2023-06-13 It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor...
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Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD 2023-06-13 It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor battery performance on laptops. Although not as impressive as something like Alpine Linux or FreeBSD, you can tweak OpenBSD just enough to squeeze more life out of your machine's...
alexwlchan
A Python function to iterate through an S3 Bucket Inventory For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a...
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For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a week, it creates an inventory; a collection of compressed CSV files that describe every object in the bucket. If we want to analyse everything in the bucket, reading this inventory...
A Beautiful Site
Using an ORM I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that...
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I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that you can spend twice as long learning an ORM as you can coding raw SQL. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I figured it was time to see for myself. For the Postleaf rebuild, I decided to try out Sequelize. I...
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...
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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
The Changelog
The Good, Bad, and Scary of the Banning of Donald Trump, and How Decentralization Makes It All... It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit...
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It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit for the moment. It may well save lives, perhaps lots of lives. But it raises quite a few troubling issues. First, as EFF points out, these platforms have privileged speakers with...
Grant Slatton
Things I wish I knew earlier Collection of stuff I would tell my younger self if I could
12 months ago
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...
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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...
Liz Denys
He's not my friend. Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind....
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Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind. What I want to say is often not what someone else wants to hear, and I learned early in life that men who don't hear what they want to hear often get angry. Maybe that anger will...
Steve Klabnik
Rust has finally outgrown me
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for...
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I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines. The result of the port is a Go client. This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
Hixie's Natural Log
Ask for forgiveness, not permission A colleague of mine asked me to explicitly put an LGTM on their design doc so that they could go...
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A colleague of mine asked me to explicitly put an LGTM on their design doc so that they could go ahead and implement it. The design doc was one I had previously reviewed and commented on, and had indicated that it seemed like a good idea, but I hadn't filled in the box saying...
wingolog
ephemerons vs generations in whippet Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about . I thought I was done with them, but it seems they...
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Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about . I thought I was done with them, but it seems they are not done with me. The question at hand is, how do we efficiently and correctly implement ephemerons in a generational collector? ‘s answer turns out to be simple but...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
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The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is popular but it can be done better. I wrote betterguid Go package that does it better. Unique id generated by this package: is a 20 character string, safe to include in urls (no need...
Alex MacCaw
Sailing across the Atlantic
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
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Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please… Google has created one of the best operating systems designed...
ntietz.com blog -...
The five stages of incident response The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be...
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The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be down. There's no way it's down. Why would it be down? It isn't down. Sure, my pager went off. And sure, the metrics all say it's down and the customer is complaining that it's...
bt RSS Feed
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...
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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...
Joel Gascoigne
Beware of the social ideas * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * 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...
Steve Klabnik
Random Ruby Tricks: Class.new
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering...
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HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax. For someone who is...
Steve Klabnik
Structure literals vs. constructors in Rust
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Do NOT Assert on Requests (Do This Instead) (article) Test UI outcomes, not API requests. Mock network calls in setup, but assert on what users actually...
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Test UI outcomes, not API requests. Mock network calls in setup, but assert on what users actually see and experience, not implementation details.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Love Letter to Singapore Mixed Rice The most underrated part of Singapore that foreigners don't appreciate
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Archiving Postleaf Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it...
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Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it back as something different. Maybe an open source project. Maybe a SaaS product. I'm not sure at this point. The world still needs a simple platform to encourage blogging and the...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on AMP Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP...
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Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP aside from it made pages load faster on mobile devices. It sounded neat. A couple weeks ago, I decided to dive in and integrate AMP with Postleaf. But the deeper I got, the more I...
A Beautiful Site
How to upgrade or downgrade Node.js using npm Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command...
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Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command line using npm. Upgrading to the latest stable version # This will update you to the latest available stable version: sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n...
TokyoDev
Tech Meetups in Tokyo Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into...
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Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into attending tech meetups. Tech meetups are events held online and offline, and attending them is a great way to form connections and establish yourself in the tech community. It...
Irrational...
Interviewing engineering executives. Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more...
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Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As an Engineering executive, you may not directly run one of these searches, but...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2024 TokyoDev Developers Survey The 2024 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living...
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The 2024 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it. All questions are optional, and we expect it to take less than 10 minutes to complete. The survey will be open until September 30th. Last...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your...
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over a year ago
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your phone We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
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(incomplete) Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the...
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We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the large, multi-track format of the AI Engineer series of conferences that my biz partner Ben and I are building. I am historically bad at writing down lessons and thoughts, so I am...
Vadim Kravcenko
Process Debt I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even...
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I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […] The post Process Debt appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Making software...
Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
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over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I've...
Eric Bailey
SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them
over a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries...
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One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next book on your list. Reading is not about page count or...
Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three months Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago (...
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over a year ago
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).
Steve Klabnik
2013: year in review
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Joel Gascoigne
The quiet pivot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6 months, we’ve quietly shifted the direction of Buffer. Our adjustment is now almost complete and we’re charging ahead with our new vision. It’s interesting to reflect on how we came...
David Heinemeier...
The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
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The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long...
Stephen Wolfram...
ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”! See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » To enable the functionality described...
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See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » To enable the functionality described here, select and install the Wolfram plugin from within ChatGPT. Note that this capability is so far available only to some ChatGPT Plus users; for more information, see...
Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
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Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
Irrational...
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis. A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy...
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A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis, which I gave at QCon last week. They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
alexwlchan
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or...
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4 months ago
I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate. I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
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a year ago
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
Confused bit
Simply explained: Where do programming languages come from? Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the...
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over a year ago
Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the plane to the game consoles. They can do so many things, but how do we tell them what to do? This involves programming, and people writing the program in specific languages made to...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. –...
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It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. – David Foster Wallace, This is Water At the heart of my management philosophy lies a simple belief: people are working as hard as they can. It’s a lazy assumption to assume people are...
Computer Things
Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things,...
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I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things, I'm completely rewriting the chapter on Logic Programming Languages. I originally showcased the paradigm with puzzle solvers, like eight queens or four-coloring. Lots of other demos...
Steve Klabnik
Announcing request_store
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Continuum From Static to Dynamic Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and...
4 weeks ago
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Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and “dynamic” don’t have to be binaries that describe an entire application architecture. As Dan describes in his post, “static” or “dynamic” it’s all just computers doing stuff. Computer A...
Making software...
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
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over a year ago
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple's Keynote, etc....
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
On Test Automation
Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
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9 months ago
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations. I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
Coding Horror
There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security Remember "cybersecurity"? Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .....
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over a year ago
Remember "cybersecurity"? Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to? Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the...
Liz Denys
Black coiled bowl, 2023 Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, glossy blue glaze
a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Can I ethically use LLMs? The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer. I don't have an...
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4 months ago
The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer. I don't have an answer. This post is my exploration of the question, and why I think it is a question1. Important things up front: what's my relationship with LLMs today? I don't use any LLMs regularly....
Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
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...
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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,...
Steve Klabnik
Memory Safety is a Red Herring
a year ago
Cognitive...
Running Dolphin Locally with Ollama Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way -...
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a year ago
Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way - Ollama. install ollama. after you finsh you should be able to run ollama from the command line. Also you will see the ollama icon up top like this: Iff you are curious - anytime you see that...
Blog System/5
Hands-on graphics without X11 A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Review - Shoe Dog by Phil Knight One of the greatest autobiographies by a business icon and great writer
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Circles and Momentum I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently: I like this reminder. I know for me,...
over a year ago
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I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently: I like this reminder. I know for me, it’s often too easy to slip into a kind of cynicism that only sees endless stationary circles rather than ones with directional momentum. It reminds me of the visualizations of...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is development the right career for me? Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling...
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a year ago
Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling with. It’s one […] The post Is development the right career for me? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
David Heinemeier...
There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies. This...
On Test Automation
My terms and conditions for using AI Last weekend, I wrote a more or less casual post on LinkedIn containing the ‘rules’ (it’s more of a...
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4 months ago
Last weekend, I wrote a more or less casual post on LinkedIn containing the ‘rules’ (it’s more of a list of terms and conditions, really) I set for myself when it comes to using AI. That post received some interesting comments that made me think and refine my thoughts on when...
Steve Klabnik
The Hackety Manifesto
over a year ago
Contraption Co.
Lost and found 2024 recap + what's next
6 months ago
The Pragmatic...
The Big Tech Hiring Slowdown Is Here and it will Hurt Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this impact the rest of the tech industry?
James Vaughan's blog
Tote bag
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Ink & Switch
Tablet Platform Showdown Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Should Know Write faster code by understanding how it flows through your CPU
3 months ago
Epic Web Dev
Replace Remix's unstable_parseMultipartFormData with @mjackson/form-data-parser (tip) Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or...
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9 months ago
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or @mjackson/form-data-parser with custom file size validation.
sancho.dev
4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job
a year ago
alexwlchan
Good embedded toots In my previous post, there was a first for this site: I embedded a post from Mastodon. Like many...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In my previous post, there was a first for this site: I embedded a post from Mastodon. Like many social media services, Mastodon has built-in support for embedding posts. If you’re looking at a public post, you can get a snippet of HTML and JavaScript to show that post in another...
Marco.org
Retreating to Safety Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
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a month ago
Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community. I wrote this in response: Both Apple and Phil Schiller...
Yale e360
Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in question was not particularly complicated, and had been reviewed by multiple people. It included a timeout, and is straightforward: allow a Websocket connection to test that the client...
A Smart Bear
Your non-linear problem of 90% utilization Is everyone is working very hard, all the time, and yet accomplishing 1/10th of what it seems they...
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a year ago
Is everyone is working very hard, all the time, and yet accomplishing 1/10th of what it seems they should? Maybe this is why.
bt RSS Feed
CSS Character Unit CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
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over a year ago
CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
over a year ago
TokyoDev
How I Obtained a Business Manager Visa in Japan Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa and thus my permission to stay in Japan as well. I was in my late 40s and, although I had significant work experience, I had no university degree. I wanted to remain in Japan but I...
Blog System/5
Running GNU on DOS with DJGPP Peeking under the covers to see how DJGPP manages to run GCC on DOS
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Automattic is doing open source dirty Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to...
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Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to WordPress is a wanton violation of general open source ideals and the specifics of the GPL license. Automattic is completely out of line, and the potential damage to the open source world...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Naked Emperors in Tech Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
The path to 1M ARR - May Update
over a year ago
alexwlchan
An unexpected lesson in CSS stacking contexts I’ve made another small tweak to the site – I’ve added “new” banners to articles I’ve written...
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4 months ago
I’ve made another small tweak to the site – I’ve added “new” banners to articles I’ve written recently, and any post marked as “new” will be pinned to the homepage. Previously, the homepage was just a random selection of six articles I’d written at any time. ...
A Beautiful Site
Detecting mobile devices with JavaScript While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the need for knowing whether or not we're dealing with a mobile device arises. For in-depth device checking, you can rely on a complex library such as The MobileESP Project. But for...
TokyoDev
Facebook didn't try to change the world A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some great insight into how to become a successful entrepreneur. > **Interviewer:** Where are you taking Facebook, you can expand to those other schools that you're not at, and then...
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
Tony Finch's blog
My spaghetti carbonara recipe In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too...
a year ago
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a year ago
In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too frequently. Here’s my recipe. It works well for 1 - 3 people but gets unweildy at larger quantities. ingredients Rough quantities per person: 100g pasta Spaghetti is traditional but I’ll...
Yale e360
Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to solve most of those problems by producing code. Ultimately, producing code is hard, and we need help. That's why GitHub's Copilot is exciting, but it's far from ideal, and it's the tip...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do...
a year ago
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a year ago
Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do […] The post How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
the jsomers.net blog
DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word processor. After months of tinkering, a friend and I just finished building one. We call it the DocWriter. It’s a typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs BigQuery Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data),...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data), but they have distinct philosophies and use cases…
Liz Denys
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
a year ago
The History of the...
Can Directories Rise Again? With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long...
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a month ago
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory. The post Can Directories Rise Again? appeared first on The History of the Web.
A Beautiful Site
The SimpleImage library for PHP If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm releasing today. This class takes the headache out of dealing with images and features over 25 useful methods. The class is incredibly simple to use.  The following two lines will...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for...
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over a year ago
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it. Keeping Things...
The Changelog
Using Yggdrasil As an Automatic Mesh Fabric to Connect All Your Docker Containers, VMs, and Servers Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including how to use broadcast detection in Docker, Yggdrasil zero-config for ephemeral containers, and more. See it for the most current information. Sometimes you might want to run Docker...
Engineer’s Codex
Clever code is probably the worst code you could write And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
a year ago
Julia Evans
How to add a directory to your PATH I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for instructions for how to do it, I actually couldn’t find something that explained all of...
Yale e360
My first impressions from a few weeks with Lean and Coq For the last few weeks, some of us have been working through learning about interactive theorem...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the last few weeks, some of us have been working through learning about interactive theorem proving together at Recurse Center. I've been curious about proof assistants since undergrad, and finally have the time, space, and peers to dive into it with. It's been an interesting...
Alex Meub
About the Apple Captive Network Assistant Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site for a better resource on the Captive Network Assistant. If you’re a mac user, you likely have seen a strange popup window appear on your computer when you try to connect to the...
TokyoDev
Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
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over a year ago
Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
Steve Klabnik
Using puma on Heroku
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
All the user-facing states I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as augmented memory—I’ll update it as I encounter more user-facing states in the wild. What user-facing state is User-facing state is what someone experiences when they interact with...
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 6–10
6 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
moka pot notes In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti...
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a month ago
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti Moka Express. Recently when I got it going again after a winter of disuse, it took me a couple of attempts to get the technique right, so here are some notes as a reminder to my...
Vadim Kravcenko
What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 003: OS of the future and universal version control In this dispatch we’re spotlighting Alexander Obenauer’s work on the future of personal computing...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this dispatch we’re spotlighting Alexander Obenauer’s work on the future of personal computing and introducing our new research project.
bt RSS Feed
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal...
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over a year ago
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It’s pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc. The only small...
A Smart Bear
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best...
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over a year ago
Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential tips for Customer Success teams on PostHog While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can do for other teams too — including customer…
A Beautiful Site
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Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work. And work, they do. Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
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Privacy Monthly: September 2023
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Reflexive McLuhanism First we shape X, then X shapes us.
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Making software...
Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } ...
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Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } .box-container, .box-container-depth { background: white; box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); border: 1px solid #eee; border-radius: 10px; margin: 2rem auto; ...
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Good advice on JSX conditionals Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
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Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead: condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy, condition ?...
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Building the fastest object and array differ How I built Microdiff and how it is faster than most other object and array diffing libraries
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The Codist
I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
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I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
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Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years? Why did the company do so? I’ve talked with people involved in organizing the competition for more...
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TokyoDev
Japanese vs International Schools: Which Will Work for Your Children? The surprise is usually plain on their faces. “Oh! Your kids go to Japanese schools?” This is also...
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The surprise is usually plain on their faces. “Oh! Your kids go to Japanese schools?” This is also usually another surprise, whether I’m speaking to a Japanese person or a foreigner. Often the conversation ends there, or with a hopeful note of, “Well, if they’re young, it’s easy...
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The parental dead end of consent morality Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting...
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Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting adults to do whatever they please. As long as they're not hurting anyone, it's all good, and whoever might have a problem with that is by definition a bigot.  This was the overriding...
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I’m amputating you It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera,...
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It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera, a fellow artist 21 years Kahlo’s senior who soon became her mentor and husband. Kahlo’s life up until then had been a struggle due to polio as a child and a serious traffic...
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The Collective Marshmallow Test Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test. Instead of a single person, imagine 100...
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Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test. Instead of a single person, imagine 100 people in a room. One marshmallow is placed on a table. If everyone can leave it alone for 15 minutes, everyone gets 2 marshmallows. But if just one person eats it, everyone gets...
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Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s...
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I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s latest desktop chips, I’ve been living with a PC for over a week that runs my programming tests faster than an M3 Max, ships with an excellent window manager out-the-box, and...
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Please put units in names
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The introduction to TypeScript Generics you've been missing > Note: this is an unfinished draft, but I'm sharing it anyway as an outline
over a year ago
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Python is an interpreted language with a compiler After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted...
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After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted languages in common usage," and that they "wish Python was more widely recognized as a compiled language." This got me thinking: what is the distinction between a compiled or...
Alex Meub
Fun with IE7 and the Zoom Property This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any...
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This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any invalid numbers. It replaces .my_class{ zoom:1; } with .my_class{ zoom:1px; } Those two characters (“px”) on the zoom property will blow up IE7 as it tries to zoom to a value in...
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Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
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This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
Yale e360
[Review] "The Circle" by Dave Eggers Surveillance has gotten a lot of media attention lately (and a bit of attention on this very blog),...
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Surveillance has gotten a lot of media attention lately (and a bit of attention on this very blog), and for good reason. So, it should be no surprise that it's also turning up in our dystopian novels! "The Circle" is a dystopian novel by Dave Eggers. While fiction, it is set in a...
A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
a year ago
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The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
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I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
David Heinemeier...
Omarchy: Bottling that inspiration before it spoils Over the years, I've learned not to question inspiration. To simply let it drive when it shows up...
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Over the years, I've learned not to question inspiration. To simply let it drive when it shows up with a full tank. Quite often, I don't exactly know where we're going or even why we're going, but it's repeatedly taken me to just the right place at just the right time, so now I...
Grant Slatton
Rohit Chess fun little board game
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Home Assistant Voice Preview is an unusable mess. I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
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Testing Apps with Cypress Illustrated notes on how to test web apps with Cypress
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Epic Web Dev
Your code style does matter actually (article) You may be babysitting JavaScript syntax. It's annoying and you don't have to. Fix your formatter!
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Liz Denys
invalid arch-dependent ELF magic An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it,...
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An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it, or...
Epic Web Dev
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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?...
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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
Maggie Appleton
Undetected AI Exam Answers A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A...
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A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study by Peter Scarfe, Kelly Watcham, Alasdair Clarke, Etienne Roesch
Charles Chen
Google Firebase with dotnet6 Find out why Google Firebase is a great platform for application development with .NET 6
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Array 1.13.0 Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a...
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Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a mountain of bug fixes and refactoring this week. We…
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Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts...
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I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories. I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
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The best open-source analytics tools you can self-host Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide...
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Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide we've split them into two categories: Self-hosted…
Making software...
Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
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over a year ago
Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
Alex MacCaw
The Toad
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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...
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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...
Liz Denys
Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and...
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When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and melting ice caps. Trying to tackle large challenges like climate change is overwhelming in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. There are many things we can...
Alex Meub
Building the DataToaster 3000 Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local...
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Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local computer recycling store. The idea of a computer with the design of a home appliance was really appealing and so was the absurdity of it. It occurred to me that this would be a fun...
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Size textarea to content To size textarea to content: textarea { field-sizing: content; min-height: 8rem; max-height:...
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To size textarea to content: textarea { field-sizing: content; min-height: 8rem; max-height: 70vh; } Using tailwindcss: <textarea class="min-h-[8rem] max-h-[70vh] field-sizing-content"></textarea> Needs Chrome 123+, Firefox 126+
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...
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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....
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I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
a year ago
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2024 Reflection Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
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Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle. Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024 During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
Dan Quach Blog
Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing...
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Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater.  She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
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Learning Gears > Translations welcome!...
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> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/marchas-de-aprendizagem.html))
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Types in JavaScript With Zod and JSDoc There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger...
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There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger projects — as long as somebody more knowledgable than me sets it up and maintains it. When I want type hints in VSCode for smaller, personal projects, I use JSDoc which lets you...
David Crawshaw
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Yale e360
Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
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Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
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Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
Alex MacCaw
Nothing matters I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
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I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn't
Liz Denys
Black coiled planter with attached drip tray, 2024 Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, denim satin glaze
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TokyoDev
Visas for Software Engineers in Japan Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in...
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over a year ago
Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) is relatively easy compared to other countries. It costs a company almost nothing to sponsor your visa, there aren't any quotas on the number of visas issued, and the...
Blog of Simple...
Data Processing Agreements
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Irrational...
Building your executive network. In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along...
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In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along well with your manager, your peers’ perspective will usually be closer to yours than your manager’s. Once you transition into an engineering executive role, you’ll still have peers,...
Irrational...
Notes on The Crux The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing...
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a year ago
The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing many of the same core ideas but in a more readable format, and a clearer target to take down: the incoherent outputs of process and goal-driven strategy. Recently, I’ve been looking...
bt RSS Feed
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher 2021-09-23 I have an old 2011 MacBook Air...
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Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher 2021-09-23 I have an old 2011 MacBook Air that is running the latest version of macOS Catalina thanks to the very wonderful Catalina Patcher by dosdude1. This project has made it possible for me to run and test some of...
A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
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Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
charity.wtf
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You? Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
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Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
A Smart Bear
Pick one and own it What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will...
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What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger.
Making software...
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for...
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Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it. Keeping Things...
Alex MacCaw
Universality and APIs From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been...
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over a year ago
From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been the key to unlocking human progress.
Maggie Appleton
Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research A walkthrough of how I manage and tend Evergreen notes in Roam
over a year ago
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Elasticsearch Elasticsearch and ClickHouse are both open-source frameworks with advantages over conventional...
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Elasticsearch and ClickHouse are both open-source frameworks with advantages over conventional databases like PostgreSQL for performing tasks over…
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Why IaaS beat PaaS The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
over a year ago
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Privacy Monthly: December
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The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but...
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According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
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Adventures in latent space
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I am not your Cloud person Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services...
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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...
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Why I Enjoy Svelte Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
over a year ago
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Building Elm with Stack
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Temporal - the iPhone of System Design Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it...
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Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
Joel Gascoigne
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key values at Buffer [http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter, not...
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Supervised Learning: Neural Networks That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
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Tony Finch's blog
Introducing BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is...
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Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned. I am in the process of migrating my DNS zones from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy, and writing a blog post about it. These introductory sections...
Blog - Bitfield...
The magic function How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a...
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How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic function” approach.
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Safely surfing the web Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web: The...
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over a year ago
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web: The history of the Web and an introduction to browser security The web can be a scary place - but once you get to know it a little better, it doesn't feel as scary. Liz and Geoffrey go...
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How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours Grabbing the audio
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Beyond `None`: actionable error messages for `keyring.get_password()` I’m a big fan of keyring, a Python module made by Jason R. Coombs for storing secrets in the system...
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2 months ago
I’m a big fan of keyring, a Python module made by Jason R. Coombs for storing secrets in the system keyring. It works on multiple operating systems, and it knows what password store to use for each of them. For example, if you’re using macOS it puts secrets in the Keychain, but...
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...
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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,...
Irrational...
Writers who operate. Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have...
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Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have rejected that option because I believe that writers who operate (e.g. write concurrently with holding a non-writing industry role) are best positioned to keep writing valuable work...
Epic Web Dev
Exploring the has Utility in Tailwind CSS (tip)
a year ago
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Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps) My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers1 ask me...
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My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers1 ask me about it, and everyone else ignores me. These effects are not undesirable, but further testing is required. The main reason I have such an unusual setup, though, is more...
Maggie Appleton
JavaScript's ...spread Operator Illustrated notes on how JavaScript's spread operator works
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Sometimes It Works...
Autonomy: What it is and what it isn’t Goldilocks Autonomy What it isn’t So what is autonomy? Crossing lines Business leaders don’t have a...
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Goldilocks Autonomy What it isn’t So what is autonomy? Crossing lines Business leaders don’t have a clue Business leaders want to be too involved in the ‘how’ The agile team want to own the ‘what’ Blurred lines Not too much, not too little — just right The goal ¶Goldilocks...
Lennart Koopmann
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips,...
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In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked on a journey of my own. I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn more about it and why I'll do it again on...
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...
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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,...
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that lives in my garage Some thoughts about machine learning
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First impressions of the MoErgo Glove80 ergonomic keyboard How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my...
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How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my impressions after the first few weeks of use.
Eric Bailey
thoughtbot.com, dark mode, and other user preferences thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog. Dark mode is...
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thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog. Dark mode is all the rage in web design right now. It’s a toggle in your operating system settings that allows you to update your operating system from traditional lighter colors to a darker...
Computer Things
What does 'TLA+' mean, anyway TLA+ Workshop Feb 12th. I've decided to reduce the class size from 20 to 15, so there's only a...
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TLA+ Workshop Feb 12th. I've decided to reduce the class size from 20 to 15, so there's only a couple of slots left! I'll be making a little less money this way but it should lead to a better teaching experience for the attendees. Use the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT for $100...
HTMHell
Starting off right: Where autofocus shines by Kilian Valkhof Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to...
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by Kilian Valkhof Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to navigate your site with the keyboard or other assistive technologies, and it's how a browser knows which form element you're typing in. It's vital to get right if you want to build good...
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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
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AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
Ferd.ca
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
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I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating. I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
somenice
Autumnal equinox 2023 Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using...
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Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
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Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
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I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful...
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a year ago
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb...
Joel Gascoigne
How to get more replies to the emails you send: be specific * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We live in a...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate." - Seth...
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Why you may not need a sales team You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder...
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You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder of a new tech startup. A few months back, you and…
A Beautiful Site
Determine file extensions using JavaScript A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension. function fileExt(path) { return...
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A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension. function fileExt(path) { return path.substr(path.lastIndexOf('.') + 1); }
Ferd.ca
Counting Forest Fires 2024/01/26 Counting Forest Fires Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought...
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2024/01/26 Counting Forest Fires Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought I'd re-publish one of my favorite short blog posts written over there, Counting Forest Fires, which has become my go-to argument when discussing incident metrics when asked to count...
Hixie's Natural Log
Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
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My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
Vadim Kravcenko
Dealing with Failures and Postmortems On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A...
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On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A technician’s failure […] The post Dealing with Failures and Postmortems appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle...
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over a year ago
In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle persons and events on PostHog. Today, after gathering…
David Crawshaw
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API Design: Modifying Defaults > This is a quick note on a API Design. I hope to make this an ongoing series.
over a year ago
alexwlchan
What mammal is that? I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take...
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a year ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2024 The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating...
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The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
Epic Web Dev
Git Fundamentals (tutorial)
a year ago
Neil Panchal
Quantum Lorem Ipsum I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon!...
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I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon! To those who are not familiar, Lorem Ipsum is a piece of latin text, comprised of multiple paragraphs, that is used as a placeholder during the design process of building a page
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How To Google Your Errors ---
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
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I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
Making software...
Hosting with Codeberg Pages Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
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over a year ago
Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
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Ejectable Defaults Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of...
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over a year ago
Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of how Ejectable Defaults fits with the Zero Config movement
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: October 2023
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Copy of The Internet Phone Book I recently got my copy of the Internet Phone Book. Look who’s hiding on the bottom inside spread of...
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2 weeks ago
I recently got my copy of the Internet Phone Book. Look who’s hiding on the bottom inside spread of page 32: The book is divided into a number of categories — such as “Small”, “Text”, and “Ecology” — and I am beyond flattered to be listed under the category “HTML”! You can...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
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over a year ago
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
Basta’s Notes
Go fix your bugs An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Facebook data transfers declared illegal
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Miguel Carranza
How NOT to apply to Y Combinator Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
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over a year ago
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
Charles Chen
The Inverted Reactivity Model of React A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other...
5 months ago
dthompson
Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
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The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications (Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and...
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over a year ago
(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have received some criticism for their handling of voice data behind the scenes. The companies had outsourced quality control/machine learning feedback to external...
Eric Bailey
Yes, accessibility is also a backend concern There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what...
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over a year ago
There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what someone can see and do on a website or web app—is the only place you need to consider accessibility. This simply isn’t true. Accessibility is a holistic practice that touches every...
David Crawshaw
2014-05-14 ti.arc.nasa.gov/news/ladee-sband-evolved-antenna/
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A Beautiful Site
Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
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over a year ago
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
Elad Blog
Capital Efficient Businesses Many of the biggest companies in the world started off as capital efficient businesses. We discuss.
a year ago
HTMHell
Template for accessibility guidelines by Steve Frenzel Foreword This template is opinionated and intended as a starting point for those...
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by Steve Frenzel Foreword This template is opinionated and intended as a starting point for those who want to define how accessibility is dealt with in their company. It does not matter whether your title is developer, designer, project manager or something else. I created it...