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Irrational...
2024 in review. A lot happened for me this year. I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta, which...
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A lot happened for me this year. I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta, which is likely the most complex product domain I’ve worked in. My third book was published, and I did a small speaking tour to support it. We started the unironically daunting San...
A Smart Bear
Moats: Durable competitive advantage Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
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over a year ago
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
Computer Things
What I look for in empirical software papers Behind on the talk and still reading a lot of research papers on empirical software engineering...
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a year ago
Behind on the talk and still reading a lot of research papers on empirical software engineering (ESE). Evaluating a paper studying software engineers is a slightly different skill than evaluating other kinds of CS papers, which feel a little closer to hard sciences or...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Set Up SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS A quick 3 step guide for myself on how to set up Svelte with Tailwind CSS
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Extreme #include discipline for C++ code C++ takes long to compile There is more than one reason for it but one of the reasons is excessive...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
C++ takes long to compile There is more than one reason for it but one of the reasons is excessive re-parsing of the same .h header files. In SumatraPDF I’m using an extreme #include discipline to keep compilation times in check. The rule is simple: a .h file cannot #include...
Julia Evans
Terminal colours are tricky Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was...
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9 months ago
Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what problems they’ve run into with colours in the...
Eric Bailey
Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Router Design A small detour into Router Hardware!
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Product Pseudoscience In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the...
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In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the pseudoscientific approach to product building prevalent across the software industry: when folks at tech companies talk about data they’re not talking about a well-researched study from a...
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
5 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Local-first Codebase Opens the Door to More Collaborators I thought this was interesting: Dax Raad on the local-first podcast observes how a local-first model...
a year ago
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a year ago
I thought this was interesting: Dax Raad on the local-first podcast observes how a local-first model drastically simplifies the experience of building an app, both as an individual and as a team. He talks about how his wife is not an engineer but she learned to be more hands on...
HTMHell
ARIA Live Regions by Andrea de Souza ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of roles and...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Andrea de Souza ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of roles and attributes that makes web page elements accessible to users who require assistive technology, like screen readers, when native HTML alone is not enough. One of these sets of roles...
Sometimes It Works...
Starting Today Starting Today ¶Starting Today I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but...
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Starting Today ¶Starting Today I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of positivity towards the rest of my life. The first 30 years have been filled with growth, learning, angst, pressure and a bundle of other wonderfully...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“That’s Another Podcast” I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The Postlight Podcast then The Aboard Podcast then Ziade+Ford, and now (again?) The Aboard Podcast. Through all my listening, one thing I’ve noticed is that they often make comedic...
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Reid Hoffman on AI, Big Tech, & Society Notion was kind enough to host a fireside chat between myself and Reid Hoffman on AI. Transcript and...
over a year ago
Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
Eric Bailey
Stanislav Petrov A lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces prevented the end of human civilization on...
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5 months ago
A lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces prevented the end of human civilization on September 26th, 1983. His name was Stanislav Petrov. Protocol dictated that the Soviet Union would retaliate against any nuclear strikes sent by the United States. This was a policy...
Yale E360
Measuring the overhead of HashMaps in Rust While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my...
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over a year ago
While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my hashmaps were taking up a lot of RAM. I mean, a lot of RAM. I did a back of the napkin calculation for what the minimum memory usage should be, and I was getting more than twice...
bt RSS Feed
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...
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over a year ago
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I’ll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :) This is my personal blog (if that wasn’t already obvious). I...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible. I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
TokyoDev
Buying a house in Karuizawa, Japan After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the...
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a week ago
After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the Shinkansen, I have bought a house here. This article describes my experience of purchasing a house, and contains tips that are useful both if you’re considering buying in Karuizawa...
Irrational...
Script for consistent linking within book. As part of my work on #eng-strategy-book, I’ve been editing a bunch of stuff. This morning I wanted...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
As part of my work on #eng-strategy-book, I’ve been editing a bunch of stuff. This morning I wanted to work on two editing problems. First, I wanted to ensure I was referencing strategies evenly across chapters (and not relying too heavily on any given strategy). Second, I wanted...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Custom Elements, At Minimum, Only Need End With a Hyphen Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid...
a year ago
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a year ago
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid custom element tag. The spec says you can have custom elements with emojis in them. For example: <emotion-😍></emotion-😍> But for some reason the Codepen where I tested this wasn’t...
Jake Zimmerman
Using my iPhone as a travel laptop
10 months ago
Irrational...
A brief rant on converging compliance regimes. Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has touched on reconciling between product and compliance goals, and over that time I’ve developed something of a pet theory on the evolution of compliance over the next five to ten years:...
alexwlchan
How I set up my Obsidian vaults Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve been using it for nearly three years. Time flies when you’re organising information! I’ve grown to really like it, and I expect to keep using it for a while to come. Its approach...
Nelson's Weblog
Liftmaster 87504-267 This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door! Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
David Heinemeier...
Enough problems to go around The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the kind where there's not enough. It's in this realm the real monsters appear. Without enough real problems to go around, humans are prone to invent fictitious and dreadful ones. This...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a chore: 1....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Nuance of “Domain” I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye. What is a “Domain”? Let’s say you have a URL like this: https://example.com Put it in the URL constructor and...
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site launched I'd like to introduce my new web design studio. After considering a list of potential names and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'd like to introduce my new web design studio. After considering a list of potential names and designs, I finally came up with a name that I thought fitting for the kind of web design business that I want to run. After a few pencil and paper sketches, a few hours in Photoshop,...
Daniel Marino
JS13K 2018 Retrospective In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a video game. I asked my JavaScript-whiz buddy, Brad, if he was interested in building a game with me. Without hesitation, he said “Yes!” Concept A couple of years ago I came up with...
TokyoDev
Discount coupons for babysitters in Japan via a government subsidy In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use...
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over a year ago
In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use babysitters](https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/headline/taikijido/pdf/h28yosan_sankou5.pdf). Babysitters are very expensive in Japan for most families, so it’s usually not an option for many parents. But at...
Oxide Computer...
RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020 We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a car accident in Cairo on Friday night. Those of us who have known Khaled for years have known him to be a bold investor who appreciated hard technical problems – and also a profoundly...
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...
A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
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9 months ago
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
A Day In The Life...
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Digital decluttering I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla. Most of that is gone now. Links rot quickly,...
alexwlchan
Agile and iterative project management Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project management. I was talking about how READMEs serve as the first point of contact for a project; how they get new users interested in and excited about the project. The cohort calls...
Joel Gascoigne
Dreams come true > Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David Thoreau [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau] I can distinctly remember that for the month of December in 2010, and for much of January 2011, I did a lot of dreaming.
David Heinemeier...
The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
The History of the...
Beware the cloud of hype We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
a year ago
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a year ago
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
A Day In The Life...
A list of 100 opinions I hold A list of 100 opinions I hold
over a year ago
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Irrational...
Llm
a year ago
37signals Dev
The radiating programmer You are an individual contributor at heart. You like writing code and solving technical problems....
a year ago
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a year ago
You are an individual contributor at heart. You like writing code and solving technical problems. You dislike meetings and ceremony. Here’s what you can do to maximize what you like and minimize what you don’t: radiate information. The daily standup meetings that Scrum...
Steve Klabnik
Better Ruby Presenters
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
a year ago
Computer Things
Five Kinds of Nondeterminism No newsletter next week, I'm teaching a TLA+ workshop. Speaking of which: I spend a lot of time...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
No newsletter next week, I'm teaching a TLA+ workshop. Speaking of which: I spend a lot of time thinking about formal methods (and TLA+ specifically) because it's where the source of almost all my revenue. But I don't share most of the details because 90% of my readers don't use...
MMapped blog
Extending HTTPS outcalls
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Finding acoustical delight in THE THOCK Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I soon learned that it describes one of those strangely seductive sounds you can produce from pressing the keys on a keyboard tuned for acoustical joy. And now, dammit, I've...
Josh Comeau's blog
Accessible Animations in React I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In this tutorial, we'll see how to ensure that we respect user preferences, and create animations that can be disabled.
Maggie Appleton
What App is That? A guide to the apps and tools I use to create illustrations
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: on the side * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while ago I wrote about one of the ways I think people could bootstrap a startup from zero funds. I called it "working in waves" [https://joel.is/post/2106915988/bootstrapping-waves]. Of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moderating AI Conferences I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Founder's blog
How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS default 64 plus one). ••• On my recent mountain biking trip to France I accidentally booked an Airbnb without WiFi. Bummer. But hey, 5 minutes of googling and I found a...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
6 months ago
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2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Scrollbar Shenanigans Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Plates and states I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to. Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • James's Notes James Lindenbaum’s notes on possible extensions to Crosscut
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Presentation panic I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation. This was before I was really...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation. This was before I was really aware of my anxiety and depression—I didn’t know what they were or what caused them. Because of this, I spent way too much time fixating on the symptoms, and not the cause. Both my...
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...
a month ago
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a month ago
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...
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
David Crawshaw
The Tragedy of Finalizers The Tragedy of Finalizers 2018-04-04, David Crawshaw Like many garbage collected languages, ...
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over a year ago
The Tragedy of Finalizers 2018-04-04, David Crawshaw Like many garbage collected languages, lets you register a on an object. The finalizer is a function that the language runtime calls when the object is garbage collected.Gofinalizer Finalizers are deeply unsatisfying. They...
A Smart Bear
When you want to quit because it's just not worth it Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete...
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over a year ago
Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete melt-down? Well, at least you're in good company.
James Vaughan's blog
Timothy Gu
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about changing the paradigm we’re currently in where a program runs in the cloud and we look at it when we’re online, to one where the program runs on the device in our hands and we...
alexwlchan
What comes after AWS? James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips ...
a year ago
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a year ago
James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
Charles Chen
A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
a year ago
Miguel Carranza
From J1 visa to Blue Passport: A startup founder's immigration journey I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times, but this will be the first time I’ll be using my shiny blue passport. No anxiety about aggressive questions, secondary inspection, or the possibility of deportation. A couple of...
Yale E360
A student asked how I keep us innovative. I don't. Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class. One of the students asked a question...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class. One of the students asked a question that I loved. They asked something like, "As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?" There are two reasons I love this...
Ink & Switch
Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P...
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. "MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy...
a year ago
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a year ago
"MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy that results in fast, validated learning, that customers love.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using DEV.to as a CMS Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
I used to think you don't need product people. I was wrong. When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii)...
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over a year ago
When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii) talk to customers. Hiring a product person felt…
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in...
a year ago
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a year ago
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself – Junio C Hamano, git@vger.kernel.org: expired key in junio-gpg-pub Git ships with the maintainer’s public key. But you won’t find it in your worktree—it’s...
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...
a month ago
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a month ago
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...
Charles Chen
Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
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over a year ago
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn’t cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
Alex Meub
Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
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Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files. Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
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Balancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering. There are so many stories of hiring a new executive who comes in and wreaks havoc. I’ve seen...
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There are so many stories of hiring a new executive who comes in and wreaks havoc. I’ve seen engineering leaders start with a giant, doomed migration, marketing leaders who accelerate expenses until they necessitate a round of layoffs, and a number of executives fired in their...
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The different ways of traveling * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the incredible side-effects of doing retreats 3 times a year with my startup [https://joel.is/post/79092725144/why-we-go-on-international-retreats-3-times-a-year-with] is that I get the...
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Delaying asset requests in Eleventy While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading...
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While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading behavior. One technique is to provide a visual fallback as long as the images are still loading. First, a static background color included in the markup is displayed. As soon as a...
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Three Jobs of Containers A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
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Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers, measure bundle size, and what not. npm scripts are fine for one-liners, but as the workflows grow more complex — run these things in parallel, then do something else, but only if...
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Around US Thanksgiving, my mom­ let me know that my dad had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer with a life expectancy of 1-2 years. In mid December my dad was hospitalized and one of the doctors suggested all family members should come urgently.  When I arrived, the days...
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The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when utility power fails and automatically throws a switch to backup power. Thanks to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware; he has posted a nice write-up about his project using...
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Neovim is by far my favorite text editor. The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming. In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment. Today, I will show you how to use...
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Madeleines are probably my favorite baked good - both to eat and to make. They're rich in flavor, but light in texture. They're quick to make (hellooo, morning option), but don't get boring as they exercise good techniques (easy to learn good techniques, even). And they go really...
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On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing program was codenamed One Tree, and utilized a payload comparable to the horrific Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. The test was part of Operation...
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 1 Livecoding my own Dev.to CMS with Next.js + Preact + TypeScript + Tailwind UI
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tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing MR/PRs git commit git has emerged as the obvious choice for SCCS (Source Code Control System). The consensus is that it is unambiguously better than the previous standard, SVN. There...
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How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I A case study showing how I make illustrations for abstract programming concepts
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Array.map() versus Array.forEach() Learn the difference between Array.map() and Array.forEach() and how to use each in JavaScript
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Recently This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big...
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This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big update about Placemark. Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little breather and just do the usual: what’s new! Reading I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
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JavaScript: the First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich A link to the 190 page history of JS by its original creator and the editor of ES6.
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Doodling with the Mac’s command icon The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by...
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The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by legendary icon designer Susan Kare, who picked it from a symbol dictionary – this shape was already being used in Sweden to highlight an interesting feature on a map. It’s an...
Vadim Kravcenko
I have a very poor work-life balance. How can I escape the grind? Question: Hey Vadim, Here's the situation: from the moment my alarm clock interrupts my sleep, until...
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Question: Hey Vadim, Here's the situation: from the moment my alarm clock interrupts my sleep, until I finally come home late at night, my life is essentially a never-ending cycle of sitting in front of the PC and stressing with a workload that feels like it's set to max. I feel...
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Versioned Docs in 30 Seconds with Amplify Console's Branch Subdomains Amplify Console just got the ability to create a custom subdomain for every new branch. This makes...
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Normal boyhood is ADHD Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But...
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Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But worse than the diagnosis is that the majority of them end up on amphetamines, like Adderall or Ritalin. These drugs allow especially teenage boys (diagnosed at 2-3x the rate of girls)...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Kubit Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built...
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Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built primarily for engineers. In this article we’ll…
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How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
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We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
macwright.com
Roll I developed an old roll of film and the photos are pretty decent! My Olympus XA-2 is my default...
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I developed an old roll of film and the photos are pretty decent! My Olympus XA-2 is my default walking-around camera. I love it, but its age is showing and I’m envious of the crisp photos that people get out of later-era SLR film cameras. Thinking about getting a lightweight...
Seán Barry
What is TypeScript and why should I use it? A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
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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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tonsky.me
When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward:...
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Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward: open a file, apply a function, commit a transaction, send JSON. Finding a problem that can be solved not the hard way, but smart way, is quite rare. I’m really happy I found this...
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TypeScript: What’s the Point?! (article) TypeScript elevates JavaScript with static typing, offering scalable, maintainable code despite...
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TypeScript elevates JavaScript with static typing, offering scalable, maintainable code despite initial challenges.
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The social media censorship era is over (for now) Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship....
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Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship. Here's what he's going to do: Replace third-party fact checkers with community notes ala X. Allow free discussion on immigration, gender, and other topics that were heavily censored...
somenice
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
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I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
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Notes from Amir Shevat on Measuring & Managing Developer Relations Notes from an a16z podcast about developer relations that I thought was valuable
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Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut 2021-12-06 I recently decided to switch my personal, static...
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Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut 2021-12-06 I recently decided to switch my personal, static site’s hosting from Netlify to sourcehut pages. The process went fairly smoothly with only a couple minor hiccups; nothing rage-inducing. After everything was up and running smoothly, I...
Vadim Kravcenko
Mental Health in Software Engineering Question: Answer: The post Mental Health in Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Browser History Sucks Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
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Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not. Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn't changed in years....
The Changelog
Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced...
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over a year ago
I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to-end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless...
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The Pythonic Emptiness Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...
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Using Crates.io with Buck
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Julia Evans
In a git repository, where do your files live? Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does...
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Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does git store your files? We know that it’s in your .git directory, but where exactly in there are all the versions of your old files? For example, this blog is in a git repository, and...
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Notes on The Psychology of Money A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral...
over a year ago
samwho.dev
API Design: In The Wild (part 2) In a previous post we looked at some real-world APIs, highlighting the good and the bad, and in this...
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In a previous post we looked at some real-world APIs, highlighting the good and the bad, and in this post we’re going to do the same! › Python’s datetime.datetime Most experienced Pythonistas have written something like this at some point in their career: import datetime now =...
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to...
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to user Achraf JEDAY for putting these instructions together on Stack Overflow (although his comments were targeting an older version of Ruby). This post is more for my own personal...
Yale E360
Your app doesn't need to know my gender So often when we sign up for an application, it asks us for our gender, sex, or title. For example,...
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So often when we sign up for an application, it asks us for our gender, sex, or title. For example, there is a cycling app called Zwift which I use to ride indoors. When you sign up, you enter your gender. On the app, they say that you need to be honest because it impacts...
A Smart Bear
Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and...
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Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and printers disagree. How does color really work?
PostHog's RSS Feed
Open source is eating SaaS Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fatigue is real. Open source has several key advantages, which make B2B...
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over a year ago
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fatigue is real. Open source has several key advantages, which make B2B SaaS companies look and feel traditional. Here's…
Eric Bailey
A website is like a puppy It’s exciting and fun, but also comes with a lot of responsibility. Successfully taking care of it...
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over a year ago
It’s exciting and fun, but also comes with a lot of responsibility. Successfully taking care of it means you’ll need to stick to a routine. It can bring you moments of both great joy and sorrow. It costs a little more than you think it will. It will also probably grow to be a...
Max Countryman
Three Years to Shake Your Head There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the...
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There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the shakuhachi, "It takes three years to learn to shake your head." This is in reference to the difficulty of mastering even seemingly simple techniques. The only way around this is to...
Josh Collinsworth
How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all...
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Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all object keys (IDs) are unique, and how to find non-unique values.
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API Design: Optional Parameters When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases....
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When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases. There are good ways and bad ways of doing it, and this post is going to explore them. › Guiding principles API design is hard. A good API needs to be: Easy to change without...
A Smart Bear
Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can...
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Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can create opportunities for everyone involved.
Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally...
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In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project. Outcome Carousels in UI are practical interactive elements that efficiently display images or content pieces without taking up too much vertical...
Julia Evans
ASCII control characters in my terminal Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these...
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Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these “control codes”, like Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W, etc. What’s the deal with all of them? a table of ASCII control characters Here’s a table of all 33 ASCII control characters, and what they...
A Smart Bear
Brittle Points: How to make companies robust Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for...
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Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article...
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SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article describes how I implemented StrVec class for efficiently storing multiple strings. Much ado about the strings Strings are among the most used types in most programs. Arrays...
Epic Web Dev
Only use GET and POST (tip) Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and...
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Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and how it can affect the user experience.
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
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Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
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When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written. Here’s a typical case: #if defined (_MSC_VER) // code specific to Visual Studio compiler #endif To perform those checks you need to check...
Eric Bailey
Quick Tip: Use the “lang” Attribute for Better Accessibility
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Back in the market (Sonos Edition) I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly...
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I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly amps for in-ceiling speakers, but also some Ones, 3s, 5s. All of it. Because it Just Worked when it came to multi-room music. Now it doesn't, and it hasn't for a long time, so I've...
Engineer’s Codex
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components: An Example In my article on HTML web components, I said: But the unique power of web components (in the...
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In my article on HTML web components, I said: But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React components cannot do this — full stop. There’s a lot in there I wanted to explain more in-depth, but I just never go to it. Then...
Dan Quach Blog
Personal Newsletter 2023 Q1 Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the...
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Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the past, I used to post quite a bit, and I dare say probably 10 years ago to the point of oversharing. It seems to me that the popularity of Facebook has been dropping in my network to...
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Array 1.29.0 Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
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Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
HTMHell
HTML and CSS I didn't even know about before I started creating content in Japanese by Julia Undeutsch Since I started to create content in Japanese, I also wanted to learn about...
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by Julia Undeutsch Since I started to create content in Japanese, I also wanted to learn about traditional setups, like having Japanese text flow from top to bottom, right to left, like you’d see in newspapers or novels. That's when I discovered CSS properties like writing-mode:...
orlp.net - Blog...
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
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I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of C++ code implementing a binary search: template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp> It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
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Increase software sales by 50% or more This is re-post of How to Permanently Increase Your Sales by 50% or More in Only One Day article by...
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This is re-post of How to Permanently Increase Your Sales by 50% or More in Only One Day article by Steve Pavlina Of all the things you can do to increase your sales, one of the highest leverage activities is attempting to increase your products’ registration rate. Increasing...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Takes Over Because of Human Hype, Not Machine Intelligence Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”: The idea that businesses are already waging...
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Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”: The idea that businesses are already waging an “AI arms race”…that one those very companies, Microsoft, can invest $11 billion into OpenAI while laying off the folks responsible for keeping AI, um, responsible…that real...
Nelson's Weblog
The Sandbaggers I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the...
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I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the show name-checks James Bond frequently the soul of it is more of a Le Carré thing. Intelligence as a series of dismal political battles between underpaid civil servants at the home...
alexwlchan
Mountaintop moments Last weekend, I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe, and I’m so glad I went. I met new people, hung out...
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Last weekend, I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe, and I’m so glad I went. I met new people, hung out with some Internet friends in-person, and saw some great theatre. It was fun, but also exhausting. By the final day, I was worn out and ready to sleep in my own bed – but now I’m...
Seán Barry
How to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
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A Smart Bear
What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
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A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
Eric Bailey
The five types of people who produce inaccessible code There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They...
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There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They are: People who create inaccessible code, but do not realize they are doing so. People who create inaccessible code and realize they are doing so, but do not know how to fix it. People...
Remains of the Day
Invisible asymptotes "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred...
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"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single...
Epic Web Dev
The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article) Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making,...
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Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making, boost your career, and help you build better software.
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Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky 2024-02-23 I often stumble upon large data sets or table...
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Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky 2024-02-23 I often stumble upon large data sets or table layouts across the web. When these tables contain hundreds of rows of content, things become problematic once you start to scroll… This should be a header Look at that table header...
Dan Quach Blog
Software Estimations Using Reference Class Forecasting 18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to...
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18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to chat about my next project. We discuss the details, and then she asks me the dreaded questions programmers fear which is “how long will it take?”. I stumble with some guestimate...
Grant Slatton
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Attempting to corral colors with a Sass function
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A Beautiful Site
If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping,...
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, "'Tis a design system," I muttered, "bringing order to the core— Ah, distinctly I remember, every button, every splendor, Each component, standardized,...
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Hands-on graphics without X11 A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
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Vadim Kravcenko
Exit. Selling your SaaS This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Exit. Selling your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
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How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
Nelson's Weblog
My surprise brother I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and...
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I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and immediately gave him up for adoption. My mother died two decades ago so details are hard to come by. My brother worked for years to find us. I'm glad he succeeded! And I feel sad...
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Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable product](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-product-guide.html) as > that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort As a...
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Back in the mid 90s, I had a friend who was really into raytracing, but needed to nurture his hobby on a budget. So instead of getting a top-of-the-line Intel Pentium machine, he bought two AMD K5 boxes, and got a faster rendering flow for less money. All I cared about in the 90s...
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There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are barriers that can make this difficult or even impossible. Here's how we build a culture that enables building in public.
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Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme 1 of things. I've previously talked about why the learning curve is hard and what we could do about it. Today, I'm proud to say that there's another resource to help people learn Rust in a more approachable way. Introducing Yet...
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People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with guilt for an obscure hack. Which is odd since there is nothing particularly hacky about it. The ISO/IEC 14882 is ok with it. The IEEE 754 is ok with it. So why is it a hack and not a...
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How to download YouTube Videos quickly I used to use yt5s all the time to rip and remix videos:
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It seems like everyone these days is developing in containers. Specifically, I mean running your local development environment almost entirely in containers. There's a lot to be said for it, especially when you're bringing new developers into a project: it can be an invaluable...
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The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
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Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight forward as you'd think in Node. Here's a little trick to get a globally available reference to your app's root directory. Add this somewhere towards the start of your main app...
MMapped blog
Square joy: pre-order
over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight upgrade this month. I’ve been publishing a lot of content in the /micro/ section, and I update my /reading/ list once or twice a month when I finish books, but these proper...
bt RSS Feed
Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn’t bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
Steve Klabnik
Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.0.8 Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be doing weekly tagged releases from now on so the…
bt RSS Feed
Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don’t pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
David Heinemeier...
Automattic is doing open source dirty Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to figure out if they’re safe to use or not. We might know that a feature is available for 92% of users, but is that sufficient? Where do we draw the line? In this blog post, I’ll share...
Max Countryman
We Need To Talk About Vercel Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.
Liz Denys
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
Making software...
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
bunnie's blog
Bypassing Windows 11 Account Setup I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a mandatory Microsoft account. I can’t concisely explain why being forced to create an account bothers me so much, but generally when a vendor tries this hard to get you to do something,...
alexwlchan
Using static websites for tiny archives In my previous post, I talked about how I’m trying to be more intentional and deliberate with my...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In my previous post, I talked about how I’m trying to be more intentional and deliberate with my digital data. I don’t just want to keep everything – I want to keep stuff that I’m actually going to look at again. As part of that process, I’m trying to be better about organising...
elementary Blog
The System Settings Redesign Has Landed This month the biggest story is System Settings, but we also have some great progress on the new...
a year ago
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a year ago
This month the biggest story is System Settings, but we also have some great progress on the new Dock and Wayland. Plus a small change to default keyboard shortcuts that you might appreciate. Read ahead to find out the new developments you have to look forward to in the upcoming...
The Changelog
Consider Security First I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly...
a year ago
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a year ago
I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly can, including my Raspberry Pi devices, to Debian. I will write about that later. But for now, I wanted to comment on something I think is often overlooked and misunderstood by...
Irrational...
Drafted Eng Executive's Primer! Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer, with O’Reilly. I wanted to share a few notes on progress! First, there’s a cover, shown above in this post’s image, and also in the right rail (or bottom footer if you’re reading...
Eric Bailey
Consistently Inconsistent: The Pitfalls of Abandoning External Consistency
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
COPY Relocations "put the address of symbol X inside symbol Y at offset O" $ cat symY.c void x(); void y()...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"put the address of symbol X inside symbol Y at offset O" $ cat symY.c void x(); void y() { x(); } $ cc -c symY.c $ readelf -r symY.o Relocation section '.rela.text' at offset 0x518 contains 1 entries: Offset Info Type Sym. Value Sym. Name +...
David Crawshaw
Go 1.13: xerrors Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection proposal The error inspection proposal adds several features to errors that have been tried elsewhere (in packages such as ), with some new implementation tricks. The proposal has...
TokyoDev
Japanese Language Proficiency, Job Requirements, and You Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be vague and confusing, as there is no single, clear-cut system used in Japan to define foreigners’ language proficiencies. There are a few systems commonly used to measure language...
Contraption Co.
Innovation versus distribution The race between startups and incumbents
9 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unabridged Conclusion to the State of JS the full text of my State of JS writeup!
over a year ago
Kagi Blog
New features in the Orion Browser *Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever.
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
Joel Gascoigne
Making money with a product: A myth? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve realised...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve realised there was a time I didn’t believe people would pay for a product. In my mind, it was a myth. As an entrepreneur, it’s so vital to overcome that. First, a coffee shop conversation I
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sept 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Irrational...
Advancing the industry. Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious...
a year ago
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a year ago
Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious opportunity and paid more, I took it. As I got further, and my personal obligations grew, I started to think about navigating a 40-year career, where a given job might value pace...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
More Everything With AI From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
Explained from First...
Email explained from first principles
over a year ago
The Changelog
Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of...
Darek Kay
Style your RSS feed RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech users. However, many people do not know what RSS feeds are or how to use them. Most browsers render RSS as raw XML files, which doesn't help users understand what it's all about: In...
Josh Comeau's blog
Folding the DOM In this post, we'll explore a technique we can use to "fold" a DOM node, like folding a letter in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post, we'll explore a technique we can use to "fold" a DOM node, like folding a letter in real-life. On that journey, we'll learn a lot about 3D transforms and CSS animation techniques!
Vadim Kravcenko
How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is […] The post How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Daniel Marino
My current prototyping environment The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them....
a year ago
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a year ago
The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them. My prototyping environment has evolved over the years. I love to hear how others build prototypes, so I thought I’d share where I’m at now. Maybe you’ll find it useful. A single...
Ognjen Regoje •...
During a difficult conversation, remember to take a minute One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten is to take a minute, or a week, after you’ve had a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten is to take a minute, or a week, after you’ve had a difficult conversation. By and large, people are not unreasonable. They’re not out to get you. They’re not trying to make your life miserable. They’re probably trying to do what...
Joel Gascoigne
How to gain traction in two sided markets * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas that involve two sided markets are notoriously difficult to get off the ground. It’s the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of buyers for the sellers to be interested,...