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No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
15th Sep 2023
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No sacred masterpieces

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2023
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
Web push notifications: issues and limitations In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the...
17th Aug 2024
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Web push notifications: issues and limitations

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

17th Aug 2024
In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the Notifications and Push web APIs. Notification settings on macOS Someone who's definitely not me wasted half an hour wondering why triggered notifications would not appear. On macOS,...
Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s...
2nd May 2024
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Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales

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

2nd May 2024
One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s continuity. I call it a conceit, but I do mostly agree with it: I’ve felt literally sick after hearing about some peer’s unexpected departure, but I’m continually amazed at how resilient...
JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
28th Dec 2019
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JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

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

28th Dec 2019
Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
Using time-blocking to increase your productivity So many things have my attention lately that I've been trying to figure out how to handle...
16th Feb 2023
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Using time-blocking to increase your productivity

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

16th Feb 2023
So many things have my attention lately that I've been trying to figure out how to handle everything. I saw a product manager's tweet that showed a screenshot of what is (presumably) his calendar or an example of his and every moment of his working day was blocked off. I sort of...
My racism at accents Interesting NPR segment today: A powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on...
17th Dec 2023
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My racism at accents

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

17th Dec 2023
Interesting NPR segment today: A powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on earth. What’s remarkable is it’s a PhD candidate talking to an NPR host about solar flares, completely in two Southern Black accents. Two women, at that. I am dismayed at my own involuntary...
I was interviewed for a podcast My work interviewed me as part of their "employee spotlight" series.
29th Oct 2016
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I was interviewed for a podcast

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

29th Oct 2016
My work interviewed me as part of their "employee spotlight" series.
A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape TL;DR? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious...
17th Oct 2025
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A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2025
TL;DR? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious footnotes with links to much more information below. scalper noun [ C ] US informal /ˈskæl.pər/ (UK: tout) someone who buys things, such as theatre tickets, at the usual prices and...
Thanks, 201X! Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten...
2nd Dec 2019
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Thanks, 201X!

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2019
Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten years, but it's flown past. This particular decade happens to coincide with my first years of full-time professional software engineering. The Quantity I can't possibly summarize it...
Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle...
16th Sep 2021
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Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool

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

16th Sep 2021
Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle Hoverson's Library Blanket. I've added the eight new colors to the Library Blanket color palette preview tool I made last April, and I also labeled the discontinued colors as such....
How To Name Things > There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
16th May 2019
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How To Name Things

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

16th May 2019
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - Leon Bambrick
My advice for how to use LLMs in your product. Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if...
8th Apr 2024
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My advice for how to use LLMs in your product.

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

8th Apr 2024
Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if their executives don’t see much applicability, their investors likely do, so they’re staring at the blank page nervously trying to come up with an idea. It’s straightforward to...
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...
11th Mar 2020
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Puffed millet and qui'nola

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

11th Mar 2020
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...
Spring 2021 We have some great new features launching in the next few weeks.
18th Aug 2021
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Spring 2021

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

18th Aug 2021
We have some great new features launching in the next few weeks.
Interactive Flamegraphs In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
8th Sep 2024
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Interactive Flamegraphs

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

8th Sep 2024
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
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....
3rd Sep 2016
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He's not my friend.

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

3rd Sep 2016
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...
17th Aug 2023
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on...
21st Aug 2022
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Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it

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

21st Aug 2022
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We’ve dedicated the week of August 22nd to a brand new internal initiative called Build Week. We’ll all be putting aside our regular work for a single week to come...
New Blog, Who Dis? There is an unwritten rule that when you get back to your old blog, you have to rewrite it. You...
14th Oct 2022
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New Blog, Who Dis?

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Oct 2022
There is an unwritten rule that when you get back to your old blog, you have to rewrite it. You can't just continue. You won't be happy with what you wrote a year ago. The world is a different place now, there are 12361293 new JavaScript frameworks since the last time you chose...
2024 Reflection Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
8th Dec 2024
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2024 Reflection

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2024
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....
What I have been so busy with How I built a website that lots of you will probably hate
8th Feb 2024
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What I have been so busy with

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2024
How I built a website that lots of you will probably hate
End user programming – my experience building an iOS app Update: Sticky was approved on the App Store, you can download it here. The void between users and...
22nd Nov 2024
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End user programming – my experience building an iOS app

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

22nd Nov 2024
Update: Sticky was approved on the App Store, you can download it here. The void between users and builders of software is seldom considered. A software builder sits in San Francisco and hopefully talks to and observes user needs and behaviors in order to build a product that has...
On finding clients as an independent consultant I’ve been a freelancer / independent consultant for some 11 years now, and until recently, keeping...
27th Nov 2025
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On finding clients as an independent consultant

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Nov 2025
I’ve been a freelancer / independent consultant for some 11 years now, and until recently, keeping myself occupied has been fairly smooth sailing. There has always been a lot of demand for people with the technical skills that I have gathered over the years, so finding new...
Safari bug with ruby tag *Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
28th Jul 2019
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Safari bug with ruby tag

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jul 2019
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.* Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like ホゲホゲ(ホゲホゲ) which renders as ホゲホゲ(ホゲホゲ) If you control click...
The Post-Developer Era When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus...
14th Apr 2025
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The Post-Developer Era

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

14th Apr 2025
When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s been more than two years since then, and I thought it was worth revisiting some...
Reasons to write design docs Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half...
2nd Sep 2024
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Reasons to write design docs

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

2nd Sep 2024
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communication as it is about technology. Probably more, actually. Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering. It's...
What is a DevOps Engineer's Salary? The median DevOps engineer’s salary is $103,994 in base pay, with around $28,514 in additional pay...
1st Nov 2022
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What is a DevOps Engineer's Salary?

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

1st Nov 2022
The median DevOps engineer’s salary is $103,994 in base pay, with around $28,514 in additional pay through bonuses, commissions, and profit sharing according to Glassdoor. Salary.com estimates the average is closer to $125k, while BuiltIn puts the average closer to $128k in base...
How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are...
6th Jul 2026
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How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API

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

6th Jul 2026
I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are better versed in the subtle arts of soil, plants…
Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
7th May 2022
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In

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

7th May 2022
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
5th Apr 2019
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CSS: Indenting Text

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

5th Apr 2019
CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn't an insult - I'm happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
What Is Software Quality? Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In...
31st Mar 2025
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What Is Software Quality?

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

31st Mar 2025
Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In addition, how do you know when you have it? This is the longest single blog post I have ever written. I spent four decades writing software used by people (most of the server
A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian → I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed...
4th Nov 2022
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A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian →

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2022
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too. To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin. When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
Hello world “Start a blog” has been on my todo list for so long, it’s going to leave a gaping void in my life...
27th Dec 2015
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Hello world

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

27th Dec 2015
“Start a blog” has been on my todo list for so long, it’s going to leave a gaping void in my life when I check it off. There are some things I have been wanting to talk about for a while now, in a way that’s less ephemeral than twitter. Like how the tech industry […]
I’m (re-)starting a newsletter Just a quick update to let those of you who bookmarked this blog or who have subscribed to my RSS...
11th May 2026
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I’m (re-)starting a newsletter

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2026
Just a quick update to let those of you who bookmarked this blog or who have subscribed to my RSS feed know that I have (re-)started a newsletter. Why a newsletter? As you might know (or not), while I’ve been pretty active on LinkedIn over the years, I do have a love-hate (or...
4th Jan 2020
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and...
7th Oct 2020
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout

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

7th Oct 2020
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won't go into the post's specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18] Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features...
6th Dec 2021
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How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18]

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

6th Dec 2021
Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features since the release of the language. Many devs have gone so far as to say Go’s previous lack of generic types made the language too painful to use at all. Let’s dive into what generics...
Fourways Mall It’s Saturday at 1:37pm. I’ve been sitting in the 2nd floor parking trying to muster the energy to...
2nd Dec 2023
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Fourways Mall

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

2nd Dec 2023
It’s Saturday at 1:37pm. I’ve been sitting in the 2nd floor parking trying to muster the energy to walk in there to do everything on my to-do list: buy bread rolls for the kids’ lunch, new school shoes for Khanyi, check on the price of a new iron, and maybe just maybe upgrade my...
My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a...
3rd Feb 2022
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My Cheapskate Commenting System

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

3rd Feb 2022
My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
On picking side-projects Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
7th Mar 2024
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On picking side-projects

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2024
Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise You've most likely heard about gradient noise through the name Perlin noise, which refers to one...
6th Jun 2025
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Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

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

6th Jun 2025
You've most likely heard about gradient noise through the name Perlin noise, which refers to one particular implementation with various CPU optimizations. Because it's an incredible tool for creative work, it's used virtually everywhere: visual effects, video games, procedural...
CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
24th Mar 2018
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CSS Variables

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

24th Mar 2018
CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I’d like to focus specifically on the “new” CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let’s just jump...
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...
9th Oct 2024
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Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Oct 2024
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...
How to Do a Coding Bootcamp Part-Time Step 1: Develop a caffeine addiction. 🔗 If you want to add coding to your list of skills, either...
12th Jul 2022
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How to Do a Coding Bootcamp Part-Time

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

12th Jul 2022
Step 1: Develop a caffeine addiction. 🔗 If you want to add coding to your list of skills, either out of curiosity or to take your career in a whole new direction, you’ve probably considered a coding bootcamp. Then you’ve probably looked at the prices and time commitment and...
Buffer’s evolution and expansion Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote this blog...
20th Aug 2019
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Buffer’s evolution and expansion

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

20th Aug 2019
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote this blog post about the next step in Buffer’s social media journey. I described Buffer’s multi-product vision of the future, which included Reply and Analyze. This idea was such a
Block-Level LWW: The Missing Piece for Collaborative AI Agent Memory How a deceptively simple CRDT algorithm unlocks something surprisingly powerful: AI agents that...
13th Apr 2026
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Block-Level LWW: The Missing Piece for Collaborative AI Agent Memory

from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2026
How a deceptively simple CRDT algorithm unlocks something surprisingly powerful: AI agents that learn from each other without ever talking to each other.
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1 The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
1st May 2022
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The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1

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

1st May 2022
The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
Language-Level Toll Roads I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post....
5th Jul 2023
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Language-Level Toll Roads

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

5th Jul 2023
I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post. Maybe by the end of writing, I’ll have figured it out. Deno recently launched their KV storage. Being a fan of deno, I looked at it with interest. Here’s a sample: const kv =...
OpenAI fixed their unsafe policy around names Update October 2, 2023: This is now fixed: you can update your name in your user settings. This...
4th Sep 2023
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OpenAI fixed their unsafe policy around names

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

4th Sep 2023
Update October 2, 2023: This is now fixed: you can update your name in your user settings. This works for the OpenAI Platform accounts, and they say the same for ChatGPT (etc.) is coming soon. Thank you to those who reached out to OpenAI employees about this, and thank you so...
My productivity rules A friend asked me for some study/productivity tips, and I figured the most productive thing I can do...
8th Oct 2025
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My productivity rules

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Oct 2025
A friend asked me for some study/productivity tips, and I figured the most productive thing I can do is write a post about it. That way, it might help more people too. So here we go. Before we start, there are two things you need before any productivity advice will work: Be...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
21st Dec 2016
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Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult

from Programming in the 21st Century [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Dec 2016
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
July 1, 2009 The opposite of youth is compromise – Girl I recovered this article from my old blog via the...
1st Jul 2009
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July 1, 2009

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

1st Jul 2009
The opposite of youth is compromise – Girl I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet Archive. If you found this article useful or entertaining (or even if you didn’t) consider donating to the Internet Archive
Modern CSS patterns in Campfire Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live...
4th Apr 2024
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Modern CSS patterns in Campfire

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Apr 2024
Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live walk through the app’s CSS code. Campfire was built with vanilla CSS, fully #nobuild without compiling or preprocessors, and uses the latest web platform features available in...
how to make a game engine Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript no threejs. How hard can it be?
20th Dec 2025
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how to make a game engine

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

20th Dec 2025
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript no threejs. How hard can it be?
An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful...
21st Nov 2023
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid

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

21st Nov 2023
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...
The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A...
16th Dec 2023
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

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

16th Dec 2023
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception. There’s a new maintainer of the guide, Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), and she is crowdfunding an updated, new...
1st Aug 2025
Homepage headline test Testing different headline variants on the index page
4th Apr 2025
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Homepage headline test

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

4th Apr 2025
Testing different headline variants on the index page
Scars Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
1st Dec 2024
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Scars

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

1st Dec 2024
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
The Micro One-Armed Bandit Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython...
11th Jan 2023
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The Micro One-Armed Bandit

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2023
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....
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
6th Nov 2021
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Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances

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

6th Nov 2021
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
Market Ending Moves Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's...
8th Apr 2025
66

Market Ending Moves

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

8th Apr 2025
Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's competitive dynamic
My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer The most stressful period of my career.
5th Sep 2020
1

My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer

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

5th Sep 2020
The most stressful period of my career.
I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written...
19th Feb 2018
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I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing

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

19th Feb 2018
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written about yet. So here we are.
A lazy dark mode A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
20th Jun 2020
1

A lazy dark mode

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

20th Jun 2020
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious...
4th Jan 2025
1

Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks

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

4th Jan 2025
Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it
My 2025: The most productive year yet? As 2026 begins, thinking back on my 2025 is a bit nuts. I can’t believe how much new product I...
2nd Jan 2026
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My 2025: The most productive year yet?

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2026
As 2026 begins, thinking back on my 2025 is a bit nuts. I can’t believe how much new product I shipped. I think AI had a lot to do with it, freeing me up to take on projects that Had a technical component that would have discouraged me from starting Are purely personal but...
Saving a restic backup the hard way This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup infrastructure like a...
6th Sep 2021
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Saving a restic backup the hard way

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

6th Sep 2021
This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup infrastructure like a responsible adult. The villain of the following story is the junk MIPS machine which held hostage most of my important data (about 1TB). Its evil plan was to build up a corrupted...
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What America has meant to me Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given...
5th Jul 2026
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What America has meant to me

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

5th Jul 2026
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
the value of a performance oracle Over on his excellent blog, from having ported a bytecode virtual machine to . He finds that his...
7th Apr 2026
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the value of a performance oracle

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2026
Over on his excellent blog, from having ported a bytecode virtual machine to . He finds that his tail-calling interpreter written in Rust beats his switch-based interpreter, and even beats hand-coded assembly on some platforms.Matt Keeter posts some resultstail-calling style He...
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
5th Jun 2025
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

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

5th Jun 2025
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders: Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm...
3rd Mar 2026
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Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2026
In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders: Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app. If code is free, why aren’t all apps native? And then argues that the answer is that LLMs are not good...
Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that? While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling....
29th Nov 2023
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Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that?

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Nov 2023
While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling. Luckily, there are solutions to this.
Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
20th Jun 2022
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Clickable Links Inside XML

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

20th Jun 2022
Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
A review of the blog in 2023 2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately. It was only in...
31st Dec 2023
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A review of the blog in 2023

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

31st Dec 2023
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately. It was only in December that I had meaningful time for writing. In the 2022 review I set a few targets for the blog in 2023: Targets for 2023 ❎ Publish at least 40 posts 14 ✅ Reach at least 150k...
5 kubectl plugins to make your life easier I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance...
8th Aug 2023
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5 kubectl plugins to make your life easier

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

8th Aug 2023
I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance my kubectl commands. I will show you five plugins that help me avoid repetitive tasks, make cluster administration simpler, and incident response less stressful. All the plugins...
I doubled-down on RSS Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the...
6th Mar 2023
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I doubled-down on RSS

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

6th Mar 2023
Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the mall. The quarter that is its imminent demise is revolving faster and faster and will probably drop out of sight sooner than later. Part of mourning the communities I once had there...
What I'm up to - February 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2024
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What I'm up to - February 2024

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

1st Feb 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Hello from Tokyo! I'm here doing a creative residence at Almost Perfect. If you're in...
Data Engineering Low Code Tools In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our...
3rd May 2023
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Data Engineering Low Code Tools

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

3rd May 2023
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our radar. Low code tools have their own nuances as you will get to operationalize quicker, but the minute you need to customize something outside of the toolbox, you may run into...
Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
7th Oct 2014
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7th Oct 2014
When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
Buyers define marketplaces A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of...
7th Jun 2020
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Buyers define marketplaces

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

7th Jun 2020
A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of today's biggest companies, such as Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb, are marketplaces. Yes, these companies cha...
2nd Jan 2026
Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make...
24th Jul 2023
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Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate

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

24th Jul 2023
After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make that decision, and why I may or may not stick with it.
Moving from WordPress to Substack Well, shit. I wrote my first blog post in this space on December 27th, 2015 — almost exactly a...
14th Dec 2025
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Moving from WordPress to Substack

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

14th Dec 2025
Well, shit. I wrote my first blog post in this space on December 27th, 2015 — almost exactly a decade ago. “Hello, world.” I had just left Facebook, hadn’t yet formally incorporated Honeycomb, and it just felt like it was time, long past time for me to put something up and start...
Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8 I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside...
30th Sep 2009
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Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8

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

30th Sep 2009
I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside of a table cell and, for some reason, IE8 completely neglected the corresponding CSS max-width property. The result was the image rendering at full size rather than scaled down to...
One idle dreary day many years ago Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull...
4th Oct 2010
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One idle dreary day many years ago

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

4th Oct 2010
Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull and sharp the sky was that day in San Francisco. When editing this photograph I took now about three and a half years ago, I only flattened the sky slightly and didn't touch up the...
Mission, Vision, poTAYto, poTAHto Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
9th Nov 2025
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Mission, Vision, poTAYto, poTAHto

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

9th Nov 2025
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
Happy New Year: Lisp interpreter in SQL This year, I'll be implementing a Lisp interpreter in SQL. Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to...
31st Dec 2025
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Happy New Year: Lisp interpreter in SQL

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

31st Dec 2025
This year, I'll be implementing a Lisp interpreter in SQL. Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to do that? Well, let me tell you a little story about that. Several decades ago, I got a New Year's present from my roommate's girlfriend. It was a book. She got it at a used...
My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought...
16th Jan 2026
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My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months

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

16th Jan 2026
My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.
IndexedDB is Weird Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking...
3rd Mar 2025
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IndexedDB is Weird

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

3rd Mar 2025
Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking API would mean fully blocking the page, render and basic user interaction included, while the request is being processed. Although this is apparently good-enough for JSON.parse(),...
Campfire is now for sale After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is...
1st Feb 2024
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Campfire is now for sale

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

1st Feb 2024
After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all! This is The Moment of Truth where we get to see whether all that excitement turns into credit card swipes. That release rush. I love it. And I especially love...
Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the...
26th Apr 2024
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Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD

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

26th Apr 2024
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128 pixels, a D-pad, and 3 other buttons. I will cover the prerequisite work to make the port possible, dig into the GPIO and SPI...
If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
7th Sep 2020
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money

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

7th Sep 2020
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024 ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed...
5th Jun 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024

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

5th Jun 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
Guile-bstructs 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released! About...
12th Mar 2026
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Guile-bstructs 0.2.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released! About guile-bstructs Guile-bstructs is a library that provides structured read/write access to binary data for Guile. A bstruct (short for “binary structure”) is a data type that encapsulates a bytevector and a...
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
22nd Oct 2018
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?

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

22nd Oct 2018
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
3rd Jul 2023
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Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email)

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

3rd Jul 2023
People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
"Logic for Programmers" Project Update Happy new year everyone! I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
7th Jan 2025
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"Logic for Programmers" Project Update

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

7th Jan 2025
Happy new year everyone! I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's since been four new versions since then, with the November release putting us in beta. Between work and holidays I didn't make much progress in December, but there will be a 0.6...
Capstone: A tablet for thinking Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
11th Dec 2018
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Capstone: A tablet for thinking

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

11th Dec 2018
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
How to transfigure wireframes into HTML Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands...
1st Dec 2022
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How to transfigure wireframes into HTML

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2022
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an...
What I'm up to - April 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a...
1st Apr 2024
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What I'm up to - April 2024

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

1st Apr 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...
Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog by Stephanie Eckles Have you ever tried to set z-index: 9999 to solve element layering issues? If...
1st Dec 2025
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Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog

from HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025 [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2025
by Stephanie Eckles Have you ever tried to set z-index: 9999 to solve element layering issues? If so, you’ve been fighting a fundamental CSS concept of stacking contexts. The stacking context defines the order things are placed in the third dimension, or the “z” axis. Think of...
Staging is a trap @mipsytipsy Software staging clusters only grow. As production accrues more services, staging’s...
15th Sep 2022
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Staging is a trap

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

15th Sep 2022
@mipsytipsy Software staging clusters only grow. As production accrues more services, staging’s costs ramp up. And maintaining a single, massive, production-like staging may no longer be the right answer. But several, small staging clusters—each fit for their purpose—offers a...
Creating order from chaos in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
6th Mar 2011
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Creating order from chaos in a startup

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

6th Mar 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I wanted to share my experiences and...
Building and launching my first iPhone app (And doing it the hard way.)
29th Jun 2019
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Building and launching my first iPhone app

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

29th Jun 2019
(And doing it the hard way.)
Paleolithic Nostalgia Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
20th Jun 2021
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Paleolithic Nostalgia

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

20th Jun 2021
Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
OpenAI Five Finals Intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
15th Apr 2019
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OpenAI Five Finals Intro

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

15th Apr 2019
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2: “Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day. First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
3rd Jan 2024
AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You .highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color:...
22nd Apr 2024
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AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2024
.highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color: var(--theme-secondary-background-color); border-radius: 10px; } The firehose of data is turned on In the beginning, the Internet was a small, cozy place. Most people weren’t online, and most businesses...
Not everyone can be the best Many software developers seem to have a uniquely hard time accepting that not everyone who just...
4th Aug 2023
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Not everyone can be the best

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

4th Aug 2023
Many software developers seem to have a uniquely hard time accepting that not everyone who just tries real hard will become so good as to be among the best in this field. That there really is a discrepancy of talent that leads to a discrepancy of competence. That not everyone can...
On Progress The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
18th Jan 2022
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On Progress

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

18th Jan 2022
The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason,...
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be? by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun...
1st Dec 2024
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A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be?

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2024
by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text. The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes: a logo, that tells you which site you are...
Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
8th Aug 2021
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Why I'm not a VC (yet)

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

8th Aug 2021
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
Send automations based on email addresses Send automations based on email addresses
1st Nov 2023
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Send automations based on email addresses

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

1st Nov 2023
Send automations based on email addresses
Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
8th Jan 2022
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Assumed Audiences

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

8th Jan 2022
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
8th Jun 2010
Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
4th Jun 2019
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Using User-Select

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

4th Jun 2019
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...
Galloping Search I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used...
7th Dec 2024
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Galloping Search

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2024
I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used to search sorted items when the upper bound is unknown. In this short post, I will share my notes and other alternatives I discovered for searching over unbounded items
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
10th Jul 2020
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

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

10th Jul 2020
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course,...
4th Oct 2021
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Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released

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

4th Oct 2021
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the...
Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders Hello! Right now I’m back to working on neural networks with sketches of faces. current goal:...
1st Dec 2020
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Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders

from Rc-2020 on Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2020
Hello! Right now I’m back to working on neural networks with sketches of faces. current goal: cluster the faces somehow As a starting point, I thought it’d be fun to, instead of generating faces, get the neural network to do some unsupervised clustering of the faces! The idea...
Fast compilers for fast programs Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the...
14th Apr 2019
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Fast compilers for fast programs

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

14th Apr 2019
Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the middle The "medium-sized project" moment 2019-04-14 Compiler authors face a tradeoff between compiler speed and executable speed. Take longer to build a binary and you can build a...
Unshackling Artificial Minds Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product...
23rd Nov 2023
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Unshackling Artificial Minds

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

23rd Nov 2023
Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product of Entropy, the law of nature that dictates it is easier to destroy than to create. And here we are, on the cusp of creating not just something new, but
The Illusion of Free Will One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
19th Mar 2023
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The Illusion of Free Will

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

19th Mar 2023
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
How to not make a résumé in React I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like...
7th Apr 2020
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How to not make a résumé in React

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

7th Apr 2020
I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like recently. They all promise the same thing, namely how to use React to create a résumé. I mean, I get it. It’s important to have something to build towards when learning a new skill,...
Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks. One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief...
12th Apr 2026
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Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.

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

12th Apr 2026
One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate, but that quickly switched to figuring out how we can minimize human involvement, and...
2015-06-01 "Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same...
1st Jun 2015
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2015-06-01

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

1st Jun 2015
"Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same port number on the host, and the same file and fragment of the file. Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be resolved into the same IP...
Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
6th Feb 2023
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Jason Cohen: About the author

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

6th Feb 2023
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search (...
21st Jan 2026
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21st Jan 2026
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search ( https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search ) , published last year.
Forking Chrome to render in a terminal I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something...
27th Jan 2023
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Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

from Fathy Boundjadj [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jan 2023
I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something similar by making it render into a terminal. Let me introduce you to the Carbonyl web browser! Drawing Read more..
Book Review: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin "Ahra", the Eaten One, the high priestess of the Tombs of Atuan belongs to the Nameless Ones. She...
8th Oct 2016
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Book Review: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin

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

8th Oct 2016
"Ahra", the Eaten One, the high priestess of the Tombs of Atuan belongs to the Nameless Ones. She is, herself, nameless. Her name along with her family and future were taken from her in a ceremony on which the novel opens. At the beginning of the novel, her 6-year-old life...
Announcing What Can’t I Press? I made an app! What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to: Read, search, and filter through...
15th Jun 2026
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Announcing What Can’t I Press?

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

15th Jun 2026
I made an app! What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to: Read, search, and filter through screen reader keyboard shortcuts. Scan open apps and add their keyboard shortcuts to the collection. Copy a keyboard shortcut to your clipboard, with modifier keys to format the...
The siren call of wrong-way dependencies Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design...
21st Sep 2024
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The siren call of wrong-way dependencies

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

21st Sep 2024
Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design mistakes one can make.
The Fidelity Trap If you hang out on Twitter, you’ll realize that every designer, PM, and their dog are now...
3rd Jul 2025
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The Fidelity Trap

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

3rd Jul 2025
If you hang out on Twitter, you’ll realize that every designer, PM, and their dog are now engineers.  LLMs have dramatically reduced the barrier to building something and designers who’ve never been able to go beyond a spaghetti Figma prototype suddenly feel like Superman. But...
Golden Glide Silhouette This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to...
9th Jul 2022
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Golden Glide Silhouette

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2022
This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to watch.
Kagi status update: First three months Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago (...
1st Sep 2022
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Kagi status update: First three months

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

1st Sep 2022
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).
Quarantine Reading Queue on the “Tiger King” Phenomenon Last Wednesday I walked into my living room and saw three gay rednecks in hot pink shirts being...
12th Apr 2020
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Quarantine Reading Queue on the “Tiger King” Phenomenon

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

12th Apr 2020
Last Wednesday I walked into my living room and saw three gay rednecks in hot pink shirts being married as a “throuple” on a TV screen at close range, followed by one of the grooms singing a country song about a woman feeding her husband’s remains to her tigers. I could not look...
semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago....
18th Jul 2024
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semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make

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

18th Jul 2024
Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in between. Yesterday I...
American Idle I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And...
22nd Feb 2021
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American Idle

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

22nd Feb 2021
I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part. But it discusses a bunch of other topics, some only tangentially related to TikTok. All the points I wanted to cover seem hyperlinked in a sprawling loose...
The Alphabet as Technology Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words: Thinking of a language as a technology...
16th Mar 2023
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The Alphabet as Technology

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

16th Mar 2023
Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words: Thinking of a language as a technology or a product is strange at first but the more you look at them the more they resemble microwaves or dishwashers; incredibly complicated under the hood but also sort of boring on...
Martin Fowler told me the second edition should be shorter (it's twice as long) 90% new material, a clearer mission, and a rogues gallery of contributors. The second edition of...
18th Feb 2026
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18th Feb 2026
90% new material, a clearer mission, and a rogues gallery of contributors. The second edition of Observability Engineering is almost done.
Plugin Systems "What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems...
11th Jul 2017
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Plugin Systems

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jul 2017
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems BoF. Update: This BoF and post inspired [a talk I gave at PyGotham 2017][pygotham2017]. Within the programming world, and the Python ecosystem in particular, there are a lot of...
FaceTime video/audio broken by Private Internet Access VPN client on Mac I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet...
4 weeks ago
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FaceTime video/audio broken by Private Internet Access VPN client on Mac

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

4 weeks ago
I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet Access VPN client
Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check The following incredibly small sorting algorithm has an $O(n^{4/3})$ worst-case runtime: def...
31st Dec 2025
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Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check

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

31st Dec 2025
The following incredibly small sorting algorithm has an $O(n^{4/3})$ worst-case runtime: def fibonacci_sort(v): a, b = 1, 1 while a * b < len(v): a, b = b, a + b while a > 0: a, b = b - a, a g = a * b for i in range(g, len(v)): ...
More Everything With AI From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts...
2nd Apr 2023
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More Everything With AI

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

2nd Apr 2023
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no...
10th Jul 2023
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Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots

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

10th Jul 2023
A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no profit for me I guess). Check it out!
nsnotifyd-2.3 released D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the...
5th Dec 2024
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nsnotifyd-2.3 released

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

5th Dec 2024
D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the heels of [the previous release][prev], here’s nsnotifyd-2.3. Sorry for causing extra work to my uncountably many users! The nsnotifyd daemon monitors a set of DNS zones and runs a...
What I'm up to - October 2022 ✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time...
1st Oct 2022
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What I'm up to - October 2022

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

1st Oct 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time 🐻 - Shipped an archive page, social sharing improvements, and a showcase of customer websites for P...
I have no idea what I am doing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a...
3rd Jul 2011
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I have no idea what I am doing

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

3rd Jul 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a special thanks to my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] who listened to and discussed some of these thoughts with me before I turned them into a blog post. In the last few...
Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell...
4th Jul 2023
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Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell

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

4th Jul 2023
While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell is very real.
The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about...
1st Nov 2024
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The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade

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

1st Nov 2024
Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about for years. In 2019, when I was still at Microsoft, I had been working with Greg Whitworth to start evangelizing the work that was being planned for <select>, as well as the Open...
Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed...
3rd Jul 2025
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Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts

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

3rd Jul 2025
I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed creating something that's purely a hobby, and working in other mediums inspires my ceramic studio practice in unexpected ways. I recently finished a very large, non-ceramic project:...
The Demoralization is just Beginning This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20...
2nd Mar 2025
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The Demoralization is just Beginning

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

2nd Mar 2025
This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience. I know there was a similar panic about Japan in the 80s, but Japan by population has always been 3x smaller...
Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
12th May 2023
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Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th May 2023
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
8th Mar 2008
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean

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

2nd Feb 2021
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
What I’m Using in 2026 This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s...
4th Jan 2026
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What I’m Using in 2026

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

4th Jan 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s list. Applications Chrome — Chrome was on my list last year, but I’m mentioning it again because I actually used Brave for most of 2025. I like Brave, and honestly I can’t even...
Fixed the two major problems with the MAME cabinet Update on my MAME cabinet project.
24th Dec 2007
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Fixed the two major problems with the MAME cabinet

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

24th Dec 2007
Update on my MAME cabinet project.
Hotel Guest User Agent Data I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country....
5th May 2012
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Hotel Guest User Agent Data

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

5th May 2012
I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country. This data is very different from say: StatCounter or NetApplications estimates because they rely on getting their data from trackers on specific websites. The data I pulled comes...
Experimenting with a 7 day work week * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
10th Jun 2013
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Experimenting with a 7 day work week

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

10th Jun 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two weeks of last month, I religiously tried to follow a new routine I created for myself: a 7 day work week routine. The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7
Stop Trying to Reach the Top Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read...
9th Apr 2015
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Stop Trying to Reach the Top

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

9th Apr 2015
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read this. Were you hit by Google Panda? Will you be hit when they start penalising non-mobile sites? The lesson? Stop trying to reach the top of Google. You’ll live longer/keep more of...
Component Machines Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now...
5th Sep 2024
96

Component Machines

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

5th Sep 2024
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...
You look tired "You look tired." Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent...
5th Jun 2025
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You look tired

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

5th Jun 2025
"You look tired." Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent myself from throwing up, while needing to force myself eat every 2 hours despite not really exercising and needing to sleep for what seems like 12 hours a day all totaled up, and then...
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?...
18th Dec 2024
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How Many Hours Can You Code?

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

18th Dec 2024
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
Learning Gears > Translations welcome!...
19th Apr 2019
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Learning Gears

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

19th Apr 2019
> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/marchas-de-aprendizagem.html))
Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who...
4th Jun 2023
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Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy

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

4th Jun 2023
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from...
10th Mar 2025
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Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2025
Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from Tokyo by Shinkansen. The elevation is approximately 1000 meters above sea level, making the summers relatively mild. Unlike other colder places in Japan, it doesn’t get much snow,...
Back to the office Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
7th Oct 2022
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Back to the office

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

7th Oct 2022
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
Is It JavaScript? OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest...
2nd Jun 2025
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Is It JavaScript?

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

2nd Jun 2025
OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue — @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky “It’s Just JavaScript!” is probably a phrase you’ve heard before. I’ve used it myself a number of times. It...
Why you need a physical address in your newsletter Providing a real address is important for compliance.
1st Mar 2020
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Why you need a physical address in your newsletter

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

1st Mar 2020
Providing a real address is important for compliance.
Maximize your excitement * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge...
2nd Oct 2012
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Maximize your excitement

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

2nd Oct 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge believer of the lean startup movement and the concept of validating ideas as quickly as possible. I think wasted time and resources are disastrous and no matter how much you love an...
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20th Jun 2019
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Easy subscriber filters

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

20th Jun 2019
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Why I left Instagram Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
18th Apr 2022
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Why I left Instagram

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

18th Apr 2022
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
Where is the source code for ping? Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to...
26th Jul 2020
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Where is the source code for ping?

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

26th Jul 2020
Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to deepen my knowledge of networks. I'm just going for a super basic utility here, nothing fancy, not even all the features of ping. But since the language is new to me and my...
Jazz Ukuele Video: What's New? I arranged and recorded a jazz ukulele version of the classic song 'What's New?'
2nd Apr 2010
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Jazz Ukuele Video: What's New?

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

2nd Apr 2010
I arranged and recorded a jazz ukulele version of the classic song 'What's New?'
21st Sep 2024
Bear is now source-available Updates to the Bear license
1st Sep 2025
47

Bear is now source-available

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

1st Sep 2025
Updates to the Bear license
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