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Nelson's Weblog
Proxmox Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets...
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Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
Blog of Simple...
Legal troubles for Adobe Analytics
a year ago
Alice GG
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...
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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...
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Git-Centric Workflow _Published on [the Netlify...
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_Published on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/09/26/git-centric-workflow-the-one-api-to-rule-them-all/)_
David Heinemeier...
Beans and vibes in even measure Bean counters have a bad rep for a reason. And it’s not because paying attention to the numbers is...
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3 months ago
Bean counters have a bad rep for a reason. And it’s not because paying attention to the numbers is inherently unreasonable. It’s because weighing everything exclusively by its quantifiable properties is an impoverished way to view business (and the world!). Nobody presents this...
Neil Panchal
Chart of Accounts for Startups and SaaS Companies Accounting is fundamental to starting a business. You need to have a basic understanding of...
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a year ago
Accounting is fundamental to starting a business. You need to have a basic understanding of accounting principles and essential bookkeeping. I had to learn it. There was no choice. For filing taxes, your CPA is going to ask you for an Income Statement (also known as P/L...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Expose Platform APIs Over Wrapping Them From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js: One of the primary differences...
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From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js: One of the primary differences between enzyme and Testing Library is that while enzyme gave you a wrapper with a bunch of (overly) helpful (dangerous) utilities for interacting with rendered elements, Testing...
David Heinemeier...
Committing to Windows I've gone around the computing world in the past eighty hours. I've been flowing freely from Windows...
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I've gone around the computing world in the past eighty hours. I've been flowing freely from Windows to Linux, sampling text editors like VSCode, neovim, Helix, and Sublime, while surveying PC laptops and desktops. It's been an adventure! But it's time to stop being a tourist....
Eric Bailey
#WorstWorkWednesday This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a...
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This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a conversation how people don’t share negative things on social media, especially in the context of a professional account. #WorstWorkWednesday, the title of this post, is a hashtag coined...
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...
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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...
Josh Comeau's blog
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
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a year ago
useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
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It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
Maggie Appleton
Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
over a year ago
Irrational...
Wardley mapping the service orchestration ecosystem (2014). In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python...
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2 months ago
In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python monolith to a services-oriented architecture while also scaling with user traffic that doubled every six months. This Wardley map explores how orchestration frameworks were...
alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
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I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library. I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space. (My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
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I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
Eric Bailey
Accessibility preference settings, information architecture, and internalized ableism I have a lightning talk I deliver internally at my job. It is intentionally delivered to...
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9 months ago
I have a lightning talk I deliver internally at my job. It is intentionally delivered to non-accessibility practitioners, so mainly engineers, designers, project managers, and product folk. The talk is about exploring macOS' Accessibility system preferences. It points out...
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They Won't Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites They Won’t Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites 2019-06-25 Your website is probably slow. I’m not...
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They Won’t Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites 2019-06-25 Your website is probably slow. I’m not trying to make you feel bad or dismiss all the hard work you’ve put into your project. Heck, performance might have been a core value of the design. But websites can always be...
Eric Bailey
Let’s Talk About Speech CSS
over a year ago
A Day In The Life...
Let's talk about your privates Let's talk about your privates
over a year ago
HTMHell
The Implied Web by Halvor William Sanden People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get...
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by Halvor William Sanden People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get attention and herd people towards clicks increase cognitive effort because they obscure themselves and reduce interfaces to clickable surfaces. The implied web is based on the idea...
A Beautiful Site
CSS reset with box-sizing fix For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
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For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
David Heinemeier...
We have left the cloud Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take...
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Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take us years to get out as well. But all that work to containerize our applications and prepare them for the cloud actually turned out to make it relatively easy to exit. And now,...
A Smart Bear
Moats: Durable competitive advantage Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
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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...
A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
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over a year ago
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
Yale e360
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
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In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
On Test Automation
On ditching hourly and productizing my services In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely...
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In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely these days, for clients both in the Netherlands and abroad. And I like it that way. Don’t get me wrong, I like to drive, but commuting takes up a lot of time, time I would rather...
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Array 1.7.0 This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data...
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This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data from graphs, better user friendliness, and much…
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025 Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
6 months ago
The Changelog
Lessons of Social Media from BBSs In the recent article The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong, I was somewhat surprised to see...
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In the recent article The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong, I was somewhat surprised to see the argument that BBSs are a part of the Internet origin story that is often omitted. Surprised because I was there for BBSs, and even ran one, and didn’t really consider them part...
Sometimes It Works...
Breaking the Chain Breaking the Chain Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your...
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Breaking the Chain Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application Requirements Problems Solutions Explicitly store the current Builder in the model Results ¶Breaking the Chain ¶Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application I’ve got to admit I’ve...
David Crawshaw
2015-06-01 "Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same...
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"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...
Tinloof - Blog
How to dynamically create a sitemap with Sanity and Remix In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and...
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In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and Remix. We’ll learn by following an existing example of a sitemap built for Heavybit’s website, a San Francisco-based VC whose website is built with both technologies. Remix is a React...
Ferd.ca
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents 2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
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2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
elementary Blog
Getting in shape for summer This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
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This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot! Calculator Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia API reading list
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Facebook data transfers declared illegal
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Feature Selection Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality!!
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Crafting a support network Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Why most CMSes suck We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS...
a year ago
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We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS (e.g. WordPress, Hubspot) Modern website builder (e.g. Framer, Webflow)
the singularity is...
Nobody Profits Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and...
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Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA Except it isn’t and Joe Biden is a senile moron....
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Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their...
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Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Failing to use HSL to do Palette Theming Learning from Slack and Refactoring UI to create color palettes, then using HSL colors to do...
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over a year ago
Learning from Slack and Refactoring UI to create color palettes, then using HSL colors to do customizable theming with CSS variables
alexwlchan
We all lose when art is anonymised One rabbit hole I can never resist going down is finding the original creator of a piece of...
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One rabbit hole I can never resist going down is finding the original creator of a piece of art. This sounds simple, but it’s often quite difficult. The Internet is a maze of social media accounts that only exist to repost other people’s art, usually with minimal or non-existent...
Vadim Kravcenko
Asking questions the right way In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
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In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […] The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel on Software
Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team,...
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New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more "Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams"
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Array 1.10.0 This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
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This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see…
HTMHell
Never underestimate HTML by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”,...
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by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”, “Updating the UI should be a simple task once the backend is ready.”—these and other similar statements reached my ears time and again during my career as a web developer. Very often,...
Patrick Kayongo
A New Dog “What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
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“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 11 · Universal comments We experiment with adding a universal comment system that works across different apps.
11 months ago
sancho.dev
Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune
6 months ago
Copper • A blog...
Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing) Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day...
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Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day after placing an order through a Romanian Apple reseller, I finally got my 14-inch M1 Max. Well, actually.. I first got the wrong configuration (base model instead of CTO), had to...
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that lives in my garage Some thoughts about machine learning
5 months ago
Yale e360
Starting a New Chapter At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last...
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At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last week at CrossChx, and then I begin splitting my time between contract work and developing some of my own ideas. I only spent about three quarters of a year at CrossChx, but in that...
sancho.dev
Learning OCaml in 2023
over a year ago
Cognitive...
Dolphin 🐬 Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and...
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Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and series of instruct-tuned language models based on Microsoft's Orca paper. The dataset is released here, with Apache-2.0 license. The dataset can be used for commercial or...
Yale e360
RC Week 2: Pairing is Awesome The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going...
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over a year ago
The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going too quickly. My batch is twelve weeks long, so I'm 17% through. Only ten weeks left! This is a precious time, so I'm trying to make the most of it, but also trying to not increase...
HTMHell
The Form Attribute - Enhancing Form Layout Flexibility by Alexander Muzenhardt Consider a scenario where you have a login form containing two input fields...
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by Alexander Muzenhardt Consider a scenario where you have a login form containing two input fields with corresponding labels, alongside a submit and a reset button. If you submit the form, the action of the form gets triggered, and you can work with the formData. The layout...
The Codist
How To Know When It's Time To Go I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not...
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I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore. Everyone will eventually reach a point at
Blog System/5
Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines The little annoyances that alerted us developers of performance problems
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Developers are on edge It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are...
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a year ago
It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are dragging on. The industry has shed more jobs in a shorter period than any time since the dot-com bust over twenty years ago. Seasoned veterans who used to have recruiters banging on...
Greg Brockman
Leaving Stripe I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
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I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup. Startups # Throughout college, I...
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Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
over a year ago
Remains of the Day
TikTok and the Sorting Hat I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
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I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
2025-06-25 Wed: Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and...
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In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and files on disk. This allows editing files in dev tools and having those changes saved to a file, which is handy. Early in 2025 they’ve added a way to automatically configure this...
Making software...
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible, while still maintaining the original UI concept. Let's build out a demo example with a simple menu dropdown element. Interesting facts about our final CSS menu: Total weight 121 bytes...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware August 2023 The Ware for August 2023 is a viewfinder from a JVC Super VHS Camcorder, model number GR-SXM915U....
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a year ago
The Ware for August 2023 is a viewfinder from a JVC Super VHS Camcorder, model number GR-SXM915U. I’ll give the prize to Jin because of the correct identification of the SOIC as the BA7149F. Congrats, email me for your prize! The exact model number of the originating camera...
Founder's blog
SQL is the most long lasting skill in tech In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front...
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In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front page: "Which technology is worth learning in 2020?" And the most "upvoted" answer was: Learn how to really use a relational database, relational data modeling, and SQL Well,...
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0 released
over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my life. Reading In loving memory of the square checkbox is the kind of UX rant I’m there for. Interfaces that have different behaviors should look different, and familiar styles are...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note March 29, 2023: ink track update / thoughts on research direction We want a digital notebook that combines the best of hand-drawn sketching and note-taking with the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We want a digital notebook that combines the best of hand-drawn sketching and note-taking with the power of the dynamic computing medium.
Grant Slatton
Every Man his own API A sociotechnological trend
7 months ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinates Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with...
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over a year ago
Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with geometry: 3D-graphics, image processing, physical simulation, — the answer is obvious. Knowing the mathematics behind your framework enables you to write more efficient code. But even if...
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Pick Up What They Put Down > Translations welcome!...
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over a year ago
> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/aprenda-em-publico-hack.html))
Vadim Kravcenko
Is development the right career for me? Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling...
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a year ago
Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling with. It’s one […] The post Is development the right career for me? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Liz Denys
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
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over a year ago
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
MMapped blog
Transaction models are programming paradigms
10 months ago
Julia Evans
New microblog with TILs I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (“today I learned”). the goal: save...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (“today I learned”). the goal: save interesting tools & facts I posted on social media One kind of thing I like to post on Mastodon/Bluesky is “hey, here’s a cool thing”, like the great SQLite repl litecli, or the...
Liz Denys
Has Baby Yoda been engaging in Twitter 'platform manipulation?' and the broad brush of Twitter's... Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and spam" according to their Instagram. Twitter's policy on platform manipulation and spam allows for "using Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account," as...
Eric Bailey
Formative posts Blogs are good at communicating what you’re thinking about a specific topic, but not so great at the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Blogs are good at communicating what you’re thinking about a specific topic, but not so great at the larger framework of how someone came to be in the headspace that lead to the posts they share. Because of that, I’ve set up a formative posts page. This page is a list of blog...
blag
Recurse Center Day 6: B Tree Root B Tree Root: how would you design it?
over a year ago
samwho.dev
Reservoir Sampling header h1 { padding: 0; margin-top: 0.2rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; } button { ...
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header h1 { padding: 0; margin-top: 0.2rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; } button { margin: 0.5rem; padding: 0.5rem 1rem; background-color: #444444; color: white; border: none; border-radius: 8px; cursor: pointer; touch-action:...
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 2: Thou need not PaaS Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto...
8 months ago
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Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto our own hardware, without the need for the complexity of something like Kubernetes. Kamal 2 is a huge leap forward for that tool, and it has just shipped.  Now you can deploy...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Background Image Opacity in CSS The other day I was working on something where I needed to use CSS to apply multiple background...
2 months ago
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The other day I was working on something where I needed to use CSS to apply multiple background images to an element, e.g. <div> My content with background images. </div> <style> div { background-image: url(image-one.jpg), url(image-two.jpg); ...
Confessions of a...
Binary Arithmetic and Bitwise Operations for Systems Programming Understand how computers represent numbers and perform operations at the bit level before diving...
2 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Working at a Startup From Series B to C Some careful thoughts from joining a startup from Series B to C.
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog built an app server (from MVP to billions of events) PostHog's mission is to increase the number of successful products in the world. To achieve it,...
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PostHog's mission is to increase the number of successful products in the world. To achieve it, we're building a comprehensive suite of analytics and…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog...
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2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog is on Github Issues](https://www.swyx.io/github-cms) and [I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1531330889535602688).
Neil Panchal
Coming soon This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things...
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This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new
Josh Collinsworth
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel...
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Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.
Vadim Kravcenko
Stand Out and Dare to Disagree Question: Answer: The post Stand Out and Dare to Disagree appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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The Pragmatic...
PagerDuty alternatives 12 alternatives to the market-leading alerting tool, PagerDuty.
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Kagi Blog
Orion browser features Orion ( https://browser.kagi.com ) may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with...
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Orion ( https://browser.kagi.com ) may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with features.
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: More on authentication and password managers Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password...
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Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password managers: Using a password manager effectively In a deeper exploration of password manager browser extensions and features for sharing as well as a survey of alternatives to password...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
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PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
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How does the HIPAA compare to the CCPA and GDPR?
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Joel Gascoigne
Want to be happy and successful? Bring happiness to others * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the last 3...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the last 3 months I’ve regularly been meeting startup founders here in Hong Kong to try and help them with the biggest challenges they have. It’s been truly enjoyable and fascinating. I feel...
Yale e360
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
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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...
Steve Klabnik
We forget that open source is made of people
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Eric Bailey
Battery Status API: We need to talk
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Making software...
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...
A Beautiful Site
Give your JPEGs alpha channels If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem...
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If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem is that PNGs are lossless and can grow in file size very quickly — much larger than your average JPEG. So what if there was a way for JPEGs to support alpha channels? I discovered...
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I'm writing a book! Over the course of my career, I introduced a couple of engineers into the topic of query engines....
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Over the course of my career, I introduced a couple of engineers into the topic of query engines. Every time, I bumped into the same problem: query engines are extremely academic. Despite the fact that industry has over 40 years of expertise, reading foundational papers and then...
Jake Zimmerman
Inheritance in Ruby, in pictures
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Detecting mobile devices with JavaScript While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the...
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While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the need for knowing whether or not we're dealing with a mobile device arises. For in-depth device checking, you can rely on a complex library such as The MobileESP Project. But for...
Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
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Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014. Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
macwright.com
Work hard and take everything really seriously Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or...
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Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or bad idea to work hard when you’re young. Like most of these recurring debates, it has generated two opposite archetypes: The anti-capitalist tells the young worker not to trust HR...
Eric Bailey
Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown
over a year ago
Making software...
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It's no secret that I'm passionate about open...
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Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It's no secret that I'm passionate about open source software, but I'm also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
Josh Collinsworth
The blissful zen of a good side project One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.
2 months ago
Maggie Appleton
The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data How block-based interfaces can help us create more structured data on the web
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Childcare Options in Japan Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available....
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Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available. Services will vary greatly depending on your location, the ages of your children, and the time of year. This article explores all of the most common childcare offerings, to get you...
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What would a web app canary look like? Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...
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Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots. Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to. They are an essential component...
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Why Isn't Usage Based Billing A Bigger Category? Usage billing is the new hotness for SaaS, and I have personally seen the pain it caused, but I was...
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Usage billing is the new hotness for SaaS, and I have personally seen the pain it caused, but I was ultimately scared off from investing in it.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.21.0 Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into...
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Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into the overall stability of PostHog squashing dozens…
Epic Web Dev
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a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Flash of Undefined Custom Elements (FOUCE) Web components are defined and registered with JavaScript. Depending on how and when you load the...
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Web components are defined and registered with JavaScript. Depending on how and when you load the scripts that perform registration, you may see a brief flash of unstyled HTML where your custom elements should be when the page loads. This is not dissimilar to FOUC, which occurs...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on JS Party #288 My frequent ramblings on this blog garnered enough of the attention of Jerod Santo that he...
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a year ago
My frequent ramblings on this blog garnered enough of the attention of Jerod Santo that he graciously invited me to come on the JS Party podcast to talk about, well, my blog posts. Which ones? To name a few: Language-Level Toll Roads The Art of Knowing When to Quit Subscribe...
Alex Meub
About the Apple Captive Network Assistant Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site...
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over a year ago
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site for a better resource on the Captive Network Assistant. If you’re a mac user, you likely have seen a strange popup window appear on your computer when you try to connect to the...
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Compile Svelte in Your Head by Tan Li Hau Linking to a blogpost I was too lazy to do
over a year ago
Elad Blog
Crypto Twitter With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter...
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With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter should be doing, that it has never done. There are lots of obvious features (edit tweets, longer form content, better user controls, better onboarding, better spam filtering,...
Julia Evans
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a...
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I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a build system, and it took FOREVER to figure out how to import it because...
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Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
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A Beautiful Site
A user interface is like a joke When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good...
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When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good rule of thumb: A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good. And I've heard some websites tell pretty bad jokes...
Kagi Blog
Introducing the Kagi Family Plan We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the...
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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the power of Kagi Search together.
bt RSS Feed
The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
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The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it’s fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple’s iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
A Smart Bear
The "Opposite Test" Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft...
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Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft compelling, unique features.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Part Time Creator Manifesto Why we need more people creating Part Time and how you can do it too.
over a year ago
TokyoDev
My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter...
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a year ago
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter the country, such as a working holiday visa, English teaching, or getting hired by one of the [many wonderful companies](http://www.tokyodev.com/companies), posting jobs on...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Gist That Keeps On Giving I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo. Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local...
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I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo. Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local branch with all my work and there’s no backup on GitHub. “This is git. There has got to be a version of this things still on my computer somewhere, right? RIGHT?!” So I start...
Irrational...
Manage your priorities and energy. Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I...
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a year ago
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making...
HTMHell
Modern HTML as a foundation for progressive enhancement Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's...
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Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's a way to make sure anyone gets a viable version of your page whatever is their context — slow bandwitdh, oldish browser, etc. — but also making the said page more resilient (e.g....
A Smart Bear
Selecting the right product metrics A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but...
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A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but also stakeholders, executives, and customers.
A Smart Bear
The Startup Drake Equation Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an...
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4 months ago
Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an answer, and a path to increase the chance of success.
Steve Klabnik
The language strangeness budget
over a year ago
HTMHell
The Ghosts of Markup Past by Thomas A. Powell As a well-seasoned web developer, a clear euphemism for my age, I reminisce...
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a year ago
by Thomas A. Powell As a well-seasoned web developer, a clear euphemism for my age, I reminisce about the early days of markup through the haze of strong emotional glasses. I see the past from an extreme nostalgic fondness for the simplicity of the time when a basic text editor...
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You Already Use Types _[Published on Freecodecamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/you-already-use-types/)_
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
a year ago
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a year ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
Making software...
Faking 3D Elements with CSS Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
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over a year ago
Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible. This is...
A Beautiful Site
Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users...
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over a year ago
The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users who get confused when events of the same name are emitted from different components. Take <sl-details>, <sl-dialog>, and <sl-dropdown>, for example. They all emit sl-show and...
MMapped blog
Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics data collection
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Ruud van Asseldonk
Building Elm with Stack
over a year ago
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 4 In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I used to build the TNFS site. In this (much shorter) part, I’d like to take a step back from the hardcore geekery, and wrap up with my thoughts on the whole thing. Other Sites But...
davidyat.es
Print stylesheets
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blag
Projects Some of the projects I have done.
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Do forgettable work There was a great post about doing unforgettable work. Absolutely. Go above and beyond. Do what’s...
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a year ago
There was a great post about doing unforgettable work. Absolutely. Go above and beyond. Do what’s right. But also, do forgettable work. Work that you won’t remember the following week. Do a lot of it. In fact, do at least 30 minutes of utterly forgettable work on something you’re...
Steve Klabnik
Most things I do are interconnected
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
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Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
David Crawshaw
2015-12-20 www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Implementing-a-Shell.html#Implementing-a-Shell
over a year ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 1: init This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
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over a year ago
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
James Vaughan's blog
Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
🥇 The unfair advantage 🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […] The...
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over a year ago
🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […] The post 🥇 The unfair advantage appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks,...
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The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks, but the details of the design of this type of ware are interesting from an engineering standpoint. Some of the tricks used here are kind of mind blowing; on paper, I wouldn’t think...
bt RSS Feed
Easy Custom Radio Inputs Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are...
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Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are something designers tend to over-think when trying to customize them. Let’s walk through how to create custom radio buttons with pure CSS, while still preserving performance and...
HTMHell
#28 alert level 1 Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues...
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over a year ago
Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues and how to fix them The element is used for communicating status updates, not to structure the page. A div with a role of status or alert is more suitable than a h1. The heading is...
Yale e360
Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just...
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a year ago
One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just a fun diversion. I ran into that recently for a side project I'm working on. It wasn't really necessary to test database options semi-rigorously, but here we are. This project is...
Nelson's Weblog
Angkor Wat resources I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good...
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I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I found useful about the Khmer empire in...
blag
In search of a faster SQLite Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using...
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Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using modern programming paradigms like io_uring and disaggregated storage. They demonstrate up to a 100x reduction in tail latency. These are my notes.
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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a year ago
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...
PostHog's RSS Feed
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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a year ago
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…
Eric Bailey
a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s...
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9 months ago
I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s solarized-prism-theme for PrismJS. To not bury the lede, the new update: Supports Forced Colors mode, Is encapsulated in a Cascade Layer, Uses Custom Properties, Groups its selectors using the...
Eric Bailey
Make technology work for you, not the other way around
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Interdisciplinary Website Maker Paul Ford has a great article at Wired about his own experience as an English major working in tech....
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Paul Ford has a great article at Wired about his own experience as an English major working in tech. While I myself am not an English major (more on that below) his desire to be interdisciplinary parallels my own. I began to realize I was that most horrifying of things:...
TokyoDev
Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their...
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over a year ago
Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their pay rising as their seniority increases. So uniform is compensation that common wisdom even gives [a formula](https://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw1745758) for what your monthly...
Blog System/5
Hands-on graphics without X11 A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
5 months ago
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python We are due for our next live session.
8 months ago
Sometimes It Works...
2023: The Rollercoaster Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal...
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Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal Things This year has been quite a ride! 🎢 It's felt like the first real year since 2020 that things have been somewhat "normal". However, looking back, it's been anything but...
Joel Gascoigne
Giving your startup a point of view * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve mentioned before at the start of a post [https://joel.is/post/4132813715/acting-with-incomplete-information-in-a-startup] is that I often look back on quotes, blogs and books I’ve...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the...
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over a year ago
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
Josh Comeau's blog
Common Beginner Mistakes with React I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped...
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over a year ago
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a...
Oxide Computer...
Remembering Charles Beeler We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away...
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We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away in September after a battle with cancer. We lost Charles far too soon; he had a tremendous influence on the careers of us both. Our relationship with Charles dates back nearly two...
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Redshift We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google...
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over a year ago
We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google BigQuery , Elastic , and Apache Druid . Most of…
The Changelog
More Topics on Store-And-Forward (Possibly Airgapped) ZFS and Non-ZFS Backups with NNCP Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and...
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Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In my previous post, I introduced a way to use ZFS backups over NNCP. In this post, I’ll expand on that and also explore non-ZFS backups. Use of nncp-file instead of nncp-exec...
Remains of the Day
Seeing Like an Algorithm In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue...
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In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops. But in the breathless rush to understand why companies might want to acquire...
Contraption Co.
Archetypes of LLM apps What businesses are actually doing with AI
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Is Enabled by Default in Web Browsers It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But...
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It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But it’s worth remembering that JavaScript is enabled by default in web browsers. JavaScript is not so terrible, so harmful, so taboo, so something you shouldn’t use that it’s turned...
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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating...
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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
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Announcing security_release_practice
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markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2 In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
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In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system. Server...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging and Composting Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct...
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Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of the banana you get the peel. And if you compost, you can make good use of the peel. Similarly, whatever you’re building is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of whatever...
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Changing the macOS accent colour without System Preferences In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects...
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In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects colours throughout your Mac’s user interface, including buttons, menus, and tickboxes. When you pick a new colour, it updates everywhere, immediately. I want to write some automations...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more broadly. What follows are a few things that stood out to me. His Regrets From Node Are Now in Deno I think it’s interesting that Ryan’s famous talk 10 Things I Regret About Node.js...
A Smart Bear
Stop saying "fail" Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations...
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Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations and to suggest the next step.
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RSS Hacks With XSLT RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I’ve been further tinkering (hopefully for the...
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RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I’ve been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website1 script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you’re interested, I wrote about it on the official...
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Favorite Perfumes A quick condensed list based on over 15 years of exploration in the world of perfumery. I didn't...
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A quick condensed list based on over 15 years of exploration in the world of perfumery. I didn't include obvious classics such as Polo Green and Aramis. If I were to pick 3 perfumes to wear for life, it would be: Hermes Bel Ami, Chanel Antaeus and Serge
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently startups pop up and take over the press, framed as an “overnight success” taking just a year or two to reach some incredible milestone. For some time I’ve had a slight intuition that...
Liz Denys
An update on Keybase verification Keybase updated their verification methods to include a command line method that relies on echo,...
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over a year ago
Keybase updated their verification methods to include a command line method that relies on echo, gpg, perl, and curl. I really like this so-called "hardcore mode" because it uses only tools I already trust - I don't have to install anything from Keybase. The process involves...
Posts on Nikita...
How Binary JSON Works in YDB Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed...
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over a year ago
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed Queries team of YDB. YDB is a Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions. One of my key tasks there was...
MMapped blog
Transposing tensor files
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4 Q&A's on Blogging for Developers Answering Q&A's
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Steve Klabnik
Building StoreEngine
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Patrick Kayongo
What Are Software Developers For At the time of writing this, the perceived potential for AI based tools for software development is...
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At the time of writing this, the perceived potential for AI based tools for software development is at an all time high. Devin, claims to offer a “fully autonomous AI software engineer”. Other tools like Marblism have less ambitious claims but can still create a working web...
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Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
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<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program: Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client. It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack. I...
Alice GG
Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The...
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Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub. This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
Making software...
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
On Test Automation
Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me...
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A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me because they felt they could use some support. When I first saw the code they wrote, I was pretty impressed. Sure, there were some things I would have done differently, but most of...
Hixie's Natural Log
Deciding which bugs to fix Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it...
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Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it makes the most sense to optimize for people-happiness per unit bug fixing time, maximizing how much our effort improves the product for our users. To put it in mathematical...
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
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ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
Alex Meub
Protect Your Wireless Network Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is...
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over a year ago
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is probably the single biggest security hole on any home wireless network. About WiFi Protected Setup WiFi Protected Setup is a security standard that comes enabled by default on many...
macwright.com
Homeownership Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house and they can’t, or...
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a year ago
Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house and they can’t, or they’ve bought a house. The desire to own ones own home is almost universal in the people I know in the US. It’s even stronger for folks who live outside of major cities. And people...
Steve Klabnik
Abstract vs concrete
over a year ago
alexwlchan
I deleted all my tweets I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X). I wasted a lot of time there, got into some...
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I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X). I wasted a lot of time there, got into some embarrassing arguments, and wrote things I now regret. But it’s also where I met friends and partners, started my career in cultural heritage, and began my queer awakening. Maybe...
Steve Klabnik
I invented hypermedia APIs by accident
over a year ago
Grant Slatton
AI follows auditability An essay about the order AI will move through the economy
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The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in 2023 The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually...
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MMapped blog
Tutorial: stable-structures
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alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2025: What I’ve Learned by Building to Last Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2025. This year, the theme is Sustaining Software Development...
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Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2025. This year, the theme is Sustaining Software Development Craft, and here’s the description from the conference website: The big question we want to explore is – how can we keep doing the work we do, when it sustains us, provides meaning...
Code Of Honor
Whose bug is this anyway?!? At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the...
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At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Right?!? Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered...
Letters of Note
I have the best mother in the world Few people have fought harder for the plight of African-Americans than Martin Luther King Jr., a...
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Few people have fought harder for the plight of African-Americans than Martin Luther King Jr., a minister and activist who spent most of his all-too-brief life leading the civil rights movement only to be stopped by a bullet in Memphis in 1968. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on...
Blog System/5
Hardware autoconf: ACPI & Device Tree An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device...
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An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device drivers to hardware devices
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[Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine upload I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python...
a year ago
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
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I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
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Flutter for React Native Devs in 30 Seconds You may have heard of [Flutter](https://flutter.io), Google's answer to React Native. What should...
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Shirred eggs Ramekins aren't just for advanced culinary creations like soufflés and crème brûlées. But as with...
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Ramekins aren't just for advanced culinary creations like soufflés and crème brûlées. But as with mathematical proofs, some of the most elegant foods you can prepare in a ramekin are the simplest. Enter the shirred egg. Don't be intimidated by the word "shirred"; it's just the...
James Vaughan's blog
Custom iPhone text tones
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we ditched ‘talk to sales’ for transparent pricing "I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that...
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"I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that embody everything we hate about modern SaaS…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Browser Defaults We Throw Away Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a...
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Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a JS approach that includes writing event.preventDefault all the time is kinda off. The browser defaults are great, and yet we're rollin' our own for years now. 🤔 I’ve been thinking...
A Beautiful Site
Don't hate on PHP It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
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It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this: I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP. A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
The Pragmatic...
Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every...
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👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover two out of seven topics from today’s
Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics Pricing - Paid vs Free
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Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
over a year ago
Kagi Blog
Announcing The Assistant Yes, the rumours are true! Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience,...
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Yes, the rumours are true! Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience, creating a smarter, faster, and more intuitive search.
Tony Finch's blog
performance of random floats A couple of years ago I wrote about random floating point numbers. In that article I was mainly...
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A couple of years ago I wrote about random floating point numbers. In that article I was mainly concerned about how neat the code is, and I didn’t pay attention to its performance. Recently, a comment from Oliver Hunt and a blog post from Alisa Sireneva prompted me to wonder if I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Semi-Automatic npm and GitHub Releases with `gh-release` and `auto-changelog` A snippet I use all the time
over a year ago
37signals Dev
Prometheus metrics with Rails and Kamal We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of...
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We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of components in our infrastructure, such as MySQL, Redis and the servers hosting our applications. My colleague, Victor, previously wrote in detail about Prometheus metrics at...
David Heinemeier...
Fonts don't have to look awful on Windows I always thought it was a software problem — or at least a difference of aesthetics expressed in...
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I always thought it was a software problem — or at least a difference of aesthetics expressed in software. But it turns out  the reason many Mac owners, including yours truly, so strongly dislike how fonts typically look on Windows is actually a hardware problem!  See, every Mac...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3 As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
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As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
macwright.com
Recently If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
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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...
Oxide Computer...
A Gap in the TrustZone preset settings for the LPC55S69 We’re very excited to have announced the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this...
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We’re very excited to have announced the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this work, we continue to build on top of the LPC55S69 from NXP as our Root of Trust. We’ve discovered some gaps when using TrustZone preset settings on the LPC55S69 that can allow for...
Copper • A blog...
Making my own sharpening blocks When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use...
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When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken. I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel...
Irrational...
Llm
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
A clean fade-in effect for webpages Here's a nice way to fade your pages in using CSS and a bit of JavaScript. The solution is clean and...
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over a year ago
Here's a nice way to fade your pages in using CSS and a bit of JavaScript. The solution is clean and smooth, with no flickering on load. If JavaScript is disabled, the page will still load but the fade effect will not occur. How it works # This trick works by adding the fade-out...
A Beautiful Site
Superpowers I stumbled upon a short post that intrigued me. In it, the author claims that the cure for boredom...
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over a year ago
I stumbled upon a short post that intrigued me. In it, the author claims that the cure for boredom is superpowers. Not superpowers in the Superman sense, but ones that we can teach ourselves. Learn Photoshop, and you’ll have a superpower. You’ll be able to see what your bedroom...
Hixie's Natural Log
Indexing into a string I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into...
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a year ago
I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into an integer type.
bt RSS Feed
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS 2019-06-11 Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous...
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Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS 2019-06-11 Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous post about how changing the display properties on tables can impact screen readers. I highly recommend his excellent article Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA I find that the...
Yale e360
Start to finish on self-publishing a technical book I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022. That year I wrote...
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a year ago
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022. That year I wrote 37,000 words, more than the 33,000 I'd written up to that point. It has accelerated since then. At some point, I realized that I've put in a lot of time and effort writing here, and...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
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Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2 Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
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Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2025 Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware!...
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Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware! Hopefully this one is a smidge easier to guess compared to last month’s.
A Beautiful Site
TinyPNG: A better way to compress PNG images By now, you know that optimizing images and other resources can reduce bandwidth and help your...
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over a year ago
By now, you know that optimizing images and other resources can reduce bandwidth and help your website load faster. Perhaps you've even used a tool like Pngcrush before to make your images smaller. Now, there's an even better solution. TinyPNG uses "smart lossy compression...
Words and Buttons...
Rational interpolation Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines....
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Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines. With rational interpolation, you can build functions that run through a set of points and also have vertical asymptotes whenever you want. With this capability, you can now model...
Alice GG
A love letter to Apache Echarts In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place...
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a year ago
In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place where you can find Javascript libraries that make great promises only to disappoint you once you actually import them. I know this because I even wrote one. When you find a gem...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials...
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In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials of stolen Nazi riches stored in the local salt mine. Eventually, the Americans found the mine and began exploring it, ending up at a vaulted door. Here’s the story, as told by Greg...
Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups...
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a year ago
A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups and large companies. Willem Spruijt shares the good, the bad and the ugly, about both environments.
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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over a year ago
"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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes): the only way to build a great product is to...
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a year ago
Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes): the only way to build a great product is to use it every day, to stare at it, to hold it in your hands to feel its lumps. The data and customers will lie to you but the product never will. Oof. That lands with me. As a...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is:...
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over a year ago
People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is: yes. This is a collection of solo-preneur success stories (with occasional 2 people bands). I only include businesses generating significant revenues. In this context it’s around $5k/mo...
Vadim Kravcenko
How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up? Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve...
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a year ago
Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve consulted with, grapple with. I […] The post How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
alexwlchan
The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation...
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a year ago
On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation Human Thermos”, a fan gathering to celebrate Operation Mincemeat, a musical that gives us all the warm and fuzzies. A lot of people dressed in cosplay to mark the occasion, and I...
The Changelog
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
Elad Blog
Defensibility & Competition Are early SaaS or AI companies ever defensible early? What is the basis for competition for a...
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over a year ago
Are early SaaS or AI companies ever defensible early? What is the basis for competition for a startup?
James Vaughan's blog
Micro reviews: Bun, Cursor, Cloudflare Pages, and more
a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
My Wild Security Head-Fiction My Wild Security Head-Fiction ¶My Wild Security Head-Fiction I’m not a security expert. I...
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over a year ago
My Wild Security Head-Fiction ¶My Wild Security Head-Fiction I’m not a security expert. I confidently believe I don’t have the kind of mind it takes to ‘always expect the worst’. I couldn’t be a threat analyst, defence strategist or CIA agent because I think you need a drastic...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
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over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it. Why website speed matters
David Crawshaw
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A Smart Bear
Real Unfair Advantages It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Equivalent experience can cut both ways I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and...
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I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and expertise (and grace in answering the occasional ignorant question) in exchange for payment. The goal here is to uncover assumptions I carry with me when using assistive technology,...
HTMHell
Preloading fonts for web performance with link rel=”preload” by Alistair Shepherd Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent...
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by Alistair Shepherd Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent calendar last year you may have already read many of my thoughts on the subject. If not, read Getting started with Web Performance when you’re done here! This year I’m back for more web...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
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over a year ago
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
davidyat.es
Syntax highlighting with render hooks
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macwright.com
Luxury of simplicity by An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too...
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An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too complicated.” With the risk of stating the obvious: Writing a blog engine, with one customer, yourself, is the most luxuriously simple web application possible. Complexity lies...
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
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Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
The Changelog
Rehabilitating Asynchronous Communication with NNCP: A Cross Between Tor, ssh, and UUCP Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was...
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Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was saturating the terrible wifi you had access to? Maybe you’d wish the upload to pause until you get somewhere else, but then pausing syncing on your Nextcloud/Syncthing/Dropbox would...
alexwlchan
The best way to tell a website your age There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access...
a year ago
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a year ago
There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access certain content online. Now children can be protected from adult content like well-organised spreadsheets, YouTube videos about kitchen appliances, and websites that sell you...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented Oembed Proxy for GitHub Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I...
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over a year ago
Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I need to include code snippets. Notion has support for code blocks but it’s not good enough for my use case. I want to make sure the code compiles so I write small programs and...
Steve Klabnik
Announcing Rust Contributors
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Always running I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other evening, and I fleshed it out into a proper piece. I want to get better at writing fiction, and the only way to do that is with practice. I hope you like what I’ve written! When the...
David Crawshaw
2015-07-15 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Coding should be a vibe! The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire...
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a month ago
The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire project with AI — appears partly to be based on the fact that so many development environments are deeply unpleasant to work with. So it's no wonder that all these programmers stuck...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Things I learned last year 2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers across our range of products (!) 800% increase in…
Joel Gascoigne
The Anti-Todo List * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For some time,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For some time, I’ve gradually realised that my day is not only occupied by tasks from my todo list. Often, there are lots of other tasks which deserve time in my day just as much as those I have
David Heinemeier...
Omarchy is out My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager. With everything configured out-of-the-box to give you exactly the same setup that I now run every day. My...
A Beautiful Site
But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
Grant Slatton
Designing bug-proof engines A spectrum of engineering philosophies
8 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
A non-coders thoughts on ‘Everybody Codes’ - Part Two One of PostHog’s values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs to be a developer,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of PostHog’s values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs to be a developer, but we do encourage everyone to practice the…
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Compressing for the browser in Go Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP...
a week ago
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a week ago
Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP request to a web server, it includes the following header: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd This tells the server that the response can be compressed using one of the...
Irrational...
Wardley-Map
a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
Technology & The Hollowing Middle Class IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in great cost-savings, yet with unquestioned social effects. In his book Rhodes & His Banker, Richard Steyn narrates the founding and the early years of the bank we now know as Standard...
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 analytics ideas for marketing teams using PostHog One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making analytics accessible to more than just analysts. There’s…
the singularity is...
Disrupt the Government I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by...
a year ago
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a year ago
I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides. The key thing the government is supposed to be able to do is infrastructure. Most of the wealth that we give to...
Yale e360
Alpha-beta pruning illustrated by the smothered mate I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC. The first engine-like thing I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC. The first engine-like thing I implemented for it was alpha-beta pruning, which is a way of pruning out branches of the search tree to significantly speed up search. This is a common algorithm, which I also...
Blog of Simple...
When does the CCPA apply?
a year ago
Yale e360
Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it contains 240 million unique positions1 from 3.8 million games. One of the things it needs to do is quickly find all the games where a particular position occurs. I'd also like it to...
A Smart Bear
Double your productivity without more work or stress People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: &quot;working in waves&quot; * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer. I’d like to share some of my reflections...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes to Self on Mastodon Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to articulate what I do understand in a way that helps me better understand the differences — and similarities — between Twitter and Mastodon, especially when it comes to owning more of...
alexwlchan
Setting up Fish to make virtualenv easier Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python. As I was starting with a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python. As I was starting with a completely clean slate, I wanted to try setting up Python the “right” way – or if not “right”, at least better way than my previous pile of hacks and kludges. (I don’t remember much of...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility “Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and for all. You'll learn about the accessibility implications, and how to determine the best unit to use in any scenario.
bt RSS Feed
Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
Nelson's Weblog
What are passkeys? That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
The Pragmatic...
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
TokyoDev
Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
tonsky.me
Local, first, forever So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught...
a year ago
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a year ago
So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught my attention: Specifically, this part: But first, some context. What is local-first? For the long version, go to Ink & Switch, who coined the term. Or listen for Peter van...