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TokyoDev
Adoption of Ruby by Japanese Businesses The first Ruby related event I attended in Japan was [Ruby Kaigi...
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The first Ruby related event I attended in Japan was [Ruby Kaigi 2007](http://jp.rubyist.net/RubyKaigi2007/). At the conference, from talking to other developers, I was surprised to learn that despite them being passionate about Ruby, they weren't using Ruby at their day job....
Confessions of a...
Live Session on CPython Virtual Machine Internals + Upcoming Posts We are long overdue for a new live session as well as some more articles.
8 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
My wireguard IPv6 tunnel Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
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Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6. Yesterday I (at last!) got around to setting up a wireguard IPv6 VPN tunnel between my workstation and my Mythic Beasts virtual private server. There were a few, um, learning...
Writing - Andreas...
Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to? ---
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.18.0 Our primary goals for this release were to iron out bugs and improve the user experience of our Beta...
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Our primary goals for this release were to iron out bugs and improve the user experience of our Beta features. As a result, we fixed a whole lot of…
Irrational...
Notes on Enterprise Architecture as Strategy Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C Robertson is an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C Robertson is an interesting read on how integrating technology across business units shifts the company’sstrategy landscape. Written in 2006, case studies are not particularly current but the ideas...
Stephen Wolfram...
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us...
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ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
Making software...
Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } ...
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Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } .box-container, .box-container-depth { background: white; box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); border: 1px solid #eee; border-radius: 10px; margin: 2rem auto; ...
Charles Chen
Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.4.0 Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
over a year ago
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Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
A Beautiful Site
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
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You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website. Scroll to a specific element # Here's how to...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to split equity fairly between founders? It’s easy to think of equity as being valuable in and of itself, but that’s not exactly true. Equity...
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It’s easy to think of equity as being valuable in and of itself, but that’s not exactly true. Equity is […] The post How to split equity fairly between founders? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Steve Klabnik
How Does BlueSky Work?
10 months ago
ntietz.com blog
return "reflections on a batch"; There's a tradition at Recurse Center of writing a Return Statement after your batch. I'm not sure...
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There's a tradition at Recurse Center of writing a Return Statement after your batch. I'm not sure of the origin of the terminology, but it seems like it's a pun on the return statement in programming languages. It's a great tradition, and it gives me a good motivator to reflect...
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
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This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
Joel Gascoigne
Why context is so important * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve had a few...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve had a few different experiences in the last couple of weeks which made me reach a big realisation. What I’ve discovered is that the context of any situation is very important. Hiten Shah...
swyx's site RSS Feed
You Already Use Types _[Published on Freecodecamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/you-already-use-types/)_
over a year ago
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch...
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The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
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...
Founder's blog
How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS...
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a year ago
TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS default 64 plus one). ••• On my recent mountain biking trip to France I accidentally booked an Airbnb without WiFi. Bummer. But hey, 5 minutes of googling and I found a...
blag
Staying Ahead of Amazon, in Amazon Treasure Hunt Contest With a simple Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, I tried to cheat(?) one of Amazon India’s contest.
over a year ago
Alice GG
Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s...
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Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s job easier, it’s a good idea to put together a press kit. The press kit should contain all the information someone could want to write an article about your product, as well as...
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential PostHog apps for new users PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
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over a year ago
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
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The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
A Beautiful Site
Cory's amazing dot paper In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in...
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In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in my corner holding this old fashioned pencil and a stack of dot paper. Sorry, but for me, these primitive tools do the same thing and I find them easier to use. I don't know. I guess...
Steve Klabnik
Six years with Rust
over a year ago
macwright.com
Web technology optimism hour It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer...
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It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.14.0 Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of...
over a year ago
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Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of interviews with users and had a lot of discussions with…
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:...
David Gerrells
is there light at the end of the tunnel Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look...
over a year ago
Computer Things
NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses No Newsletter next week I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe. NoCode Will Not Bring...
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No Newsletter next week I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe. NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses I don't have a whole lot of time this week so here's something that's been on my mind a little. I haven't researched any of the factual claims; consider this...
On Test Automation
On life as an independent contractor right now Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
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Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here. As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
ntietz.com blog -...
They want your ethics for $105 If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest...
2 months ago
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If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes." Recently, I got one which was a little different flavor than the usual spam, so I bit and replies. The end result was...
ntietz.com blog
Starting my (overkill) homelab I've set up a homelab finally! This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was...
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I've set up a homelab finally! This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was right. The right project came along to justify it, so I took the plunge. Naturally, that leads to a few questions: What's a home lab? Why do you want one? And what is the shiny...
37signals Dev
Introducing Solid Queue We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about...
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We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about 1/3 of our roughly 18 million jobs per day. We’ll be moving more jobs in the coming days until we run HEY exclusively using Solid Queue. Besides regular job enqueuing and processing,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Traffic Engineering What is Traffic Engineering?
over a year ago
Julia Evans
How do Nix builds work? Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
a year ago
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Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here. I started by complaining on Mastodon: are there any guides to nix that...
ntietz.com blog
Integrate rest into your work and practice The human body has limits, and we break down if we push past them. This can contribute to burnout,...
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The human body has limits, and we break down if we push past them. This can contribute to burnout, lead to stress fractures, or cause a host of other issues. We need to give our bodies time to rest so that we can heal. This is something we often resist, but it's essential. And...
Ink & Switch
00 · Beehive Background Contextualizing Beehive
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
REST Endpoint + CRUD with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in 2 minutes A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD...
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A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD capability with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and AWS Amplify in 2 minutes.
Joel Gascoigne
It takes hard work. Do the hard work. * 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 been thinking about a lot recently is the idea of simply trying harder with everything I choose to spend my time on. It seems like an elusive thing, the idea of optimal focus and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving to a GitHub CMS Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
Computer Things
Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors? Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics....
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Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics. If you've got a blog come join us! You don't need to drive yourself crazy with a 3000-word hell essay, just write something fun and genuine and out of character for you. But I am...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
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We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Something You Need to Know About Web Design and Development You’re doing great at it. (❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race) Email, Twitter, Mastodon
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to measure product engagement Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for...
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Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for your business. Though it seems easy to view success…
bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
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The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: GPT in 500 lines of SQL Translations: Russian This year, the talk of the town was AI and how it can do everything for you. I...
a year ago
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Translations: Russian This year, the talk of the town was AI and how it can do everything for you. I like it when someone or something does everything for me. To this end, I decided to ask ChatGPT to write my New Year's post: "Hey ChatGPT. Can you implement a large language model...
Liz Denys
Printable shrinkage rulers Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the...
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Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the final size of in-progress work - especially if you're making multiples or trying to fit pieces together. One way to do this is with shrinkage rulers. I figured I'd design my own...
Computer Things
My patented Miracle Tonic would have prevented the CrowdStrike meltdown Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I...
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Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I didn't bother to learn anything else about it because I was too busy writing my 10k whitepaper about how all the problems were all caused by one simple mistake: not drinking my...
37signals Dev
Thruster is now open source We’ve just released Thruster as open source! Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote...
10 months ago
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We’ve just released Thruster as open source! Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote to make it easier to serve a Rails application with great performance and security. It runs alongside your existing Puma process, and adds: HTTP/2 support SSL (via Let’s Encrypt,...
Jibran’s Perspective
Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively...
over a year ago
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I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively to manage my knowledge base. I started the day by dumping my thoughts into Logseq. Here they are. These are open questions for now. I plan to investigate this further and try out...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Sanding UI One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks,...
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One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done. The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a page transition, that means going back...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create an accessible React modal A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the...
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A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the user can’t interact with the rest of the application. Creating a modal in React is fairly easy. There are dozens of resources that explain how to do so, including the React...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2022 The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how...
over a year ago
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The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how he knew it was the -240 version; I did not expect someone to discern the line voltage rating from the photos! Also, thank you Ian Mason for the lucid explanation of the exposed...
TokyoDev
Japan's Earthquake and Technology Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
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Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in Northern Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami). Despite Tokyo being several hundred kilometers from the epicenter, it's effects were felt even here (although to a much lesser extent than...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Serverless Functions are Stateful A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy...
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A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy breaks down when you look through the abstraction
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding Layout Algorithms As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
What is a react component, anyways? I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write...
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I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write a simple component!”. But time after time I hear — “Vladimir, what’s a component, anyways?”. Bah, what a question! It’s a react thingie. React apps are made of components. Why do...
Irrational...
High-Context Triad. The past couple weeks I’ve been working on three semi-related articles that I think of as the “High...
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The past couple weeks I’ve been working on three semi-related articles that I think of as the “High Context Triad.” Those are Layers of context, Navigating ambiguity, and Tradeoffs are multi-dimensional. One of my background projects, probably happening in 2025 or 2026 after I’ve...
Confused bit
Teaching the Rust Borrow Checker Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be...
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Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be expressible in safe Rust, but is beyond the understanding of the borrow checker. Although its use cases are probably rather niche, I still found it potentially useful. Anyway, it’s a good...
Julia Evans
Behind "Hello World" on Linux Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on...
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Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on Linux, like this one? print("hello world") Here’s what it looks like at the command line: $ python3 hello.py hello world But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on....
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog is now available on Segment! We're happy to announce that PostHog is now available as a destination on Segment. Segment is a...
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We're happy to announce that PostHog is now available as a destination on Segment. Segment is a platform that works as an integrated data pipeline to…
Ink & Switch
01 · Versioning and provenance for empirical research Introducing Jacquard: a project exploring better collaborative editing environments for empirical...
5 months ago
Epic Web Dev
How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
a year ago
Julia Evans
New zine: How Git Works! Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It...
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Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, or get an 14-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table...
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 348
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Write HTML Like It's 1999 Write HTML Like It’s 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it’s safe to say that most developers love to use the...
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Write HTML Like It’s 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it’s safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer’s life easier....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sept 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Metrics that cannot even be measured in retrospect Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's...
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Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's now to identify and avoid this trap.
Lennart Koopmann
Moving to Mastodon After the recent events of Elon Musk taking over, I and many others started using Mastodon and...
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After the recent events of Elon Musk taking over, I and many others started using Mastodon and reduced Twitter activity. I avoid calling this a "switch" because I do not plan to remove my account on Twitter.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s TypeScript and Then There’s TypeScript Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming...
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Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming “No!” The answer seems simple, but (as with most things) it might be more nuanced than you think. Here’s Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript Co-Creator & Lead Architech, from the...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Behind the syntax: let and const variables Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more...
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Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more colloquially known as ES6 – was released…
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is SaaS without the aaS It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve...
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It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve already sold more than quarter of a million dollars worth of this beautifully simple installable chat system. People are using it to replace existing systems costing tens of thousands...
Tinloof - Blog
Analytics with Sanity We’ll explain in this article the analytics possibilities with Sanity and how we enable them in our...
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We’ll explain in this article the analytics possibilities with Sanity and how we enable them in our projects.
Remains of the Day
Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
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NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
The Codist
I Have To Fix Broken Things Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes,...
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a year ago
Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes, products, or UI. If it's broken, I want to fix it. If I can't, it grates on me. After I graduated from college, my parents, a friend, and his
TokyoDev
Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several...
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As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
ntietz.com blog
Terminology matters: let's stop calling it a "sprint" If you're in the software industry, it's hard to not be aware of agile development at this point. It...
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over a year ago
If you're in the software industry, it's hard to not be aware of agile development at this point. It seems like every team practices it differently, but there are certain commonalities that run through all teams I've seen. One of those is the term used for each time-delimited...
macwright.com
Recently Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun...
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Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new, especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
alexwlchan
Finding a mystery IAM access key Recently I had an issue with some IAM keys. Somebody was trying to use an IAM access key to download...
a year ago
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Recently I had an issue with some IAM keys. Somebody was trying to use an IAM access key to download some objects from S3, and it wasn’t working – it was giving a “permission denied” error. I wanted to inspect the permissions, but first I had to find where this IAM key came...
Blog System/5
Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
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Visual Sum of Cubes
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Irrational...
Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping. The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of...
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The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of the three core strategy refinement techniques, this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least. Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it highlights how...
samwho.dev
API Design: In The Wild We've explored some guiding principles in previous posts, but we're yet to use our new-found skills....
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We've explored some guiding principles in previous posts, but we're yet to use our new-found skills. Let's take a break and look at some examples from real-world code you can find in use today, and how we might improve them. › Go's math/big package Most languages have a library...
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Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons" My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
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You should make a new programming language Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple. Few of us make programming...
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Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple. Few of us make programming languages. This makes sense, because the work we need to get done can typically be done just fine in the languages that exist. Those already have people making them better. Let's...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven't seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
Making software...
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I've most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome. But that all changes...
Making software...
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog,...
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ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I've been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I'm announcing ThriftyName. What is...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Randomness, Serendipity, and an “I Wouldn’t Recommend This” Algorithm Sean Voisen has a great post about 1) how we as humans think of randomness, 2) how computers...
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Sean Voisen has a great post about 1) how we as humans think of randomness, 2) how computers simulate randomness, and the difference between the two. He puts forth an intriguing thought: in a world increasingly driven by computation, how does that affect randomness in our lives?...
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Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it. * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We are what...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle I’ve been obsessed with thinking about, adjusting and building upon my habits for a long time now, and...
A Beautiful Site
Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may...
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When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise.  It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers. After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
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...
Daniel Marino
Making Generative Art I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
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I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art. I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
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...
a year ago
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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...
Alex Meub
The Yoto Mini is Perfect The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and...
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The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and put just the right set of features into a brilliantly designed package. I have no affiliation with Yoto, I’m just a happy customer with kids who love it. If you aren’t aware, Yoto...
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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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...
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...
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
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It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
Stephen Wolfram...
The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in...
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Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in the cloud. See also more detailed information on Version 13.1, Version 13.2 and Version 13.3. Building Something Greater and Greater… for 35 Years and Counting Today we celebrate...
the singularity is...
A disgusting playbook So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started...
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a year ago
So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started comma, and I probably will fail because of this. Cruise Automation is a good example here. If they told the truth, they would be out of business. In 2016, they were bought by GM for...
The Pragmatic...
An explosion in software engineers using AI coding tools? GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the...
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GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the results and add context on how the survey was conducted.
bt RSS Feed
Disabling Comments in WordPress Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
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Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down. Back...
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
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i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
samwho.dev
A Commitment to Art and Dogs .dog-line { display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; flex-direction: row; width: 100%; height:...
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.dog-line { display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; flex-direction: row; width: 100%; height: 10rem; margin-top: 2rem; margin-bottom: 2rem; } .dog-line img { flex-grow: 1; height: auto; margin: 0; padding: 0; object-fit: contain; } .dog-grid { display:...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git the stupid password store .title {text-wrap:balance;} GIT - the stupid content tracker “git” can mean anything, depending on...
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.title {text-wrap:balance;} GIT - the stupid content tracker “git” can mean anything, depending on your mood. – Linus Torvalds, Initial revision of “git”, the information manager from hell Like most git features, gitcredentials(7) are obscure, byzantine, and incredibly...
A Smart Bear
Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar...
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TokyoDev
The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
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In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2021-developer-survey), please check them out! With 435 people responding, I had about 20% more responses than [2020's...
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PostHog's recommended reading for startup teams The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so...
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The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so here’s a collection of the books our teams recommend…
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on September 19, 2016: Monday morning in New York and an emergency alert Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work,...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work, after watching two men of color have their bags searched at Grand Army Plaza: I woke up today to my phone beeping in a pattern that wasn't my alarm: WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.13.0 Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a...
over a year ago
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Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a mountain of bug fixes and refactoring this week. We…
A Smart Bear
No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
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somenice
Untitled
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Joel Gascoigne
Questions I ask myself about working as distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a CEO I often...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a CEO I often ponder how I can help the team be as productive and happy as possible. As part of our decision to be a distributed team at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], there have been a number...
Liz Denys
Hardbrücke, Zürich The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite...
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The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite a captivating neighborhood. It's literally quite colorful, and home to Freitag's flagship store.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
OOP for FP lovers: Simplistic Dependency Injection With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the...
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With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the concepts whose names remind us of object-orientation. We throw constructors, methods and classes out of the window because they seem to smell of bank cubicles, water coolers and...
Ralph Ammer
Edmund Husserl — Consciousness You are awake. You think and you feel. But what is it that is doing all this thinking and feeling?...
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You are awake. You think and you feel. But what is it that is doing all this thinking and feeling? We call it “consciousness” and over 100 years ago the philosopher Edmund Husserl made a bold attempt to uncover its secrets. Subjective experience is private The thing is:...
Liz Denys
The baked apple pancake I don't have a lot of complete memories from my childhood. Somehow, my photographic memory didn't...
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I don't have a lot of complete memories from my childhood. Somehow, my photographic memory didn't kick in until the middle of seventh grade, when all of a sudden I started to remember everything. Sadly, everything from before that time is either a blurry film played a fifteen...
Elad Blog
Substack: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 2) This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
HTMHell
Makeshift hot reload by Evan Hahn In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh...
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by Evan Hahn In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh your page every second. This is a makeshift "hot reload" for development. It's not perfect, but it can be a quick solution! Hot reloading automatically reloads parts of your page...
ntietz.com blog
We deserve to know if something was generated by AI We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on...
a year ago
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a year ago
We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on that. What portion of the text you read each day was generated fully or partially by a human, or by an LLM? We don't know, and probably can't know, and that brings about some...
Steve Klabnik
Update GitHub Pages with Travis CI
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
8BitDo Game Controllers 8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
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8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes. And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
Steve Klabnik
Trouble with Diaspora
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Optimize sprint points to get nowhere fast As developers, we can be metric obsessed. We tend to like objective measures of things. 99th...
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a year ago
As developers, we can be metric obsessed. We tend to like objective measures of things. 99th percentile request times, CPU percentage, disk utilization. Nothing escapes our attempts to quantify it, not even our productivity: enter story points1. We measure our productivity in...
blag
How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x...
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This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
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Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)
3 weeks ago
Liz Denys
Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle...
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Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle Hoverson's Library Blanket. I've added the eight new colors to the Library Blanket color palette preview tool I made last April, and I also labeled the discontinued colors as such....
blag
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
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Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for...
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over a year ago
Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for the first time, on a minimal budget. This is not…
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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over a year ago
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...
macwright.com
Recently: Cycling and Autumn I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
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I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
Epic Web Dev
A Deep Dive in Tailwind Font Settings (tip) Take a deep dive on multiple approaches for controlling typographic settings on an element with...
5 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Going vimgan
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Using logical operators for logical operations is good A folow up on a guessing game with C++ operators. Let's redo a few rounds. The benchmark is the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A folow up on a guessing game with C++ operators. Let's redo a few rounds. The benchmark is the same, the questions are the same. The compiler is the same. The only thing that changes is the platform. This is now CHIP with ARMv7.
Making software...
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I'm keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
Patrick Kayongo
A World Offline Loadshedding has hit South Africa in a bad way. Interruptions to electricity has disrupted...
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Loadshedding has hit South Africa in a bad way. Interruptions to electricity has disrupted businesses and resulted in unanticipated cost increases from those who have had to find alternative sources of electricity. 16 years ago, it was unimaginable that we would have some days...
Blog System/5
How "new type" helps avoid production outages My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author...
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9 months ago
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author briefly touches upon the “new type” idiom, its typical implementation in Rust, and then proceeds to propose a better alternative. But the question arises: why should you care?
elementary Blog
Visualizing The Finish Line First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already...
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8 months ago
First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already aware, we build elementary OS releases from the Ubuntu software repositories, so we now have a stable upstream to work from. That means it’s time for us to focus in on finishing up...
Making software...
Animated Card Tiles Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive...
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over a year ago
Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let's build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS. What we will be building...
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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a year ago
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...
Julia Evans
2023: Year in review Hello! This was my 4th year working full time on Wizard Zines! Here are a few of the things I worked...
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a year ago
Hello! This was my 4th year working full time on Wizard Zines! Here are a few of the things I worked on this year. a zine! I published How Integers and Floats Work, which I worked on with Marie. This one started out its life as “how your computer represents things in memory”, but...
James Vaughan's blog
Introduction
over a year ago
David Gerrells
how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
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2 months ago
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
Neil Panchal
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 year ago
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
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia FizzBuzz
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Units in Go and Rust show philosophical differences Units are a key part of doing any calculation. A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't...
a year ago
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a year ago
Units are a key part of doing any calculation. A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't represent anything in particular. If I tell you to go drive 5, you'd naturally ask "5 what?" Software often has to deal with quantities that represent real-world things. How we...
bt RSS Feed
Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
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over a year ago
Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
A Beautiful Site
I'm taking "startup" back The word "startup" has taken on a very unfortunate meaning over the years. I used to think of my own...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The word "startup" has taken on a very unfortunate meaning over the years. I used to think of my own business as a startup, but as its definition evolved, I quickly realized I didn't fit that description at all. The word "startup", by definition, means the act or instance of...
alexwlchan
Redacting sensitive query parameters with koa and koa-logger At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website. Together, they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website. Together, they give us nice request-response logs for all our traffic: <-- GET / --> GET / 200 754ms 57.28kb <-- GET /stories --> GET /stories 200 374ms 71.29kb <-- GET /works?query=trees -->...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
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a month ago
Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
alexwlchan
How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights &rarr; I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the benefits of moving our data storage and processing to the cloud. Building out this infrastructure is a large part of what I’ve been working on for the last six (!) years. It’s been...
A Smart Bear
Profitable on day one! You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable....
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You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable. Fix your definition of "profitable," and build a truly profitable business.
David Heinemeier...
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift...
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Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no...
Ralph Ammer
Aristotle — How to live a good life 2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual...
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10 months ago
2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life: What is good? First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good thing fulfils its unique function. A good knife is a knife that is good at cutting. A good eye is...
Florian Bellmann |...
Scripting = Configuration The idea of using a scripting language to write configuration is brilliant. Here is why.
a year ago
samwho.dev
Dude, where's my main?
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 1) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS. In the second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
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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over a year ago
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.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Memento Vivere Remember what life can do.
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
a year ago
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a year ago
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
Words and Buttons...
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics? This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
over a year ago
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This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
Blog System/5
Links: November 2023 edition Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
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Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App. If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
Steve Klabnik
"C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
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Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan’s...
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Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan’s work on Dribbble and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it’s a half-way decent copy...
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5 events all teams should track with PostHog It can be tricky to know which events you should start tracking first if you haven’t used product...
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It can be tricky to know which events you should start tracking first if you haven’t used product analytics before. That’s why we recommend using…
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Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling...
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Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun "hack" to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly. The only other minor issue I had...
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to...
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to user Achraf JEDAY for putting these instructions together on Stack Overflow (although his comments were targeting an older version of Ruby). This post is more for my own personal...
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I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above, and see more details here.
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization. For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
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For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
A Beautiful Site
Finding the Closest Element Through Shadow Roots A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is...
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A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is Element.closest(). // Starts at el and walks the DOM until it finds a parent element // that matches the selector. In this case, it will return the // <body>...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2023 The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me...
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The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me several wonderful photos, and the whole thing is actually pretty neat to look at. However, for better or for worse the parts in the ware are so unique that most of them resolve to an...
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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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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...
Irrational...
Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers. Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer...
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Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer role](https://qconsf.com/presentation/nov2024/ambiguous-roles-and-ambiguous-problems-navigating-life-principal-engineer). You can also watch the video on YouTube. The content itself...
Alex MacCaw
Lifestyle business FAQ I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger...
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I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger business. Lifestyle businesses are intriguing to people, they sound too good to be true but the reality is they are imminently doable. Since I get quite a lot of questions...
Charles Chen
Your Interview Process Is Too Damn Long (and How To Fix It) Long interview processes have become a bane in the tech industry. Can we fix it?
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
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Color Formats in CSS CSS gives us so many options when it comes to expressing color—we can use hex codes, rgb, hsl, and...
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CSS gives us so many options when it comes to expressing color—we can use hex codes, rgb, hsl, and more. Which option should we choose? This turns out to be a surprisingly important decision! In this article, we'll take a tour of color formats in CSS, and see which option will...
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An introduction to product analytics and how it works What is product analytics? At the most basic level product analytics refers to the process of...
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What is product analytics? At the most basic level product analytics refers to the process of gathering data about how a product is used, then…
A Smart Bear
The unfortunate math behind consulting companies Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely...
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Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies.
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.3 released D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the...
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D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the heels of [the previous release][prev], here’s nsnotifyd-2.3. Sorry for causing extra work to my uncountably many users! The nsnotifyd daemon monitors a set of DNS zones and runs a...
Alice GG
Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A...
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Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions. A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price data, which leads to technical analysis often being perceived as similar to astrology. In this article, I will try to see if...
A Beautiful Site
New shortcut keys in Windows 7 I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects...
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I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects of window management right out of the box.  They're pretty easy to remember too: Win + Up - Maximize the current window Win + Down - Restore a maximized window, otherwise minimize...
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Kyua graduates The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
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A Beautiful Site
Using an ORM I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that...
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I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that you can spend twice as long learning an ORM as you can coding raw SQL. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I figured it was time to see for myself. For the Postleaf rebuild, I decided to try out Sequelize. I...
A Smart Bear
The Code is your Enemy A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming...
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A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming confirmation that the lesson is correct.
The Changelog
How & Why To Use Airgapped Backups A good backup strategy needs to consider various threats to the integrity of data. For instance:...
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A good backup strategy needs to consider various threats to the integrity of data. For instance: Building catches fire Accidental deletion Equipment failure Security incident / malware / compromise It’s that last one that is of particular interest today. A lot of backup...
Charles Chen
Programmatically Invoke Cloud Run Jobs with Runtime Overrides Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
a year ago
macwright.com
Recently Summer screeched to a halt a few days ago and I’m still reeling from it. The dehumidifiers turned...
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Summer screeched to a halt a few days ago and I’m still reeling from it. The dehumidifiers turned off, the humidifiers on. The A/C off, the heat on. I’m still, more than a year after leaving the west coast, grateful for the presence of seasons to keep me aware of time...
Irrational...
Developing leadership styles For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
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For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
Making software...
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks 2020-12-08 I recently published a new open source...
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Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks 2020-12-08 I recently published a new open source project, Flexbox Bar Graphs, and wanted to share a simple breakdown of how it was built. It isn't anything mind-blowing, but I like the idea of placing bar graphs in a web page...
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In-depth: How to measure product-market fit Startups can't succeed without achieving product-market fit – it's one of the few things startup...
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Startups can't succeed without achieving product-market fit – it's one of the few things startup gurus agree on. It's often described as a feeling…
Vadim Kravcenko
Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that...
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Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that cost me […] The post Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ntietz.com blog
Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
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What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine...
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The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine learning. Yes, from an engineering point of view, an immense amount has been figured out about how to build neural nets that do all kinds of impressive and sometimes almost...
samwho.dev
Memory Allocation .memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top:...
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.memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; } input[type=range]:focus { outline: none; } a[simulation] { cursor: pointer; } .size { color: #0072B2 !important; font-weight: bold; } .free { color: #009E73 !important; font-weight:...
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: An Optimistic Future (article) React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
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React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
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Design for the web without Figma By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at...
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By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at 37signals, and I'm sure most every other software shop has too. Adobe didn't pay $20 billion for nothing. But we don't do the bulk of our design work with or in Figma when developing...
Josh Comeau's blog
Dynamic Bézier Curves A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as...
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A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as scroll-to-flatten using SVG path instructions, and how to architect our components for maximum readability and reusability.
Steve Klabnik
Fire Mario not fire flowers
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Filtering out bogus requests from Netlify Analytics I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance. It’s...
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I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance. It’s essentially server-side logging with a dashboard on top, and it’s more than sufficient for the very limited analytics I want to do here. One of the dashboard panels is “resources not...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to better handle stress in a startup? Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on...
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Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on your journey. The […] The post How to better handle stress in a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
$.postJSON() for jQuery $.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response....
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$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response. Alas, the jQuery documentation lacks a sister function that should be named $.postJSON(). Why not just use $.getJSON() and be done with it? Well, perhaps you want to send a large...
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
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I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example: $ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
Steve Klabnik
Your startup is not a platform
over a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
The Boot Sector Games book series <![CDATA[The short ebooks on Intel 8086 Assembly programming Oscar Toledo self published are some of...
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<![CDATA[The short ebooks on Intel 8086 Assembly programming Oscar Toledo self published are some of the best 8086 resources I've seen. After introducing the 8086 instruction set and Assembly, Programming Boot Sector Games describes the source code of several games each of which...
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GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries My mistakes and insights on GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries.
over a year ago
Kagi Blog
Celebrating our first 20,000 members Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* ,...
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Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* , including over 1,500 families all over the world, in our community.
MMapped blog
Effective Rust canisters
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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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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...
Elad Blog
AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by...
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In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by startups versus incumbents differs. In some waves it all goes to startups, while in others it goes to incumbents or is split between them. Unexpectedly, the prior wave of
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...
Steve Klabnik
_why is a role, not a person
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
My Commitment to Accessibility I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to...
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I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to the websites and applications that are created with it. This is an important goal of my projects. Oftentimes, people will ask "is it accessible?" I'm reluctant to answer because...
Don Melton
Our long national nightmare is not over I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve...
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I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve selected know what they’re doing. It’s obvious just listening to them. So I can barely wait for them to take over the White House tomorrow. Because real governance will be back in...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to strategically approach technical improvements It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements...
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It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements without direct business value are difficult to manage. In this post, we discuss some learnings from the battlefield on how improvements can be approached.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Lowest Common Denominator: www Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease...
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Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease and persistence, finally get what you want. Write your own C library. Do some assembly code. Even make your own hardware if you have to. But on the web you give up that control....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Stop Being Fancy This is a note to self: Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy. When confronted with,...
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This is a note to self: Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy. When confronted with, “Can this be done?” If the answer is an immediate "Yes", go ahead, do that. But if the answer is, “Well, you could, but you’d have to…" Just stop right there. Don’t go do...
blag
Setting up Github Actions for Hugo Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
over a year ago
Making software...
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate - We speak your language Your browser does not support the video tag.
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somenice
Mammoth Mountain Logo Ooof. Hard to believe this would have passed all the checks and balances to get appropriated...
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Ooof. Hard to believe this would have passed all the checks and balances to get appropriated approved. It’s not a stretch to say that a California ski resort has naively combined two M’s to form a crown but to outright copy a symbol used repeatedly by one of the highest selling...
The Pragmatic...
What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events...
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Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry?
David Heinemeier...
A writer's Ruby Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the...
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Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the stereotype of nerds in uncoordinated outfits or using pocket protectors. But style in the broad sense of aesthetics. Many appear imbued with fundamental opposition to the idea that how...
David Heinemeier...
Meta is shutting down Workplace The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The...
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The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The traditional wisdom goes that if you buy from a big company, you're going to be safe. It may be more expensive, but big companies project an image of stability and reliability, so buying...
Steve Klabnik
Resque: let's do this
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Alex Meub
Material Rewards for Motivation Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term...
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Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term goals. This isn’t a new idea but I’ve found it to be really helpful in keeping me on track and giving me that extra push to follow through on my goals. Set SMART Goals In order to...
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
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I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
A Beautiful Site
Working with HTML5 data attributes Before HTML5, working with arbitrary data sucked. To keep things valid, you had to stuff things into...
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Before HTML5, working with arbitrary data sucked. To keep things valid, you had to stuff things into rel or class attributes. Some developers even created their own custom attributes. Boy, was it a mess. But that all changed with the introduction of HTML5 custom data attributes....
General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
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A Beautiful Site
Icon Finder: an awesome search engine for icons I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything...
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I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything about it. If you're a web designer or developer who always has use for quality icons — especially ones with GPL or similar licenses — this is the website for you. It's essentially a...
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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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We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google BigQuery , Elastic , and Apache Druid . Most of…
bunnie's blog
Designing The Light Source for IRIS This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
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This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. IRIS allows us to see the insides of certain types of chips, even after they are soldered to a circuit board. This is possible...
Jake Zimmerman
What if typing on phones was fast?
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Steve Klabnik
git, history modification, and libuv
over a year ago
Remains of the Day
Revisionist commentary I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a...
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I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a sucker for the union of political and film satire as embodied in alternate film commentaries. I was reminded of it when seeing The People's History of Tattooine which was first one...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Security stories! Plus, a 2FA zine! The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and...
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The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and I filled the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security with a bunch of our own personal security mishaps: Security stories: lost phones, a compromised computer, and an unexpected...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2023 The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to...
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The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to guess it exactly! Congrats, email me for your prize. It is the case that Pioneer gear has a very distinctive design style to it. I wonder if their PCB design software isn’t some...
Epic Web Dev
Improve UX and Security with Time-based One Time Passwords (TOTPs) (tip) Watch Kent show you the improved user experience, security, and the implementation of Time-based One...
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Watch Kent show you the improved user experience, security, and the implementation of Time-based One Time Passwords in the Epic Stack.
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...
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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...
Josh Collinsworth
Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac) Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an...
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Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone. Here are a few options to get around that problem.
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Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series...
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I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series [here](https://livecycle.io/blogs/devx-project-swyx/). Reproducing for posterity.
The Changelog
For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a...
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Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a PCMCIA slot, or, heck, sound. Nowadays, mostly new hardware means things get a bit faster or less crashy, or I have some more space for files. It’s good and useful, but sorta… meh....
Making software...
Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I...
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Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
A Smart Bear
Procrastinate for Success! Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
6 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Downloading a list of URLs automatically I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to...
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over a year ago
I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to the bucket — I only had a list of URLs. There were too many to fetch one by one, so I wanted to fetch them automatically. Here are a couple ways I found to do that. Using curl # Curl...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++ How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and...
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How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32. One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app. I encountered this in...
Stephen Wolfram...
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h2 span {color: #a5a5a5;} table.InCell { margin-left: -0.27rem; } #blog .post_content .inline-table-of-contents { background-color: #ebf9f8; border: solid 1px #89cac7; } #blog .post_content .inline-table-of-contents div a { color: #783f19; } #blog...
Steve Klabnik
How to not rely on rubygems.org for development
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Google is showing outdated results from the UK’s election Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough...
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Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough night for every Conservative candidate, many of whom either lost their seat or saw their majorities severely diminished. One of those Conservative candidates was Nigel...
Stephen Wolfram...
Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram...
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This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin KitThe New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram LanguagePrompts for Work & Play:...
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Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
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Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
HTMHell
#13 link or label Bad code <input type="checkbox" id="accept" required> <label for="accept"> <a href="/legal"> I...
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Bad code <input type="checkbox" id="accept" required> <label for="accept"> <a href="/legal"> I accept the confidentiality policy and data… </a> </label> Issues and how to fix them It’s bad practice to nest elements with activation behavior (e.g. click). Users don’t expect a new...
Tony Finch's blog
C is Turing complete Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing...
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Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing complete. The consensus in the StackOverflow question is, no, because the C abstract machine is a (large) finite state machine, or maybe yes, if you believe that unaddressable local...
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CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
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CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn’t an insult - I’m happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
James Vaughan's blog
Thoughts on Qutebrowser
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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...
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How to start a growth team (as an engineer) Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at ...
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Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at Let's Do This – a Y Combinator startup with $80M in…
ntietz.com blog
Using search as a primary datastore since the docs said not to Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do...
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Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do it. So when I saw that the Typesense docs say not to use it as a primary datastore? Well well well, that's what we'll have to do. I spent a little bit of time figuring out what a...
Renegade Otter
I am not your Cloud person Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services...
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Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
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Donating $10k to FreeCodeCamp I benefited from FreeCodeCamp and would like to give back
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Vadim Kravcenko
Building a side-project So as you noticed, I’m late with my newsletter Issue this week. Everything is fine. I just got...
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So as you noticed, I’m late with my newsletter Issue this week. Everything is fine. I just got sidetracked a […] The post Building a side-project appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Josh Collinsworth
Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
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Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
HTMHell
#25 A link is a button is a link Note: We've removed most classes to improve readability. Bad code <a tabindex="0" type="button"...
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Note: We've removed most classes to improve readability. Bad code <a tabindex="0" type="button" href="/signup" role="link"> <span class="focus" tabindex="-1"></span> <span> <span> <span>Sign up</span> <i class="icon icon-external-link" aria-hidden="true"...
Patrick Kayongo
Mammon The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of...
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The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of the occasional car passing by outside. As the cool air gently brushes across her arms, Gladys Tyamzashe’s strands of hair stand up, mounted on the goose bumps of her aged and...
David Heinemeier...
Back in the market (Sonos Edition) I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly...
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I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly amps for in-ceiling speakers, but also some Ones, 3s, 5s. All of it. Because it Just Worked when it came to multi-room music. Now it doesn't, and it hasn't for a long time, so I've...
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A NoteCards project for the RetroChallenge 2024 <![CDATA[Team Lisp is ready to play: I'm entering the RetroChallenge 2024 (RC2024) with a NoteCards...
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<![CDATA[Team Lisp is ready to play: I'm entering the RetroChallenge 2024 (RC2024) with a NoteCards project targeting Medley Interlisp. The RC2024 announcement explains the point of the challenge is to do something new, learn, and have fun with retro systems: In a nutshell,...
Alex MacCaw
A personal update In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As...
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In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As COVID started to spin out of control in the states, my girlfriend and I made the decision to stay. A ten day trip turned into a year-long adventure. I
Alex Meub
IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage...
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On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”. This is a particularly obscure bug with IE that has caused me lots of grief. First of all, it is indeed a bug with IE. This behavior can be...
alexwlchan
A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian &rarr; I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed...
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I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too. To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin. When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
alexwlchan
Drawing repetitive radial artworks I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just...
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I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just had a text from a friend about an upcoming trip to Ireland, and she’d sent me the four-leafed clover emoji (🍀), so I was sketching some petal-like shapes. These are a few of my...
James Vaughan's blog
College Advice I Would Give My Freshman Self
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Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
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Alex Meub
Must-have Windows Apps Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net -...
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Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net - Fast, lightweight image editor Foobar2000 - Fast, lightweight, music player (supports FLAC) IrfanView - Awesome, lightweight, image viewer for all formats Media Player Classic -...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
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Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
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You are never taught how to build quality software Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn...
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When is my Cake Day? Using praw and prawoauth2 to find when is my cake day on Reddit.
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Computer Things
State and time are the same thing Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten...
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Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten minutes later I walk out with two photograph prints.1 In the 1st one, the second hand is pointing at the top of the clock, in the 2nd it's pointing at the bottom. Are these two...
Ink & Switch
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
a year ago
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Array 1.34.0 PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for...
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PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for projects, smart names for all insights, an entire Data Management tool as well as support for horizontal scalability!
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How we’re making PostHog deployments easier When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a...
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When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a PostgreSQL datastore. Troubleshooting was easy, while…
TokyoDev
Generating social images with static site generators With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their...
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With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their career in Japan. Being a developer myself, it's been tempting to come up with technical solutions to do this. But I've realized that rather than writing code, my time is better...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Just Build Websites Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of...
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Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of golf-related brands on social media as a guilty pleasure. The other day an image surfaced on Taylormade’s account which showcases Tommy Fleetwood playing some of their newest...
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...
A Beautiful Site
Smaller volume increments in macOS Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You...
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Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You already know you can increase and decrease your Mac's volume with the keyboard, but sometimes the intervals are a bit too much. I usually end up adjusting my external speakers just to...
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The Meta-Creator Ceiling Don't play games you don't want to win.
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Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
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When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
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PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS 2021-06-20 Overall, I’m fairly impressed with the user interface...
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PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS 2021-06-20 Overall, I’m fairly impressed with the user interface design of Sony’s PS4 system OS. It’s minimal and keeps the content front and center. Even with it’s sometimes spotty performance hiccups, I’ve come to enjoy interacting with it. One of...
A Smart Bear
Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But...
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How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But these guiding questions can help.
Irrational...
Wardley mapping the LLM ecosystem. In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company, Theoretical Ride...
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In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company, Theoretical Ride Sharing, should adopt Large Language Models (LLMs). Part of that strategy’s diagnosis depends on understanding the expected evolution of the LLM ecosystem, which we’ve build a...
alexwlchan
Fare-Wellcome Collection I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was...
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I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was living and working in the Cambridge at the time, and I’d come into London for the day to hang out with a friend who lived near King’s Cross. We wandered up the Euston Road, popped...
37signals Dev
Homographic Spoofing: a new Ruby toolkit What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters,...
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What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters, but are different. For example, the letters “l” and “ӏ” (Cyrrilic “ӏ”) look the same but are different characters. A homograph attack is a phishing attack where the attacker uses...
alexwlchan
Getting alerts about flaky ECS tasks in Slack At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services. ECS is a container...
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At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services. ECS is a container orchestrator, similar to Kubernetes: we tell it what Docker images we want to run in what configuration, and it stops or starts containers to match. If a container stops unexpectedly, ECS...
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Write My Code For Me _My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a...
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_My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a gist](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/6f97b9d7f3efbfad4c8e5b8a14b5bd27)_
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The Early Days of GitLab - A Chat with Sid Sijbrandij It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is...
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It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is that many of the most successful founders will find…