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Eric Bailey
Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Finding books in nearby library branches I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing...
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over a year ago
I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing from the library keeps the habit sustainable. It also saves a fair bit of money, and I don’t have to decide what to do with books when I’m done. Recently, I built a tool to help me...
A Smart Bear
Enough with the "expert" guilt Tired of being told you need "10,000 hours" before you can call yourself an "expert," and maybe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tired of being told you need "10,000 hours" before you can call yourself an "expert," and maybe become a "success?" Maybe you don't.
Steve Klabnik
Going vimgan
over a year ago
somenice
Procedural “Trees” using Blender Geometry Nodes I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using Instances on Points. I started with a 60 x 60 grid of curves, made into spirals and animated with a Noise texture. This ended up creating 8.3 Million faces and took 12 hours to...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
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over a year ago
When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written. Here’s a typical case: #if defined (_MSC_VER) // code specific to Visual Studio compiler #endif To perform those checks you need to check...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Platinum Rule You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum and Silver Rules.
Blog of Simple...
The path to 1M ARR - May Update
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
over a year ago
charity.wtf
In Praise of “Normal” Engineers This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February...
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This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engineering teams” . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the...
David Crawshaw
2015-01-11 while (1) { A0.set(); A0.reset(); } www.espruino.com/Performance
over a year ago
Irrational...
Eng org seniority-mix model. One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company maintains their current margin and grows revenue at 25-30%, or they instead grow slower and increase their free cash flow year over year. In many organizations, engineering costs have a...
A Beautiful Site
Generate random passwords in PHP Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
Acko.net
React - The Missing Parts Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a popular library's patterns is that you can experiment with all sorts of changes. In my case, I have a React-clone, Live, which includes all the familiar basics: props, state and...
Maggie Appleton
November 2022
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 002: Making a new medium and other recaps It’s always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our work are ongoing journeys. So, in this end of the year dispatch we wanted to share some recaps and talk a bit about one of our longest standing research tracks: programmable ink.
Dan Slimmon
3 questions that will make you a phenomenal rubber duck As a Postgres reliability consultant and SRE, I’ve spent many hours being a rubber duck. Now I...
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a year ago
As a Postgres reliability consultant and SRE, I’ve spent many hours being a rubber duck. Now I outperform even the incisive bath toy. “Rubber duck debugging” is a widespread, tongue-in-cheek term for the practice of explaining, out-loud, a difficult problem that you’re stumped...
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Are An Investment It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design...
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a year ago
It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design system, especially in terms of salaries and development time. It's even easier to target a design system as the thing that's holding up a product from getting delivered. The truth...
A Smart Bear
Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead...
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9 months ago
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead you astray.
A Smart Bear
Never say "no," but rarely say "yes." "Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes"...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025 Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
6 months ago
Irrational...
Safe defaults. Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice rankled a colleague. He wanted to spin up a new engineering team of two people, which I thought was a bad idea. It would be a fragile team that would fall apart quickly if it...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-15 "The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student...
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over a year ago
"The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a...
Yale e360
Building a digital vigil for those we've lost This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is presumptively a tech blog, and this piece is about so much more than technology. But it's important. Making things, software or otherwise, is ultimately about people. One of the ways I...
The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Tech Layoffs in 2022 I get a lot of scoop sent by readers (thank you!). Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I get a lot of scoop sent by readers (thank you!). Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about companies laying off people. Some of this scoop has not been reported before. I don't want to broadcast layoffs on Twitter or LinkedIn continuously, but also
Blog - Bitfield...
Catching grace Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.
Eric Bailey
A year at GitHub I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its...
a year ago
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a year ago
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its design system. The hope here is that the work done there eventually makes its way to the site itself. It still feels surreal to have this job. I still vividly remember learning that...
Eric Bailey
Web components still need to be accessible
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Want to help your hometown? Pack up and leave * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve done a lot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve done a lot of traveling [https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] throughout my journey with Buffer. I started in the UK, and since then I’ve lived in Hong...
macwright.com
Recently Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories. Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
David Heinemeier...
What is HiFi I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless...
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a year ago
I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless stream of speakers, amplifiers, turntables, and TVs passed through the household. And all of it had to be tested, of course. At max volume. Sometimes at odd hours. While that was...
Seldo.com
Biographies of every US president as audiobooks
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 02 · Writing prose Writers of books, blog posts, and science papers could benefit from powerful version control.
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
It’s Humans All the Way Down On the Aboard podcast, Paul Ford half-jokingly notes that everybody thinks everyone else’s job is...
a year ago
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a year ago
On the Aboard podcast, Paul Ford half-jokingly notes that everybody thinks everyone else’s job is easy. That’s why “AI” is going to replace so many people. Here’s Paul articulating this line of thiking: What is a lawyer? A lawyer is somebody who moves contracts around. Well, a...
bt RSS Feed
Do You Have an Extra $10? Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it’s a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it’s a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it’s an impulse buy while we’re out shopping for...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Market Yourself Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market Yourself in Public + at Work.
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2025 Recap In 2023 I attended RubyKaigi for the first time and also wrote my first recap, which I’m pleased to...
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In 2023 I attended RubyKaigi for the first time and also wrote my first recap, which I’m pleased to say was well-received! This was my third time attending RubyKaigi, and I was once again really impressed with the event. I’m eternally grateful to the conference organizers, local...
Founder's blog
Please stop using Any() for C# Lists and Arrays I'm here to talk about C# performance optimization (again). And about why you should stop using the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I'm here to talk about C# performance optimization (again). And about why you should stop using the .Any() LINQ method with Lists and Arrays and embrace the old-school .Count and .Length instead. Don't want to point any fingers, but I see people do it all the time, even in...
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
a year ago
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a year ago
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
Kagi Blog
Updates to Kagi pricing plans - More searches, unrestricted AI tools We are thrilled to announce significant enhancements to our pricing plans, taking effect...
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
When should a decision be fast, or slow? Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really is smarter to take your time. Here's how to decide.
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
a year ago
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a year ago
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
Eric Bailey
Multipage Version Zine, Issue 1 I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine. The zine is about HTML...
a year ago
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a year ago
I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine. The zine is about HTML elements, and is intended to be printed out as physical media. It was a ton of fun to make, and so refreshing to get back to print media design for a bit. Here are the two pages I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Novels as Prototypes of the Future Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine): A novel…is a prototype...
a year ago
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a year ago
Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine): A novel…is a prototype of the future. And if the ideas that the tech industry is pursuing feel stagnant…maybe it points to a shortage of compelling fictions for what the world could be. I love that...
Eric Bailey
These three links spell out a big uh oh for where things are headed when placed in context with each... Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal - 404 Media Thread by...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal - 404 Media Thread by stillorangecrushed - Thread Reader App AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense - Nature
Josh Comeau's blog
Animating the Unanimatable An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items in a list swap positions.
Liz Denys
Dan dan mian, the clearly Not Chinese way Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This isn't it. In fact, I've never actually made it because I couldn't acquire all of the ingredients without going out of my way. Also, I don't really like committing to making a certain...
Nelson's Weblog
Restic Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local...
a year ago
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a year ago
Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local and remote options. It is well documented, easy to set up, secure, and quite fast. It’s a very professional product. I am now backing up all my Linux systems with it. Note it’s a...
Grant Slatton
Culture is a set of social Schelling points Solving coordination problems in community-building
8 months ago
Julia Evans
Reasons to use your shell's job control Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me think about how I don’t use my shell’s job control interactively very often: usually I prefer to just open a new terminal tab if I want to run multiple terminal programs, or use tmux...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Setting Your Social Handle as Your Domain Name on Bluesky I recently got an invite to Bluesy (thx JJ). I wanted to try it purely for the satisfaction of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently got an invite to Bluesy (thx JJ). I wanted to try it purely for the satisfaction of setting my domain name as my handle, as I’m fan of the idea of apex domain’s becoming the currency of online handles. As I once tweeted: domains are the OG handles. Granted, I own...
Vadim Kravcenko
Networking as an introvert CTO There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like...
a year ago
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a year ago
There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like a fish […] The post Networking as an introvert CTO appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
David Heinemeier...
Google's sad ideological capture was exactly what we were trying to avoid The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the smartest acquisitions in tech when they bought DeepMind in 2014. They helped set the course for the modern AI movement with the Transformer paper in 2017. They were poised to be right...
Steve Klabnik
The CXX Debate
over a year ago
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even...
over a year ago
wingolog
needed-bits optimizations in guile Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you. First, though, some background. ...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you. First, though, some background. Guile’s numeric operations are defined over the complex numbers, not over e.g. a finite field of integers. This is generally great when writing an algorithm, because you don’t have...
TokyoDev
Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012) I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already [another Rubyist here](https://twitter.com/igaiga555/status/247511186394972160). Five minutes before, I met [another one](https://twitter.com/yotii23) walking down the street. Last...
Liz Denys
Where books travel i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen years ago, but at a higher premium," and deeply internalize my physical constraints for the next six hours. A small box outlined by my seat, the side of the plane with its tiny...
Irrational...
Balancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering. There are so many stories of hiring a new executive who comes in and wreaks havoc. I’ve seen...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are so many stories of hiring a new executive who comes in and wreaks havoc. I’ve seen engineering leaders start with a giant, doomed migration, marketing leaders who accelerate expenses until they necessitate a round of layoffs, and a number of executives fired in their...
Vadim Kravcenko
What does a CTO actually do? In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small...
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a year ago
In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small […] The post What does a CTO actually do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel on Software
Kinda a big announcement The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I...
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over a year ago
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Nabbing macOS Icon Artwork I keep a personal collection of beautiful macOS app icons, which might make you ask: “How does he...
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7 months ago
I keep a personal collection of beautiful macOS app icons, which might make you ask: “How does he get those icons?” Apps in the App Store For apps in the Mac App Store, I have my ways. I don’t necessarily want to write about them because I’m semi-afraid Apple would frown on my...
Maggie Appleton
The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Find Podcasts That Have Been Deleted TLDR, https://megaphone.spotify.com/ rehosts all mp3s
over a year ago
Yale e360
Impact of remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this morning: Ooh, a high severity remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain? On the one hand, I'm not entirely shocked that a framework that includes the ability to run LLM-generated code...
Eric Bailey
Where do you start measuring distance from when the origin is the bottom of a block of text? To frame this post, I’d like to share a tweet by Irina Bednova: Apparently everyone in our team...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To frame this post, I’d like to share a tweet by Irina Bednova: Apparently everyone in our team interpreted "lgtm" in Github reviews differently. The interpretation were: - Lets get this merged - Looks good to me - Legitimate — Irina Bednova (@jafrog) February 1, 2019 This is...
A Beautiful Site
A better way to write config files in PHP How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name...
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over a year ago
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name = 'somedb'; $db_user = 'someuser'; $db_pass = 'somepass'; Then, of course, it gets included and the variables are referenced as globals: include('config.php'); echo $db_host; //...
A small freedom area...
GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I was minding my own business having fun writing integer arithmetic code. Life was good, when suddenly… zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped). That code wasn't messing with memory much...
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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a year ago
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...
Remains of the Day
Smoke and Mirrors “When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy,...
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over a year ago
“When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy, you’re standing up to the robe that he’s wearing and the role that he’s going to play. What makes him worthy of that role is his integrity, as a representative of the principles of...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Druid Contrary to what the names might suggest, ClickHouse isn’t an TikTok influencer house and Druid...
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over a year ago
Contrary to what the names might suggest, ClickHouse isn’t an TikTok influencer house and Druid isn’t (just) a D&D character class – they're both…
Making software...
Using Multiple CSS Background Images Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very...
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over a year ago
Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very often, but you can set multiple background images on a single element. Example: .element { background: url('image_path') center repeat, linear-gradient(transparent 0%, #000...
Ink & Switch
Thinking with ink, spreadsheets for exploring scenarios, and a local-first key agreement protocol A project from our programmable ink track, a spreadsheet for exploring scenarios, and a new...
5 months ago
Yale e360
Write more "useless" software After my last blog post about Hurl, someone asked me, and I quote: "... why?" The simple answer is...
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over a year ago
After my last blog post about Hurl, someone asked me, and I quote: "... why?" The simple answer is "for the joke." But the longer answer is that useless software1 is a fantastic way to explore and experience the joy of computing. Play is an important part of exploration and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
"No Code" vs RPA RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real differences and I am trying to note them down here.
Alex Meub
The Holy Grail of IE Testing I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This...
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over a year ago
I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This setup allows you to test authentic versions of IE6, IE7, and IE8 without the need to boot up virtual machines. It also allows you to have a debug bar in each of these versions so...
David Crawshaw
2014-07-28
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 11 · Universal comments We experiment with adding a universal comment system that works across different apps.
11 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles 2021-11-09 This website almost exclusively uses the...
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over a year ago
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles 2021-11-09 This website almost exclusively uses the browser’s (whichever one that might be) default styling to render it’s HTML. I firmly believe, and have stated in a previous post, that the default HTML styling across all browsers...
David Crawshaw
2015-12-15
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #14 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Tinker, Tamper,...
KY-040 Rotary Encoder with Linux on the Raspberry Pi For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a...
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over a year ago
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a numerical value. So I bought some rotary encoders off Amazon.If you search the Internet for information/tutorials on how to use a “KY-040” rotary encoder with Linux and the Raspberry...
A Smart Bear
The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
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over a year ago
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript Large web pages, especially documentation, benefit from having a table of contents for navigating...
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Large web pages, especially documentation, benefit from having a table of contents for navigating within document. This article describes how I implemented a compact table of contents for documentation page for my Edna note taking application as well as for this very blog. I was...
bt RSS Feed
Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I’m going to quickly breakdown the update I’ve...
bt RSS Feed
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
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over a year ago
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a...
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
A Beautiful Site
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
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I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
MMapped blog
Static types are for perfectionists
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Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
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Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
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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...
TokyoDev
How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in Japan At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard...
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At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard Chin](https://twitter.com/lchin) gave a presentation entitled "How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in a Foreign Land". Although the presentation is for a Japanese audience, it is based on his experience...
Liz Denys
Early one morning The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
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David Heinemeier...
Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle...
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By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I've never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years....
Maggie Appleton
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual...
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Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web?
A Smart Bear
Being who you are, while becoming better We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means...
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We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means striving to become better? What is "yourself?"
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The sound of silence Thoughts on being in my head
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for...
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I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective. The app SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently looks like this: The...
Yale e360
Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we...
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I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we have in place and something clicked for why they feel so wrong despite being so prevalent. I'm not sure what any solutions look like yet, but outlining a problem is the first step,...
Making software...
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice...
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Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice in web design, but many times it requires JavaScript to properly implement. Fortunately it is possible to create tabbed content with only using CSS. Live CodePen...
Alex MacCaw
Artificial Knowledge Creation How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
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How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
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The most interesting GDPR fines
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My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset 4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my...
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4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024, and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script, I have Outstanding Episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am...
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.
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Why TurboRepo Will Be The First Big Trend of 2022 TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on,...
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TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on, bringing 85% faster build speeds and great architecture/docs/marketing.
A Beautiful Site
Dynamic Slots Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
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Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with them? Here's an interesting technique to use (or abuse) slots in your custom elements. I've been calling the pattern dynamic slots. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at how...
Ralph Ammer
How to see beauty Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was...
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Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was alive with chatter and the joy of yet another sunny day ahead. I made my way through tourists, neighbourhood regulars and other early birds. To escape the buzz, I stepped into the...
TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev...
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この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
Maggie Appleton
Joining Ought A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning
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Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a chore: 1....
TokyoDev
Rakuten and Globalization Hiroshi Mikitani started [Rakuten's Technology Conference] in English, but quickly switched to...
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Hiroshi Mikitani started [Rakuten's Technology Conference] in English, but quickly switched to Japanese. He claimed there was a strong demand from the Japanese participants for him to present in Japanese. This shows how much work ahead of him he has if Rakuten is going to meet...
A Beautiful Site
The difference between web designers and web developers If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
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If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six...
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Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls! There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
Acko.net
On Variance and Extensibility Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very...
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Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are...
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Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are as similar as grapes and grapefruit. ClickHouse…
Paolo Amoroso's...
Wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project <![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in...
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<![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in time as hoped. I accomplished the initial goal of extending NoteCards to visit websites. This is my Linux desktop after traversing a NoteCards link to a Web card which opened the...
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HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode...
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HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode where I explained how to implement a very basic “dark mode” by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute. This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
Steve Klabnik
We forget that open source is made of people
over a year ago
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
MMapped blog
IC internals: XNet protocol
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
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The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
Quentin Santos
Reproducing Espressif’s reset circuit I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily...
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I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily update the code on an Espressif microcontroller. There are actually more subtleties than a quick look would suggest, and I spent a fair bit of time investigating them. This article and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The iOS App Icon Book” in Japanese Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in...
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Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in print, well that’s pretty damn exciting too. Such was the feeling when I opened my copy of the Japanese translation of The iOS App Icon Book. While the core idea of the book...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's...
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I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the...
Yale e360
Avoid multitasking to write better code Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a...
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Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a second thing done? Why not fill those five seconds while your code compiles with reading an article about the latest web frameworks? In fact, multitasking is hiding everywhere in...
the singularity is...
Online Dating Is anyone having a good experience with this? What would it take to fix this? I investigate. First...
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Is anyone having a good experience with this? What would it take to fix this? I investigate. First off, you need a business model that isn’t mobile gaming. A monthly fee. Even better, you have a great thing to “sin tax.” Single men. Charge men money per month. Only men. Every...
Alex MacCaw
The Great CEO Within It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very...
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It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very fortunate to be involved in this project. This is the best book I've read on making the journey from founder to CEO.
General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Part 2: What do you need to invent? I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the...
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I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of lessons learned so...
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
over a year ago
Making software...
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...
David Gerrells
never give up Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
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Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
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Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung...
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Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung 27” UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn’t a bad setup, but I have since...
Engineer’s Codex
The most valuable trait of great software engineers A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable...
a year ago
David Crawshaw
Zero Trust Networks Zero Trust Networks 2019-09-10 I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next...
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Zero Trust Networks 2019-09-10 I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next engineer, but there comes a point where there are just too many precise, narrowly-understood terms polluting your vocabulary. The circle of people you can talk to shrinks until going to...
A Beautiful Site
Empowering Design System Users The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite...
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The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite a bit. For example, if a button spec only calls for primary, secondary, and tertiary variants, should we still expose parts and custom properties so users can make further...
ByteofDev
Top 5 Alternatives to React in 2023 Currently, React is extremely popular, and for good reasons. It is simple and concise. However,...
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Currently, React is extremely popular, and for good reasons. It is simple and concise. However, looking at some alternatives is a good idea too.
Irrational...
How to integrate Stripe's acquisition of Index? (2018) While discussions around acquisitions often focus on technical diligence and deciding whether to...
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While discussions around acquisitions often focus on technical diligence and deciding whether to make the acquisition, the integration that follows afterwards can be even more complex. There are few irreversible trapdoor decisions in engineering, but decisions made early in an...
Oxide Computer...
Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and...
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Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and HPC Convergence Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a plan to bring on-premises cloud computing capabilities to the Livermore...
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Keynote Slides with Pure CSS Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
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Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple’s Keynote, etc....
Eric Bailey
Don't Use The Placeholder Attribute
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
The Book of Change Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book. The post The Book...
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Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book. The post The Book of Change appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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Every Web Performance Test Tool Check your site's speed quickly with a battery of tests
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Magic machines There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to...
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There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to computers run by anyone but themselves. Perhaps it's a corollary to imposter syndrome, which leads programmers to believe that if a computer is operated by AWS or SaaS or literally...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Webkit’s New Color Picker as an Example of Good Platform Defaults I’ve written about how I don’t love the idea of overriding basic computing controls. Instead, I...
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I’ve written about how I don’t love the idea of overriding basic computing controls. Instead, I generally favor opting to respect user choice and provide the controls their platform does. Of course, this means platforms need to surface better primitives rather than supplying...
Irrational...
Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement. Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity...
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Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools, which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time: Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learn Instrumenting metrics...
Liz Denys
Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The...
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Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The original signs announcing this ban only stated it in English. I'm in Streetsblog today with a piece about why reversing this arbitrary ban is a matter of equity: Over Memorial Day...
Vadim Kravcenko
🥇 The unfair advantage 🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […] The...
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🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […] The post 🥇 The unfair advantage appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: on the side * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while ago I wrote about one of the ways I think people could bootstrap a startup from zero funds. I called it "working in waves" [https://joel.is/post/2106915988/bootstrapping-waves]. Of...
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Website Backups with Apple iCloud Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really...
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Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really well with my iPhone SE (they are in the same ecosystem after all - duh!). Since both of these devices are Apple products, it makes sense that I pay for the optional iCloud service...
David Heinemeier...
Automattic is doing open source dirty Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to...
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Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to WordPress is a wanton violation of general open source ideals and the specifics of the GPL license. Automattic is completely out of line, and the potential damage to the open source world...
Making software...
Stop Using Hamburger Menus Stop Using Hamburger Menus 2023-05-04 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus...
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Stop Using Hamburger Menus 2023-05-04 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don't actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep using them in...
Engineer’s Codex
A simple software engineering productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These...
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a year ago
A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no, reaching flow state faster, and keeping a big book of commands handy.
Joel Gascoigne
Zero notifications * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
Yale e360
Work on tasks, not stories One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the...
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a year ago
One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the smallest unit of work2. That a ticket should almost always be a story, because that means it's something that delivers concrete value to the users. There are some cases in which this...
David Heinemeier...
Optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it...
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10 months ago
A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it might materially lower their payroll for programmers. If a company currently needs 10 programmers to do a job, each have a cost of $200,000/year, then that's a $2m/year problem. If AI...
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Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need
over a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away From a Monolith 4 lessons from Airbnb's scaling strategy, with comparisons to other big tech companies
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
A user interface is like a joke When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good...
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When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good rule of thumb: A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good. And I've heard some websites tell pretty bad jokes...
HTMHell
#22 the good ol’ div link Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div...
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Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div onClick="location.href='about.html'"> About us </div> <div data-page="aboutus" data-url="index.php"> About us </div> …or any other variation of this pattern where an element other than <a> is used to link to a...
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
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Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Alex Meub
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
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My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
tonsky.me
Where Should Visual Programming Go? There’s a wonderful article by Sebastian Bensusan: “We need visual programming. No, not like that.”...
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There’s a wonderful article by Sebastian Bensusan: “We need visual programming. No, not like that.” (the dot is part of the title ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). In it, Sebastian argues that we shouldn’t try to replace all code with visual programming but instead only add graphics where it makes...
David Heinemeier...
Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the...
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a year ago
I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the decades working in software. And mostly, I look at people with a passionate preference and smile. Isn't it great that people care so much about their craft that they volunteer to...
David Heinemeier...
You can own more than one type of computer! I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they...
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a year ago
I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they were killing progressive web apps (PWAs) on the iPhone in the EU. Most people don't switch operating systems willy-nilly, and for good reason: They're different! And different is...
Don Melton
Sorry, we’re closed For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will...
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For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will remain online for now, but I don’t plan on returning to write anything new here. Not that I’ve added any content in almost two years anyway. I still have a passion for making...
David Crawshaw
Go 1.13: xerrors Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection...
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Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection proposal The error inspection proposal adds several features to errors that have been tried elsewhere (in packages such as ), with some new implementation tricks. The proposal has...
TokyoDev
Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a...
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It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a result, Japan needs more international developers. However, most Japanese companies aren’t interested in hiring new graduates from overseas. While it’s easier than in some countries,...
David Crawshaw
2016-02-10 "Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody...
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"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so...
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_Published on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/09/26/git-centric-workflow-the-one-api-to-rule-them-all/)_
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We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it...
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Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it takes our remote BuildKite-based continuous integration setup about 5m30s to verify a code change is ready to ship for HEY. My Intel 14900K-based Linux box can do that in less than...
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Why I don&#x27;t shield my team from bad news I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite...
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I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and other negative aspects that are inevitable on
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Ban std::string The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like...
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The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like heresy and you want to burn me at stake. But is it really controversial? Java, C#, Go, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP: they all have immutable strings that are basically 2 machine words:...
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The 2020 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2020, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan to better paint a...
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In November 2020, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan to better paint a picture of what the typical foreign developer life is like. [The results are now live](/insights/2020-developer-survey), please check them out! With 362 people responding, I...
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How to turn your engineers into product people Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our...
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Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our engineers are encouraged to think about the what and…
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Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
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Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn’t bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
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Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
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Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I’ve...
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Revisiting FOUCE It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I...
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It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I think is worth a post. This approach is similar to hiding the page content and then fading it in, but I've noticed it's far less distracting without the fade. It also adds a two...
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Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
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If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
Epic Web Dev
The Golden Rule of Assertions (article) Learn about The Golden Rule of Assertions that helps pinpoint good tests from bad ones.
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Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
The Pragmatic...
Github Copilot and ChatGPT alternatives There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other...
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There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other popular, promising options.
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[Renovated] Programmer's guide to polynomials and splines This is a brief introduction into polynomials. From how to make a polynomial run through your set of...
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This is a brief introduction into polynomials. From how to make a polynomial run through your set of points to how to make it into a spline.
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Netlify Environment Variables We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally...
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We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally configure your environments as well?
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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...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
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Building a container orchestrator Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and...
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Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
General Robots
How to Pick a Problem So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually...
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So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually it’s going to do all kinds of things. But right now it doesn’t do anything. What do you try first? In this post we’ll talk about the various pitfalls to avoid when choosing your...
Computer Things
What are the Rosettas of formal specification? First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release...
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First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release notes in the footnote.1 I've been thinking about my next project after the book's done. One idea is to do a survey of new formal specification languages. There's been a lot of new...
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Bandcamp wrapped I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside...
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I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s great and has been working well for me. Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games (?) and then acquired...
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Finding Free Food with Python
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TokyoDev
Keeping your job board legal in Japan I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in...
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I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in Japan](/articles/recruiting-in-japan), and because of this, [you need to be careful](/articles/legally-operating-a-job-board-in-japan) about how you operate your job board to ensure it isn't classified as...
Yale e360
The bittersweet end of a year of independence Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
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Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
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Why software projects fail Question: Answer: The post Why software projects fail appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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A Smart Bear
Legacy Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
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Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
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Fixing long start-up times of the Eleventy dev server Recently, I've encountered a peculiar issue with Eleventy. The development server stopped...
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Recently, I've encountered a peculiar issue with Eleventy. The development server stopped working: eleventy --serve [11ty] Wrote 92 files in 0.48 seconds (5.2ms each, v1.0.2) [11ty] Watching… There were no errors. Everything seemed fine, except for the dev server not being...
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Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting...
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Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting over my wife’s small business website (built off of WordPress + Woocommerce) from EasyWP to NearlyFreeSpeech. Although the process was fairly easy-going, I thought I would post my...
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Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good Google search is in the news.
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Phanpy, a Mastodon client Phanpy is good software for reading Mastodon or other Fediverse posts. Astonishingly it’s an open...
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Phanpy is good software for reading Mastodon or other Fediverse posts. Astonishingly it’s an open source passion project from a single developer, Chee Aun. Its quality is extraordinary, better than most commercial social media software. There’s so many good things about Phanpy...
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Disrupt the Government I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by...
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I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides. The key thing the government is supposed to be able to do is infrastructure. Most of the wealth that we give to...
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Terminology isn't universal A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead. I...
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A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead. I stand by my argument in general, but it also has another side to it: my suggested terminology makes sense in some domains, but not in all domains. And that's because terminology...
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Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
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Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, which might lead to inconsistencies between different environments. In this post I will present the behavior of npm 7.15.1 and Yarn...
Sometimes It Works...
2023: The Rollercoaster Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal...
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Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal Things This year has been quite a ride! 🎢 It's felt like the first real year since 2020 that things have been somewhat "normal". However, looking back, it's been anything but...
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When to give up Most of our cultural virtues, celebrated heroes, and catchy slogans align with the idea of "never...
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Most of our cultural virtues, celebrated heroes, and catchy slogans align with the idea of "never give up". That's a good default! Most people are inclined to give up too easily, as soon as the going gets hard. But it's also worth remembering that sometimes you really should...
Joel on Software
Progress on the Block Protocol Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
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Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
Yale e360
Making progress on side projects with content-driven development It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the...
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It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the bright future of the project. Then somewhere in the middle, we get stuck in lists of tasks to do, a long way in and still a long way from the finish line. This happens to me as much as...
Dan Slimmon
Incident SEV scales are a waste of time Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their...
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Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their severity scale. “The first thing we do is we assign a severity to the incident,” they’ll say, “so the right people will get notified.” And this is sensible. In order to figure out...
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Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
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We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2023 I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with...
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I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with that number, although overall I found it a slightly disappointing year for reading. Although I read more books, there were less that I really loved – less of the sort of book that...
Grant Slatton
"Passage" A poem
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David Heinemeier...
The spells are spent They just don't work any more, those baseless accusations that anyone we disagree with is a racist,...
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They just don't work any more, those baseless accusations that anyone we disagree with is a racist, misogynist, fascist. After being invoked in en masse and in vain for the better part of the past decade, their power to shock and awe is finally gone. All that's left is a weak...
Ralph Ammer
Immanuel Kant—What can we know? If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there...
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If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple question: “What can we know?“ And his answer is foundational to how we experience and...
Basta’s Notes
🌈 Pride 2023 #1: Miles As a gay man, I am uniquely qualified to provide these details
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Oxide Computer...
Compensation as a Reflection of Values Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in...
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Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
Blog of Simple...
What is PHI under HIPAA?
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Ink & Switch
07 · AI bots in version control Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
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Liz Denys
Route: annoying insurance upsell or online shopping data aggregator? I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart...
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I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart when I purchase things online: I went partially through the checkout flow of a shop that uses Route with a $278 item I have no interest in purchasing to illustrate this...
TokyoDev
There’s No Place Like Home: Finding an Apartment in Japan What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor...
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What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor give a moving-in quote of 600,000 yen for an apartment that costs 80,000 yen a month to rent? Why does my apartment not have lights, curtains, or even a stove? Am I getting ripped...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fri. March 8, 2024: Inkbase demos A few quick demos of Inkbase
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Yale e360
Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
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This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together. It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends. But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
alexwlchan
Hyperfocus and hobbies &rarr; One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it...
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One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it affects my cross-stitch. I’m really proud of this one, and I hope you’ll consider reading. Writing for Stories was one of my “bucket list” items while working at Wellcome, and I...
blag
Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
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Eric Bailey
CSS is a Strongly Typed Language
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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...
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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).
A Smart Bear
Why I feel like a fraud (Impostor Syndrome) Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause,...
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Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
A Smart Bear
The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but...
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According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
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How to switch from Tmux to WezTerm Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
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Liz Denys
Recruitment is hard. Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's...
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over a year ago
Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's also the kind of thing that is challenging: it's complicated, it's tiring, and it's personal. Even if the {company, organization, student group} you're recruiting for has...
alexwlchan
Adding locations to my photos from my Apple Watch workouts A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest...
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A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest Slovenia. It’s a very photogenic landscape, so I was taking some pictures with my “nice” camera. It’s an Olympus that takes better photos than my iPhone, but it’s quite old and it doesn’t have...
bt RSS Feed
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been...
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over a year ago
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I’ve officially switched back over to Jekyll. I’m not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I’ll...
The Changelog
Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been...
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Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of...
Steve Klabnik
Introducing issue2pr
over a year ago
Contraption Co.
How I use data to optimize AI apps A video collaboration between Find AI and Velvet
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Be Mindful of What You Make Easy Carson Gross has a post about vendoring which brought back memories of how I used to build websites...
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Carson Gross has a post about vendoring which brought back memories of how I used to build websites in ye olden days, back in the dark times before npm. “Vendoring” is where you copy dependency source files directly into your project (usually in a folder called /vendor) and then...
Josh Collinsworth
Breaking changes in SvelteKit, August 2022 SvelteKit introduced breaking changes to its routing and data loading in August 2022. Learn how to...
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SvelteKit introduced breaking changes to its routing and data loading in August 2022. Learn how to convert from the old way of doing things to the new.
HTMHell
#34 a button is not a link Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target...
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Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target description</button> Issues and how to fix them A button opening a link will be unexpected behavior for screen reader users. No matter how it is styled. Links disguised as buttons...
Liz Denys
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really...
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There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really makes it feel like the Christmas season (or maybe I just like having excuses to bake). Before leaving New York for holidays with the family in Chicago, I made candy cane brownie...
blag
How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how...
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In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how to configure git emails per directory or per project.
ntietz.com blog -...
Stewardship over ownership Code ownership is a popular concept, but it emphasizes the wrong thing. It can bring out the worst...
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Code ownership is a popular concept, but it emphasizes the wrong thing. It can bring out the worst in a person or a team: defensiveness, control-seeking, power struggles. Instead, we should be focusing on stewardship. How code ownership manifests Code ownership as a concept means...
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Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain The case for having a -Public- Second Brain, and why I picked Obsidian.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Navigations on the Web When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of...
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When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are not. That can take you pretty far. However, like most things, there’s nuance and that mental model can fall apart under certain...
Ink & Switch
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A geek feminism anecdote Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't...
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Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't intended to be about a specific topic - it's just full of what I feel like writing at the time. Perhaps, more technical things will follow in the future. Some friends and I randomly...
Josh Collinsworth
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
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No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
bt RSS Feed
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create...
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RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box and loved the simplicity of it. I’m a sucker for using pseudo elements in creative ways but still managing to make them useful. Of course, this got me...
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The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and...
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Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and 13.0. In late June this year it was Version 13.1. And now we’re releasing Version 13.2. We continue to have a huge pipeline of R&D, some short term, some medium term, some long term...
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The Musk Algorithm Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book....
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Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best business books, it's not merely an instruction manual, but an inspirational guide too. Not since reading Ricardo Semler's Maverick in the early 2000s have I...
Sometimes It Works...
Simon Shares I've started a little podcast! If you give it a listen, I'd love to know what you think.
a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 6: B Tree Root B Tree Root: how would you design it?
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A Beautiful Site
A clean fade-in effect for webpages Here's a nice way to fade your pages in using CSS and a bit of JavaScript. The solution is clean and...
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Here's a nice way to fade your pages in using CSS and a bit of JavaScript. The solution is clean and smooth, with no flickering on load. If JavaScript is disabled, the page will still load but the fade effect will not occur. How it works # This trick works by adding the fade-out...
Steve Klabnik
Some people understand REST and HTTP
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully...
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The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully photographed circuit board as this month’s entry.
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J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson...
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A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist. The post J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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Do forgettable work There was a great post about doing unforgettable work. Absolutely. Go above and beyond. Do what’s...
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There was a great post about doing unforgettable work. Absolutely. Go above and beyond. Do what’s right. But also, do forgettable work. Work that you won’t remember the following week. Do a lot of it. In fact, do at least 30 minutes of utterly forgettable work on something you’re...
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RustLab 2024 I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4...
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I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4 conferences in one year was a bad idea. I was exhausted and overwhelmed, but I still had a blast meeting new people and answering the questions after the talk. It had the following...
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Building an open source data science publishing platform - An interview with Datapane CEO, Leo... (Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations where we chat to our contributors...
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Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes 2018-04-02, David Crawshaw The Go standard library...
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Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes 2018-04-02, David Crawshaw The Go standard library includes , a generic SQL interface. It does a good job of doing exactly what it says it does, providing a generic interface to various SQL database servers. Sometimes that is what you want....
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How to transcribe podcast audio (WhisperX with speaker diarization) I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces...
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I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces (like this one https://huggingface.co/spaces/vumichien/whisper-speaker-diarization) always error out so aren't very useful.
Josh Comeau's blog
Local Testing on an iPhone Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may...
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Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may not be the most exciting topic I've written about, but it's probably one of the most useful!
The Changelog
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
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Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
Blog - Bitfield...
Programming is fun I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about...
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I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about writing and teaching Go. Here’s a transcript of our chat.
Words and Buttons...
Trippy polynomials in arctangent scale This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine...
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This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine and Taylor series work all with animated plots in arctangent scale.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for...
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It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for Hacktoberfest again. I am in the middle of buying…
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Blogpost Annealing Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
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The Pragmatic...
Is the strategy of joining late-stage startups for the financial upside, a dead end? The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO...
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The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO company issuing generous equity, then wait for the IPO. This strategy seems to be less profitable in 2022.
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Spinning Diagrams with CSS
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Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
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Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn't cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
Computer Things
"Logic for Programmers" Project Update Happy new year everyone! I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
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Happy new year everyone! I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's since been four new versions since then, with the November release putting us in beta. Between work and holidays I didn't make much progress in December, but there will be a 0.6...
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It burns The first time we had to evacuate Malibu this season was during the Franklin fire in early December....
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The first time we had to evacuate Malibu this season was during the Franklin fire in early December. We went to bed with our bags packed, thinking they'd probably get it under control. But by 2am, the roaring blades of fire choppers shaking the house got us up. As we sped down...
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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Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
Steve Klabnik
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A Beautiful Site
How to upgrade or downgrade Node.js using npm Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command...
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Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command line using npm. Upgrading to the latest stable version # This will update you to the latest available stable version: sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n...
Dan Slimmon
Podcast: Small Batches with Adam Hawkins I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We...
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I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We discussed a huge variety of topics. Here is the full episode, and on that page you’ll find meticulously timestamped links to specific topics. Check out the rest of Adam’s podcast, it’s...
Eric Bailey
<code>display: contents</code> considered harmful display: contents has a long and storied history when it comes to accessibility. On paper, the...
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display: contents has a long and storied history when it comes to accessibility. On paper, the declaration alters thedisplay qualities of the element it is applied to. It makes the element “disappear,” elevating its child elements to the next level up in the DOM. This sort of...
Josh Comeau's blog
CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
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You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
Alex Meub
Craigslist Alerts with Python I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously...
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I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive. I wanted a simple way to be alerted immediately when an item I was looking for was posted. Craigslist Search Alerts I tried using Craigslist’s built in Search Alert...
Coding Horror
The Great Filter Comes For Us All With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
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With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? teaching the aliens how to exit Vim (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
Steve Klabnik
Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse
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Joel Gascoigne
What can we do right now? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there have been a few occasions at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we’ve hesitated about next steps or thought about spending longer on certain tasks. As a result of my thinking...
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Writing for developers As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the...
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As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the front page of Hacker News . Out of five posts that I…
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The 9 best GA4 alternatives for apps and websites In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4...
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In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) or another provider. This hasn't proved a…
Liz Denys
'First' thoughts on git I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git;...
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I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git; I've certainly already been exposed to git in a variety of ways. I'd always been told that my love of graph theory would convert me over to this different type of version control. I...
A Smart Bear
Limiting Options The winning strategy in Othello is to minimize your opponent's options, rather than maximizing your...
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The winning strategy in Othello is to minimize your opponent's options, rather than maximizing your own. The same principle applies to competitive strategy.
HTMHell
What the slot? by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used...
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by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used to. Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework HTML Web Components: An Example Material web components 1.0 release HTML Web Components are Just JavaScript? Web Components...
Tinloof - Blog
How to dynamically create a sitemap with Sanity and Remix In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and...
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In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and Remix. We’ll learn by following an existing example of a sitemap built for Heavybit’s website, a San Francisco-based VC whose website is built with both technologies. Remix is a React...
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Privacy Monthy January 2024
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog...
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2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog is on Github Issues](https://www.swyx.io/github-cms) and [I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1531330889535602688).
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1 The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be...
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The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be challenging when selecting the right tool We are approaching a period where the traditional boundaries between between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses are overlapping. As...
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
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Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Errors Aren’t All Bad Adam Silver wrote “Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit” which...
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Adam Silver wrote “Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit” which seems like one of those obvious things that needn’t be said, but I’m glad he says it. Have you heard of the “error prevention” heuristic? It means “do everything you can so users...
Stephen Wolfram...
A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
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This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of...
Making software...
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
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Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
Yale e360
It's easier to code review Rust than Python On Monday, I was talking to a friend about programming and I mentioned that I prefer to review Rust...
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On Monday, I was talking to a friend about programming and I mentioned that I prefer to review Rust code over Python code. He asked why, and I had some rambling answer, but I had to take some time to think about it. It boils down to the fact that I can give a much better review...
Making software...
Blogging for 7 Years Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven...
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Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven years ago. In that time, quite a lot has changed in my life both personally and professionally. So, I figured it would be interesting to reflect on these years and document it for...