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Happy New Year: GPT in 500 lines of SQL Translations: Russian This year, the talk of the town was AI and how it can do everything for you. I...
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Translations: Russian This year, the talk of the town was AI and how it can do everything for you. I like it when someone or something does everything for me. To this end, I decided to ask ChatGPT to write my New Year's post: "Hey ChatGPT. Can you implement a large language model...
ntietz.com blog
Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but...
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People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but inefficient state. For example, the taxicab industry: there was little innovation going on in it, and it was stable, but it seemed like it was far from ideal. Along came Uber, intent to...
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The 4 best HIPAA-compliant analytics tools Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal...
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Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal requirements for securing and handling health…
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Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples) Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
a year ago
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a year ago
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.3 released D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the...
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D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the heels of [the previous release][prev], here’s nsnotifyd-2.3. Sorry for causing extra work to my uncountably many users! The nsnotifyd daemon monitors a set of DNS zones and runs a...
Daniel Marino
Why I Still Prefer to Prototype Using Code There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of...
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There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of them over the years. I think these days, most everyone is using Figma, but whatever app you’re using—most of them typically have some sort of prototyping feature. Typically they have...
Confessions of a...
A Selective Survey of Efficient Speculative Decoding Techniques for LLM Inference What is speculative decoding, how it works and what are some of the recent advances in this area?
2 months ago
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Jan 2020 Recap a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
over a year ago
Seán Barry
Understanding TypeScript Generics TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and...
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TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and when to use them.
Josh Comeau's blog
Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker.
Letters of Note
Am I really writing it at all? Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in...
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Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in the world of crime fiction thanks to his creation of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective who stars in many of his stories: The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The...
A Beautiful Site
Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were...
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The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were rotating on a page in the form of a slideshow, fading in and out for a nice, smooth transition. One problem, though: in Internet Explorer 7 (and 6, as it turned out), one of the images...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte reactivity — an inside and out guide I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the foot every now and then when using reactive state. Some of the confusion is due to my prior experience with React, but some points are confusing on their own. Today, I dive into...
MMapped blog
Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
over a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
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over a year ago
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write one…
blag
Recurse Center Day 2: BTree Node This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
the singularity is...
The World’s Computer This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
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This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer. In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
tonsky.me
Local, first, forever So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught...
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So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught my attention: Specifically, this part: But first, some context. What is local-first? For the long version, go to Ink & Switch, who coined the term. Or listen for Peter van...
David Heinemeier...
I could have been happy with Windows After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple....
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After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple. I've simply not been in the market for another computing platform in decades. Sure, I've dabbled a bit here and there, but never with true commitment. It wasn't until Cupertino...
Epic Web Dev
How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
a year ago
A Smart Bear
How annual pre-pay creates an infinite marketing budget Dozens of founders have used this technique to transform the cash-flow of their businesses. Now it's...
5 months ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
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As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired. A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The...
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One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
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Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […] The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Jibran’s Perspective
Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively to manage my knowledge base. I started the day by dumping my thoughts into Logseq. Here they are. These are open questions for now. I plan to investigate this further and try out...
37signals Dev
A happier happy path in Turbo with morphing Last week, we presented in Rails World an upcoming addition to Turbo that uses morphing to offer...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, we presented in Rails World an upcoming addition to Turbo that uses morphing to offer smoother page updates and a simplified broadcasting system. This is the article version of the presentation I delivered. The starting point The traditional server-side full-page...
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Reflecting on YC, 2 years on Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
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Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
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Solving the Quality vs Consistency Tradeoff Every creator wrestles with the tradeoff between quality and consistency. The answer - Default to...
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over a year ago
Every creator wrestles with the tradeoff between quality and consistency. The answer - Default to consistency, and cut scope.
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia API reading list
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Two important and often overlooked aspects of creating a lasting morning routine * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that get up at 5am rule the world" - Robin Sharma Those who know me, know that I love my morning routine. I’m always making adjustments to it, and at its core it revolves around waking...
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Narrow Waists When talking about "Narrow Waists" I should clarify that I'm only referring to the term from the...
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When talking about "Narrow Waists" I should clarify that I'm only referring to the term from the somewhat obscure "Internet Architecture" model of the different technology layers ([my notes here](https://dev.to/swyx/networking-essentials-architecture-and-principles-2g5e)):
Confessions of a...
Disillusioning the Magic of the fork System Call How the kernels implement the fork system call
a month ago
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The most useful B2B SaaS product metrics So, you're building a B2B SaaS product. Everyone knows you've got to measure stuff to succeed. This...
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So, you're building a B2B SaaS product. Everyone knows you've got to measure stuff to succeed. This is not news. What, why, and how? These are the…
A Smart Bear
Tech Support is sales Tech support isn't just troubleshooting; it's the face of your company. Which means it's your brand,...
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Tech support isn't just troubleshooting; it's the face of your company. Which means it's your brand, your positioning, and when it's excellent, it is sales.
swyx's site RSS Feed
[Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine upload I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python...
a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
Clever code is probably the worst code you could write And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
a year ago
Making software...
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big...
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of "brutalist" or minimalist design, so I'm always inspired...
ntietz.com blog
I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009. In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most...
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a year ago
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
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My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
The Changelog
Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an...
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I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an opportunistic mesh that can be deployed privately or as part of a global-scale network. Each node gets a stable IPv6 address (or even an entire /64) that is derived from its public key...
Irrational...
Trying Tailscale. Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...
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Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uber’s contemporaneous security implementation didn’t include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...
Alex Meub
Indeterminate Checkboxes While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can...
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While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can actually have up to four different visual states: checked, unchecked, disabled and indeterminate. What is indeterminate? It’s defined by the W3C this way: If the element’s...
Kevin Chen
Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed checkout clerk, you...
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over a year ago
Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed checkout clerk, you soon realize that half the patrons leave without actually checking out their books! This leaves everyone else scratching their heads when the catalog doesn’t match the shelves....
Ink & Switch
01 · Welcome to the Beehive An introduction to the Beehive project
4 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Netscape support ending in February 2008 On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web...
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On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web browsers effective February 1, 2008. This doesn't come as much of a surprise, considering the significant decline in Netscape's marketshare over the past decade to more competative...
ntietz.com blog
A systematic approach to debugging I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger. It's a frequent occurrence that the weird...
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I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger. It's a frequent occurrence that the weird stuff lands on my desk1 after it goes through another skilled engineer or two. To say my job is substantially "debug the weird shit" would not be an understatement and I'm here...
A Beautiful Site
Superpowers I stumbled upon a short post that intrigued me. In it, the author claims that the cure for boredom...
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I stumbled upon a short post that intrigued me. In it, the author claims that the cure for boredom is superpowers. Not superpowers in the Superman sense, but ones that we can teach ourselves. Learn Photoshop, and you’ll have a superpower. You’ll be able to see what your bedroom...
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How we made feature flags faster and more reliable Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both...
a year ago
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a year ago
Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both your customers and your customer's customers…
Julia Evans
Inside .git Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone...
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Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone requested a text version, so here it is. I added some extra notes too. First, here’s the image. It’s a ~15 word explanation of each part of your .git directory. . You can git clone...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware, November 2024 The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely...
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The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely from 74HC00 NAND gates. Even the D-flip flops are made from NAND gates: Lots and lots of NAND gates… I got to meet the maker, who goes by Cherry Takuan, at the Chiba Institute of...
Ferd.ca
A Commentary on Defining Observability 2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
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2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
A Beautiful Site
Icon Finder: an awesome search engine for icons I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything...
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I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything about it. If you're a web designer or developer who always has use for quality icons — especially ones with GPL or similar licenses — this is the website for you. It's essentially a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense...
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10 months ago
That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense when I read it. But Paul Ford, writing in the Aboard Newsletter, helped it make even more sense in my brain. [AI tools] compress lots and lots of information—text, image, more—in...
Renegade Otter
Death by a thousand microservices The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
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How we monetized our open source devtool So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the...
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So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the resounding applause from devs on GitHub and Hacker…
ntietz.com blog
Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
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Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Aren't Cheap Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
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over a year ago
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they tend to be much more involved. In a post by Nathan Curtis entitled And you thought buttons were easy?, he demonstrates how costs can quickly skyrocket to $1,000,000 when one arm of...
Tinloof - Blog
A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Live Session: How Hyper-Threading (Simultaneous Multithreading) Works — A Microarchitectural... Learn about the microarchitecture implementation of SMT & its performance implications
6 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
Localization with Sanity In this article, we describe how we make it possible to translate content from Sanity and publish...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article, we describe how we make it possible to translate content from Sanity and publish content that is specific to languages/regions.
James Vaughan's blog
College Advice I Would Give My Freshman Self
over a year ago
Alex Meub
A Craigslist Early Notification Exploit I wrote this post on November 23rd, 2020 when I reported the issue via Craigslist’s vulnerability...
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I wrote this post on November 23rd, 2020 when I reported the issue via Craigslist’s vulnerability disclosure process. I didn’t want to publish it until I confirmed the issue was fixed, but it appears to have been fixed on February 28th, 2021 so I am posting it...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
All About That Button, ’Bout That Button In modern SPAs it’s common to immediately escape baked-in browser behaviors. For example, using...
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In modern SPAs it’s common to immediately escape baked-in browser behaviors. For example, using <button> often looks like this: <div> <input type="text" name="q" /> <button type="submit" onClick={(e) => { // Stop the baked-in behavior ...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
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When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written. Here’s a typical case: #if defined (_MSC_VER) // code specific to Visual Studio compiler #endif To perform those checks you need to check...
David Heinemeier...
Challenging the guardians of the paradigm I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
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a year ago
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
macwright.com
Placemark is now open source Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions...
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Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions welcome Placemark is the map editor software-as-a-service that I built for several years. It’s a website where you can import, create, edit, export, publish, and visualize geospatial data. I’m...
MMapped blog
The plan-execute pattern
6 months ago
Kevin Chen
How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update) Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple...
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Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple added support for Suica to Apple Pay on iPhone 7 devices sold in Japan. In 2017, Apple added support to all iPhone 8/X and later, regardless of where they’re sold.1 Virtual Suica...
Irrational...
Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles. The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering...
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3 months ago
The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering leadership styles. It’s an interesting chapter to me peronally, precisely because it’s not something I would have agreed with or written five years ago. This past Friday I gave a...
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Clientside Webmentions How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Automated Data Scraping with Github Actions A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Parsing a JSON string results in an 'Invalid Label' error Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred...
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over a year ago
Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred server-side language. I use JSON whenever I can to pass data between JavaScript and PHP. After all, $.get and $.post both process JSON easily, so it's my data type of choice. Sometimes,...
Max Countryman
High Leverage One-on-Ones One-on-ones are an important resource for both managers and individual contributors. However, it's...
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One-on-ones are an important resource for both managers and individual contributors. However, it's easy to misuse them and squander the opportunity altogether. Let's explore how to get the most of out of these meetings by turning them into high-leverage touchpoints.
Quentin Santos
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
alexwlchan
Saving your alt text from Twitter It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of their archive in case the site goes down unexpectedly. But large as it is, the archive doesn’t contain everything: Kate @thingskatedid my twitter archive...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
For Sale: Used Domain (**Clean Title**) Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”: He...
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Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”: He buys a domain that seems fine on the surface. When he begins using it, he notices some things aren’t right (organic search traffic, for example, is dead). After some investigation,...
Ink & Switch
09 · Version history as chat This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
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9 months ago
This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
Darek Kay
Delaying asset requests in Eleventy While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading...
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While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading behavior. One technique is to provide a visual fallback as long as the images are still loading. First, a static background color included in the markup is displayed. As soon as a...
Engineer’s Codex
3 predictions on the future of software after AI Key takeaways: a multi-model strategy's necessity, emerging AI infra, LLMs as abstractions.
a year ago
samwho.dev
Move Your Bugs to the Left We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping...
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over a year ago
We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping bug the week before release. To help with this, I’ve come up with a simple way to visualise the points in the development process that you can find bugs. The further to the left...
the jsomers.net blog
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie —...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write. This is possible because every document written in Google Docs since about May 2010 has a revision history...
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Using DEV.to as a CMS Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Thoughts from “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” I just watched Apple’s “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” where they talk about how Safari works on...
a year ago
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a year ago
I just watched Apple’s “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” where they talk about how Safari works on the new visionOS and what you can do to make your web pages look great on Apple’s new device. tl;dr just keeping doing what responsive web design and accessibility experts have...
HTMHell
Test-driven HTML and accessibility by David Luhr When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD)...
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by David Luhr When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD) workflow, I was stoked with the immediate feedback and confidence I gained in every line of JavaScript I wrote. TDD improved my software design with simpler, more predictable code. It...
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...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold. I wasn't sure what I'd...
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As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold. I wasn't sure what I'd write this week for the RC week 10 recap, since it's a short week. This week I didn't get a whole lot of coding done, so it's time for the trope: the Thanksgiving post. Of course,...
The Pragmatic...
Bun: lessons from disrupting a tech ecosystem If you use JavaScript or TypeScript for backend development, Node is the most popular choice of...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you use JavaScript or TypeScript for backend development, Node is the most popular choice of framework. A new runtime called “Bun” is taking this space by storm. Lessons from this sudden rise.
Patrick Kayongo
Disenchantment Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her...
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Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her phone after recharging at her parents’ home earlier in the day. In addition to that, there had been no water since the morning. Joburg Water had promised restoration by 2pm, but 48...
Tony Finch's blog
Purple PCBs for Keybird69 I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago, and a lot has changed since then! So my aim for Keybird69’s PCB was to learn my way around the design, manufacturing, and assembly process. microcontroller other components key...
macwright.com
Competition For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something...
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a year ago
For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list. Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies and...
Founder's blog
Improving C# Performance with Span<T> Whenever I have some free time on my hands I love making our helpdesk app faster. The newest C# and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Whenever I have some free time on my hands I love making our helpdesk app faster. The newest C# and .NET Core releases come with so many performance oriented features that I've been waiting to play with, specifically the new datatype called Span<T>. Here's the thing. Every...
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
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over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
Making software...
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...
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over a year ago
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I'll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :) This is my personal blog (if that wasn't already obvious). I...
Joel Gascoigne
The paradox of how bugs and downtime can be a good thing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Often if I give...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Often if I give a talk or I speak with someone about getting their idea off the ground, the topic of how solid the product should be comes up. In particular, people very frequently wait far too...
A Smart Bear
The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly...
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We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly find "insights" that are actually noise. Here's how to fix that.
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If...
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12 months ago
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If Section 174 tax changes stay, the US will be one of the least desirable countries to launch startups
macwright.com
Recently Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives...
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Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives on how the business and such have gone, but for now, let’s keep this traditional, a good old-fashioned Recently. Reading This month’s theme, looking back on it, was feminism, and...
bt RSS Feed
Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
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over a year ago
Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
Marco.org
The Overcast Redesign: Part One Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus...
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over a year ago
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one. For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused...
Joel Gascoigne
Fear of not shipping * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many many many products, the vast majority of the things I’ve written, or created, the organisations I built fail, but the reason I’ve managed a modicum of success is because I just...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and over-specification, direct and iterative solvers. The guide should give you enough knowledge to find a proper solution for your task but not enough to implement one efficiently yourself.
elementary Blog
Package Releases Are Almost Done, You Won't Believe What Happens Next! This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes,...
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This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes, regression testing, updating metadata, taking screenshots, and releasing packages. We’re getting down to the last few items before we can release elementary OS 8. Read ahead to find out...
Kevin Chen
Ideas for fooling Amazon Go Amazon Go is a grocery store that does away with checkout lines by using computer vision to figure...
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over a year ago
Amazon Go is a grocery store that does away with checkout lines by using computer vision to figure out what you purchased. What happens if you… Take an item off the shelf and give it to someone else. Go shopping with your identical twin. Use the restroom to put on a face...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve decided to write about a few of those…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.26.0 PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4...
over a year ago
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PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4 new team members we've onboarded.
David Heinemeier...
The price of managed cloud services One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
Ognjen Regoje •...
When am I "allowed" to quit and not be labeled a quitter? There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps raising bridge rounds but whose valuation stagnates. Anecdotally, their founders belong to two groups: They’re still convinced that the business will work and are unflappable in their...
David Heinemeier...
You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
a year ago
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a year ago
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
bt RSS Feed
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work > Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer...
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> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer News](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/naked-promises-are-not-safe-for-work/). A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
Ruud van Asseldonk
The yaml document from hell
a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22: failure and success <![CDATA[I upgraded my System76 Merkaat mini PC from Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon to Mint 22 "Wilma". It...
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<![CDATA[I upgraded my System76 Merkaat mini PC from Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon to Mint 22 "Wilma". It didn't go as hoped but some extra effort eventually made Mint 22 run fine. I began by starting the upgrade process from Mint 21.3. I didn't get a good feel for the upgrade tool,...
Alex Meub
A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x2TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all...
Liz Denys
Recruitment is hard. Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's...
over a year ago
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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...
Identity Designed
Bright Barley Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Be S.M.A.R.T. About Flaky Tests (article) Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw...
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Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw away, to manage and fix them effectively.
The History of the...
Filling gaps with a polyfill In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and 'polyfills' for browser compatibility, fostering innovation. The post Filling gaps with a polyfill appeared first on The History of the Web.
Ruud van Asseldonk
An API for my Christmas tree
over a year ago
Alice GG
Stuff I've been working on It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs. Quite a...
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It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs. Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on. Meme...
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Counterintuitive lessons about our pricing Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a real chance to get you there. Here is a breakdown…
A Beautiful Site
Don't hate on PHP It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this: I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP. A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
Stephen Wolfram...
On the Concept of Motion How Is It That Things Can Move? It seems like the kind of question that might have been hotly...
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over a year ago
How Is It That Things Can Move? It seems like the kind of question that might have been hotly debated by ancient philosophers, but would have been settled long ago: how is it that things can move? And indeed with the view of physical space that’s been almost universally adopted...
Liz Denys
Bridges 4 People Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn, North Brooklyn, and Manhattan activist committees. Bridges 4 People reimagines what the bridges that connect Brooklyn and Manhattan would look like if they...
Hixie's Natural Log
Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
A Smart Bear
Rare things become common at scale Software doesn't scale through architecture and automation alone. New, more difficult problems...
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Software doesn't scale through architecture and automation alone. New, more difficult problems appear that didn't exist before, causing new downstream consequences.
Charles Chen
End-to-End Type Safety with .NET7, TypeScript, and OpenAPI -- with Hot Rebuild Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
a year ago
Irrational...
Wardley mapping of Gitlab Strategy. Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security...
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a week ago
Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security platform. This Wardley map explores the evolution of Gitlab’s users’ needs, as one component in understanding the company’s strategy. In particular, we look at how Gitlab’s strategy of a...
the singularity is...
The Collective Marshmallow Test Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test. Instead of a single person, imagine 100...
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a month ago
Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test. Instead of a single person, imagine 100 people in a room. One marshmallow is placed on a table. If everyone can leave it alone for 15 minutes, everyone gets 2 marshmallows. But if just one person eats it, everyone gets...
Darek Kay
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Liz Denys
Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020 I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian before the start of a pandemic was really convenient. Few things beat having a bunch of dried beans, lentils, and veggies plus a bunch of rice on in my pantry while you're figuring...
Charles Chen
Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees) Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
What can we do right now? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* 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...
Elad Blog
Capital Efficient Businesses Many of the biggest companies in the world started off as capital efficient businesses. We discuss.
a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I use Roam Research I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot of notes, mobile-first note taking apps (e.g. Google’s Keep) are of no interest to me. To me most important thing is: lowest possible friction in adding new notes fast way of...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2024 The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
Engineer’s Codex
Meta reveals their serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more...
a year ago
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a year ago
XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more efficient than AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.
General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
Civic Hax
Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets Intro This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Intro This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate. Please point out any mistakes if you see any! In 2016, I did some work in trying to find some hotspot areas for parking tickets to see if a bit of data munging could reduce those...
Tony Finch's blog
Unix version control lore: what, ident There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider appreciation: SCCS what and RCS...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider appreciation: SCCS what and RCS ident. They allow you to find out what source a binary was built from, without having to run it – handy if it is a library! keyword expansion SCCS, RCS, cvs, and svn all have a way...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in 2023 The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually...
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
a year ago
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a year ago
I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: DNS Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
The Pragmatic...
A senior engineer/EM job search story avidson Fellipe, a software engineer with 15 years’ experience, based in New York, was recently let...
a year ago
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a year ago
avidson Fellipe, a software engineer with 15 years’ experience, based in New York, was recently let go. After 350 applications and 85 first-round interviews in 4 months, he secured 3 offers, and has now started his new job. He shares first-hand learnings about navigating the jobs...
Liz Denys
Unintuitive default: who can edit access in Google Docs When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit. Viewing permission is straightforward, just view access, but by default, editors have the ability not just to edit the content of the document but also to edit sharing permissions. If...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog. And now I’m...
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Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog. And now I’m here to propose another: .well-known/avatar The idea is: anybody that owns a domain can put their avatar in a well-known location. I’ve already implemented this for my own site[1]....
Tinloof - Blog
PWA: What it is and why you should try it The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
a year ago
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a year ago
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users. Mobile applications...
Patrick Kayongo
The News So, the plan is to be in an out. Focus Tshidi. I don’t need anything from Dischem. I don’t need that...
a year ago
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a year ago
So, the plan is to be in an out. Focus Tshidi. I don’t need anything from Dischem. I don’t need that new dress in the Spring Collection at H&M. Just a tray of meat, garlic rolls and juice. Snap. It’s payday weekend and there are such long lines at this Checkers. I’m already late...
37signals Dev
Introducing Solid Queue We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about 1/3 of our roughly 18 million jobs per day. We’ll be moving more jobs in the coming days until we run HEY exclusively using Solid Queue. Besides regular job enqueuing and processing,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Starting Svelte Society Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.
over a year ago
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
macwright.com
Open charter companies and relicensing A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL license. The BSL license was created by the people at MariaDB in 2017 to give companies a way to release software as open source but prohibit their competitors from re-hosting that...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2024 The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when utility power fails and automatically throws a switch to backup power. Thanks to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware; he has posted a nice write-up about his project using...
Dan Slimmon
Dead air on the incident call Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll present a few incident scenarios and explore the role of the incident commander in breaking (or simply abiding in) dead air.
Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
bt RSS Feed
Working with `git` Patches in Apple Mail Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this...
a year ago
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a year ago
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this process in a more streamlined way, but for most use cases this workflow should be fine. I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it...
Computer Things
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet,...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall? Maybe. If the two measure is exactly 7 feet than sure, 7 ≤ 7. But you probably didn't line your...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Network Security What is Traffic Engineering?
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Valid Names for CSS Parts CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web component's shadow root so they can be styled by consumers with CSS. But what are we allowed to call these parts? What characters comprise a valid CSS part name? To find out, I had to dive...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside. Here's my attempt to make sense of it.
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
bt RSS Feed
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
over a year ago
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn’t the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
HTMHell
#29 Randomly grouping content Bad code <section> <aside> <div> <section> <header> <a href="/"> ...
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Bad code <section> <aside> <div> <section> <header> <a href="/"> <img src="logo.svg" alt="Logo"> </a> </header> <main> <a href="/services">Services</a> <a href="/products">Products</a> ...
A Smart Bear
Excuse me, is there a problem? Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that...
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Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
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First Look at AWS Amplify Flutter (Developer Preview) AWS Amplify launched a Flutter Integration, so I thought I would record a quick video and blogpost
over a year ago
Irrational...
No Wrong Doors. Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide...
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Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide help–often health or mental health services–to individuals even if they show up to the wrong agency to request help. The core insight is that the employees at those agencies are far...
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In Defense of Hammers Let's say you needed a multipurpose tool. Which of these would you pick?
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Cheatsheet for moving from Master to Main Notes I have collected on how to renaming the Git default/primary branch
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Know Your Tools > Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
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> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Using Crates.io with Buck
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Thankfulness
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Yet another floating point tutorial I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help...
over a year ago
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I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help someone understand floating point numbers better. To do fewer mistakes, to make things faster, to create better software in general.
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: assemblages
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
AI enhanced search LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to...
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LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research. I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
Tony Finch's blog
semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago....
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Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in between. Yesterday I...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Semantic AJAX-HTML I recently started fiddling around with HTMX, and I'm pretty impressed. As anyone who's followed the...
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I recently started fiddling around with HTMX, and I'm pretty impressed. As anyone who's followed the development of Bear knows, I'm pretty sick of the state of modern web development due to the complexity involved in managing the disparity between the front-end and the...
Irrational...
Llm
6 months ago
ntietz.com blog
TIL: testing in the future using the faketime command Last week's blog post accidentally got published a few hours early1. One of the keen-eyed among you...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Last week's blog post accidentally got published a few hours early1. One of the keen-eyed among you even submitted it to the orange site before it was officially up, since it was in my RSS feed briefly and was picked up by various RSS readers. Resolving that issue led me to...
exist
Visual Sum of Cubes
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Learning Ada
over a year ago
Irrational...
How to plan as an engineering executive. Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question...
a year ago
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Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question about planning. I enjoyed their response, “Ah yes, the ‘P’ word, planning.” That answer captured an oft heard perspective that planning is some sort of business curse word. Even when...
samwho.dev
Simple Complex Easy Hard You might have noticed the last time you were doing chores or tackling a tricky problem at work,...
over a year ago
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You might have noticed the last time you were doing chores or tackling a tricky problem at work, that when something is hard it's not always hard in the same way. The hard you experience when doing chores, that mindnumbing , I-can't-be-bothered hard, is different to the hard you...
exist
Non-Empty Recursion in Elm
over a year ago
Chris Nicholas
How to use Next.js middleware Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access, and more. Let’s take a look.
ntietz.com blog
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Enjoy Svelte Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Recruitment is hard, part 2: goals and values I spend a lot of time thinking about recruitment issues these days. This could be because I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spend a lot of time thinking about recruitment issues these days. This could be because I'm involved in a few student groups that have been spending a handful of time talking about it lately. While a good portion of discussion about recruitment is (and should be) focused on...
Making software...
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don't think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
alexwlchan
Starting Docker just before I need it Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog,...
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Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog, and even if it’s doing nothing it can make my laptop feel sluggish. I’ll often stop if it my computer feels slow, which is great right until the next time I need to use it: $...
The Pragmatic...
Happy Leap Day! 29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
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29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why to use a date library when you can.
bt RSS Feed
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
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over a year ago
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door… I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website’s CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It’s pretty amazing to see the problems...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lie still in bed I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even...
a year ago
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I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even started using one of the loudest and most annoying alarm clocks I could find. (That sound still gives my university housemate flashbacks.) In my search for ways to fix my sleep...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
over a year ago
tonsky.me
Talk: Clj-reload: A smarter way to reload code @ In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live without ever restarting the app. But in any project, there comes a time when your state becomes more complex than a simple set of functions. Evaluating the buffer does not...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Stumped with URL validation in WebCard <![CDATA[I started working on URL validation in WebCard and soon bumped into a bug. When creating a...
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<![CDATA[I started working on URL validation in WebCard and soon bumped into a bug. When creating a new Web card, WebCard prompts for a URL to store in the card. I wrote the predicate WCD.ValidURLP to do some minimal validation and make sure the input resembles a URL. For...
Joel on Software
A Dusting of Gamification I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more "A Dusting of Gamification"
Josh Comeau's blog
The Perils of Hydration A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic, personalized web apps.
Tony Finch's blog
My spaghetti carbonara recipe In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too...
a year ago
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a year ago
In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too frequently. Here’s my recipe. It works well for 1 - 3 people but gets unweildy at larger quantities. ingredients Rough quantities per person: 100g pasta Spaghetti is traditional but I’ll...
David Heinemeier...
Apple is in its Ballmer era During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock...
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During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock traded sideways, Ballmer made sure it was still raining dividends. Yet, today, that era of Microsoft is not looked upon too fondly. It's seen as being anchored in the company's...
Josh Comeau's blog
Clever Code Considered Harmful As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Strategy Turns What got you here won't get you there.
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta1 release
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊 At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty...
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At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone wants. Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have no idea when it’ll be back. So, driven by the...
Kevin Chen
!!Con West 2019 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! At the beginning of last year’s !!Con, I wrote: This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Choice Architecture Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of this
Steve Klabnik
How can I contribute to Ruby on Rails?
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
X celebrates 60% savings from cloud exit Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure...
a year ago
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Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure has been effective, and in the process, he's proven his detractors wrong time and again. Not only has the site stayed up, despite hysteric proclamations that it would crater soon...
A Smart Bear
JIT selection from independent streams: An alternative to the “big backlog” of work We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of the future, however this confuses “prioritization” with “work-planning,” and forces the comparison of un-comparable things. Here’s how to solve those problems.
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Four It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three...
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over a year ago
It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three years of my journey as a first-time technical founder. 2021 was not an exception, and my role as RevenueCat’s CTO kept evolving quite a lot. As expected, my job did not get any...
Liz Denys
Sometimes, the outside is inside Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
HTMHell
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with `interactive-widget` by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on...
a month ago
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a month ago
by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
Founder's blog
I'm finally dumping Visual Studio After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and frustrating, and I've decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code. While as a C# developer I'm still unsure if I can replicate every aspect of my workflow in VS Code, I'm...
A Smart Bear
Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
The Pragmatic...
Big Tech job-switching stats Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the “open-to-new-opportunities” ratio shifted across Big Tech? I collaborated with a recruiter to find out, and the data is in.
orlp.net - Blog...
Subtraction Is Functionally Complete To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point subtraction is functionally complete. That means you can...
a year ago
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a year ago
To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point subtraction is functionally complete. That means you can construct any binary circuit using nothing but floating point subtraction. To see how, we must start at the bottom. I quote the IEEE 754-2019 standard, section 6.3: 6.3 The sign...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC" Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship. In the...
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2024 I didn’t write much this year. The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative...
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3 days ago
I didn’t write much this year. The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing. The backlog is brimming, however. Targets for 2024 ❌ Publish at least 40 posts 11 ❌ Reach at least 200k readers Don’t have an...
A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric “Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail to produce the best answers, and fail to create explanations that help others understand why they’re the best answers. This system works.
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
a year ago
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a year ago
About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
Remains of the Day
How to Blow Up a Timeline NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and...
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a year ago
NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment, and just as I was about to publish it, Elon rate-limited Twitter and so, sensing a moment of weakness, Meta pulled up its launch date for Threads to...
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
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over a year ago
Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol. Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
ntietz.com blog
Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it...
a year ago
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a year ago
I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it contains 240 million unique positions1 from 3.8 million games. One of the things it needs to do is quickly find all the games where a particular position occurs. I'd also like it to...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Building a new personal website Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience this odd phenomenon where the final…
David Gerrells
all the ways to css I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was bunches of fun doing but recently I looked back on the code and work and had to come to terms with something....my code was bad...really bad.
A Smart Bear
What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
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a year ago
A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Passwords are fine I've spent too much of my professional life trying to build a better means of authentication. For a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've spent too much of my professional life trying to build a better means of authentication. For a while I was fixated on Magic Links, then I built a few prototypes of authentication using a combination of token passing and TOTP. And finally, I built a storage-less password...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Software 3.0 and the AI Engineer Landscape (talk notes & slides) Everyone has gone AI mad, and there is a lot of noise, hype, and demos, but not a lot of guidance on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Everyone has gone AI mad, and there is a lot of noise, hype, and demos, but not a lot of guidance on practical usecases. We will go over a mental model of who is doing what and explain both where the opportunities are and where the non-AI developer can start going down the rabbit...
Making software...
Disabling Comments in WordPress Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
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over a year ago
Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down. Back...
A Beautiful Site
Images display in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer. The weird thing is that it wasn't showing up as a broken link (no missing image icon with the infamous red 'X'). Instead, it wasn't showing up at...
Steve Klabnik
Show solidarity to all who resist
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
bt RSS Feed
Improving Github's New Design Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Quadratic to Discover Newsletter Links I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way to discover new people, blogs, and newsletter that I didn’t know existed. I recently saw links to my blog from the tldr newsletter but didn’t know which posts specifically they were...
Irrational...
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Irrational...
Interviewing engineering executives. Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more...
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a year ago
Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As an Engineering executive, you may not directly run one of these searches, but...
David Heinemeier...
DEI is done (minus the mop up) In November of 2022, I wrote about the waning days of DEI's dominance, and enumerated four factors...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In November of 2022, I wrote about the waning days of DEI's dominance, and enumerated four factors that I saw as primary drivers of this decline. Those waning days have now been brought to a close, and DEI, as an obsessive, ideological preoccupation of the corporate world, is...
alexwlchan
What comes after AWS? James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips ...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
Alex MacCaw
A personal update In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As...
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over a year ago
In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As COVID started to spin out of control in the states, my girlfriend and I made the decision to stay. A ten day trip turned into a year-long adventure. I
macwright.com
Recently I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element and browser abstractions I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html (at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org link). The post is about a...
TokyoDev
On the Value of Software One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing...
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over a year ago
One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing my perception of the value of software. As a developer, the underlying assumption was the more functionality software had, the more valuable it was. This proposition was...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't thank Chat GPT In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not...
a year ago
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a year ago
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not only is there no logical reason to add pleasantries to your chat with GPT, but it also takes tokens for it to remove them and get to the point of your message. Don't thank Chat...
Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and...
5 days ago
Steve Klabnik
Ember.js and accessibility
over a year ago
Chris Nicholas
Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
over a year ago
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Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
Blog - Bitfield...
Master of my domain Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
Tony Finch's blog
My wireguard IPv6 tunnel Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6. Yesterday I (at last!) got around to setting up a wireguard IPv6 VPN tunnel between my workstation and my Mythic Beasts virtual private server. There were a few, um, learning...
Nelson's Weblog
8BitDo Game Controllers 8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
4 months ago
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8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes. And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
Remains of the Day
Narrative debt HBO’s Watchmen is fantastic, as many have noted. It may be one of the most polished first drafts of...
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HBO’s Watchmen is fantastic, as many have noted. It may be one of the most polished first drafts of fan fiction to ever appear on the silver, errr, OLED screen. DC may lag behind the Marvel Universe in box office and audience acclaim, but it feels like DC is starting to find its...
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
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We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
ntietz.com blog
Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control...
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Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control Performance Modeling" by Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey, and Miron Livny. It was 46 pages, and I had a little trouble finding the whole paper—many of the Google Scholar links had...
Steve Klabnik
Marx, anarchism, and web standards
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Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Imports Under The Hood In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted: in order to successfully work with JavaScript or...
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In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted: in order to successfully work with JavaScript or TypeScript these days, there’s a growing need to understand some of the very sophisticated transformations that are happening under the hood between the code that you’re writing and the...
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How to effectively refine engineering strategy. In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice, he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs. His...
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In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice, he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs. His premise is that you should cheaply test new ideas before fully committing to them. Your organization can only afford firing a small number of cannonballs, but it can bankroll far more...
Tony Finch's blog
Blue paint in the C preprocessor In the C preprocessor, after a macro has been expanded the result is rescanned for further macros....
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In the C preprocessor, after a macro has been expanded the result is rescanned for further macros. To prevent recursion, [the C standard][n3220] says the following in section 6.10.5.4p2. (This text has been basically the same since C89.) If the name of the macro being replaced is...
Jake Zimmerman
Why don’t constructors have override checking?
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Why I Won't Choose To Be A Manager I recently decided that I will not _choose_ to be a manager. This is how I arrived at that...
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SQLite Slaps why SQLite is cracked
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Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds ---
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Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap & Industry Towns, 2020 In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas,...
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In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and companies tend to have strong network effects that support startup formation and success in a given industry. For example, Silicon Valley, London,...
Epic Web Dev
Data Modeling Deep Dive (workshop) The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas,...
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The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas, managing relationships, data mutations, and optimizations.
Remains of the Day
TikTok and the Sorting Hat I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
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I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
macwright.com
React is old My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web...
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9 months ago
My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web stack, we considered a few other options - we had used d3 to build iD, which worked out great but we were practically the only people in the internet using d3 to build HTML UIs - I...
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m finishing university, scared about future career prospects Question: Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be...
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9 months ago
Question: Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be a software engineer. But, I keep hearing the job market's tough. Been reading online that lots of devs are struggling to find steady gigs. Is your company looking for any devs?...
Darek Kay
GitHub developer statistics Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
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over a year ago
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee: 1002 pull requests shipped 3062 pull requests reviewed 5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise) LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
Words and Buttons...
Honeycomb texture generator It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if you need more, there is some changeable code too. If you need more freedom, just get this thing on Github.
davidyat.es
Review: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Returning to Free Software, a guide
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware November, 2022 The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most...
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over a year ago
The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most sensitive analog traces; I would love it if someone could teach me why the soldermask is removed for these guard rings. I imagine there must be some motivation to retain this motif...
TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
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a year ago
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
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HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
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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…
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Send love to open-source projects on Valentine's Day Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that...
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over a year ago
Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that helps power PostHog! Here's how: For every GitHub star…
Tinloof - Blog
Guide to content creation with Sanity We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to sell your SaaS to Enterprise Customers This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post How to sell your SaaS to Enterprise Customers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Making software...
The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
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over a year ago
The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it's fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple's iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
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Why Pictures For a brief period circa 2016 I wrote and published a weekly webcomic. I wanted to run a successful...
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For a brief period circa 2016 I wrote and published a weekly webcomic. I wanted to run a successful webcomic along the lines of Poorly Drawn Lines, Oglaf, or The Oatmeal. I love reading these and am always thrilled when one pops up on my RSS feed. Prior to this experiment I...
HTMHell
How to transfigure wireframes into HTML Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands...
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over a year ago
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an...
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Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
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I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
Making software...
Write HTML Like It's 1999 Write HTML Like It's 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the...
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over a year ago
Write HTML Like It's 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer's life easier....
Liz Denys
xoxo You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces...
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over a year ago
You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces into moments and memories and bonds to hold onto beyond those polygons, yellow, orange, and red.
Josh Collinsworth
Converting from Gridsome to SvelteKit I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project before. So when I found myself looking for a new platform for this site as SvelteKit entered open beta, it seemed like perfect timing.
Daniel Marino
My current prototyping environment The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them....
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8 months ago
The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them. My prototyping environment has evolved over the years. I love to hear how others build prototypes, so I thought I’d share where I’m at now. Maybe you’ll find it useful. A single...
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Group Analytics is now available in PostHog Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale /...
over a year ago
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Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale / Enterprise users and those on PostHog Cloud…
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
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a year ago
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
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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...
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Miguel Carranza
The privilege of free education There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the...
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over a year ago
There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the closest school to their family home. A particular degree not being taught nearby, or not getting in (mostly due to the limited number of seats) are the main exceptions for traveling...
Ognjen Regoje •...
BSL is not good, it's great Another day, another project adopted BSL. Another day, another round of outrage from people harping...
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a year ago
Another day, another project adopted BSL. Another day, another round of outrage from people harping on the difference between Open Source and open source. Another day, another inferior fork of a product due to a technicality that has nothing to do with the product itself and that...
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Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
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Joel Gascoigne
Experimenting with a 7 day work week * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two weeks of last month, I religiously tried to follow a new routine I created for myself: a 7 day work week routine. The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7
MMapped blog
Square joy: trapped rainwater
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Epic Web Dev
Mocking Techniques in Vitest (workshop)
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Steve Klabnik
Closure
over a year ago
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The Roaring 2020's Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea...
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over a year ago
Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea about.
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How (and why) we treat pricing like a product "Pricing is important" is common knowledge – price determines profit margin, which directly or...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Pricing is important" is common knowledge – price determines profit margin, which directly or indirectly determines nearly everything else. What isn…
MMapped blog
IC internals: orthogonal persistence
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Menu Toggle with Pure CSS Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices...
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Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices sometimes the best option is to store away the content behind a toggle button. This button would then display the menu items upon interaction. Let me show you how to create such an...
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Feedback Ladders A post for the Netlify blog on how we did Code Reviews during my recent product rotation.
over a year ago