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Functional programming in Go Thanks to generics, there are some interesting new ways to program in Go. This article explains...
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Thanks to generics, there are some interesting new ways to program in Go. This article explains how we can use functional programming techniques like Map, Filter, and Reduce, and what kind of problems they might help us to solve.
Julia Evans
Dealing with diverged git branches Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is when a local branch...
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Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is when a local branch (like main) and a remote branch (maybe also called main) have diverged. There are two things that make this situation hard: If you’re not used to interpreting git’s error messages,...
Yale E360
Measuring the overhead of HashMaps in Rust While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my...
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over a year ago
While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my hashmaps were taking up a lot of RAM. I mean, a lot of RAM. I did a back of the napkin calculation for what the minimum memory usage should be, and I was getting more than twice...
General Robots
Why Build a Robot Company? So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
over a year ago
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...
bt RSS Feed
Embracing Slow Tech Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I’m writing this post on my “new” X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
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over a year ago
Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I’m writing this post on my “new” X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
charity.wtf
Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff...
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I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking...
Steve Klabnik
What's new with "The Rust Programming Language"
over a year ago
Making software...
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
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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...
Blog of Simple...
Google Tag Manager vs Google Analytics
a year ago
orlp.net - Blog...
Extracting and Depositing Bits Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it. For example you just...
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a year ago
Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it. For example you just performed a SWAR algorithm and wish to extract the least significant bit of each byte in the u64. This is simple enough, you simply perform a binary AND with a mask of the bits you wish...
Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Screen Readers (article) Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough....
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Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough. Create genuinely accessible web apps that work for everyone
Vadim Kravcenko
Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior...
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These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior developers. To […] The post Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Dan Quach Blog
A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares...
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3 months ago
Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...
A Smart Bear
Moats: Durable competitive advantage Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
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over a year ago
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.5.0 Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This...
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over a year ago
Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This week's highlights include a new website, multiple…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Follow Up Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
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over a year ago
Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
Mahmoud Felfel's...
The Phoenix project — Book Notes Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
over a year ago
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
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A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
A Beautiful Site
Finding the active element in a shadow root You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this...
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over a year ago
You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this will be the host element. This happens because of retargeting, but sometimes you might need access to the internal element that actually has focus. Here's a recursive function that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why IaaS beat PaaS The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
over a year ago
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course...
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Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Using robots.txt to discover hidden content I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed. It’s...
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I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed. It’s interesting because some sites use it as access control, which, of course, is silly. Just because robots won’t index it doesn’t mean people won’t find it. Plus, by specifying it in...
A Smart Bear
Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation Erica Douglass sold her company for $1M, yet still struggles with self-worth; why driven people...
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Erica Douglass sold her company for $1M, yet still struggles with self-worth; why driven people can't escape Impostor Syndrome.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Adverse Status Updates and Trust I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a...
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I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a quick comment on.
Elad Blog
Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart Full video & transcript from Fireside chat with Apoorva Metha
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Fixing a form validation bug in the Epic Stack (tip) Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step guide and find out how they addressed the issue.
MMapped blog
Static types are for perfectionists
3 months ago
TokyoDev
自営業している開発者の事例 ![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVz...
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over a year ago
![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaFVsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--0fd0bbea7ce4fe8a41672eaf8df9cc22c297bbb0/itnomikainagoya.jpg) [IT飲み会名古屋](http://www.it-nomikai.jp/nagoya/before-info/...
macwright.com
Recently This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll...
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a year ago
This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll write a standalone post again, soon enough. It’s been another busy year and I’m as aware as ever of the challenge of keeping all of my habits and outputs going. Some, like...
the singularity is...
…and now we see what is possible Every 70 years America goes through a revolutionary transition. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, now? The...
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Every 70 years America goes through a revolutionary transition. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, now? The Republicans now control the Presidency, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Is that everything? Does government power lie there, like we are told, or is it all secretly...
Maggie Appleton
Are Data Unions the Future of Data? Illustrated notes on how data unions work and what problems they might solve
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Hating Apple goes mainstream This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything...
a year ago
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This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything everyone has ever hated about digitization. It celebrates a lossy, creative compression for the most flimsy reason: An iPad shedding an irrelevant millimeter or two. It's destruction...
Ink & Switch
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
over a year ago
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Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
Yale E360
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
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My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language. It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript. This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 006: Provenance for science papers, local-first access control In this Dispatch, we’ll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments...
10 months ago
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In this Dispatch, we’ll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. We also have some updates on WASM packaging for Automerge, and a new researcher-in-residence.
Ink & Switch
02 · Tracking provenance Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
11 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s TypeScript and Then There’s TypeScript Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming...
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Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming “No!” The answer seems simple, but (as with most things) it might be more nuanced than you think. Here’s Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript Co-Creator & Lead Architech, from the...
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...
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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...
Coding Horror
The Great Filter Comes For Us All With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
7 months ago
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With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? teaching the aliens how to exit Vim (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
alexwlchan
Localising the `` with JavaScript I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our...
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I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our server does everything in UTC, but the team is split across four different timezones, so the server timestamps aren’t always easy to read. For most people, it’s harder to...
Remains of the Day
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
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over a year ago
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.   If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
Words and Buttons...
The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust) All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D,...
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All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they don’t have a...
Josh Collinsworth
First impressions of the MoErgo Glove80 ergonomic keyboard How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my...
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a year ago
How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my impressions after the first few weeks of use.
Tinloof - Blog
The SEO scam: $62,000 later Context Like many businesses operating online, we at Tinloof decided to explore SEO to attract more...
a year ago
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a year ago
Context Like many businesses operating online, we at Tinloof decided to explore SEO to attract more leads. Seeing the numerous SEO gurus on LinkedIn and Twitter, one might think it's worth a shot to try this approach, hoping to strike gold when search engines place your website...
Joel Gascoigne
Giving your startup a point of view * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve mentioned before at the start of a post [https://joel.is/post/4132813715/acting-with-incomplete-information-in-a-startup] is that I often look back on quotes, blogs and books I’ve...
HTMHell
A Theory of Web Relativity The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually forget about it. Imagine a city where people guided themselves by the landmarks and the stores, where there were no directional signs, and where streets and neighborhoods had no names....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Netlify Environment Variables We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally...
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over a year ago
We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally configure your environments as well?
Joel Gascoigne
For the first few people, hire from your network * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky enough to have reached the stage with Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we have had to start to think about growing the team. For the first 10 months the team consisted of just...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
7 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
The styled-components Happy Path styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've...
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over a year ago
styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”.
A Smart Bear
Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy When even "free" is too expensive.
2 months ago
blag
Accepted to the Recurse Center! I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
over a year ago
Dan Slimmon
Fix tomorrow’s problems by fixing today’s problems A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have...
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over a year ago
A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have been performed. At first, it’s too minuscule to notice. But the average deploy latency grows over time. Eventually, deploys start randomly timing out. The deploy pipeline grinds to...
Eric Bailey
I don’t want your job
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced...
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over a year ago
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
Yale E360
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time? The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000...
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The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers. That is just mind boggling scale to me. It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in. They are paying a lot of engineers. Some of them do very...
Kagi Blog
New features in the Orion Browser *Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing...
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over a year ago
*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever.
Remains of the Day
Seeing Like an Algorithm In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops. But in the breathless rush to understand why companies might want to acquire...
Making software...
Avoiding Featurism Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term "featurism". I came across this term while...
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over a year ago
Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term "featurism". I came across this term while reading the wonderful article Why I don't use Netscape, which the author credits to Bernd Paysan. Although it sums up the current "digital product" industry quite well the more...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lessons in DDD from building an e-commerce platform In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off...
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a year ago
In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off between design, domain-driven specifically, in favor of speed. They intentionally take on debt, technical and otherwise, to move faster. I wasn’t in favour of employing DDD in a...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 08 · History and diffs with Automerge Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT...
a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Back to Goodreads I’m back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use Goodreads please add me as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use Goodreads please add me as a friend. After Goodreads lost my account I was furious and of course intended to never use it again. But to their credit, Goodreads did some extra work and managed to get me a copy of...
Joel Gascoigne
Why context is so important * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve had a few...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve had a few different experiences in the last couple of weeks which made me reach a big realisation. What I’ve discovered is that the context of any situation is very important. Hiten Shah...
Irrational...
How to capitalize engineering costs. There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one...
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over a year ago
There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one that’s both easy to forget and surprisingly important is your first meeting with the finance team. There’s a lot to learn from the finance team, particularly drilling into your profit...
Julia Evans
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section. A little while ago I started...
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over a year ago
Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section. A little while ago I started using a Mac, and one of my biggest frustrations with it is that often I need to run Linux-specific software. For example, the nginx playground I posted about the other day only...
alexwlchan
Taking regular screenshots of my website A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks...
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a year ago
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks associated with their long-term preservation. What formats need urgent attention before they’re lost forever, what mediums are already being well-preserved, and so on. For example,...
Grant Slatton
Accidental Urbanism How I got into the scene
9 months ago
davidyat.es
Game: Causality Couriers
over a year ago
Irrational...
Onboarding peer executives. While many companies build out an elaborate Engineering onboarding program, the process for...
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over a year ago
While many companies build out an elaborate Engineering onboarding program, the process for onboarding new executives tends to be an ad-hoc, chaotic affair. There usually is an executive onboarding process, but it’s used too infrequently to ever get excellent. Part of the problem...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My Hacktoberfest 2019 This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and...
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over a year ago
This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and really wanted to participate, but I had…
Seán Barry
What is TypeScript and why should I use it? A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
2015-11-18 arstechnica.com/apple/2015/11/ipad-pro-review-mac-like-speed-with-all-the-virtues-and-limitations-of...
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Maggie Appleton
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ...
10 months ago
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PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ideas was to share our changelog updates in a…
Josh Collinsworth
A message from the Captain of the S.S. Layoff Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the numbers better is to stop feeding and sheltering people and their families. Nothing personal.
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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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...
The Pragmatic...
Who is Still Hiring Software Engineers and EMs? 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here. This article was updated in December 2022. In the midst of gloomy
blag
Recurse Center First Week Reflections on the first week of the Recurse Center
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren't fallacies A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
9 months ago
Neil Panchal
Introducing Berkeley Mono Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial:...
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Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono It will be available through Berkeley Graphics agency as a first release. Berkeley Mono Typeface Berkeley Mono is a love letter to the golden era of computing....
Eric Bailey
A perceived contradiction to internalize when working on design systems Components are simultaneously both too restrictive and also not constrained enough.
a year ago
TokyoDev
Working with Tech Recruiters in Japan **Recruiters, Consultants, Career Advisors, Headhunters.** I've heard so many names from...
a year ago
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a year ago
**Recruiters, Consultants, Career Advisors, Headhunters.** I've heard so many names from different people that I've talked to, but all in all, the bulk of the work is the same -- they receive information on what kind of employee a client wants to hire, and start looking for...
Evan Jones -...
Getting $3300 from a casino promotion New York State legalized mobile sports gambling in January 2022. The casinos offered crazy...
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New York State legalized mobile sports gambling in January 2022. The casinos offered crazy promotions to get people signed up. The craziest offered $3300 of free money. I did the math, and there was a low risk way to claim this money. As long as you placed 11 or more bets, you...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search features *New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and...
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*New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and May 23 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements ).
PostHog's RSS Feed
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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…
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 9, 2016 Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. On today's commutes to and from work: A Fine Frenzy's "Rangers" is a much more poetic song than Taylor Swift's awkwardly similar "I Know Places." A hunted...
alexwlchan
Launching a rocket in the worst possible way Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1...
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over a year ago
Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1 mission. The long and expensive development of SLS has been the subject of much debate, and caused a lot of online rage. I will now induce similar rage at a fraction of the...
Steve Klabnik
Rescuing Resque (again)
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Devise: ActionController::RoutingError (No Route Matches [GET] /users/sign_out)
over a year ago
ByteofDev
Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023? Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare some of the most popular monorepo tools' performance, ease of use, and more.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
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over a year ago
Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
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Guo Lai Ren (过来人) One of the most powerful forms of persuasion is the argument from crossover people
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Shoes 4 work is starting: get involved!
over a year ago
ByteofDev
Top 5 Alternatives to React in 2023 Currently, React is extremely popular, and for good reasons. It is simple and concise. However,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Currently, React is extremely popular, and for good reasons. It is simple and concise. However, looking at some alternatives is a good idea too.
macwright.com
Competition For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something...
over a year ago
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over 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...
Coding Horror
The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core...
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over a year ago
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core CPU speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We were...
Engineer’s Codex
A simple software engineering productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These...
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a year ago
A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no, reaching flow state faster, and keeping a big book of commands handy.
PostHog's RSS Feed
HostHogs - free drinks, free pizza and frequently asked questions As you may have heard, we’ll soon host our first ever meet-up for anyone who uses or is interested...
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over a year ago
As you may have heard, we’ll soon host our first ever meet-up for anyone who uses or is interested in finding out more about PostHog. It’ll take place…
Confessions of a...
An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
8 months ago
Explained from First...
The Internet explained from first principles
over a year ago
The Codist
My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job....
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over a year ago
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job. Also, I never worked for a big tech company (other than Apple briefly, but that was when they were going out of business) and only a
Making software...
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS. The Demo Live CodePen Example The...
alexwlchan
How I name my computers I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the...
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8 months ago
I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the setup, and this blog post is one of the first things I’ll make with it. I’m quite pleased with how quickly I can get up and running with a new machine. There’s one hard part of...
Joel Gascoigne
The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a fully distributed team. It’s a decision [https://joel.is/post/54284926855/questions-i-ask-myself-about-working-as-distributed] I had to make at the end of 2012, and it’s interesting...
Making software...
Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
blag
Recurse Center Day 10: Learning Distributed Systems How does one start learning to build distributed systems?
over a year ago
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How to run a transparent startup There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
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over a year ago
There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
TokyoDev
The 2024 TokyoDev Developer Survey Results Are Live! In September 2024, TokyoDev conducted our sixth annual survey of international developers living in...
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7 months ago
In September 2024, TokyoDev conducted our sixth annual survey of international developers living in Japan. This year’s survey had a total of 814 respondents, up 14% from last year’s survey. The results are now live, so please check out the full results, or read on for some of the...
Dan Slimmon
Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
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a year ago
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
Acko.net
The Case for Use.GPU Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird. In this post I will explain why, because it's a microcosm of the issues that lead me to build Use.GPU, a WebGPU rendering...
Stephen Wolfram...
Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive... The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work?...
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The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that surprise us with what they manage to achieve. So what’s the essence of what’s going on? I’m going to concentrate here on biological...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
More Files Please Scott Jenson has a great article called “The future needs files”. The power of files comes from them...
a year ago
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a year ago
Scott Jenson has a great article called “The future needs files”. The power of files comes from them being powerful nouns. They are temporary holding blocks that are used as a form of exchange between applications. A range of apps can edit a single file in a single...
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0 released
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics Pricing - Paid vs Free
a year ago
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity Berkeley Mono Typeface Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Berkeley Mono Typeface Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley Mono Typeface. I am truly humbled by the feedback, interest and people that have keen interest in typography. Berkeley Mono Font Variants Quick update on people asking what's the...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Compressing for the browser in Go Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP request to a web server, it includes the following header: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd This tells the server that the response can be compressed using one of the...
HTMHell
#6 link with void operator as href value Bad code <a href="javascript:void(1)" onClick='window.location="index.html"'>Link</a> Issues and how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <a href="javascript:void(1)" onClick='window.location="index.html"'>Link</a> Issues and how to fix them Links won't work, if JavaScript fails to load or execute. You don’t need JavaScript to link to other pages, you can use the href attribute for that. Browser support is...
Ralph Ammer
How to draw ideas Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process drawing can play four different roles. Let’s say, we want to come up with ideas for a new flower pot. 1. Study: Fill your mind To prepare for our ideation we first draw what we want...
bt RSS Feed
New Domain and Code Forge New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to...
a year ago
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a year ago
New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to btxx.org. This post will go into details about the reason for this URL swap (spoilers: I’m a cheapskate) - but that isn’t all. I have moved my personal git repositories over to my...
Dan Quach Blog
The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would...
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a year ago
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would cut my hair? My Asian hair is a bit funky where it is similar to Wolverine in X-men. After a couple weeks the sides get really pointy and uncomfortable so I would go to the barber...
David Crawshaw
new year, same plan new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all. I could have figured out why my current provider hiked the price....
macwright.com
Recently If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight upgrade this month. I’ve been publishing a lot of content in the /micro/ section, and I update my /reading/ list once or twice a month when I finish books, but these proper...
A Smart Bear
Real Unfair Advantages It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2023 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
Maggie Appleton
Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
9 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Setting up super fast Cypress tests on GitHub Actions Moving fast is easy. Moving fast with confidence is hard. If you've been keeping track of The Array...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Moving fast is easy. Moving fast with confidence is hard. If you've been keeping track of The Array release posts you know that we prioritize…
Letters of Note
I miss you so very much, Ryan In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during...
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over a year ago
In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during a contaminated treatment for hemophilia, a blood condition with which he had lived since birth. By June of 1985, keen to resume as normal a lifestyle as possible, Ryan attempted...
Maggie Appleton
Fixing Common Git Mistakes Illustrated notes on common mistakes people make in Git, and how to fix them
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Looping Through Jekyll Collections Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my wife’s personal recipe website (cookingwith.casa) which I hadn’t touched in quite a while. The Jekyll build still worked fine, but I realized I was statically adding each collection by...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark mode with a statically-built site/app is deceptively tricky. In this in-depth tutorial, we'll see how to build the perfect, flicker-free, customizable theming solution for...
Making software...
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
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over a year ago
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of [insert design industry here] and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
charity.wtf
Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management you’ve endured and witnessed in tech, and you are god damn determined not to repeat all of those mistakes. You are tired of reporting to a manager who isn’t transparent with you, who...
macwright.com
codemirror-continue by Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and you hit “Enter”, this intelligently adds a * on the next line. Most likely, your good editor (Neovim, VS Code) already has this behavior and you miss it in CodeMirror. So I wrote...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […] The post How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
HTMHell
#4 link-also-button Bad code <a href="https://example.com"> <button>Example</button> </a> Issues and how to fix...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <a href="https://example.com"> <button>Example</button> </a> Issues and how to fix them By nesting a button inside of a link, you’re sending two messages: this is a button, but also this is a link. If you’re not sure when to use <a> or <button>, watch The Links vs....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ensembles vs Committees A useful dichotomy for team dynamics.
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
I love my slightly smart tiny TV details { font-size: var(--scale1); margin-top: 0.25rem !important; } details summary...
a year ago
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a year ago
details { font-size: var(--scale1); margin-top: 0.25rem !important; } details summary { line-height: 1.2; } details p { line-height: 1.35; margin-top: var(--scale0); } I swear this isn’t a sponsored post. I impulse bought a TinyTV 2 recently. It...
swyx's site RSS Feed
writing Advice Some thoughts on writing your first few writings
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Email tips from the drowning I have never seen an email message too short. – Roman and Raphaelson, Writing That Works Email is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have never seen an email message too short. – Roman and Raphaelson, Writing That Works Email is a cornerstone of remote work and a colossal waste of time. People say: “That meeting could have been an email.” But I’d add: “That email could have been a few bullet points.” Writing...
Steve Klabnik
Returning to Free Software, a guide
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Width or Flex-Basis? Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let’s breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis. Width Setting the width of the...
bt RSS Feed
Super Mario Blocks in CSS Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks. What our final product will look like: Live CodePen Example The HTML The set of Mario blocks doesn’t require a huge...
Civic Hax
A tale about requesting Chicago’s Mayor’s Office’s phone records. Intro Back in 2014, I had the naive goal of finding evidence of collusion between mayoral...
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over a year ago
Intro Back in 2014, I had the naive goal of finding evidence of collusion between mayoral candidates. The reasoning is longwinded and boring, so I won't go into it. My plan was to find some sort of evidence through a FOIA request or two for the mayor's phone records, find zero...
Making software...
Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I'm going to quickly breakdown the update I've...
TokyoDev
Service Introduction: Forkwell One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
David Crawshaw
COPY Relocations "put the address of symbol X inside symbol Y at offset O" $ cat symY.c void x(); void y()...
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over a year ago
"put the address of symbol X inside symbol Y at offset O" $ cat symY.c void x(); void y() { x(); } $ cc -c symY.c $ readelf -r symY.o Relocation section '.rela.text' at offset 0x518 contains 1 entries: Offset Info Type Sym. Value Sym. Name +...
Yale E360
A few weird ways of displaying git hashes I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking about why hashes are often represented in hexademical, the author states (emphasis mine): There are other ways to encode binary data for human consumption, but the two most widely...
Irrational...
Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement. If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that prematurely applying...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that prematurely applying pressure to a strategy’s rollout prevents evaluating whether the strategy is effective. Pressure changes behavior in profound ways, and many of those changes are intended to make...
Computer Things
Some notes on for loops New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a...
a year ago
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a year ago
New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a lot of Alloy). Patreon link here. Some notes on for loops I sometimes like to sharpen the axe by looking at a basic programming concept and seeing what I can pull out. In this...
Nelson's Weblog
Angkor Wat resources I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I found useful about the Khmer empire in...
Eric Bailey
thoughtbot.com, dark mode, and other user preferences thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog. Dark mode is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog. Dark mode is all the rage in web design right now. It’s a toggle in your operating system settings that allows you to update your operating system from traditional lighter colors to a darker...
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to start a growth team (as an engineer) Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at ...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at Let's Do This – a Y Combinator startup with $80M in…
A Smart Bear
Letters to Joel Spolsky I regret to inform you…
over a year ago
Making software...
Super Mario Blocks in CSS Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let's make a quick demo on how to build...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let's make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks. What our final product will look like: Live CodePen Example The HTML The set of Mario blocks doesn't require a huge...
Yale E360
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
The Pragmatic...
Lyft in Trouble Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just...
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Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just stepped down and a former Amazon executive is the new CEO. What does this major change mean?
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we found our Ideal Customer Profile Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog. You can see it in our revenue growth: I wish we…
Vadim Kravcenko
How much equity should a CTO ask for? This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s especially awesome […] The post How much equity should a CTO ask for? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric “Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
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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.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Two Words The best way to sell to, brand, persuade, or inspire people is to condense your idea down to Two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The best way to sell to, brand, persuade, or inspire people is to condense your idea down to Two Words.
HTMHell
#12 accessible poll yes/no Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this...
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over a year ago
Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div> <div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup"> <div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title"> <input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
Sometimes It Works...
Creating new variables in Laravel’s Blade without resorting to writing PHP code Creating new variables in Laravel’s Blade without resorting to writing PHP code ¶Creating new...
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over a year ago
Creating new variables in Laravel’s Blade without resorting to writing PHP code ¶Creating new variables in Laravel’s Blade without resorting to writing PHP code Here’s a quick trick in case like me you occasionally need to declare a new variable in a Blade view. Blade doesn’t...
General Robots
ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Profitable on day one! You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable....
10 months ago
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10 months ago
You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable. Fix your definition of "profitable," and build a truly profitable business.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Site Search in Arc Browser — For Your Own Site Arc just released site search built right into the browser. Want to search for something...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Arc just released site search built right into the browser. Want to search for something specifically on Twitter? Pull up the search bar and start typing Twitter: Select the site search option and hit Tab. This puts you into what I’ll call “site search mode”: Once you enter...
the singularity is...
p(doom) Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of the debate is whether AIs will look more like formal systems or like inscrutable weight matrices. I think it’s the latter, and I think it’s the something like the latter forever....
The Codist
My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia. It sure...
a year ago
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a year ago
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia. It sure seems like a long time ago.
David Heinemeier...
The Year on Linux I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or...
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I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or more. That's the funny thing about habits: They can be so hard to break, but once you do, they're also easily forgotten. That's how it feels having left the Apple realm after two...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style...
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A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style website called White House Wire. According to Axios, a White House official said the site’s purpose was to serve as “a place for supporters of the president’s agenda to get the real...
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: &quot;working in waves&quot; * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer. I’d like to share some of my reflections...
A Smart Bear
Learn by Copy In America we're trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we're...
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In America we're trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Permissions and projects in PostHog, explained So, you’ve installed your snippet and started tracking data in PostHog. What’s next? Before forging...
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So, you’ve installed your snippet and started tracking data in PostHog. What’s next? Before forging ahead into the heady world of insights…
Irrational...
Setting policy for strategy. This book’s introduction started by defining strategy as “making decisions.” Then we dug into...
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This book’s introduction started by defining strategy as “making decisions.” Then we dug into exploration, diagnosis, and refinement: three chapters where you could argue that we didn’t decide anything at all. Clarifying the problem to be solved is the prerequisite of effective...
ByteofDev
State of JS 2021 Results and Analysis State of JS 2021/2022 is a major survey in web development. Learn all about it and what the results...
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State of JS 2021/2022 is a major survey in web development. Learn all about it and what the results really mean.
dthompson
Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow...
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I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow moving project but the last (and only) release was in 2018 so this release is long overdue. Guile-syntax-highlight is a general-purpose syntax highlighting library for GNU Guile. It...
Joel Gascoigne
Why we go on international retreats 3 times a year with our startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most exciting parts of the culture we’ve developed at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] for me is our international retreats. It’s also potentially something we’ve not shared that much...
TokyoDev
Grad school in Japan: my experience doing a Master of Sciences in Computer Science My journey in Japan began with an unconventional scholarship program called Vulcanus in Japan, which...
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My journey in Japan began with an unconventional scholarship program called Vulcanus in Japan, which allowed me to take a Japanese language course and intern at a major Japanese company. I wrote all about it in [my previous TokyoDev...
swyx's site RSS Feed
On The Importance of 15-5 Updates We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding...
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We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.30.0 Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation analysis, saving insights for future use and a fully revamped recordings playback experience and more than 350 improvements/fixes more.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How (and why) to track your website with PostHog PostHog may have been built for product analytics, but that doesn’t mean you can only deploy it on...
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over a year ago
PostHog may have been built for product analytics, but that doesn’t mean you can only deploy it on your core product — you can also use it to gather…
The Pragmatic...
How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA) The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What...
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
We’re All Content Creators for Machines Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since...
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8 months ago
Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since [checks archives] 2005. As of late his writing has gone quiet, but he’s got a new book due out early next year and I think he’s starting up blogging again to help drum up interest....
bt RSS Feed
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won’t go into the post’s specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
Sometimes It Works...
What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that… What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that forced big tech (and others eventually) to come to us for our data instead of just handing it to them on a plate? If we could do that, then we’d stand to benefit the most from it,...
A Smart Bear
Who's lying? Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
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Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
A Smart Bear
"ROI" is the wrong way to sell your product Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't...
a year ago
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a year ago
Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't convince them. Here's what to do instead.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Pivot to PostHog YC has been running for 15 years, and getting bigger every year. That means there are more than...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
YC has been running for 15 years, and getting bigger every year. That means there are more than 2,000 companies in their network. Many are still small…
Blog of Simple...
Web analytics for publishers
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Steve Klabnik
Random Ruby Tricks: Struct.new
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Venture Cafe ![Venture...
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![Venture Cafe](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBZzRsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--ba1e65f25bf034abe1e412b48d5578aafd57c2af/venture_cafe.jpg) [Venture Cafe] had its first event, はたらくモチベーション...
Ralph Ammer
So… this is a job? What is Design? The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
over a year ago
Irrational...
systems-mcp: generate systems models via LLM Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing runnable systems...
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Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing runnable systems models, and introduced it with this blog post modeling a hiring funnel. While it’s far from a perfect system, I’ve gotten a lot of value out of it over the last seven years, because...
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 01 · Welcome to the Keyhive An introduction to the Keyhive project
10 months ago
TokyoDev
How Cybozu Built an International Engineering Team While domestically quite successful, Cybozu struggled to attract international customers—until they...
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10 months ago
While domestically quite successful, Cybozu struggled to attract international customers—until they started their own English-speaking, international unit from scratch. Domestic vs. foreign success Cybozu, founded in 1997, was one of Japan’s first B2B software companies. They’ve...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Building an all-remote company from scratch Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started...
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Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started this way from scratch? PostHog has a team of 12, 1…
swyx's site RSS Feed
CFP Advice Some thoughts on writing your first few CFPs
over a year ago
elementary Blog
The System Settings Redesign Has Landed This month the biggest story is System Settings, but we also have some great progress on the new...
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This month the biggest story is System Settings, but we also have some great progress on the new Dock and Wayland. Plus a small change to default keyboard shortcuts that you might appreciate. Read ahead to find out the new developments you have to look forward to in the upcoming...
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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over a year ago
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.
alexwlchan
Changing the macOS accent colour without System Preferences In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects colours throughout your Mac’s user interface, including buttons, menus, and tickboxes. When you pick a new colour, it updates everywhere, immediately. I want to write some automations...
Maggie Appleton
Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable What's wrong with linear, static programming mediums and how might we improve them?
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
Dan Slimmon
Dead air on the incident call Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll...
a year ago
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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.
Computer Things
My patented Miracle Tonic would have prevented the CrowdStrike meltdown Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I didn't bother to learn anything else about it because I was too busy writing my 10k whitepaper about how all the problems were all caused by one simple mistake: not drinking my...
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 2: Thou need not PaaS Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto our own hardware, without the need for the complexity of something like Kubernetes. Kamal 2 is a huge leap forward for that tool, and it has just shipped.  Now you can deploy...
Charles Chen
React is the New IBM You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get...
over a year ago
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You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and joyless every step of the way.
David Heinemeier...
You're not guaranteed a spot on the team I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously...
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I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously not true, and it's usually cynically invoked by management to entice an undue obligation of sacrifice. Implying that you should give it all to The Company -- constantly working...
Grant Slatton
Rust Macros: Zero to Hero A comprehensive guide on Rust macros
10 months ago
Jibran’s Perspective
State machines - Why and how to use them in web development. What is a state machine? I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine. A...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What is a state machine? I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine. A finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: automata), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract...
David Heinemeier...
We need a Right To Compute The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If...
a year ago
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a year ago
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you ought to have the right to...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in...
a year ago
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a year ago
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself – Junio C Hamano, git@vger.kernel.org: expired key in junio-gpg-pub Git ships with the maintainer’s public key. But you won’t find it in your worktree—it’s...
Liz Denys
Black coiled planter with attached drip tray, 2024 Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, denim satin glaze
a year ago
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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over a year ago
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...
The History of the...
Where did mainstream media come from? The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an...
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The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web. The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
bt RSS Feed
My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
macwright.com
Recently What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty busy! Things are good. Building products is fun but also a lot of work. Pretty excited about what I’m working on. Ready for winter to end. Reading I enjoyed reading Ross Barkan’s...
HTMHell
#5 button-like-link Bad code <a href="#form" role="button" aria-haspopup="true"> &nbsp;&nbsp;Register&nbsp;&nbsp;...
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over a year ago
Bad code <a href="#form" role="button" aria-haspopup="true"> &nbsp;&nbsp;Register&nbsp;&nbsp; </a> Issues and how to fix them It’s a link to a form at the same page that looks like a button. By adding role="button" to a link, you’re telling that it’s a button, though it acts like...
bt RSS Feed
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
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Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
David Gerrells
love is work and so is css I love css. And well, to love something, it is not always rainbows :rainbow: and sunshine :sunny:
over a year ago
the singularity is...
Influence Agents Check 1, 2 is the mic on? Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Check 1, 2 is the mic on? Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving in a way no humans want never made sense to me, only to Hollywood who doesn’t know all that much about computers. Paul Christiano has one of my favorite takes, that the creation...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the...
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over a year ago
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Pen-driven symbolic programming An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using...
a year ago
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a year ago
An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using formulas. We want a way of inputting formulas that is as “pen-driven” as possible.
Darek Kay
Prevent data loss on page refresh It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click "back") and lose all the hard work. In this blog post, I present a method to retain form data when the page is reloaded, which improves the user experience. Browser behavior Most...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
The complete guide to safe type narrowing in TypeScript Say I'm building a TODO app with two tabs: done and pending tasks. To make the app routable, I put...
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over a year ago
Say I'm building a TODO app with two tabs: done and pending tasks. To make the app routable, I put the active tab into the ?tab query parameter, so that mytodo.io?tab=done takes me directly to the done tasks. I implement routing like this (pardon my hand-coded querystring...
Liz Denys
My love-hate relationship with typeface rendering in Ubuntu We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true when it comes to personal computers because with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X - upwards of 98 percent of the market - you get characters that are easy on the eye right out of the...
Irrational...
Engineering strategy notes. Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy, and as part of that have started...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy, and as part of that have started re-reading previous resources on the topic, and looking for new things to read while I refine my point of view on what makes for good engineering strategy. The best introduction to my...
Alex MacCaw
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How useRef turned out to be useMemo's father It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from...
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over a year ago
It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from having to see an arrow chain. As the docs go: useCallback((e) => onChange(id, e.target.value), [onChange, id]); // is equivalent to useMemo(() => (e) => onChange(id,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
over a year ago
HTMHell
#1 button disguised as a link Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website"...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website" src="logo.jpg" title="Name of website"> </button> Issues and how to fix them Wrong usage of the button element. There’s an element for linking to external sites (<a>). Do not change...
Irrational...
Architecture
a year ago
Eric Bailey
Using personas in the Product Design Sprint
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2024 The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
David Heinemeier...
The social media censorship era is over (for now) Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship....
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Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship. Here's what he's going to do: Replace third-party fact checkers with community notes ala X. Allow free discussion on immigration, gender, and other topics that were heavily censored...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Date and Time with a Static Site Generator Do you have a static site generator? If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts...
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Do you have a static site generator? If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts are published? For me, I record the publish date once: in the filename (e.g. 2023-05-16-my-slug.md). That YYYY-MM-DD string in the filename is the canonical location for my posts’...
The Pragmatic...
The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time,...
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a year ago
How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time, and is it still relevant half a century on – or does it belong in a museum, alongside floppy discs?
Josh Comeau's blog
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
a year ago
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a year ago
useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be successful? Be inconsistent * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently 37signals published an article titled Some advice from Jeff Bezos [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos]. This wasn’t your usual advice, and I found it...
Alice GG
Thoughts on releasing our first indie game Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to discover and learn a lot of new things about game development and the industry. I will use this blog post to write down what I consider to be the most important lessons from the months...
Vadim Kravcenko
🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round Startup founders have a lot of fears. Some are afraid they won’t find a technical co-founder or...
over a year ago
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Startup founders have a lot of fears. Some are afraid they won’t find a technical co-founder or attract angel investment. […] The post 🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Epic Web Dev
Adding a Shadow to an SVG Icon with Tailwind CSS (tip) Learn how to add a shadow that follows the edges of an SVG icon using Tailwind CSS DropShadow,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn how to add a shadow that follows the edges of an SVG icon using Tailwind CSS DropShadow, giving your icons a smoother and more visually appealing look.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023 The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
Blog System/5
BazelCon 2024 recap Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events...
8 months ago
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Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events of last week: BazelCon 2024 and the adjacent Build Meetup. There is A LOT to cover, but everything is here in just one article!
Sometimes It Works...
Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues Queues & Jobs The Task Scheduler Dream...
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over a year ago
Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues Queues & Jobs The Task Scheduler Dream within a dream ¶Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues This article originally appeared on LaravelUK. This may seem obvious to many of you, but I always think...
On Life and Lisp
Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
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English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
Blog of Simple...
The path to 1M ARR - April 2023
over a year ago
Alice GG
Introducing Mikochi: a minimalist remote file browser Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and containers in my free time. One of the things I have running is a Media Server, which I use to access my collection of movies and shows (that I evidently own and ripped myself). To...
Liz Denys
He's not my friend. Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind. What I want to say is often not what someone else wants to hear, and I learned early in life that men who don't hear what they want to hear often get angry. Maybe that anger will...
Liz Denys
Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the clefs, but it was the least nasty way to span the piano. You can grab a full copy of the score.
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
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When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱. Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
The Changelog
I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of...
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I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines. The last one that needed this was my Raspberry Pi hooked up to my DEC vt510 terminal and IBM mechanical keyboard. Yes I do still use that setup! To my surprise,...
Computer Things
Stroustrop's Rule Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic...
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Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrop's Rule I first encountered Stroustrop's Rule on this...
37signals Dev
Kamal 2.0 released We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or...
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We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers. Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer. With Kamal 2.0...
MMapped blog
The numeric tower fiasco
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David Heinemeier...
Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereignty The recent disconnection of the ICC's chief prosecutor, at the behest of the American...
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The recent disconnection of the ICC's chief prosecutor, at the behest of the American administration, could not have come at a worse time for Microsoft. Just a month prior, the folks from Redmond tried to assure Europe that all was well. That any speculation Europeans could get...
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How to get the first 10 paying customers for your devtool company (and other customer acquisition... Creating a product that people need and are willing to pay for is hard. At PostHog, it took us...
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alexwlchan
A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian &rarr; I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed...
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I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too. To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin. When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
Irrational...
Those five spare hours each week. One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology...
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One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology Officers should actively write code. There are a lot of strongly held positions, from “Real CTOs code.” at one end of the spectrum, to “Low ego managers know they contribute more by...
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...
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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.
Vadim Kravcenko
🌈 Hedonic Treadmill I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving...
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I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving something we […] The post 🌈 Hedonic Treadmill appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
box-sizing: border-box explained It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us...
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It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us back to the days of early Internet Explorer. The good ol' days # You might remember how Internet Explorer 6 (quirks mode) and below did that whole box model thing wrong. If not,...
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Why Go iterators are ugly, clever and elegant Go 1.23 adds iterators. An iterator is a way to provide values that can be used in for x := range...
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Go 1.23 adds iterators. An iterator is a way to provide values that can be used in for x := range iter loops. People are happy the iterators were added to the language. Not everyone is happy about HOW they were implemented. This person opined that they demonstrate “typical Go...
Kagi Blog
Kagi passes an independent security audit Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant (...
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Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant ( https://www.illumant.com ) , an independent security auditor.
Epic Web Dev
The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article) Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making,...
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Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making, boost your career, and help you build better software.
ByteofDev
My 2025 JavaScript Wishlist JavaScript has a lot of room for improvement. These five things are especially important.
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YC adds PostHog to top valued companies for July 2021 Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits...
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Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits as of July 2021. "Um… what?" I know, I know. You…
HTMHell
Getting started with Web Performance 🚀 by Alistair Shepherd Carefully observing websites in the wild As the murderous...
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by Alistair Shepherd Carefully observing websites in the wild As the murderous tortoises start to converge on Ryūji’s hideout, they pull out their phone. It’s a cheap, older device but it’s survived the toils of the tortoise-ageddon well so far. Thankfully...
Basta’s Notes
The state with the fancy plates Book typography-style serifs are for lovers
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Making software...
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn't mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
alexwlchan
How I use the notes field in my password manager I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new...
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I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new year cleanup task. I’ve been deleting unused accounts, changing old passwords which were weak, and making sure I’ve enabled multi-factor authentication for key accounts. Each...
the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
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The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
The Codist
Learn Something New Every Day You can't stay relevant for over 40 years without learning new things. In my first job in the early...
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You can't stay relevant for over 40 years without learning new things. In my first job in the early 80s, learning new things was a fundamental requirement to being a programmer—almost everything you did was new, both to you and often to everyone else. I started
Yale E360
Teleportation teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of...
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teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of myself —unwelcome guests poisoning me from the inside no longer welcome
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Love Letter to Singapore Mixed Rice The most underrated part of Singapore that foreigners don't appreciate
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Vadim Kravcenko
What questions to ask a startup before joining them? Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared...
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Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared […] The post What questions to ask a startup before joining them? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
macwright.com
Recently Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
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Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you. Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
Blog of Simple...
Guide to Google Analytics and Cookie consent
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TokyoDev
A Developer’s Crash Course in Coming to Japan Thinking about moving to Japan? You’re not alone—Japan is a popular destination for those hoping to...
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Thinking about moving to Japan? You’re not alone—Japan is a popular destination for those hoping to move abroad. What’s more, Japan actually needs more international developers. But how easy is it to immigrate to and work in Japan? Scores of videos on social media warn that...
HTMHell
PSA: Stop using the title attribute as tooltip! by Daniela Kubesch It's almost 2025, so it's time to stop using the title attribute everywhere....
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by Daniela Kubesch It's almost 2025, so it's time to stop using the title attribute everywhere. Images, text, buttons, ... you name it, devs really like to put it on any element in sight. Most of the time, people actually want to create a tooltip. You know, that little bubble of...
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...
the singularity is...
A Way Forward “For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense...
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“For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and...
Julia Evans
New playground: memory spy Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs and...
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Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs and see how their variables are represented in memory. It’s designed to be accessible to folks who don’t know C – it comes with bunch of extremely simple example C programs that you can...
Julia Evans
Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories? Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git...
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Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git (commits! branches! remotes! the staging area!) and commits have been surprisingly tricky. Understanding how git commits are implemented feels pretty straightforward to me (those are...
A Smart Bear
Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not...
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Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
Alex MacCaw
Sailing across the Atlantic
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The Codist
Career Retrospective: Being Interviewed I'm starting a series on what I learned during my four decades as a working programmer. First, I...
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I'm starting a series on what I learned during my four decades as a working programmer. First, I will describe my experience of being interviewed. Interviews are part of being a programmer; every time you find a new job, you will go through interviews, which allow a prospective
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 4 This is day 4 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
macwright.com
The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
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I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
Ink & Switch
Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers. Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a...
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Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
David Gerrells
is there light at the end of the tunnel Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look...
over a year ago
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that lives in my garage Some thoughts about machine learning
6 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is a front-end readout board from the KASCADE muon detector. Thanks again...
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The Ware for January 2023 is a front-end readout board from the KASCADE muon detector. Thanks again to cpresser for contributing the ware, and also congratulations to AZeta for nailing it! email me for your prize.
Ink & Switch
Tablet Platform Showdown Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 7 best free and open-source feature flag tools Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than...
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Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than maintaining multiple feature branches in your…
alexwlchan
Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that...
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Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that involves moving photos in and out of albums. The tool I’ve built is very specific to my workflow and unlikely to be immediately useful to anyone else, but I thought some of the code for...
Yale E360
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...