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Intro to Vim Talk I gave a talk at the San Francisco Vim Enthusiasts user group.
16th Jan 2014
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Intro to Vim Talk

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jan 2014
I gave a talk at the San Francisco Vim Enthusiasts user group.
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Dolphin 🐬 Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and...
2nd Jul 2023
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Dolphin 🐬

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2023
Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and series of instruct-tuned language models based on Microsoft's Orca paper. The dataset is released here, with Apache-2.0 license. The dataset can be used for commercial or...
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Getting a job at a Japanese startup At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead...
9th Jan 2014
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Getting a job at a Japanese startup

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2014
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead software developer at [Crowdcast](http://crowdcast.jp/), a Japanese startup with a product, [bizNote](https://secure.biznote.jp/) that makes small business accounting easier. As it...
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Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's...
26th Jul 2015
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Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Jul 2015
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
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What I'm up to - February 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the...
1st Feb 2023
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What I'm up to - February 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2023
✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the Chicago Winter. Since last Summer, I've been taking a "solo week" trip every quarter as a creat...
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Coding with LLMs can lead to more and better software We are in the early days with a new technology. There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and takes on...
3rd Apr 2023
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Coding with LLMs can lead to more and better software

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Apr 2023
We are in the early days with a new technology. There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and takes on every end of the spectrum. Some predict that programmers will be out of a job sooner than later. Others predict that these will just contribute to spam. Today I'd like to focus on one...
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The Two Classes of Software Engineer “Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or...
5th Mar 2021
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The Two Classes of Software Engineer

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2021
“Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or sometimes even simply test code. In reality, I think there are two classes of “software engineers”; those who understand computer science well enough to do challenging, innovative work,...
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How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are...
6th Jul 2026
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How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2026
I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are better versed in the subtle arts of soil, plants…
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Lightweight NextJS example of uploading files to Google Cloud Storage Many years ago, back in 2018, I wrote a tiny NPM package called gcloud-storage-json-upload, which...
13th Jun 2023
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Lightweight NextJS example of uploading files to Google Cloud Storage

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jun 2023
Many years ago, back in 2018, I wrote a tiny NPM package called gcloud-storage-json-upload, which lets you authenticate with Google Cloud Storage and upload a file without needing to install any huge Google SDKs. I recently needed to use it with NextJS to upload Gifs created in...
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Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show...
22nd Jun 2026
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Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2026
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow, but we quickly landed on Off By One with
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From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story
11th Aug 2022
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From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Aug 2022
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Solving a math problem with planner programming The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either...
2nd Jul 2024
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Solving a math problem with planner programming

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2024
The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange: Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
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Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
12th Feb 2015
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Go package for better guid generation

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2015
The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is popular but it can be done better. I wrote betterguid Go package that does it better. Unique id generated by this package: is a 20 character string, safe to include in urls (no need...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
10th Oct 2017
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2017
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven't seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
18th Jul 2026
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jul 2026
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
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Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
6th Feb 2023
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Jason Cohen: About the author

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2023
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...
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Trashy Holidays from [the rats of] New York City! This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most...
16th Nov 2021
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Trashy Holidays from [the rats of] New York City!

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Nov 2021
This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most iconic images: The back of the card explains why this problem is so commonplace on NYC's streets and says how we could fix it: Piles of trash blocking sidewalks and bike lanes are as...
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"Rules" that terminal programs follow Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination...
12th Dec 2024
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"Rules" that terminal programs follow

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Dec 2024
Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat) The first three (your...
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CSS Video Backgrounds CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
16th Apr 2018
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CSS Video Backgrounds

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Apr 2018
CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS. Example: .video-background { background-image:...
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Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip “Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus,...
19th Dec 2022
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Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Dec 2022
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus, it piqued my interest when an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy. This blog post explains my reasoning...
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Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of...
23rd Dec 2024
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Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Dec 2024
A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of version control for game dev.
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How to argue for something without any scientific evidence Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
6th Mar 2024
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How to argue for something without any scientific evidence

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2024
Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
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NYC Bike Rules for Drivers mini-zine After five different drivers, including a school bus driver, aggressively close-passed me in Midwood...
21st Oct 2025
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NYC Bike Rules for Drivers mini-zine

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Oct 2025
After five different drivers, including a school bus driver, aggressively close-passed me in Midwood last night and two of them threatened me just for being on the street, I realized there's a huge gap in educational outreach about bike rules in NYC: drivers. I decided to make a...
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My Commitment to Accessibility I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to...
2nd Jun 2023
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My Commitment to Accessibility

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2023
I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to the websites and applications that are created with it. This is an important goal of my projects. Oftentimes, people will ask "is it accessible?" I'm reluctant to answer because...
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A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts A tale of two rewrites Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”,...
8th Feb 2024
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A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2024
A tale of two rewrites Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”, invented that whole thing where you can send HTML in emails, and more. In his harrowing work diary of how Mosaic/Netscape came to be, Jamie described the burnout rodeo that was...
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TypeScript is not a Programming Language If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
12th Sep 2023
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TypeScript is not a Programming Language

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2023
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
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Summit 010 Berlin Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
6th Jun 2022
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Summit 010 Berlin

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2022
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
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Golden Glide Silhouette This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to...
9th Jul 2022
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Golden Glide Silhouette

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2022
This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to watch.
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The 8 Most Popular Coding Languages of 2026 And more importantly, how to choose the most popular coding language you should learn. 🔗 How can...
4th Jan 2021
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The 8 Most Popular Coding Languages of 2026

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2021
And more importantly, how to choose the most popular coding language you should learn. 🔗 How can you decide what the most popular coding language is? It’s like trying to pick the most popular ice cream flavor - everyone has a favorite. The truth is that different coders prefer...
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Man cereal Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and,...
3rd Mar 2026
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Man cereal

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2026
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
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The Official, Authorized List Of Legitimate Reasons For Deciding to Become a Manager “Why did you decide to become a manager?” It’s a question that gets asked a lot, in job interviews,...
1st Sep 2020
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The Official, Authorized List Of Legitimate Reasons For Deciding to Become a Manager

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2020
“Why did you decide to become a manager?” It’s a question that gets asked a lot, in job interviews, 1x1s, and plain old casual conversation. I ask this question a lot, and I am often frustrated (or bored) by the answers I hear back. Most of them can be bucketed in one of three...
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Everyone is a Staff Engineer Now Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.
22nd Dec 2025
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Everyone is a Staff Engineer Now

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Dec 2025
Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering.
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Status as a Service (StaaS) Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this...
26th Feb 2019
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Status as a Service (StaaS)

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Feb 2019
Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one. My long break from posting here means that this piece is a collection of what would’ve normally...
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Please put units in names
20th Mar 2022
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Please put units in names

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Mar 2022
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Google Reader was building the wrong future The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
1st Jul 2026
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Google Reader was building the wrong future

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2026
The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
28th May 2024
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th May 2024
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
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Model facts, not your problem domain
7th Jun 2020
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Model facts, not your problem domain

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jun 2020
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Colophon Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the...
1st May 2015
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Colophon

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2015
Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the archive. This convention makes a colophon the King's Pawn Game of web authorship; there's no better place to showcase certain implementation details than the first post of a...
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Thank You For Being a Friend It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This...
20th Apr 2026
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Thank You For Being a Friend

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Apr 2026
It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (Guaranteed Minimum
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How NOT to apply to Y Combinator Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
2nd Aug 2020
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How NOT to apply to Y Combinator

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2020
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
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Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example,...
3rd Jul 2023
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Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2023
At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example, we have a staging version of our website, where we test new changes before they’re deployed to the live site. We’re only making changes during UK office hours, so running the...
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getopt() but smaller The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically...
7th Nov 2024
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getopt() but smaller

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Nov 2024
The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically simple command line argument parser. Most argument parsers are declarative: you tell them what to parse, and they do it. This one provides you with a stream of options and values and...
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Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers If you’re an international developer working at a Japanese company, you’ve probably felt some...
3rd Mar 2026
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Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2026
If you’re an international developer working at a Japanese company, you’ve probably felt some communication-related pain. Whether your team primarily uses English, Japanese, or a mix of both, chances are there’s occasionally friction. In a field where poor communication leads to...
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Name that Ware, July 2024 The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last...
31st Jul 2024
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Name that Ware, July 2024

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jul 2024
The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last two images might be killer clues that give away the ware, but they are also so cool I couldn’t not include them as part of the post.
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Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
15th Dec 2020
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Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Dec 2020
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
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Impressions of the ZSA Moonlander at one month My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal...
24th Jan 2023
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Impressions of the ZSA Moonlander at one month

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jan 2023
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal and work projects for a full month
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What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
9th Sep 2019
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What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2019
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
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Building personal and organizational prestige Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
4th Jul 2023
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Building personal and organizational prestige

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jul 2023
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
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The Phoenix project — Book Notes Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
19th Jan 2019
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The Phoenix project — Book Notes

from Mahmoud Felfel's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jan 2019
Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
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Japan Needs International Developers No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe...
11th Oct 2024
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Japan Needs International Developers

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2024
No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe labor shortage. A report by the Teikoku Databank states that across all industries, 52.6% of Japanese companies say they don’t have the workers they need. 260 bankruptcies in 2023...
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Questionable Advice: Premature Senior Followup Q’s Some interesting followup questions arose from my recent post on the trap of the premature senior: I...
12th Feb 2021
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Questionable Advice: Premature Senior Followup Q’s

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2021
Some interesting followup questions arose from my recent post on the trap of the premature senior: I found your blog (from Hacker News, I think) and your “Questionable Advice: The Trap of the Premature Senior” spoke to me, but I was wondering, do you have any followup advice on...
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Why React Re-Renders In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and...
16th Aug 2022
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Why React Re-Renders

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2022
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the...
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useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it...
21st Sep 2021
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useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2021
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it work? Is it safe? Are there better ways to implement such state changes? TLDR: it works, but leaves you with an extra DOM update that may break stuff. As we all know, useLayoutEffect...
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JSX is a Lovechild Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
20th Jan 2019
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JSX is a Lovechild

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jan 2019
Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
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Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
18th Sep 2023
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Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Sep 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
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Automatic Panorama Generation
3rd May 2011
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Automatic Panorama Generation

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2011
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“Can They Change My Contract?”: Protecting Your Workplace Rights in Japan Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established...
21st Apr 2025
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“Can They Change My Contract?”: Protecting Your Workplace Rights in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Apr 2025
Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established workplace practices have come under threat. These include businesses pushing for return-to-office mandates after years of remote work, eliminating flexible scheduling, and cutting...
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There's no such thing as the fundamentals of web development
19th Mar 2023
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There's no such thing as the fundamentals of web development

from Seldo.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Mar 2023
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pre-tenuring in v8 Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going over some V8 code that touched : allocating...
5th Jan 2026
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pre-tenuring in v8

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jan 2026
Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going over some V8 code that touched : allocating objects directly in the old space instead of the nursery. I knew the theory here but I had never looked into the mechanism. Today’s post is a quick overview of how...
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Self-Organizing Teams This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
17th Dec 2021
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Self-Organizing Teams

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Dec 2021
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post Self-Organizing Teams appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator” In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do...
16th Nov 2021
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Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator”

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Nov 2021
In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
7th Sep 2020
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Sep 2020
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
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Custom for designing, off-the-shelf for shipping As software engineers, we're paid to write really cool type annotations solve problems. Usually we...
15th Sep 2025
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Custom for designing, off-the-shelf for shipping

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2025
As software engineers, we're paid to write really cool type annotations solve problems. Usually we do this by taking a bunch of different pieces and putting them together to solve the problem. Maybe you mix together a database, a queue, a web framework, and some business...
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#22 the good ol’ div link Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div...
14th Oct 2020
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#22 the good ol’ div link

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Oct 2020
Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div onClick="location.href='about.html'"> About us </div> <div data-page="aboutus" data-url="index.php"> About us </div> …or any other variation of this pattern where an element other than <a> is used to link to a...
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The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of...
4th Apr 2024
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The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Apr 2024
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want to say not only is that view so myopic that it pushes towards the incorrect, but also it...
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2024: Just the Start 2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023...
31st Dec 2024
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2024: Just the Start

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2024
2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023 was tough, but 2024 went some way to redressing the balance and I am even more positive about 2025 because of it. Here are a few highlights: We went to Japan! My first time in...
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Prefers Reduced Motion By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not...
19th May 2021
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Prefers Reduced Motion

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th May 2021
By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not a user prefers, well, reduced motion. You can use this to tone down (or turn off) transitions and animations in your stylesheet to accommodate users with vestibular motion...
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Review: The Tragedy at Deer Creek
16th Jun 2026
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Review: The Tragedy at Deer Creek

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jun 2026
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How to not make a résumé in React I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like...
7th Apr 2020
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How to not make a résumé in React

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2020
I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like recently. They all promise the same thing, namely how to use React to create a résumé. I mean, I get it. It’s important to have something to build towards when learning a new skill,...
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How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
17th May 2025
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How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th May 2025
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
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What I'm up to - December 2022 ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of...
1st Dec 2022
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What I'm up to - December 2022

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of signups, which was more than I expected. Overall, a great start! - Did a smaller launch for The Cont...
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Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A Watch out, Databricks
1st Aug 2026
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Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2026
Watch out, Databricks
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Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. "MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy...
3rd Sep 2023
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Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead.

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2023
"MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy that results in fast, validated learning, that customers love.
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 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob...
19th Apr 2022
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 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2022
Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob mentioned that I […] The post  🎭 Owning up to your mistakes appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Unforgetful I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework,...
14th Aug 2026
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Unforgetful

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Aug 2026
I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed to try harder, and wasn’t living up to my potential. I’ll be working on the resulting shame...
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A Programming Career By The Numbers As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be...
11th Jan 2024
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A Programming Career By The Numbers

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2024
As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be interesting to describe my long career with numbers. If you wind up working for four decades, your experience may vary. Years Active: 1981-2021, totaling 39.5 years. Irrespective of...
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Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
3rd Aug 2025
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Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Aug 2025
Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
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What I'm up to - November 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
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What I'm up to - November 2023

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
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Abstraction and instances in graph programming
17th Dec 2016
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Abstraction and instances in graph programming

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Dec 2016
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers
4th Jul 2026
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers

from Seldo.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jul 2026
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HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has...
5th Aug 2025
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HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2025
Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago. Enthusiasts will tell you that accessing native web APIs via WASM is a solved...
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Designing a version In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak...
23rd Feb 2016
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Designing a version

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2016
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak version management neglects clients like lack of source control neglects collaborators. Dependency management and migration rely on versions. Beyond the technical, a project's...
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I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker' When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required...
3rd Jan 2014
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I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker'

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2014
When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required computer class. Our teacher did not once call this programming; it was just another project among ones that usually weren't programming. I generalized almost every exercise - something...
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Why Amateur Radio? I always had a diffuse idea of why people are spending so much time and money on amateur radio. Once...
29th Aug 2025
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Why Amateur Radio?

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Aug 2025
I always had a diffuse idea of why people are spending so much time and money on amateur radio. Once I got my license and started to amass radios myself, it became more clear to me. It always seemed like amateur radio was an extremely practical endeavor. The goal appeared to be...
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The plan-execute pattern
20th Jun 2024
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The plan-execute pattern

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jun 2024
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Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5
16th Dec 2024
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Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Dec 2024
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
11th Aug 2023
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Aug 2023
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
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Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of...
9th Dec 2007
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Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Dec 2007
A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of checkboxes: <fieldset id="group_1"> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="0" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="1" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="2"...
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C is Turing complete Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing...
2nd Aug 2024
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C is Turing complete

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2024
Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing complete. The consensus in the StackOverflow question is, no, because the C abstract machine is a (large) finite state machine, or maybe yes, if you believe that unaddressable local...
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Freedom, Risk, and Protection: What Japan’s Freelance Act Really Means for Tech Workers Japan’s freelance IT market is worth over 100 billion yen annually, with projected demand up nearly...
7th Oct 2025
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Freedom, Risk, and Protection: What Japan’s Freelance Act Really Means for Tech Workers

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2025
Japan’s freelance IT market is worth over 100 billion yen annually, with projected demand up nearly 30% year-on-year and a projected shortfall of 600,000 tech workers by 2030. That demand creates opportunity, but it could also leave more people stuck in shaky employment...
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Fourways Mall It’s Saturday at 1:37pm. I’ve been sitting in the 2nd floor parking trying to muster the energy to...
2nd Dec 2023
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Fourways Mall

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2023
It’s Saturday at 1:37pm. I’ve been sitting in the 2nd floor parking trying to muster the energy to walk in there to do everything on my to-do list: buy bread rolls for the kids’ lunch, new school shoes for Khanyi, check on the price of a new iron, and maybe just maybe upgrade my...
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How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
6th Feb 2023
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How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS?

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2023
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question. On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider. But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
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Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large...
18th May 2024
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Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th May 2024
As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large number of video tutorials on the subject. Even though the quality of the content is pretty variable, I'm very grateful to the creators for it. That being said, I couldn't help...
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Speeding up code with vectorization I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people...
17th Apr 2020
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Speeding up code with vectorization

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Apr 2020
I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people about my problems, they usually suggest multithreading and general-purpose GPU computing. These both have downsides. Multithreading might not be the best option in systems that...
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If composers were hackers
1st Apr 2023
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If composers were hackers

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2023
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Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
1st Jun 2024
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Lisp: Icing or Cake?

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2024
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached...
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Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
9th Sep 2019
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Plain Text Emails, Please

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2019
Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn't this same approach...
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Caves of Qud: A review
29th Dec 2025
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Caves of Qud: A review

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Dec 2025
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javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
19th Aug 2024
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javascript weakmaps should be iterable

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Aug 2024
Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
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The faded world: my experience with cataract <![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
22nd Dec 2024
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The faded world: my experience with cataract

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Dec 2024
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came. In May of 2024 my ophthalmologist confirmed what I surmised: both of my eyes were affected by cataract. It came earlier than my age would suggest but that's...
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From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who...
24th Nov 2025
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From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Nov 2025
I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who shall remain nameless and hopefully duly obscured—their identities are not the point, the point is that this is a mainstream view among engineering executives and my head is...
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Leaving Google Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work...
27th Mar 2018
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Leaving Google

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Mar 2018
Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers. I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0. As an operating system it gets so many things right. No doubt I will get a chance to be a user. For the...
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Command-Timing-Bash-Prompt A few years ago I was using ZSH with Sindre Sorhus’s Pure prompt and generally enjoying the...
19th Jan 2016
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Command-Timing-Bash-Prompt

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jan 2016
A few years ago I was using ZSH with Sindre Sorhus’s Pure prompt and generally enjoying the experience. The big, dumb, obvious caveat of using ZSH is that it’s not Bash. As a result, when you SSH into production machines that only have bash installed, you feel a...
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Behind the syntax: let and const variables There is a lot more going under the hood than simple syntax changes.
11th Jul 2018
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Behind the syntax: let and const variables

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jul 2018
There is a lot more going under the hood than simple syntax changes.
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Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is:...
23rd Jun 2017
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Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jun 2017
People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is: yes. This is a collection of solo-preneur success stories (with occasional 2 people bands). I only include businesses generating significant revenues. In this context it’s around $5k/mo...
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Why should you learn Golang? [2022] Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for...
8th Feb 2021
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Why should you learn Golang? [2022]

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2021
Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for career-conscious developers to learn. As an example, StackOverflow’s Developer survey saw it climb in popularity among developers from 10th in 2019 all the way to 5th in 2020. Additionally,...
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Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
17th Mar 2021
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Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Mar 2021
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the years following that tragic event, flotsam began arriving on the Pacific West Coast. Volunteers making great effort to return...
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A Thousand Tiny Optimisations This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM...
8th Jun 2025
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A Thousand Tiny Optimisations

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jun 2025
This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM but it wasn't accepted. There is also a companion playthrough video that goes into much more detail. Note that the post was written well over a year ago, as usual it just didn't...
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Full Circle I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my...
28th Aug 2024
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Full Circle

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Aug 2024
I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my hometown is brutal, around 40 degrees Celsius (over 100 Fahrenheit for my imperial friends). Most people escape to the coast, just like my family did when I was a kid. I haven’t been here...
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Mammon The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of...
20th Aug 2022
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Mammon

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Aug 2022
The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of the occasional car passing by outside. As the cool air gently brushes across her arms, Gladys Tyamzashe’s strands of hair stand up, mounted on the goose bumps of her aged and...
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CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
15th Apr 2024
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CSS in React Server Components

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Apr 2024
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
18th Oct 2018
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Oct 2018
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
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Tech Debt When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that...
2nd May 2023
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Tech Debt

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2023
When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that everything they do is Fully General Purpose And Future Proof. They have grand visions and world changing ambitions. Those make it seem like they should be building grand software, to...
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The Middle Way Login to tech Twitter and you’ll see posts bragging about 40k LoC per day from an unnamed YC member...
2nd May 2026
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The Middle Way

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2026
Login to tech Twitter and you’ll see posts bragging about 40k LoC per day from an unnamed YC member 😛. There’s some hilarity to it, but the vibe shift is real. At Jenni, we’re shipping 3-5x faster than mid-2025. I perpetually have unread notifications in our #shipped channel....
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My 2021 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
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My 2021 New Mac Setup

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
15th Dec 2020
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Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Dec 2020
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
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dict() vs. {} There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the...
1st Dec 2022
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dict() vs. {}

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2022
There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the literal syntax: {}. And in many cases, these are equivalent choices, so you might give it little thought and assume they both take the same amount of time. But they don't! Starting...
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Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
3rd Dec 2019
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Nov 2019 Recap

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
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Why is Clojure so stable?
18th Dec 2018
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Why is Clojure so stable?

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Dec 2018
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Sketches I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face. Faces...
31st Jan 2026
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Sketches

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2026
I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face. Faces are different for me than any other kind of drawing. Somewhere in the process the face looks real enough for me to recognize it as a human being, if it's a good drawing. About 30% of...
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DuckDB vs ClickHouse: Why we use both at PostHog ClickHouse and DuckDB are two heavyweights in the OLAP category. This makes them appear as direct...
1st May 2026
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DuckDB vs ClickHouse: Why we use both at PostHog

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2026
ClickHouse and DuckDB are two heavyweights in the OLAP category. This makes them appear as direct competitors. In a few respects they are, but they…
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I switched from tabs to spaces and haven't looked back Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would...
25th Nov 2014
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I switched from tabs to spaces and haven't looked back

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Nov 2014
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would never do, but I'm glad I finally did. Why I always preferred tabs # Tabs are sensible. They were made to indent things, and code needs to be indented, so it was a good relationship....
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Logical Quantifiers in Software I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once...
2nd Jul 2025
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Logical Quantifiers in Software

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2025
I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once explained basic logical quantifiers. They're both simple and incredibly useful, so let's do that this week! Sets and quantifiers A set is a collection of unordered, unique elements....
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2014-06-13 articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
13th Jun 2014
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2014-06-13

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jun 2014
articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
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Messing with bots Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
13th Nov 2025
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Messing with bots

from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Nov 2025
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
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how fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
9th Nov 2024
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how fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2024
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
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Get in Zoomer, We're Saving&nbsp;React Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange...
22nd Sep 2022
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Get in Zoomer, We're Saving&nbsp;React

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Sep 2022
Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange and red site recently spilled the tea about how mean Uncle React has been, and how much nicer some of these next-gen frameworks supposedly are. I find this bizarre for two...
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025 Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from...
7th Mar 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2025
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from scratch is just around the corner, and the TypeScript track couldn’t be closer.
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Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign...
16th Jul 2024
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Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2024
Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign of most of the iOS app, built to carry Overcast into the next decade — and hopefully beyond. Like podcasts better than blog posts? Listen to ATP #596 for more! What’s new Much...
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A Short Update on Designing for Foldable Devices And here we are three years after I wrote about the Google Pixel Fold being announced, followed now...
a week ago
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A Short Update on Designing for Foldable Devices

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
And here we are three years after I wrote about the Google Pixel Fold being announced, followed now with the announcement of the iPhone Duo...(I have questions about the naming by the way). Four years ago I was talking about web primitives in the platform for the Surface Duo. My...
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Homographic Spoofing: a new Ruby toolkit What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters,...
25th Jun 2024
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Homographic Spoofing: a new Ruby toolkit

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2024
What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters, but are different. For example, the letters “l” and “ӏ” (Cyrrilic “ӏ”) look the same but are different characters. A homograph attack is a phishing attack where the attacker uses...
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Universality and APIs From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been...
7th Dec 2022
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Universality and APIs

from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2022
From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been the key to unlocking human progress.
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Demystifying styled-components For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses...
21st Jun 2021
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Demystifying styled-components

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jun 2021
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how styled-components works by...
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How Tailscale tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug &rarr; I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how...
13th Aug 2026
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How Tailscale tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug &rarr;

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Aug 2026
I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how they eventually led us to find an SQLite bug that predates my entire programming career. I’m incredibly proud of this, both the work and the blog post. Before Tailscale, I was...
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RFD 1 Requests for Discussion One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
24th Jul 2020
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RFD 1 Requests for Discussion

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jul 2020
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet… …and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it! The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
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partitioning ambiguous edges in guile Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with...
25th Apr 2025
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partitioning ambiguous edges in guile

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Apr 2025
Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with conservatively-traced references. The context is that I have finally started banging into , initially in a configuration that continues to use the conservative Boehm-Demers-Weiser (BDW)...
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Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few...
23rd Jan 2011
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Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jan 2011
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html?pagewanted=all) made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However,...
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Year X
7th Apr 2024
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Year X

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7th Apr 2024
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2026 The Ware for March 2026 is a Elecom DST C30SV 6 in 1 USB “docking station”. I’ll give the prize to...
29th Apr 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2026

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Apr 2026
The Ware for March 2026 is a Elecom DST C30SV 6 in 1 USB “docking station”. I’ll give the prize to tayken – the ware itself wasn’t terribly hard to guess on its own, so this month I’m just going with the first interesting response. Congrats, email me for your prize! As other...
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Zero Trust Networks Zero Trust Networks 2019-09-10 I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next...
10th Sep 2019
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Zero Trust Networks

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Sep 2019
Zero Trust Networks 2019-09-10 I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next engineer, but there comes a point where there are just too many precise, narrowly-understood terms polluting your vocabulary. The circle of people you can talk to shrinks until going to...
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My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
10th Jan 2018
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My first podcast appearance

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2018
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
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Six Weeks Note: I started this blog post at six weeks postpartum. It is now eight weeks postpartum as I am...
27th Feb 2026
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Six Weeks

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Feb 2026
Note: I started this blog post at six weeks postpartum. It is now eight weeks postpartum as I am finally able to finish and hit publish. Six weeks ago I gave birth to my daughter. In some ways it didn't go according to plan. I had hoped to have a water birth. I imagined arriving...
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Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is...
18th May 2023
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Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th May 2023
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.” – Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die. I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
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2015-07-07 "I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types...
7th Jul 2015
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2015-07-07

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jul 2015
"I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types and when I came back, my hate was deeper and more nuanced."
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how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
13th Oct 2024
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how not to run a saas company

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Oct 2024
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
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Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication? I’m sure that some pictures are worth a thousand words, but others trigger a whole lot of...
3rd Sep 2026
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Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication?

from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2026
I’m sure that some pictures are worth a thousand words, but others trigger a whole lot of puzzlement. Such was the case with the cover of a book I recently bought entitled Calculating with Tones: The Logarithmic Logic of Music: ... more ...
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference? Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
5th Apr 2025
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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2025
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
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Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow Buttondown makes it easy to start collecting subscriptions without having to muck around and...
11th Oct 2019
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Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2019
Buttondown makes it easy to start collecting subscriptions without having to muck around and changing your CMS.
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Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that? While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling....
29th Nov 2023
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Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that?

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Nov 2023
While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling. Luckily, there are solutions to this.
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Lineage of CBA CAD tools
9th Jan 2017
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Lineage of CBA CAD tools

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2017
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023 We hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over...
3rd May 2023
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2023
We hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over 500,000 lessons completed on the platform! I hope your learnings are going well, and that everything we’re building is helping you, even if it’s in a small way.
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Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10...
3rd Dec 2021
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Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store?

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2021
Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10 different apps, some with 3-4 windows, while trying to patch bugs in Lunar faster than the users can submit the reports. I’m definitely failing. I feel my brain pulsing and my ring...
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random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of...
13th Feb 2025
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random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2025
One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation. However, PCG only has a limited amount of ILP, about 3 instructions. Its overall...
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On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
13th Apr 2024
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On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2024
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
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Multitroids
15th Sep 2011
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Multitroids

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2011
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Chemistry at its finest: inverted sugar syrup for cocktails Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily...
23rd Aug 2010
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Chemistry at its finest: inverted sugar syrup for cocktails

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Aug 2010
Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily enough. Simple syrup is traditionally made by dissolving white sugar into water on a stove and then cooling before use, but sometimes, in a pinch, people will shake superfine sugar...
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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
17th Jul 2023
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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jul 2023
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
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Doo-Wop Multitrack: "Earth Angel" (for Chelsea) I recorded a doo-wop arrangement of 'Earth Angel' for my girlfriend Chelsea.
17th Jan 2009
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Doo-Wop Multitrack: "Earth Angel" (for Chelsea)

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jan 2009
I recorded a doo-wop arrangement of 'Earth Angel' for my girlfriend Chelsea.
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Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
8th Aug 2023
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Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2023
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
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Why Are People Still Using C? C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand...
2nd Aug 2023
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Why Are People Still Using C?

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2023
C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand why, unless there is a lot of existing code to support, I can't fathom why anyone would start something new in 2023 in C. I first learned C in
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Notes on Deng Xiaoping When reading history it’s tempting to hold the question “is this person good or evil?” in mind. With...
22nd Feb 2026
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Notes on Deng Xiaoping

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Feb 2026
When reading history it’s tempting to hold the question “is this person good or evil?” in mind. With Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler the answer is clear. More often it is not. World leaders must make decisions where there are severe costs regardless of which path they choose....
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Noom is exploitative I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT...
8th Apr 2023
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Noom is exploitative

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2023
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT for upselling customers than CBT for weight loss. Now I’m hoping they’ll delete my sensitive medical data and refund the $3 they tricked me out of. (They did, quickly in...
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The Money Filter One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for...
30th Nov 2025
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The Money Filter

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Nov 2025
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for next to nothing. Somewhere along the way, the perception formed that a website is a commodity—quick, cheap, and interchangeable. So when someone asks what I charge (for a very...
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Accessible SVGs in High Contrast Mode
22nd Sep 2016
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Accessible SVGs in High Contrast Mode

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Sep 2016
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My experience as a remote worker I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
2nd Dec 2019
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My experience as a remote worker

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2019
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
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The Gift Economy Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
3rd Aug 2020
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The Gift Economy

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Aug 2020
Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
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Advice on looking for a new software engineering job I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
18th Jan 2021
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Advice on looking for a new software engineering job

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jan 2021
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
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Taking web search through the last mile (This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
1st Dec 2019
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Taking web search through the last mile

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2019
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
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Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular...
18th Oct 2017
1

Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Oct 2017
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular software, run as a prelude to the GitHub Universe conference. After being brought up to speed on this year's secret handshake of the software elite, I had a great time in the...
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The Many Layers of Packaging The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store. Update: I turned this post into a talk. The...
9th May 2017
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The Many Layers of Packaging

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2017
The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store. Update: I turned this post into a talk. The video from PyBay is here, the slides are available here. The long-cut video from BayPiggies is coming, but the "Extended Edition" slides are here. One lesson threaded...
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Thrice charmed at Rails World The first Rails World in Amsterdam was a roaring success back in 2023. Tickets sold out in 45...
6th Sep 2025
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Thrice charmed at Rails World

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2025
The first Rails World in Amsterdam was a roaring success back in 2023. Tickets sold out in 45 minutes, the atmosphere was electric, and The Rails Foundation set a new standard for conference execution in the Ruby community. So when we decided to return to the Dutch Capital for...
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Should testers write unit tests? This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will...
20th Aug 2026
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Should testers write unit tests?

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Aug 2026
This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will republish newsletter issues on my blog here if I think people (and search engines) might benefit from it. If you want to read everything I’ve written once it is posted, I recommend...
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Navigating the unpredictability of everything We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
19th Mar 2023
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Navigating the unpredictability of everything

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Mar 2023
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
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Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of...
31st Dec 2015
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Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2015
Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
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Clip of me singing Despard in Ruddigore in 2013 A clip of me singing a funny song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore back in 2013
yesterday
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Clip of me singing Despard in Ruddigore in 2013

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

yesterday
A clip of me singing a funny song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore back in 2013
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Zero-crossing logic for robust meshing
13th May 2017
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Zero-crossing logic for robust meshing

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th May 2017
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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it could be worth $100b
7th Mar 2022
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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2022
Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it could be worth $100b
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The vastness of the ocean The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
11th Feb 2024
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The vastness of the ocean

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Feb 2024
The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
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Bike Brooklyn! zine I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of...
23rd Apr 2025
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Bike Brooklyn! zine

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Apr 2025
I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
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GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for...
4th Mar 2024
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GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2024
I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for helping us reach 20% of our monthly funding goal! I’ve been seeing a ton of demand for Early Access which is super exciting. If you’re not already in Early Access, you can be among...
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The Epic Stack Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to...
10th May 2023
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The Epic Stack

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th May 2023
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to production more efficiently.
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Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024 Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
1st Mar 2024
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Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2024
Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
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The Truth About “MEH-TRICS” First published on 2022-04-13 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/truth-about-meh-trics-metrics A long...
13th Apr 2022
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The Truth About “MEH-TRICS”

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2022
First published on 2022-04-13 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/truth-about-meh-trics-metrics A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I said a lot of inflammatory things about metrics. “Metrics are shit salad.” “Metrics are simply nerfed dimensions.” “Metrics suck,” “metrics...
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An Introduction to the Reduced Motion Media Query
24th Apr 2019
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An Introduction to the Reduced Motion Media Query

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Apr 2019
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Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
23rd Nov 2021
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Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Nov 2021
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.
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Can Directories Rise Again? With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long...
21st May 2025
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Can Directories Rise Again?

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st May 2025
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory. The post Can Directories Rise Again? appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a...
8th Mar 2024
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Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Mar 2024
Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a Kubernetes enjoyer (I even wrote a course on it, but I’m not here to argue about that. The part of the video I do want to discuss has nothing to do with k8s. It’s where Theo draws the...
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The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these...
2nd Jun 2025
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The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2025
Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these updates hand-made by real LGBTQIA+ community members from around the world!—and possibly some straight cis folks too. This rainbow of releases includes some important accessibility...
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Promises From The Ground Up The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it...
3rd Jun 2024
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Promises From The Ground Up

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2024
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.
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A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
17th Jul 2024
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A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jul 2024
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One page of async Rust I’m writing a simulation, or rather, I’m procrastinating, and this blog post is the result of me...
17th Feb 2026
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One page of async Rust

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Feb 2026
I’m writing a simulation, or rather, I’m procrastinating, and this blog post is the result of me going off on a side-track from the main quest. The simulation involves a bunch of tasks that go through a series of steps with delays in between, and each step can affect some...
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A reactive framework in 40 lines In this article I'll be explaining one method to create a basic reactive framework (in just 40 lines...
9th Jul 2021
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A reactive framework in 40 lines

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2021
In this article I'll be explaining one method to create a basic reactive framework (in just 40 lines of code).
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The Future of Shoelace It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
17th Oct 2022
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The Future of Shoelace

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2022
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
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What I'm up to - April 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a...
1st Apr 2024
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What I'm up to - April 2024

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...
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I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac...
7th Aug 2026
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I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2026
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac App Store. Today, I decided to pull it. The app isn't a new idea, but it bakes four color tools into a single menu bar app: an eyedropper, a color picker, a palette manager, and a...
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Deadlines Work If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain,...
18th Mar 2024
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Deadlines Work

from Dan Cowell [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Mar 2024
If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain, eyes burning with sunblock, sweat and ocean spray, in sub-10°C conditions, I would have called you a filthy liar. Then yesterday happened. It was meant to be
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What I'm up to - October 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2024
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What I'm up to - October 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - I've started publishing on Contraption Company every Friday. My posts last month: I...
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Cognition: The Devin is in the Details My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a...
8th Sep 2025
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Cognition: The Devin is in the Details

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Sep 2025
My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but just getting it out there.
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The Deployment Fidelity Problem The most important problem that we face as software professionals is this: If somebody thinks of a...
31st Aug 2021
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The Deployment Fidelity Problem

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Aug 2021
The most important problem that we face as software professionals is this: If somebody thinks of a good idea, how do we deliver it to users as quickly as possible? – Continuous Delivery Production is a low-fidelity version of your codebase. Many deployment metrics are just a...
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