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Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences Tips for Speakers Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
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Julia Evans
git branches: intuition & reality Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from people that they find...
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Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from people that they find the way git branches work to be counterintuitive. It got me thinking: what might an “intuitive” notion of a branch be, and how is it different from how git actually works? So in...
A Beautiful Site
Reflection and Custom States in Web Components In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both...
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In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property. A...
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Paying for content after you've consumed it Platforms like Patreon created a new paradigm. By billing periodically they created predictability...
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Platforms like Patreon created a new paradigm. By billing periodically they created predictability for content creators allowing them to switch to full-time. But, might it be better for content creators, and consumers, if they were paid a flexible amount after the content was...
Making software...
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a...
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Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
TokyoDev
Become a Great Communicator in Japanese There are many articles, textbooks, and videos about learning Japanese, ranging from dry and...
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There are many articles, textbooks, and videos about learning Japanese, ranging from dry and academic to ones filled with pop culture references and slang. But most resources out there focus on the mechanics of Japanese and neglect the more amorphous communication skills. Even...
exist
Spinning Diagrams with CSS
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
over a year ago
Yale e360
Gaining depth perception In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly...
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In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly full depth perception. When I was a kid, I was always the one who was bad at ball sports. Not for lack of trying, either. I'd run after a ball to catch it, only to be off by a few...
Daniel Marino
My First Sketch Plugin and What I Learned I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some...
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I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some of the nice effects it ships with. I love Sketch, but I don’t think these effects will ever make their way into Sketch. Sketch does have the ability to add plugins, and I’ve always...
Stephen Wolfram...
Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology The Nature of Alien Intelligence “We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar...
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The Nature of Alien Intelligence “We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar space, have them discover alien intelligence, then bring back its technology to advance human technology by a million years”. I’ve heard some pretty wacky startup pitches over the...
Julia Evans
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I...
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A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I think some things are hard to learn and ideas for how we can make them easier. Here’s the video, as well as the slides and a transcript of (roughly) what I said in the talk. the...
the singularity is...
America’s Future It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America...
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It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America is not in decline, I want to believe America is not in decline. If America is in decline, I want to believe America is in decline. So let’s ask, what does the future look like for...
HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
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by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
Stephen Wolfram...
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
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This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the...
David Heinemeier...
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift...
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Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no...
Yale e360
RC Week 12: What's Next, and Speedrunning Crafting Interpreters And that's it. My batch at RC ended yesterday. I have so many thoughts and feelings from this time,...
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over a year ago
And that's it. My batch at RC ended yesterday. I have so many thoughts and feelings from this time, but it's going to take time to coalesce them all. I'll write up my Return Statement1 in a week or two, but for now, here's what I was up to the last week! Mostly, this last week...
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I’ve most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome. But that all changes...
markround.com
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs If you ever get a chance to look through the...
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Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 11–15
5 months ago
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Observability for Frontend Developers Some thoughts on how frontend developers can also embrace instrumenting their apps for observability
over a year ago
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Redshift We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google...
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We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google BigQuery , Elastic , and Apache Druid . Most of…
Eric Bailey
Operating System and Browser Accessibility Display Modes
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Things I learned last year 2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers...
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2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers across our range of products (!) 800% increase in…
Joel Gascoigne
The maker/manager transition phase * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Paul Graham...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Paul Graham [http://paulgraham.com] has a fantastic article on the topic of scheduling work as a maker and as a manager [http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html], which I’ve drawn insights...
Irrational...
Diagnosis in engineering strategy. Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its...
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Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its diagnosis. Diagnosis is understanding the constraints and challenges your strategy needs to address. In particular, it’s about doing that understanding while slowing yourself down from deciding how...
Max Countryman
Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose With a little bash scripting, a modern reverse proxy like Traefik, and Docker Compose, we can put...
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With a little bash scripting, a modern reverse proxy like Traefik, and Docker Compose, we can put together a fairly robust and simple approach to zero-downtime deployment. Moreover, this approach is flexible and scalable, even for dynamic container backends.
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
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After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
Hixie's Natural Log
Deciding which bugs to fix Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it...
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Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it makes the most sense to optimize for people-happiness per unit bug fixing time, maximizing how much our effort improves the product for our users. To put it in mathematical...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your...
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over a year ago
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your phone We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I always wrap Context.Provider and useContext React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container...
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React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container / child component APIs (think <RadioGroup /> + <RadioButton />). Unfortunately, out of the box Context comes with a limiting and not very convenient API. In most cases, I choose...
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Array 1.15.0 Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has...
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Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has the largest changelog to date, with 175 PRs merged…
David Crawshaw
2015-06-01 "Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same...
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"Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same port number on the host, and the same file and fragment of the file. Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be resolved into the same IP...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding Layout Algorithms As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should...
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As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it...
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
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How to allow popups in dynamically created webviews in Electron.js My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of...
a year ago
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My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of sub browser windows for chat. For the last couple months I've had an issue with the SSO popups in this, namely that they just don't work at all, presumably because Electron blocks...
Jake Zimmerman
Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax
2 months ago
A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
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Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
Confessions of a...
Recording: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance Watch now | We concluded the latest live session yesterday.
4 months ago
A Beautiful Site
DaFont: an excellent free font resource I came across an excellent website for free fonts online. No annoying pop-ups, minimal banner ads,...
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I came across an excellent website for free fonts online. No annoying pop-ups, minimal banner ads, and the best feature of all — custom previews for all their fonts. Check 'em out at dafont.com.
Maggie Appleton
September 2020
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Two Threads, One Core: How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood Ever wondered how your CPU handles two tasks at once? Discover the magic of Simultaneous...
11 months ago
Yale e360
Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
A Chat with Henry Zhu on OSS & Gift Economies Notes from my podcast episode Open Source and Gift Economies on Maintainers Anonymous
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 010: Open-sourcing Keyhive, filtering Ambsheets, and Sketchpad explorations Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about...
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Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about filtering scenarios in a spreadsheet, and some explorations of the historic Sketchpad project for constraint-based drawing.
Engineer’s Codex
5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About Innovations outside the AI spotlight
7 months ago
Jake Zimmerman
Using my iPhone as a travel laptop
9 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The Early Days of GitLab - A Chat with Sid Sijbrandij It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is...
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It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is that many of the most successful founders will find…
Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
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I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Keep a React component mounted The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is...
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The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is remount management. Some portions of the UI can be hidden or shown — sidebars, drop-down menus, modals and draggable widgets are all prominent examples. The basic React pattern for...
alexwlchan
The Star-Spangled Ballad In an hour or so, Hannah Waddingham will take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and present this...
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In an hour or so, Hannah Waddingham will take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and present this year’s Olivier Awards. I won’t be there, but a number of dear friends are in the audience, and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for Operation Mincemeat – a musical with which we...
TokyoDev
Marketing yourself as a developer As a developer, I've learned that no matter how good a product I build is, for the product to...
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As a developer, I've learned that no matter how good a product I build is, for the product to succeed, it also takes good marketing. The same is true for you as a developer in the job market: while solid technical skills are necessary to land great jobs, your ability to sell...
Contraption Co.
Joining Chroma Building memory for AI applications
5 months ago
Ink & Switch
2024 Unconf Los Angeles Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
8 months ago
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
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This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
Alex Meub
Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266 Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s...
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Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s pretty cool to order pizza, turn on a light, send a tweet, or even run a custom script at the press of a physical button. But I recently tried to use one of my dash buttons and couldn’t...
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a chore: 1....
David Heinemeier...
The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
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When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
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My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
A blip in time
over a year ago
Making software...
Yes, I Still Use jQuery Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
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Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of jQuery (3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
Ink & Switch
01 · Welcome to the Beehive An introduction to the Beehive project
9 months ago
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Why Svelte? (The Short Version) The short version of Why Svelte
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
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A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
Blog of Simple...
Simple Analytics: Privacy-first website analytics
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eternal shell history 🐢 XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
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XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash history: $ wc -l < ~/.muh_history 763075 My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history. $...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Robots.txt A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing...
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A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt: User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / That felt a bit “ex post facto“ as they say. Or, as Jeremy put it, “Now that the horse has bolted—and...
Maggie Appleton
Undetected AI Exam Answers A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A...
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5 months ago
A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study by Peter Scarfe, Kelly Watcham, Alasdair Clarke, Etienne Roesch
Words and Buttons...
Yet another alternative to floating point numbers This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input...
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This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input error but keep computational error under control as well.
Blog of Simple...
Improve your e-commerce performance with analytics
over a year ago
HTMHell
You don't need HTML! While browsing Mastodon late one night, I came across this excellent blog post called HTML is all...
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While browsing Mastodon late one night, I came across this excellent blog post called HTML is all you need to make a website. It describes a few websites which are pure HTML. No CSS and no JS. And I thought… do you even need HTML to make a website? A few hours later, I launched...
the singularity is...
Influence Agents Check 1, 2 is the mic on? Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving...
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Check 1, 2 is the mic on? Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving in a way no humans want never made sense to me, only to Hollywood who doesn’t know all that much about computers. Paul Christiano has one of my favorite takes, that the creation...
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Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
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Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
Seldo.com
On AI, ML, LLMs and the future of software
a year ago
Quentin Santos
IndexedDB is Weird Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking...
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Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking API would mean fully blocking the page, render and basic user interaction included, while the request is being processed. Although this is apparently good-enough for JSON.parse(),...
Coding Horror
The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.
3 months ago
macwright.com
React is old My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web...
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My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web stack, we considered a few other options - we had used d3 to build iD, which worked out great but we were practically the only people in the internet using d3 to build HTML UIs - I...
Writing - Andreas...
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries...
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One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next book on your list. Reading is not about page count or...
Liz Denys
Mornings are for madeleines Madeleines are probably my favorite baked good - both to eat and to make. They're rich in flavor,...
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over a year ago
Madeleines are probably my favorite baked good - both to eat and to make. They're rich in flavor, but light in texture. They're quick to make (hellooo, morning option), but don't get boring as they exercise good techniques (easy to learn good techniques, even). And they go really...
The Pragmatic...
An explosion in software engineers using AI coding tools? GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the...
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GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the results and add context on how the survey was conducted.
James Vaughan's blog
Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
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
over a year ago
davidyat.es
Image upload with render hooks
8 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Better Ruby Presenters
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Nuance of “Domain” I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links...
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I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye. What is a “Domain”? Let’s say you have a URL like this: https://example.com Put it in the URL constructor and...
Sometimes It Works...
A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen What’s not in Lumen A Ghost in the Shell MaaM: Module as a...
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A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen What’s not in Lumen A Ghost in the Shell MaaM: Module as a microservice Packages all the way down ¶A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen If you use Laravel, you’ve probably heard of Lumen. In case you haven’t: Lumen is the micro-framework to...
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How to use SvelteKit with Netlify Forms a simple tutorial
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
Under the heel of the spirit "Everybody thought Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon were spending four-and-a-half percent of the...
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"Everybody thought Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon were spending four-and-a-half percent of the federal budget each year to prove that America owned Science. This was all a fiction. The Apollo Program was an elaborate demonstration of how even the blandest among us are under the...
Yale e360
[Talk] Scaling Graphs On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable...
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On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube: If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
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Designing a Logo I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo:...
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I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-brand-ai-engineering-podcast-help-define-industry-1307842/
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for...
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I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective. The app SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently looks like this: The...
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STAR Apps - A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows _Published on CSS Tricks as [STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development...
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Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. Release notes…
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I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even started using one of the loudest and most annoying alarm clocks I could find. (That sound still gives my university housemate flashbacks.) In my search for ways to fix my sleep...
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Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created milestones.
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How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights &rarr; I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the...
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I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the benefits of moving our data storage and processing to the cloud. Building out this infrastructure is a large part of what I’ve been working on for the last six (!) years. It’s been...
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I’m pleased that so many people enjoyed my previous blog post on tolower() with AVX-512. Thanks for all the great comments and discussion! One aspect that needed more work was examining the performance for small strings. The previous blog post had a graph for strings up to about...
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Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
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Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type sets. Let’s geek out.
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The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
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I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
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I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text before I publish the site, but that means alt text has often been an afterthought – something I’d dash out at the very end of writing a post. I wanted to give it more attention, and...
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Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents.  I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
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This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
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Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
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(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have received some criticism for their handling of voice data behind the scenes. The companies had outsourced quality control/machine learning feedback to external...
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Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling...
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Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling and implementing my own custom dropdowns far more often than I’d like. So, I recently created a very simple and clean component using just pure CSS. Check out the CodePen below...
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Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances. To simplify my life, I decided to unify them into one content management system instead of keeping that somewhat unwieldly mess around. I had never really put a lot of thought into...
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Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I’m going to quickly breakdown the update I’ve...
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Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume you're not logged in as the root user. Change example.com to your own domain/subdomain. Adding a virtual host # Create the directory for your new site and grant permissions. If your...
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Clientside Webmentions How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
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In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript. Sometimes, you'd write the same code in two or three different ways to support various browsers. Code such as that shown below allowed webpages to work in browsers like Netscape...
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Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
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Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
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Getting our focus back “We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
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“We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the nine unmonetized glances. An...
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Hooking up search results from Astro Starlight in other sites At Val Town, we recently introduced a command-k menu, that “omni” menu that sites have. It’s pretty...
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At Val Town, we recently introduced a command-k menu, that “omni” menu that sites have. It’s pretty neat. One thing that I thought would be cool to include in it would be search results from our documentation site, which is authored using Astro Starlight. Our main application is...
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Recently Summer screeched to a halt a few days ago and I’m still reeling from it. The dehumidifiers turned...
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How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have...
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If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6. This means that visitors won’t be able to access your content with IPv6-only enabled which is not good. On top of that, I think its important to...
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Happy new year everyone! I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's since been four new versions since then, with the November release putting us in beta. Between work and holidays I didn't make much progress in December, but there will be a 0.6...
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As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights movement looks to be about getting equal rights with respect to things like adoptions and custody disputes, but actually, the movement is primarily a coordinated attack on women....
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Build a career path by multiplying your value Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
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When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's ecommerce website. After 2 months leading the team, I decided to scrap it and start over. This is the story of how and why, and whether it all worked out.
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
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What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs? Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering...
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Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large language models at work. Unsurprisingly, the intersection of those two ideas is a topic that I’ve been thinking about a...
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About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
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How to filter out old email from inbox Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too...
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Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with, and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email. Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that...
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A short guide on how we tested team plans at Jenni and closed $10k in revenue. Hypothesis statements Team plans are a way to increase retention Team plans move upmarket toward users with more purchasing power Team plans are targeted at full-time researchers who have an ongoing...
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Imitation Learning 7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action...
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7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action pairs: (S_t, A_t) Train a supervised model f(S_t) -> A_t Drive cars with that model. The exact original formulation was a model that predicts steering angle from image, then used a...
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10x engineers talk to users I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers...
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I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers and founders need to deeply understand and care…
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PostHog's recommended reading for startup teams The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so...
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The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so here’s a collection of the books our teams recommend…
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Persisting React State in localStorage A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage,...
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A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage, and re-initialize from that value on the next page-load. This quick tutorial shows you how we can build a custom hook that does exactly this!
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Would the internet exist today if the printing press didn’t come before it? The breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist...
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The breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist without the latter? The post Would the internet exist today if the printing press didn’t come before it? appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don't pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
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Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in this blog post, a playground where you can learn how...
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About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in this blog post, a playground where you can learn how DNS works by messing around and creating records. I wasn’t very careful with the DNS implementation though (to quote the release blog post: “following the DNS RFCs? not exactly”),...
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Finding Campsites with Python My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
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My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite. If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
Ink & Switch
Capstone: A tablet for thinking Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
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After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a consumer. Here’s what I learned. If you want to try it yourself, passkeys.io is a nice demo server. Passkeys work a lot like passwords do today. You create a different passkey for...
Ink & Switch
Muse: Designing a studio for ideas Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.
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The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last month’s ware. The main reason I liked this ware is actually the board shown below with the prominent star-routing. It’s such traditional hand-routing work, I love craftsmanship like...
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Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached media. Super useful, everyone should know it! When I tell my colleagues, friends, or students about it, they don't take me seriously the first time. So, here we go again. If you have...
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
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Why we go on international retreats 3 times a year with our startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most exciting parts of the culture we’ve developed at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] for me is our international retreats. It’s also potentially something we’ve not shared that much...
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The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but handles them sensibly. Let’s see how, by returning to our line-counter project.
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How we monetized our open source devtool So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the...
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So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the resounding applause from devs on GitHub and Hacker…
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Writing Javascript without a build system Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend...
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Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build system? I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I (usually) still don’t use them, and why I find...
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2019: Lessons learned It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end...
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It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end of year blog post last year so I…
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How to measure product engagement Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for...
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Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for your business. Though it seems easy to view success…
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On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
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The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best to couch employee performance feedback in overly gentle language, you end up confusing the message, and cheating the recipient out of the clarity they desperately need to improve –...
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When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core CPU speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We were...
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RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website[^0] script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you're interested, I wrote about it on the official...
alexwlchan
Changing the bulb in a Meridian Lighting CIR100B ceiling light I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which...
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I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which doesn’t work. I’ve tried taking it apart a couple of times to replace the bulb, but to no avail. Although it’s a simple cylinder with only a black base and a clear cover, I couldn’t...
Evan Jones -...
How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput? The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
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The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
Eric Bailey
Your CSS is an interface My partner is learning Japanese using the Duolingo app. They’ve been dutifully opening the app and...
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My partner is learning Japanese using the Duolingo app. They’ve been dutifully opening the app and doing daily challenges for over 400 days now. A few days ago, they shared this screenshot with me: If I could wager a guess, it looks like there was a bug with dark mode color logic...
Quentin Santos
Rust Gotcha: last() on DoubleEndedIterator tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a...
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tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a space-separated string in Rust? It will be obvious to some, but the obvious answer of s.split(' ').last() is wrong. The mistake is easy to make; I encountered it in a recent MR I...
Words and Buttons...
Either your estimates suck or your job does This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
a year ago
A Smart Bear
How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10) If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list...
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a year ago
If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.
A Smart Bear
Profitable on day one! You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable....
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You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable. Fix your definition of "profitable," and build a truly profitable business.
Engineer’s Codex
How one line of code caused a $60 million loss 60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were...
a year ago
Liz Denys
Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
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When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation. But all bets are off as soon as I...
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How we designed the PostHog mascot Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
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over a year ago
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Cancer and revenue - the latest board meeting It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with ...
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It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with retinoblastoma - a fairly rare form of cancer that…
Maggie Appleton
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily...
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over a year ago
I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily have a drag and drop list in your application (dragula, react-beautiful-dnd, and react-dnd). These libraries offer APIs that make it easy to meet your needs without worrying about...
Dan Slimmon
did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote? Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I...
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3 months ago
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So we’ve got these spikes in WALWrite: the number of processes waiting to write to the write-ahead...
macwright.com
Personal tools I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking...
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I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking application, and a keylogger that let me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty charts. I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my...
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2 We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last...
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We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last year. The update has several key improvements, bug fixes, and more API consistency between platforms. And we’ve created all new iOS and Android demo apps to show it off! A web-first...
Ink & Switch
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Why I Enjoy Svelte Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
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alexwlchan
Parsing CloudFront logs with Python I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do...
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I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do this, and I normally reach for Python inside a Jupyter Notebook because those are tools I’m very familiar with. I’ve done this a few times now, so I thought it’d be worth pulling...
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Singularity & Serenity The singularity is the point where artificial intelligence goes parabolic, surpassing humans writ...
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The singularity is the point where artificial intelligence goes parabolic, surpassing humans writ large, and leads to rapid, unpredictable change. The intellectual seed of this concept was planted back in the '50s by early computer pioneer John von Neumann. So it’s been here...
A Beautiful Site
Find a name for almost any hex color Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your...
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Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your Less/Sass variables something like gray, light gray, lighter gray, etc. Here's a tool that will give you more reasonable names for all those colors. Name that Color lets you enter a hex...
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Automating a software company with GitHub Actions When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs,...
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When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
Steve Klabnik
Updating Buck
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Ink & Switch
Keyhive 03 · What's In a Name? Why we’ve renamed the project
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Josh Collinsworth
Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it...
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over a year ago
Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it different, why it's so enjoyable, and how it's able to ship such tiny, fast apps.
Irrational...
Why did Stripe build Sorbet? (~2017). Many hypergrowth companies of the 2010s battled increasing complexity in their codebase by...
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Many hypergrowth companies of the 2010s battled increasing complexity in their codebase by decomposing their monoliths. Stripe was somewhat of an exception, largely delaying decomposition until it had grown beyond three thousand engineers and had accumulated a decade of...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2024 The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS...
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The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS terminal myself, so it was pretty interesting to see all the anti-tamper traces built into the product (thank you jackw01 for sharing it!). I wonder how effective these are, and...
Blog - Bitfield...
Programming is fun I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about...
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I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about writing and teaching Go. Here’s a transcript of our chat.
Maggie Appleton
Speaking the GraphQL Query Language Illustrated notes on the basics of the GraphQL query language
over a year ago
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When and how to run group-targeted A/B tests A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However,...
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A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However, sometimes changing how one user interacts with your…
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.1 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
a year ago
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I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes: more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line avoid...
Tony Finch's blog
Safe memory reclamation for BIND At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two different concurrency control mechanisms: A reader/writer lock This has poor read-side scalability, because every thread is hammering on the same shared location. But its write...
Maggie Appleton
Testing Apps with Cypress Illustrated notes on how to test web apps with Cypress
over a year ago
Quentin Santos
Rust Strings for C Programmers This article will quickly explain the Rust types [T; N], &[T; N], &[T], Vec<T>, &Vec<T> with C code,...
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This article will quickly explain the Rust types [T; N], &[T; N], &[T], Vec<T>, &Vec<T> with C code, and what the str, &str, String, OsString and CString add. Arrays and Slices Rust C [T; N] (array)Example: [i32; 100]Allocated on the stack T[N]Example: int[100]Allocated on the...
Joel Gascoigne
Healthy naivety * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often like to...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often like to look back on when I was just getting into startups. I think there is a myth in entrepreneurship which not only do many newcomers believe, but could also be a key reason why many...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Zero-setup bundle size checker We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that —...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that — webpack-bundle-analyzer, bundlesize, size-limit, what not. But sometimes you you're lazy, or you're stuck choosing the tool, or the project is too small to justify spending extra...
Alex Meub
Hotel Guest User Agent Data I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country....
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I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country. This data is very different from say: StatCounter or NetApplications estimates because they rely on getting their data from trackers on specific websites. The data I pulled comes...
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Building an open source data science publishing platform - An interview with Datapane CEO, Leo... (Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations where we chat to our contributors...
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Entry Level Jobs in Japan *Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...
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over a year ago
*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.* When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....
Computer Things
Hyperproperties I wrote about hyperproperties on my blog four years ago, but now an intriguing client problem got me...
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I wrote about hyperproperties on my blog four years ago, but now an intriguing client problem got me thinking about them again.1 We're using TLA+ to model a system that starts in state A, and under certain complicated conditions P, transitions to state B. They also had a flag f...
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
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a year ago
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
James Vaughan's blog
Custom iPhone text tones
7 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Dinner Conversation Read more about RSS Club. I love following the blogs of people in tech who have interesting,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Read more about RSS Club. I love following the blogs of people in tech who have interesting, insightful things to say about the industry and their craft. I also really enjoy when those same people post little insights into their personal lives. I love seeing the human side...
swyx's site RSS Feed
3 Reasons to Upgrade Git For The First Time Ever Relatively new Git features that actually have me excited
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Revisiting prefers-reduced-motion, the reduced motion media query
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric “Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
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over a year ago
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail to produce the best answers, and fail to create explanations that help others understand why they’re the best answers. This system works.
David Heinemeier...
The social media censorship era is over (for now) Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship....
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Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship. Here's what he's going to do: Replace third-party fact checkers with community notes ala X. Allow free discussion on immigration, gender, and other topics that were heavily censored...
TokyoDev
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
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over a year ago
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
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I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
A Smart Bear
When being “first” is not a competitive advantage Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a product that does nothing...
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over a year ago
Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a product that does nothing new? On the surface being “first” sounds impressive, implying innovation and leadership. But reality is different.
Epic Web Dev
Turn Progressive Enhancement up to 11 (tip) Learn how to create a progressive enhancement image uploader that works for users with or without...
a year ago
Irrational...
Writers who operate. Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have...
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a year ago
Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have rejected that option because I believe that writers who operate (e.g. write concurrently with holding a non-writing industry role) are best positioned to keep writing valuable work...
alexwlchan
Redecorating my bedroom Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the...
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over a year ago
Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the inspiration to finally redecorate my bedroom – something I’ve been thinking about for two years. My bedroom used to have white walls, a dark grey feature wall, and a purple sliding...
Vadim Kravcenko
What to expect from the dev agency after MVP is done? Dear JK, Congratulations on reaching this pivotal moment with your MVP. It’s an exciting time, but I...
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a year ago
Dear JK, Congratulations on reaching this pivotal moment with your MVP. It’s an exciting time, but I understand it’s also […] The post What to expect from the dev agency after MVP is done? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Making software...
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
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over a year ago
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I've most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome. But that all changes...
Blog of Simple...
Meta loses key privacy battle
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669762) came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into [blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider...
Grant Slatton
Twitter Essay about how getting on Twitter unexpectedly added a lot of value to my life
12 months ago
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2024 I read 58 books this year – slightly down on last year, but I’m still happy with that number. I...
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I read 58 books this year – slightly down on last year, but I’m still happy with that number. I spent a lot of time this on my own writing and crafting, and I had less time for books. I returned to a couple of favourite authors and their latest releases – including Toshikazu...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Podcast Notes: Vlad Prelovac on “The Talk Show” Vlad Prelovac is the CEO of Kagi: a search engine you have to pay for. He’s on episode 416 of John...
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Vlad Prelovac is the CEO of Kagi: a search engine you have to pay for. He’s on episode 416 of John Gruber’s The Talk Show to discuss why he thinks we should be paying for search. Hearing his point of view is compelling. I quite enjoyed the entire podcast. So much, in fact, that I...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Email tips from the drowning I have never seen an email message too short. – Roman and Raphaelson, Writing That Works Email is a...
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over a year ago
I have never seen an email message too short. – Roman and Raphaelson, Writing That Works Email is a cornerstone of remote work and a colossal waste of time. People say: “That meeting could have been an email.” But I’d add: “That email could have been a few bullet points.” Writing...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Starting Svelte Society Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article) When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is...
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When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Perspectives June 2024
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Moving from Stencil to LitElement Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of the library won't see much of a difference, this was a major overhaul of Shoelace's internals. Naturally, such a big change brings questions from the community, such as "what were...
Elad Blog
MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
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over a year ago
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Manifest V3’s foibles You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need...
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over a year ago
You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need to know: Google has been developing a new…
Confessions of a...
Recording of Live Session on CPython Virtual Machine Internals Yesterday we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython virtual machine (VM) or the...
a year ago
Hixie's Natural Log
Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation....
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a year ago
One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For example,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
2019 /r/ReactJS Survey Results [![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQrqygkW4AIxT0c?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQ...
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[![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQrqygkW4AIxT0c?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQrqygkW4AIxT0c?format=jpg&name=large)](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-JUtp9I5_gSk8OpV9Adk9sYzhoU-VNcwz9RUJ1-8Sw/edit?usp=sharing)
Alex Meub
Apple Captive Network Assistant Slowness Problems on iOS We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the...
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over a year ago
We were trying to launch a new captive portal page design for a customer and we ran into the strangest issue. Only on iOS devices, we’d see extreme slowness and unresponsive behavior in the Apple Captive Network Assistant (CNA). Over the course of several days, we made multiple...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Cool Facts about Cuttlefish This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short...
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over a year ago
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short lightning talk on any topic we wished. I picked cuttles. I actually saw one in real life diving in Fiji once!
Charles Chen
TypeScript is not a Programming Language If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
a year ago
macwright.com
You can finally use :has() in most places by The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places. For example, in Val...
Confessions of a...
A Selective Survey of Efficient Speculative Decoding Techniques for LLM Inference What is speculative decoding, how it works and what are some of the recent advances in this area?
8 months ago
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
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over a year ago
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users’ operating...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
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2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
somenice
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general...
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I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general machine learning. From Bayesian beginnings to GANs and CNNs, I’m all about data, ML and all of the promises it’s future holds. The problems it can solve today seemed impossible...
alexwlchan
flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for exploring the Flickr API &rarr; I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a...
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a year ago
I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a couple of command-line tools to make a simple tool for exploring the API. They’re not meant for building “proper” apps, more for quick experiments and seeing what API responses...
Hixie's Natural Log
Ask for forgiveness, not permission A colleague of mine asked me to explicitly put an LGTM on their design doc so that they could go...
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a year ago
A colleague of mine asked me to explicitly put an LGTM on their design doc so that they could go ahead and implement it. The design doc was one I had previously reviewed and commented on, and had indicated that it seemed like a good idea, but I hadn't filled in the box saying...
David Heinemeier...
Have you tried the exact opposite? Have you thought about doing the opposite of whatever you're doing or considering? It's a really...
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a month ago
Have you thought about doing the opposite of whatever you're doing or considering? It's a really helpful way to test your assumptions and your values. What does the opposite look like, how would it work? It's so easy to get stuck in a groove of what works, what you believe to be...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Journey from No CS Degree to AWS from Age 30 - 34 I was interviewed by Pete from No CS Degree on my journey, here are some extracts!
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019 I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
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I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2024 Here’s the Ware for February 2024: Here’s another ware courtesy of FETguy, who recovered this from...
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a year ago
Here’s the Ware for February 2024: Here’s another ware courtesy of FETguy, who recovered this from Renew Computers in San Rafael, CA. Renew is a recycling facility that apparently processes a fair bit of e-waste. NGL: I’m a little envious of being able to rummage around an...
The Codist
Stress And Programming Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern...
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Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern software development processes are far more stressful than when I started. It's not simply that developing software today is more complex than it was back in 1981. In that early...
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Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable...
over a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
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over a year ago
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
macwright.com
Recently Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
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a year ago
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty hard problem. It was pretty well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really trying not to write a search...
Seán Barry
How to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
over a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
Disenchantment Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her...
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Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her phone after recharging at her parents’ home earlier in the day. In addition to that, there had been no water since the morning. Joburg Water had promised restoration by 2pm, but 48...
Steve Klabnik
Today is my first day at Oxide Computer Company
over a year ago
elementary Blog
Happy Pride! Have Some Updates! This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big...
a year ago
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a year ago
This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big update for Mail. Plus Wayland is here, there’s a new way to manage Drivers, and we’re shipping Flathub by default! And don’t forget Platform 8 is now ready for developers. Read ahead...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
over a year ago
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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...
Josh Collinsworth
New Site, New Theme for 2018 Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Jacquard 01 · Versioning and provenance for empirical research Introducing Jacquard: a project exploring better collaborative editing environments for empirical...
10 months ago
James Vaughan's blog
My YouTube Watch Later Mystery Graveyard
5 months ago
On Test Automation
The test automation quadrant, or a different way to look at your tests Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been introduced to the concept of the test automation pyramid early on in my career. While this model has received its share of criticism in the testing community over the years, I still use...
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Lessons and Regrets from My $25000 Book Launch Reflections on the Coding Career book launch
over a year ago
Yale e360
Approximating pi using... a cake? Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and I'm not stopping anytime soon. The celebrations have evolved. It used to be just "bake a pie" and "haha pi, pie". Over time, I twisted it a bit (pizza is a pie of sorts! a cake with...
TokyoDev
Rakuten and Globalization Hiroshi Mikitani started [Rakuten's Technology Conference] in English, but quickly switched to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hiroshi Mikitani started [Rakuten's Technology Conference] in English, but quickly switched to Japanese. He claimed there was a strong demand from the Japanese participants for him to present in Japanese. This shows how much work ahead of him he has if Rakuten is going to meet...
Steve Klabnik
Announcing rstat.us
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water
3 months ago
General Robots
ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle persons and events on PostHog. Today, after gathering…
Programming in the...
So Long, Prog21 I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry...
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over a year ago
I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry from January 1, 2010, that I needed to end it. It just took a while.Recovering Programmer And now, an explanation. I started this blog to talk about issues tangentially related to...
Acko.net
Get in Zoomer, We're Saving&nbsp;React Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Yale e360
Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users 1 ." It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry: That accessibility...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding window clearing and message printing to DandeGUI <![CDATA[I continued working on DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm writing in Common...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
<![CDATA[I continued working on DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm writing in Common Lisp. I added two new short public functions, GUI:CLEAR-WINDOW and GUI:PRINT-MESSAGE, and fixed a bug in some internal code. GUI:CLEAR-WINDOW deletes the text of the window...
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Array 1.8.0 What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If you're self hosting and want these features - update…
A Smart Bear
A life-changing challenge guided by Pascal's Wager Applying Pascal's Wager: Humility wins, arrogance loses.
7 months ago