Eliran Turgeman
Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a...
17th Oct 2024
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a while. Whenever I wanted to launch something new or set up a waiting list, I couldn’t find a simple, flexible, and free tool to collect emails. Most options out there are either too...
37signals Dev
Modern CSS patterns in Campfire
Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live...
4th Apr 2024
Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live walk through the app’s CSS code. Campfire was built with vanilla CSS, fully #nobuild without compiling or preprocessors, and uses the latest web platform features available in...
Josh Comeau's blog
A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack
No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code...
11th Oct 2022
No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code playground. The CodeSandbox team recently released a wonderful tool called Sandpack, to help us create these live-updating code editors. In this tutorial, I'll show you how I use it on this...
Blog - Bitfield...
Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency
How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they
embark on designing a...
12th Apr 2025
How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they
embark on designing a new digital ledger for secure “Bobcoin” transactions.
Nelson's Weblog
Angkor Wat resources
I took an amazing
trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time
finding
good...
27th Mar 2025
I took an amazing
trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time
finding
good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part
because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I
found useful about the Khmer empire in...
swyx's site RSS Feed
5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 3
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first...
1st Feb 2022
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
Joel Gascoigne
Experimenting with a 7 day work week
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
For the first...
10th Jun 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
For the first two weeks of last month, I religiously tried to follow a new
routine I created for myself: a 7 day work week routine.
The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7
Neil Panchal
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS
If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS...
24th Aug 2024
If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Good advice on JSX conditionals
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
17th Jan 2022
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead:
condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy,
condition ?...
A Beautiful Site
Whipping file inputs into shape with Bootstrap
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all...
8th Aug 2013
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all browsers. There's even a pretty slick plugin to help get the job done. Unfortunately, most of these solutions are cumbersome, prone to cross-browser issues, and require...
Joel on Software
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free,...
18th Jun 2020
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
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...
27th Jun 2014
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...
bunnie's blog
Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White...
6th Nov 2023
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
Ink & Switch
01 · A spreadsheet for exploring scenarios
In our *Ambsheets* project, we are exploring a small extension to the familiar spreadsheet: **what...
4th Feb 2025
In our *Ambsheets* project, we are exploring a small extension to the familiar spreadsheet: **what if a single spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at once**?
blag
Rickrolling Turso DB (SQLite rewrite in Rust)
This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in...
20th Jul 2025
This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in Rust. I will explore how to get familiar with Turso’s codebase, tooling and tests
Epic Web Dev
Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)
6th Apr 2023
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
12th Jan 2025
Boot.dev Blog
How to Recursively Traverse JSON Objects
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a...
22nd Sep 2019
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a while I need to write a function that operates on a tree of unknown depth, such as a JSON object, and that’s often best solved recursively. Even though recursion is rare, it is...
Ink & Switch
The Livelymerge Experiment
Introducing Livelymerge.
5th Jun 2026
Eric Bailey
Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 1
5th Apr 2016
Matt Keeter
Gradients are the new intervals
14th May 2025
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...
1st Oct 2021
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.
Eric Bailey
An Introduction to macOS Voice Control
2nd Mar 2021
Remains of the Day
Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing...
13th Nov 2019
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private.
More than that, though, the Internet, with all the status games and incentives I wrote about in my last post, began to...
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...
12th Jun 2024
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...
bt RSS Feed
CSS Slope Graphs
CSS Slope Graphs
2021-06-07
I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
7th Jun 2021
CSS Slope Graphs
2021-06-07
I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let’s change that, shall we?
The Demo
I’m basing...
tonsky.me
Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей
Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его...
6th Jul 2025
Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его присутствие
The Changelog
Using Yggdrasil As an Automatic Mesh Fabric to Connect All Your Docker Containers, VMs, and Servers
Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including...
2nd Feb 2023
Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including how to use broadcast detection in Docker, Yggdrasil zero-config for ephemeral containers, and more. See it for the most current information. Sometimes you might want to run Docker...
Stephen Wolfram...
We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute!
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
6th Apr 2022
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
Darek Kay
Handling Enzyme in React 18
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing...
26th Mar 2022
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. However, many projects still contain lots of Enzyme tests from the early days, making migration difficult and time-consuming. At my...
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...
5th Oct 2016
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....
Alex Meub
The Best Games Ever Made
This is a list of the top five computer games ever made. These are
games that you should most...
1st Sep 2013
This is a list of the top five computer games ever made. These are
games that you should most definitely play if you have any
interest in playing games.
Fallout 2 (1998)
Fallout 2 is my favorite game of all time. It’s truly a masterpiece. It expanded on everything good about...
swyx's site RSS Feed
5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
alexwlchan
Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of...
11th Apr 2023
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq.
Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
Acko.net
Get in Zoomer, We're Saving React
Looking back, and forward
Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange...
22nd Sep 2022
Looking back, and forward
Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange and red site recently spilled the tea about how mean Uncle React has been, and how much nicer some of these next-gen frameworks supposedly are.
I find this bizarre for two...
Charles Chen
A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET
Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
14th Jan 2024
Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - "I created a chatbot with my dog" was a presentation I gave at a meetup. (Here's t...
David Crawshaw
Zero Trust Networks
Zero Trust Networks
2019-09-10
I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next...
10th Sep 2019
Zero Trust Networks
2019-09-10
I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next engineer, but there comes a point where there are just too many precise, narrowly-understood terms polluting your vocabulary. The circle of people you can talk to shrinks until going to...
Charles Chen
Lessons Learned from Working at Startups
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
4th Dec 2024
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
Dan Quach Blog
A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs
Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares...
8th Apr 2025
Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...
Joel Gascoigne
50 books that transformed my business and my life
As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books
completely. I even remember...
2nd Dec 2014
As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books
completely. I even remember a time where I couldn't imagine reading books at
all. After I graduated and started to be interested in business and startups, I
realized the immense power and knowledge contained...
Boot.dev Blog
Why should you learn Golang? [2022]
Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for...
8th Feb 2021
Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for career-conscious developers to learn. As an example, StackOverflow’s Developer survey saw it climb in popularity among developers from 10th in 2019 all the way to 5th in 2020. Additionally,...
Tony Finch's blog
PCG64 DXSM random number generator
Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2
for Golang’s standard library. It...
21st Jun 2023
Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2
for Golang’s standard library. It mentioned a new-ish flavour
of PCG random number generator which I had not previously encountered,
called PCG64 DXSM. This blog post collects what I have learned about
it. (I have...
Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
2nd Feb 2024
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
TokyoDev
Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers
If you’re an international developer working at a Japanese company, you’ve probably felt some...
3rd Mar 2026
If you’re an international developer working at a Japanese company, you’ve probably felt some communication-related pain. Whether your team primarily uses English, Japanese, or a mix of both, chances are there’s occasionally friction.
In a field where poor communication leads to...
Lee A Johnson
Backgrounds Are Important
I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶...
15th Sep 2025
I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶ ̸[̶r̷e̶c̶e̴n̷t̵l̷y̷ ̷a̶v̵a̸i̷l̸a̷b̷l̴e̷ ̸o̷n̸ ̵Y̴o̷u̶T̴u̴b̶e̸]̴(̵h̸t̵t̷p̴s̸:̴/̸/̴w̸w̴w̶.̵y̶o̶u̵t̵u̴b̶e̸.̴c̷o̷m̷/̵w̵a̴t̷c̴h̵?̷v̴=̵G̵f̶H̶4̵Q̷L̸4̸V̸q̴J̵0̴)̷,̴ ̴b̴u̵t̷ ̴I̴ ̸c̷o̸u̸l̶d̴n̸’̴t̷ ̷g̷e̷t̵...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
My Remote Desk, 2024
My desk as of 2024-04-30
Remote companies have to work harder at everything.
The effort goes beyond...
1st May 2024
My desk as of 2024-04-30
Remote companies have to work harder at everything.
The effort goes beyond “remote-friendly”—you need remote
culture.
But once you have a remote culture, it’s hard to imagine going back.
After nine years of working remotely, the only thing I miss...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering Q3 2024
Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently...
23rd Oct 2024
Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently featured Sander Schulhoff, one of the authors of a comprehensive research paper on prompt engineering. This meta-study reviews over 1,600 published papers, with co-authors from...
Dan Cowell
Deadlines Work
If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain,...
18th Mar 2024
If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain, eyes burning with sunblock, sweat and ocean spray, in sub-10°C conditions, I would have called you a filthy liar.
Then yesterday happened.
It was meant to be
ntietz.com blog -...
Where is the source code for ping?
Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to...
26th Jul 2020
Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to deepen my knowledge of networks. I'm just going for a super basic utility here, nothing fancy, not even all the features of ping. But since the language is new to me and my...
Josh Comeau's blog
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
2nd Dec 2024
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
Jake Zimmerman
Abstract singleton class methods are an abomination
2nd Jan 2024
Blog System/5
Demystifying secure NFS
My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and...
4th Nov 2024
My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and various Linux and FreeBSD clients.
wingolog
javascript weakmaps should be iterable
Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for
JavaScript’s to not be...
19th Aug 2024
Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for
JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap
A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is
otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron
table
When was added to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Source Code for Life v0.1
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
1st Apr 2018
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
Sometimes It Works...
Breaking the Chain
Breaking the Chain
Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your...
3rd May 2018
Breaking the Chain
Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application
Requirements
Problems
Solutions
Explicitly store the current Builder in the model
Results
¶Breaking the Chain
¶Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application
I’ve got to admit I’ve...
Irrational...
Refactoring internal documentation in Notion
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation
was the area with the second most...
5th Feb 2026
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation
was the area with the second most comments.
This is a writeup of the concrete steps I took to see how much
progress one person could make on improving the organization’s
documentation while holding myself to a high...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Price Tags, Gig Apps, and Dynamic Pricing
It is told that the modern price tag was developed in 1861 by one John Wanamaker, a merchant from...
15th Dec 2025
It is told that the modern price tag was developed in 1861 by one John Wanamaker, a merchant from Philiadephia, USA. Before this point, every transaction with every merchant one encountered was a negotiation. Someone who was wealthy would end up paying more because the merchant...
General Robots
Physical Intelligence Sweeps Humanoid Olympics
More coming soon
5th Jan 2026
Explained from First...
Number theory explained from first principles
17th Sep 2022
Charles Chen
The Inverted Reactivity Model of React
A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other...
27th Jan 2025
A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other frameworks.
Acko.net
React - The Missing Parts
Question the rules for fun and profit
One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a...
4th Feb 2022
Question the rules for fun and profit
One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a popular library's patterns is that you can experiment with all sorts of changes.
In my case, I have a React-clone, Live, which includes all the familiar basics: props, state and...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.1 now available
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features.
Smart Resume is actually...
14th Mar 2018
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features.
Smart Resume is actually two features:
It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation.
It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in April - Visited NYC briefly. Discovered a new cafe I like called WatchHouse - they even happened to be...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Search - New Features
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three...
22nd Dec 2022
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three months.
bt RSS Feed
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community....
7th Feb 2020
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
Making software...
CSS Video Backgrounds
CSS Video Backgrounds
2018-04-16
With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
16th Apr 2018
CSS Video Backgrounds
2018-04-16
With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS.
Example:
.video-background {
background-image:...
Nelson's Weblog
Class action employment suits
Google has agreed
to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees.
Congratulations to...
12th Jun 2022
Google has agreed
to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees.
Congratulations to the plaintiffs, suing your employer is a difficult and
stressful thing. But while the $118M
headline looks big it works out to only $7600 per employee, less after the
lawyers'...
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
10th Sep 2017
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites.
AWS Certficate Manager
I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
Words and Buttons...
Circles and lines vs. polynomial splines
Usually, when you want to make a parametric curve, you should go for a polynomial spline. But...
22nd Aug 2019
Usually, when you want to make a parametric curve, you should go for a polynomial spline. But sometimes, for the reasons mentioned only in the second half of this page to keep you intrigued, you are not satisfied with polynomials. You have to look elsewhere. This page shows you...
alexwlchan
Upward assignment in Ruby
Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it...
13th Jan 2023
Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it added rightward assignment (4 => x).
Then at RubyConf 2021, Kevin Kuchta explained how to abuse Ruby features to build a downward assignment operator (yes, this really...
A Beautiful Site
Most Software Was Already Slop
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
2 weeks ago
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
macwright.com
Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases by
I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s...
3rd Jan 2024
I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s not good for every problem, I think React is a good solution to many problems. I think the React team has good intentions. Even though React is not a solution to everything, it a...
Boot.dev Blog
HMAC and MACs - The Inner Workings of JWTs
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A...
5th Aug 2020
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A Message Authentication Code (MAC) is a string of bits that depends on a secret key and is sent with a message to prove the message wasn’t tampered with. HMACs are a more strict...
somenice
Hummingbird at the feeder
With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not...
10th Apr 2024
With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not 30 seconds later, this fella showed up.
Boot.dev Blog
What Are the Career Options in Computer Science?
The future is bright for career options in computer science with remote work opening up doors that...
1st Aug 2022
The future is bright for career options in computer science with remote work opening up doors that weren’t present before. Trying to navigate through computer science career options can be overwhelming what with all the options at your disposal. While we won’t go through every...
Max Countryman
People-First Leadership
Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but...
7th Apr 2023
Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but actively thriving. People-first leadership offers an approach which consistently cultivates an environment where folks can show up and do their best work, propelling the business...
Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
31st May 2024
alexwlchan
Two examples of hover styles on images
I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites.
A good hover style reminds me of how fast and...
6th Oct 2024
I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites.
A good hover style reminds me of how fast and responsive our computers can be, if we let them.
For example, I add a thicker underline when you hover over a link on this site, and it appears/disappears almost instantly as I move my...
Blog - Bitfield...
Catching grace
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard
at first, like trying...
12th Mar 2025
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard
at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a
knack to it.
Boot.dev Blog
Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency...
4th Jun 2020
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency functions one after the other. For example, if I have a web page that needs to request seven files from the server before it can show the page, I need to asynchronously fetch all those...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If...
4th Jan 2024
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If Section 174 tax changes stay, the US will be one of the least desirable countries to launch startups
Sebastian Witowski
Python Versions Management With pyenv
Using the latest version of Python is always a good idea. First of all - you get the new features...
3rd Feb 2021
Using the latest version of Python is always a good idea. First of all - you get the new features like the f-strings (Python 3.6), ordered dictionaries (officially guaranteed from Python 3.7, but already present in Python 3.6), or the union operator (Python 3.9). But even if you...
Buttondown's blog
April updates
Another great month, with lots of updates!
4th May 2018
Another great month, with lots of updates!
Sometimes It Works...
2023: The Rollercoaster
Job hunting
Freelancing
Side Projects
NativePHP
Spred
Veliance & Laradir
Streaming
Personal...
29th Dec 2023
Job hunting
Freelancing
Side Projects
NativePHP
Spred
Veliance & Laradir
Streaming
Personal Things
This year has been quite a ride! 🎢
It's felt like the first real year since 2020 that things have been somewhat "normal". However, looking back, it's been anything but...
Herman's blog
Nerding out about heaters
Keeping warm in the winter
28th May 2025
Keeping warm in the winter
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
11th Jun 2023
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
A Smart Bear
Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better...
31st May 2010
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better things to worry about and ways to avoid running into gorillas in the first place.
Neil Panchal
Bare Metal vs. Virtualization Performance
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows:
Neil's Lab Server Specifications
CPU...
7th Dec 2021
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows:
Neil's Lab Server Specifications
CPU Model
Intel® Xeon® Gold 6326, 16 Cores (32 Threads), 2.90 GHz (Base), 3.50 GHz (Turbo)
CPU Cooler
Noctua NH-U12S DX-4189
Motherboard
Supermicro...
37signals Dev
Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and...
7th Nov 2023
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and richer UIs grew, teams came up with different frontends to deliver on those expectations. Client-side frameworks such as Angular, Ember, and React emerged as popular choices.
One of...
General Robots
Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots
A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no...
10th Jul 2023
A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no profit for me I guess). Check it out!
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2024
Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s...
31st May 2024
Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s some photos that give a better idea of what the device is about. Above are the main parts of the device. The construction is simple and straightforward: big battery, screen with...
DevOps - Bitfield...
Dips and Wiggles
Modern infrastructure generates a heck of a lot of data, and it all has to
go somewhere. Here’s...
26th Feb 2022
Modern infrastructure generates a heck of a lot of data, and it all has to
go somewhere. Here’s how to connect your Checkly data to Prometheus and
Grafana, as part of an integrated observability pipeline.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why you Might Want to Extend React Components
Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs....
5th Nov 2018
Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs. Use state managers (and their connector HOCs). Use render props. Do not inherit. Remember, composition over inheritance! Obey your guru. Once upon a time, a developer extended his...
Alex Meub
Chromecast Backgrounds
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
28th Jan 2014
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome.
I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Making sense of TypeScript using set theory
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to...
23rd Jan 2023
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to my despair, some low-level behaviors still confuse me:
Why does 0 | 1 extends 0 ? true : false evaluate to false?
I'm very ashamed, but I sometimes confuse "subtype" and...
Jordan Eldredge's...
How Winamp2-js loads native skins in your browser
How we get from a binary Winamp skin file to seeing Winamp2-js take on the look of your favorite...
9th Mar 2015
How we get from a binary Winamp skin file to seeing Winamp2-js take on the look of your favorite skin, all within the limitations of your browser.
blag
What I want to do at Recurse Center
Projects I want to work on at RC
24th Oct 2021
Projects I want to work on at RC
elementary Blog
Who Monitors The Monitor?
Monitor
The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for...
5th Nov 2025
Monitor
The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for monitoring your system resources and running processes, including with optional panel indicators. Since its last release, we’ve completed the port to GTK4, rewrote the settings...
Steve Klabnik
When should I use String vs &str?
6th Oct 2024
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Five Tricks for Debug-Logging in JavaScript
Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple...
5th Oct 2018
Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple tricks you can use right now.
We'll be talking about console.log and friends for debugging javascript, mostly in the browser. If you don't use devtools debugger — try it, but I'm...
On Test Automation
I am tired of AI
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
17th Sep 2024
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
Boot.dev Blog
Systems and Processes that Aren't in Code are Terrifying
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten...
3rd Oct 2019
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten about. I don’t know how to find these systems reliably, I don’t know where they came from, what depends on them, and if they are safe to delete. For example, the dreaded 15 6 2 1 *...
A Beautiful Site
Cory's amazing dot paper
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in...
3rd Jun 2019
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in my corner holding this old fashioned pencil and a stack of dot paper.
Sorry, but for me, these primitive tools do the same thing and I find them easier to use.
I don't know. I guess...
Herman's blog
Committing to creativity
The fine line between commitment and motivation
5th Aug 2026
The fine line between commitment and motivation
Sometimes It Works...
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app
a.k.a. “The long way”
¶The 10 (ok, 15)...
16th Apr 2016
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app
a.k.a. “The long way”
¶The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app
¶a.k.a. “The long way”
Edit: Since writing this, Laravel Valet has been launched. I haven’t tried it yet, but if you use a Mac it looks...
A Smart Bear
Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not...
6th Aug 2023
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
elementary Blog
More Apps, More Features, More Cowbell!
Hot off the release of OS 8.0.2, we’ve got a great new batch of feature updates for you as we get...
6th Oct 2025
Hot off the release of OS 8.0.2, we’ve got a great new batch of feature updates for you as we get closer to the release of elementary OS 8.1!
Maps
The first stable release of elementary Maps is now available for download on any Linux OS. For now we’ve focused on some of the...
Eric Bailey
Don’t forget to localize your icons
Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing...
11th Nov 2024
Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing a v-for-victory hand gesture at the assembled crowd. It wasn’t received the way he intended.
What he failed to realize is that this gesture means a lot of different things to a...
Joel on Software
Making the web better. With blocks!
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which...
27th Jan 2022
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Digital Trees
Trees have many functions:
they provide shade,
they purify air,
they store carbon,
they grow...
1st Jul 2024
Trees have many functions:
they provide shade,
they purify air,
they store carbon,
they grow fruit,
and they’re aesthetically pleasing.
What’s intriguing to me about trees is their return on investment (ROI).
It takes years, even decades, to grow a tree to the point where you...
Elad Blog
Back to the office
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
7th Oct 2022
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
On Life and Lisp
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release!
We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release!
We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new
driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is
still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth
desktop...
Sebastian Witowski
Checking for True or False
How do you check if something is True in Python? There are three ways:
One "bad" way: if variable ==...
1st Oct 2020
How do you check if something is True in Python? There are three ways:
One "bad" way: if variable == True:
Another "bad" way: if variable is True:
And the good way, recommended even in the Programming Recommendations of PEP8: if variable:
The "bad" ways are not only frowned upon...
beep.blog
Yes, your Godot game runs faster with static types
Static typing is one of the easiest and most rewarding disciplines you can add to your game...
14th Feb 2024
Static typing is one of the easiest and most rewarding disciplines you can add to your game development.
Oxide Computer...
March 2020 Update
Hello friends!
I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this
unprecedented time in...
22nd Mar 2020
Hello friends!
I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this
unprecedented time in which we are all united. Our thoughts go out to
everyone working hard to help those in need. We wish you and your
families health and resilience.
Hard at work… and growing
A lot...
Code Of Honor
Stay Awhile and Listen
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for...
31st Oct 2013
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for blogging as I’ve started creating a new game. After a two-year stint helping other folks publish their games I’m back to coding and game design full-time and having a wonderful time. But...
the jsomers.net blog
The best general advice on earth
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology,...
26th Jul 2012
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, "Habit": The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: React
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
29th May 2021
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.
In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React?
We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog
The reasons why I started blogging.
23rd Sep 2023
The reasons why I started blogging.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker.
Most of the time you’ll...
1st May 2024
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker.
Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2.
Step 2: Hit the “Send” button.
Shortly after...
Joel Gascoigne
Questioning and adjusting our goals
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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People who know...
9th Jan 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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People who know me know that I like to make things systematic when I can, and
doing so helps me make sense of things and have confidence in my actions. In
addition to making things systematic, I...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
4th Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
Grant Slatton's Blog
Claude Code
Everything I know about how to use it, so far
11th May 2025
Everything I know about how to use it, so far
Marco.org
Apple is Listening
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017.
They had encountered significant...
10th Jun 2019
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017.
They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user.
The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: June 2025
April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting. I'm still recovering from our trip to...
4th Jul 2025
April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting. I'm still recovering from our trip to Seattle at the end of April.
It turns out I never posted my draft covering the month of March and April, so I will attempt to cover the highlights. The excerpt above is from my...
David Gerrells
A lazy dark mode
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
20th Jun 2020
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
Sebastian Witowski
Easy Speedup Wins With Numba
If you have functions that do a lot of mathematical operations, use NumPy or rely heavily on loops,...
3rd Sep 2020
If you have functions that do a lot of mathematical operations, use NumPy or rely heavily on loops, then there is a way to speed them up significantly with one line of code. Ok, two lines if you count the import.
Numba and the @jit decorator #
Meet Numba and its @jit decorator....
David Crawshaw
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8
2018-10-31
On Halloween this year I learned two scary...
31st Oct 2018
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8
2018-10-31
On Halloween this year I learned two scary things.
The first is that a young toddler can go trick-or-treating in your
apartment building and acquire a huge amount of candy.
When they are this young they have no interest in the...
Eliran Turgeman
I am a junior, and can't find a job - now what?
“The market is tough” is something many juniors hear today. people are frustrated. graduating after...
25th Jul 2024
“The market is tough” is something many juniors hear today. people are frustrated. graduating after 3-4 years with a CS degree is not easy. They graduate only to find out nobody wants to hire them or even move forward beyond the initial screening.
I’ll be real with you. there’s...
Lennart Koopmann...
Documentation Belongs in Engineering
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point,...
29th Aug 2023
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
A Day In The Life...
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
12th Jun 2020
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
Ferd.ca
The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting...
9th Jun 2025
In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are...
Basta’s Notes
My friend, JT
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
22nd Feb 2025
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
Ink & Switch
Provenance for science papers, local-first access control
In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments...
3rd Sep 2024
In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. We also have some updates on WASM packaging for Automerge, and a new researcher-in-residence.
Making software...
Plain Text Emails, Please
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most...
9th Sep 2019
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn't this same approach...
Kevin Chen
What I learned in 2017
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year.
And now that we’re...
8th Jun 2018
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year.
And now that we’re more than halfway through 2018, I decided to stop
procrastinating and flesh out the details. Some of these things are probably
obvious to you, but they were new to me!
Being right is...
Buttondown's blog
Why you need a physical address in your newsletter
Providing a real address is important for compliance.
1st Mar 2020
Providing a real address is important for compliance.
Max Schmitt
A Simple Guide for Calm UI
Read the post here.
yesterday
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - January 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a...
1st Jan 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest - Published "Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to s...
charity.wtf
Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder
Last night I was out with a dear friend who has been an engineering manager for a year now, and by...
4th Jan 2019
Last night I was out with a dear friend who has been an engineering manager for a year now, and by two drinks in I was rattling off a long list things I always say to newer engineering managers. Then I remembered: I should write a post! It’s one of my goals this year to write […]
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pick Up What They Put Down
> Translations welcome!...
1st Jan 2020
> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/aprenda-em-publico-hack.html))
Marco.org
Overcast 5.1 with Instant Search
▶️
The first thing someone does in a podcast app is add some podcasts, and most active Overcast...
28th Jan 2019
▶️
The first thing someone does in a podcast app is add some podcasts, and most active Overcast users add at least two new podcasts each month.
Over 80% of podcasts are added to Overcast by searching, with the vast majority as searches for a specific podcast by name (rather...
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2024
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
24th Dec 2024
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
The Web Witch's Blog
The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 11 March 2022
11 March 2022
Whoops. Here it is March already and I have not been keeping up with my Web Witch...
11th Mar 2022
11 March 2022
Whoops. Here it is March already and I have not been keeping up with my Web Witch Grimoire posts. A lot of things have happened since October and I'm not even going to remotely attempt to recap it all.
I've had a rough two and a half years. Not as rough as some, but...
A Beautiful Site
Web standards are just "minor details"
A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He...
2nd Jul 2007
A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He obtained a position as a junior project manager for a web consulting firm in Atlanta. Their work is very professional and their designs are great, but it was immediately evident...
Alex Meub
About the Apple Captive Network Assistant
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site...
10th Apr 2017
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site for a better resource on the Captive Network Assistant.
If you’re a mac user, you likely have seen a strange popup window appear on your computer when you try to connect to the...
Epic Web Dev
Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
2nd Oct 2023
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
ntietz.com blog -...
What would a web app canary look like?
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...
2nd Oct 2023
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots.
Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to.
They are an essential component...
Liz Denys
It's a piece of cake to bake a SIPB cake
Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes,...
5th Sep 2010
Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes, vanilla buttercream frosting, chocolate buttercream frosting with black food coloring, homemade white vanilla fondant, homemade black chocolate fondant, a bread knife to carve shoes...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Tom Waits' "Ol' 55" for Jared and Kathleen [Ukulele]
I recorded a simple version of Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55' for my friends Jared and Kathleen's wedding.
12th Sep 2012
I recorded a simple version of Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55' for my friends Jared and Kathleen's wedding.
Josh Comeau's blog
Persisting React State in localStorage
A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage,...
24th Feb 2020
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!
Eric Bailey
Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars
In the spirit of “everything old is new again,” browsers are once again supporting the ability to...
3rd May 2023
In the spirit of “everything old is new again,” browsers are once again supporting the ability to style the scrollbar. Much like custom CSS mouse cursors, I feel this is also a mistake.
When you style things on the web, you get control over almost the entire experience. From ten...
macwright.com
Headlamps are better flashlights
A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a...
1st Feb 2024
A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a flashlight, you need to use your hands too. Headlamps solve that problem. They’re bright enough for most purposes and are usually smaller than flashlights too. There are very few...
Boot.dev Blog
Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗
I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and...
10th Oct 2022
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗
I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and “DevOps” engineers will coalesce to include almost everything that “the user doesn’t see”. There will still be room for specialization, but these roles will become less distinguishable...
the singularity is...
The World’s Computer
This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
25th Feb 2024
This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer.
In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints
How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
1st Jan 2023
How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
Tyler Cipriani: blog
polymorphism
Polymorphism is when two types implement the same
interface.
16th May 2020
Polymorphism is when two types implement the same
interface.
alexwlchan
Moving my Glitch apps to my own web server
About six weeks ago, Glitch announced that they’re shutting down.
Glitch was a platform where you...
8th Jul 2025
About six weeks ago, Glitch announced that they’re shutting down.
Glitch was a platform where you could make websites and web apps, with a heavy emphasis on creativity and sharing.
You could read the source code for any project to understand how it worked, and remix somebody...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-01
"It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34...
1st Jan 2016
"It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34 uA/MHz running from flash."
www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/break-points/4441091/Subthreshold-transistors-and-MCUs
dthompson
Guile-websocket 0.2.1 released
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.1 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an...
6th Aug 2025
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.1 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket
protocol, both the
client and server sides, for Guile Scheme.
This small patch release contains the following changes:
Greatly improved validation of initial...
Alex Meub
The Office Bell Ringer
At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new...
19th Feb 2020
At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new feature or receive other positive news, big or small. When we hear the large bell ring in the center of the office, we know that something good just happened. It’s been a great way...
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
5th Nov 2023
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
A small freedom area...
Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several...
18th Oct 2025
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several approaches to rendering them, but one especially challenging
problem, both mathematically and technically, is computing the distance to
a Bézier curve. For quadratic curves (one control...
Alice GG
Plaid Layoffs and beyond
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people).
Today I signed my...
13th Dec 2022
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people).
Today I signed my termination agreement, which makes this week my last week as part of Plaid’s infrastructure team.
Kelly Sikkema
Moving forward
While being laid off and having to leave a very talented...
the jsomers.net blog
The paper computer
Now that we have actually good AI, I have this vision of a form of computing that doesn’t involve me...
9th Apr 2026
Now that we have actually good AI, I have this vision of a form of computing that doesn’t involve me using a computer so much. Imagine you had the day’s emails to go through. It would be nice if the ones that required a simple decision could be dispatched with a few pen-strokes:...
dthompson
Guix for development
This wonderful
article by
Marius Bakke (thanks for using
Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange...
23rd Sep 2022
This wonderful
article by
Marius Bakke (thanks for using
Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment
to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone
asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links...
A Smart Bear
Pricing determines your business model
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
5th Nov 2014
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
David Heinemeier...
Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
5th Aug 2024
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL
Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL
The post Happy New Year: solving...
31st Dec 2022
Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL
The post Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
2nd Aug 2023
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2025 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
6th Aug 2025
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
A Beautiful Site
The Future of Shoelace
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
17th Oct 2022
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
Confessions of a...
One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
8th Jun 2025
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
3rd Sep 2024
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories.
Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
Matt Keeter
Automatic Panorama Generation
3rd May 2011
Jibran’s Perspective
Project 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate
Links:
Gumroad page
Build Log
My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that...
14th Feb 2024
Links:
Gumroad page
Build Log
My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that has plagued me for my entire adult life; failure to commit and focus. I decided to work in 6 week “sprints” (inspired by Shape Up) and complete the projects I start - for some known...
Marco.org
A letter to John Ternus
As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who...
1st Apr 2026
As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who loved computers started making great computers to inspire more people to love computers.
That spirit is difficult to find in the tech business today.
Immense scale, soulless...
Kevin Chen
Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022
I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been...
2nd Oct 2022
I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been interesting to me because their hardware limitations drive advances in their software. Relative to other players in the industry:
Low-spec sensors require ML- and data-first...
Brendan Gregg's Blog
Doom GPU Flame Graphs
AI Flame Graphs are now open source and include Intel Battlemage GPU support, which means it can...
30th Apr 2025
AI Flame Graphs are now open source and include Intel Battlemage GPU support, which means it can also generate full-stack GPU flame graphs for providing new insights into gaming performance, especially when coupled with FlameScope (an older open source project of mine). Here's an...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The best Contentsquare alternatives & competitors, compared
Contentsquare is a beast, and we mean that in a good way – it's one of the most comprehensive...
2nd Dec 2025
Contentsquare is a beast, and we mean that in a good way – it's one of the most comprehensive digital experience platforms out there. They've doubled…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Congestion Control
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
7th Oct 2018
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
Daniel Marino
GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve...
19th Feb 2022
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve been a part of. I had some lofty goals for this game, and I just about met them all. I’m extremely happy with how the game came out!
Like prior games I’ve made, I don’t tend to...
Herman's blog
The Giant's Cup
On running trails
5th Jun 2026
Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three years
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to...
2nd Jun 2025
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map).
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications
An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even...
5th Feb 2021
An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even before starting to write code.
Boot.dev Blog
Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course,...
4th Oct 2021
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
4th Feb 2024
Evan Jones -...
Go: Functional options are slow
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a...
23rd May 2022
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a variable number of arguments, which are themselves functions (a type like ...func(*config). I think it was first introduced by Rob Pike in a 2014 blog post. It is now used by many...
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