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Joel Gascoigne
4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret that I’ve personally been hugely impacted by Eric Ries’ [https://twitter.com/ericries] work and the Lean Startup [http://theleanstartup.com/] movement. Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is:...
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over a year ago
People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is: yes. This is a collection of solo-preneur success stories (with occasional 2 people bands). I only include businesses generating significant revenues. In this context it’s around $5k/mo...
macwright.com
Recently This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big...
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This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big update about Placemark. Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little breather and just do the usual: what’s new! Reading I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
Epic Web Dev
Why you should probably be using SQLite
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Turns out nobody cared about panel gaps One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of the traditional values of car making. While the rest of the industry was stuck competing on the size of their panel gaps, and other aspects of precision and quality assembly,...
Remains of the Day
The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from...
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I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from structural ossification in the music, film, and publishing businesses, to name the most prominent. One of the ways this manifests is in the one-way broadcast nature of much of our...
samwho.dev
Turing Machines body { text-wrap: pretty; } @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { * { ...
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body { text-wrap: pretty; } @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { * { transition: none; animation: none; } } turing-machine { width: 100%; display: block; position: relative; padding-bottom: 1em; } turing-machine...
bunnie's blog
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
a year ago
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a year ago
IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
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...
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over a year ago
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Feature Selection Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality!!
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Introducing Loose Leaf Security, and our first episode: Securing your online account passwords I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good computer security for everyone. We believe you don't need to be a software engineer or security professional to understand how to keep your devices and data safe. In every...
The Changelog
The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of...
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a year ago
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want to say not only is that view so myopic that it pushes towards the incorrect, but also it...
Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
10 months ago
Computer Things
"Integration tests" are just vibes New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software...
a year ago
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a year ago
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software cause us to miss deadlines, and how we can address some of them. Patreon here. "Integration tests" are just vibes You should write more unit tests than integration tests. You should...
A Beautiful Site
Generate random passwords in PHP Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
bt RSS Feed
Basic Gulp Build for Sass Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
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over a year ago
Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I’ve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
Steve Klabnik
A Happy Day for Rust
4 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Rust has finally outgrown me
over a year ago
Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls! There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
Daniel Marino
What I’m Using in 2025 I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day...
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5 months ago
I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day lives. Every now and then I learn about a new app or some cool trick I didn’t previously know. I doubt anyone seriously cares about what I’m using, but figured I’d list them out...
Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 Million ARR - October update
a year ago
Making software...
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
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over a year ago
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
Eric Bailey
SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them
over a year ago
Yale E360
Work on tasks, not stories One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the...
a year ago
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a year ago
One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the smallest unit of work2. That a ticket should almost always be a story, because that means it's something that delivers concrete value to the users. There are some cases in which this...
Steve Klabnik
Finale
over a year ago
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Covering your webcams! Plus, our new newsletter and articles! A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't using them, and it features my favorite episode art yet: Covering your webcams Liz and Geoffrey take a look at how attackers compromise webcams and discuss why it's worth physically...
swyx's site RSS Feed
JavaScript: the First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich A link to the 190 page history of JS by its original creator and the editor of ES6.
over a year ago
HTMHell
Grouping form fields by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about...
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6 months ago
by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about HTML and especially not about accessibility. Everything I noticed was the special way a legend is displayed inside a fieldset – or rather: alongside the border of a fieldset. Fast...
charity.wtf
Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at...
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11 months ago
Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at work!”, or “Trump voters are oppressed and live in fear!”, and we all get a good pained laugh over how out of touch and lacking in self-awareness they are. We hear a lot about the...
Liz Denys
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
a year ago
Seldo.com
Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Web Analytics for Crypto Companies
10 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some...
a year ago
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a year ago
I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some of my highlighted excerpts and notes. It’s always hard reading a book like this because I highlight so much and have so many thoughts that I could spend hours and hours rehashing...
Neil Panchal
How to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster. Typically, the default data directory location is in /var/lib/postgresql/<version>/<cluster>/. There are three ways to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory. Options 1 and 2 are...
James Vaughan's blog
Introduction
over a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
David Gerrells
too many birthdays I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
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over a year ago
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
Explained from First...
Number theory explained from first principles
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Every generation needs their own apocalypse Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for 2024 were a startling refutation of the idea that young people must be inherently left-leaning. The dominating winner was Liberal Alliance, a center-right party that speaks to the...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 04 · Diff visualizations Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
a year ago
macwright.com
Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
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a year ago
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
Nelson's Weblog
Restic Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local...
a year ago
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a year ago
Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local and remote options. It is well documented, easy to set up, secure, and quite fast. It’s a very professional product. I am now backing up all my Linux systems with it. Note it’s a...
Yale E360
Using search as a primary datastore since the docs said not to Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do it. So when I saw that the Typesense docs say not to use it as a primary datastore? Well well well, that's what we'll have to do. I spent a little bit of time figuring out what a...
Confessions of a...
Why This Old Python Performance Trick Doesn’t Matter Anymore A deep dive into Python’s name resolution, bytecode, and how CPython 3.11 quietly made a popular...
2 weeks ago
Seán Barry
Understanding TypeScript Generics TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and when to use them.
Irrational...
Using cultural survey data. When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal...
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over a year ago
When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal was to better evaluate polished senior leaders who always said the right thing. I wanted to find the real beliefs and behaviors underneath all the polish. One interview focused on...
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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over a year ago
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.
Steve Klabnik
Anti-capitalism 101
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Shoes 4 work is starting: get involved!
over a year ago
On Life and Lisp
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
Eric Bailey
Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically There are a few schools of thought when it comes to organizing your CSS declarations. Each approach...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are a few schools of thought when it comes to organizing your CSS declarations. Each approach uses an underlying concept to impose a specific declaration order. When I say organizing declarations, I’m talking about the CSS code placed inside selectors, not an approach to...
Letters of Note
Am I really writing it at all? Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in...
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Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in the world of crime fiction thanks to his creation of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective who stars in many of his stories: The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The...
Eric Bailey
Quick Tip: Use the “lang” Attribute for Better Accessibility
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 007: Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates, LIVE workshop Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
8 months ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Logic programming in C++ When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one...
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over a year ago
When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one is the invisible Prolog. If written properly, the second program is helpful. However, if being neglected, it turns your code into an untangleable mess of incomprehencibles...
The Changelog
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
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In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
Josh Collinsworth
Let's Learn CSS Variables! CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
blag
Recurse Center Day 7: Basics of ncurses I learnt some basics of ncurses
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Enjoy Svelte Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Minimal Product Analytics
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we justified quitting our jobs and financing PostHog early on Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure...
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over a year ago
Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure motivated Tim and me to make an epic pivot leap…
bt RSS Feed
CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
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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...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog's new VP focused the company on nailing funnels in his first week Ramping up fast in any senior product role requires understanding as much context as possible across...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ramping up fast in any senior product role requires understanding as much context as possible across 3 axes (Market, Product and People). I’ll talk…
dthompson
Catbird: An experimental game engine for Scheme programmers I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now, and the next one is starting...
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over a year ago
I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now, and the next one is starting on 10/28, and with each attempt I've been accumulating code that forms something resembling a game engine. I'm now attempting to solidify some of the concepts I've been exploring in...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why you may not need a sales team You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder of a new tech startup. A few months back, you and…
TokyoDev
So You Want to Be a Game Dev in Japan Given how many of us grew up playing classic Japanese games, it’s no surprise that people are keen...
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6 months ago
Given how many of us grew up playing classic Japanese games, it’s no surprise that people are keen to work on games in Japan. But what’s the reality on the ground? What skills do you need to succeed in the Japanese game industry, and what challenges can you expect to...
Tony Finch's blog
testing data structures per element Recently, Alex Kladov wrote on the TigerBeetle blog about swarm testing data structures. It’s a neat...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Recently, Alex Kladov wrote on the TigerBeetle blog about swarm testing data structures. It’s a neat post about randomized testing with Zig. I wrote a comment with an idea that was new to Alex @matklad, so I’m reposing a longer version here. differential testing problems grow /...
Maggie Appleton
DeepSeek If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you might not know what DeepSeek is yet. Bless you.
Josh Comeau's blog
The Rules of Margin Collapse “Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets...
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over a year ago
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.
A Beautiful Site
Import/restore MySQL files from the command line I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure...
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over a year ago
I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure it out online. Here are the steps to import a large SQL file from the command line. Upload the SQL file to the server that your MySQL database is on Execute the following command...
Yale E360
Working with Rust in (neo)vim I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code. My first introduction to it was...
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I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code. My first introduction to it was being thrown in the deep end in 2009 by my Intro to CS lab assistant, who told us to write our programs using vi1 on the department servers. Why he told us that, I have no idea. But...
Engineer’s Codex
7 simple habits of the top 1% of engineers How elite software engineers maintain outperformance
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in 2023 The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually...
a year ago
TokyoDev
Permanent Residency in Japan Getting a Permanent Residence visa (永住権, eijuuken) is a big accomplishment for anyone living in...
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11 months ago
Getting a Permanent Residence visa (永住権, eijuuken) is a big accomplishment for anyone living in Japan. It is one of the most desired visas that presents you as a stable member of society, and it affords you a host of privileges, such as not being restricted in what activities you...
Alex Meub
Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
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over a year ago
Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files. Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I&#x27;m helping startup founders * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last month I...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last month I wrote about my discovery that helping others makes me happier [https://joel.is/post/26003263041/want-to-be-happy-and-successful-bring-happiness-to] than spending the time seeing a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The time before YC I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company....
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over a year ago
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company. This is us (I'm on the right), just after we got…
Alex Meub
The Perfect Moscow Mule The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious....
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over a year ago
The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious. This is a guide to making the perfect Mule. The Perfect Copper Mug The copper mug is essential for a real Moscow Mule. Copper immediately takes on the temperature of the drink keeping...
The History of the...
Where does SEO come from? In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It...
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a year ago
In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It couldn't be owned. The post Where does SEO come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Paolo Amoroso's...
The faded world: my experience with cataract <![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
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<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came. In May of 2024 my ophthalmologist confirmed what I surmised: both of my eyes were affected by cataract. It came earlier than my age would suggest but that's...
Joel Gascoigne
My experience with burnout as a startup founder Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way...
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way and wound up taking a 6-week break to recharge. I want to fully share my story here and include some things I wish I’d done differently in the hope
Contraption Co.
Is fractional work the future? A conversation with Taylor Crane
9 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Animated CSS hamburger icons If you need some tasty CSS hamburger icons that animate in fantastic ways, here you go. Hamburgers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you need some tasty CSS hamburger icons that animate in fantastic ways, here you go. Hamburgers is an MIT-licensed CSS library that gives you over a dozen beautifully animated navicons for use in your own projects. Also includes the Sass source so you can customize and compile...
Yale E360
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
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over a year ago
Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
David Heinemeier...
Living with Linux and Android after two decades of Apple It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to...
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It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to switch off the Apple stack and stick to my choice. That's what two decades worth of entrenched habits will do to your belief in change! But not only was it possible, it's been...
Joel Gascoigne
Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup, and why the reasons don&#x27;t matter Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this...
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over a year ago
Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as part of the values of the company [http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04]. Since we defined our value of...
Yale E360
Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind. The problem is, that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind. The problem is, that sentence is at best unclear and at worst nonsense. "Auth" can mean at least two things: authentication or authorization1. Which do we mean for an "auth system"? It's never perfectly...
Yale E360
Lessons from my first (very bad) on-call experience Near the beginning of my career, I was working for a startup that made database software used by...
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over a year ago
Near the beginning of my career, I was working for a startup that made database software used by other companies in their production infrastructure. The premise was that our super-fast database had a computing framework that would let you do things in real-time that usually took...
macwright.com
awesome-codemirror by () I started another “awesome” GitHub repo (a list of resources), for CodeMirror, called...
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a year ago
I started another “awesome” GitHub repo (a list of resources), for CodeMirror, called awesome-codemirror. CodeMirror has a community page but I wanted a freewheeling easy-to-contribute-to alternative. Who knows if it’ll grow to the size of awesome-geojson - 2.1k stars as of this...
macwright.com
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Paul Ford has a great article at Wired about his own experience as an English major working in tech. While I myself am not an English major (more on that below) his desire to be interdisciplinary parallels my own. I began to realize I was that most horrifying of things:...
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I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures in the hope of getting at least one that’s good – and then my camera roll is full of similar images. I always intend to go back and clean up my pictures afterwards – pick the best...
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Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
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“Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it creates a self-imposed accountability. But doesn’t it ruin competitive advantage when your competitors can steal your source code and know the salaries of your employees and whether...
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It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or fanatic. The skeptic thinks AI sucks, that it’s overhyped, it only ever parrots nonsense and it will all blow over soon. The fanatic thinks general human-level intelligence is just...
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This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for use in the wild.
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If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
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One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
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Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Release notes Users in Trend Graphs Whilst we have…
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There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the shakuhachi, "It takes three years to learn to shake your head." This is in reference to the difficulty of mastering even seemingly simple techniques. The only way around this is to...
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This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook. In this first part, we will use the scroll event to achieve that. Here’s a preview of what we will achieve by the end of the article:
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I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm calling "URL Architecture". In true fashion, I'm blogging about it.
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Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can we now expect it to follow suit by shedding workers?
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David Heinemeier...
The Year on Linux I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or...
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I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or more. That's the funny thing about habits: They can be so hard to break, but once you do, they're also easily forgotten. That's how it feels having left the Apple realm after two...
Patrick Kayongo
The vastness of the ocean The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
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The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
Julia Evans
Building a custom site for zine feedback Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta...
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Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta readers! about how I’d started using beta readers. The basic strategy for getting feedback there was to email people a PDF and ask for feedback. This was kind of inefficient, and so over the...
Josh Comeau's blog
Promises From The Ground Up The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it...
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The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.
Epic Web Dev
Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop) Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more...
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Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more in the Authentication Strategies & Implementation Workshop!
bt RSS Feed
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But...
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
Josh Comeau's blog
Refreshing Server-Side Props Next allows you to do server-side data-fetching, but what happens when that data needs to change on...
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over a year ago
Next allows you to do server-side data-fetching, but what happens when that data needs to change on the client? This brief tutorial shows how to re-fetch the props without doing a full server reload.
Yale E360
When to use cute names or descriptive names I've previously written that project names should be cute, not descriptive. That post talks about...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've previously written that project names should be cute, not descriptive. That post talks about services and does not talk at all about modules or variables. It's different in the latter context: those names should often be descriptive. What's the difference, and how do you...
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My 2023 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Text Prompts Circumscribe The Surface Area of Possible Solutions I was reading Chase McCoy’s notes about Figma’s move into the AI space and this one line stuck out...
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I was reading Chase McCoy’s notes about Figma’s move into the AI space and this one line stuck out to me (emphasis mine): Generating UI designs from scratch, based on a text prompt This reminded me of my note from a Wall Street Journal interview with Jony Ive where he talks about...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Waterfall The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they are completely ignorant of each other. I figured I would make a quick note to compare and contrast them!
Charles Chen
Beware the Complexity Merchants When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not...
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When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not going to have a good time
Charles Chen
A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
a year ago
alexwlchan
Preserving Dates during JSON serialisation with vanilla JS For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our longest-standing issues has been around sending Date values via JSON – JavaScript will happily encode a Date value in JSON, but it gets encoded as a string, and there’s no easy way to...
Contraption Co.
A mini data center Hosting web apps on a Mac Mini
5 months ago
Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Eric Bailey
Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight. I’m a big fan. It freed us from the tyranny of passive aggressive email chains, and when practiced with good etiquette quickly became my favorite way of communicating via text at...
bt RSS Feed
New Domain and Code Forge New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to...
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a year ago
New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to btxx.org. This post will go into details about the reason for this URL swap (spoilers: I’m a cheapskate) - but that isn’t all. I have moved my personal git repositories over to my...
Steve Klabnik
Structure literals vs. constructors in Rust
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
APRA fumbles targeted advertising
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Futuristic Progressive Enhancement Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that...
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a year ago
Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that becomes more capable as time passes without any effort on our part.” Wouldn’t that be amazing? Surely you’d want to know what sorcery makes this possible, right? Well the future is...
Josh Collinsworth
Announcing Hondo Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from....
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over a year ago
Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from. Eventually, those ideas took the shape of a whole new word game, named Hondo.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
Steve Klabnik
I'm going writeonly on Twitter for a while
over a year ago
David Gerrells
content slop AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
5 months ago
Liz Denys
Pointillism rose Sharpie on computer paper, Photoshop to brighten the colors.
over a year ago
Darek Kay
Running Storybook from a separate folder After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder next to the actual app: 📁 project ├─ 📁 app | ├─ 📁 src | └─ 📄 package.json └─ 📁 storybook ├─ 📁 .storybook | ├─ 📄 main.js | └─ 📄 preview.js └─ 📄...
Grant Slatton
"Passage" A poem
5 months ago
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint a picture of what life is like for international developers here, both to help people considering making the move here, and also for those already living here to better understand...
The Changelog
Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of...
bt RSS Feed
Embracing Slow Tech Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I’m writing this post on my “new” X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I’m writing this post on my “new” X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Digital hygiene: Emails Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.
a week ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Private-ish GitHub repos This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public...
over a year ago
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This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository. – GitHub’s “We updated our RSA SSH host key” blog, 2023-03-23 Once you git push, nothing is private. Private info in git only stays private on your laptop. But once...
Yale E360
Running an Effective Book Club at Work Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for learning. And they're great for group learning, too! We've run a book club at work a few times. Some sessions were more successful than others. The main way our book clubs faltered...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I prefer JS for front-end build automation Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers, measure bundle size, and what not. npm scripts are fine for one-liners, but as the workflows grow more complex — run these things in parallel, then do something else, but only if...
David Heinemeier...
The curing value of creation It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a product, an organization, or a community, or all three at once. Like exercise, it's one of those rare avenues of human endeavor that almost invariably will make anyone feel better....
TokyoDev
Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
Posts on Nikita...
RustLab 2024 I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4...
6 months ago
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I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4 conferences in one year was a bad idea. I was exhausted and overwhelmed, but I still had a blast meeting new people and answering the questions after the talk. It had the following...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
over a year ago
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Computer Things
"Logic for Programmers" Project Update Happy new year everyone! I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
6 months ago
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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...
Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past couple of years, I’ve been through a number of interesting experiences through building Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]. One of the things I’ve ended up thinking about a lot is the...
Neil Panchal
Isomatic Typeface Rev 6 WIP This is a ton of work. But not many things in the world could be more satisfying. Isomatic Type Rev...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a ton of work. But not many things in the world could be more satisfying. Isomatic Type Rev 6 WIP Also added Western and Central European language support. Stay tuned. This concept has been brewing for a few years now. I'll post some lower case specimens
macwright.com
Web pages and video games An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
a year ago
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a year ago
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons: Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
A Beautiful Site
Creating a printable website using print stylesheets I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean version of the webpage that I'm looking at. These little icons are indeed a beautiful sight from the user's perspective. No more having to modify printer settings or copy and paste...
Maggie Appleton
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Europe is half the cost for our company meet-ups Since the pandemic ended, we've had the pleasure of organizing three different company meet-ups for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since the pandemic ended, we've had the pleasure of organizing three different company meet-ups for 37signals. We got going again in Miami, then hopped to Amsterdam, and most recently we went to New Orleans. Next we're going to Barcelona in the fall. Would you have guessed that...
Sometimes It Works...
A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID &...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID & OAuth Unnecessary Access The Idea Why would they pay? Potential Stumbling Blocks Can you really sleep safe on all those passwords? Image "Sweet Dreams…" by pulpoluxA Platform to...
Yale E360
Drawbacks of developing in containers It seems like everyone these days is developing in containers. Specifically, I mean running your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It seems like everyone these days is developing in containers. Specifically, I mean running your local development environment almost entirely in containers. There's a lot to be said for it, especially when you're bringing new developers into a project: it can be an invaluable...
alexwlchan
The new Flickr Commons Explorer &rarr; One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons. Flickr Commons is a collection of historical photography from cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Domain Sins of My Youth I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the checkout screen, I realized it would cost me $105 to renew this domain for 5 years. Why 5 years? Right now my disposition is: if I plan on keeping a domain for as long as possible I...
David Heinemeier...
Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
a year ago
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a year ago
I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:   1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
Irrational...
Gelling your Engineering leadership team. One of the first leadership books I read was Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the first leadership books I read was Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which introduces the concept of your peers being your “first team” rather than your direct reports. This was a powerful idea for me, because it’s much harder to be a good teammate to...
Neil Panchal
ZFS RAIDZ2 - Achieving 157 GB/s Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the --filename option. Actual bandwidth is approximately 22 GB/s, which is still mighty impressive. I built a new server that's also going to serve as a NAS. It
Yale E360
A systematic approach to debugging I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger. It's a frequent occurrence that the weird...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger. It's a frequent occurrence that the weird stuff lands on my desk1 after it goes through another skilled engineer or two. To say my job is substantially "debug the weird shit" would not be an understatement and I'm here...
Liz Denys
Une petite valse en jazz Now that I have a weighted-key digital piano in my room, I've been playing a lot more. More like:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Now that I have a weighted-key digital piano in my room, I've been playing a lot more. More like: I've gone from playing the piano only when I'm home in Chicago to playing it a couple hours a day. Over the past few days, I've been alternating between playing pieces from Philip...
samwho.dev
Bloom Filters .bf { width: 100%; height: 150px; } @media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width:...
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.bf { width: 100%; height: 150px; } @media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 479px) { .bf { height: 200px; } } @media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 676px) { .bf { height: 200px; } } @media only screen and (min-width:...
Blog of Simple...
First challenge to the EU-US data transfer framework
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours Grabbing the audio
over a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
I accepted the Blog Question Challenge <![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about their background and motivations, tools, and workflows. It is a variation by Kev Quirk of a challenge originally created by Ava at Bear Blog. I have accepted this fun challenge and...
blag
Recurse Center Day 3: Hammock Driven Development TIL Hammock Driven Development
over a year ago
A Day In The Life...
Go maps vs switches Go maps vs switches
over a year ago
Tinker, Tamper,...
Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or “WITH queries”. I’ll explain the mental model that helped me make sense of them, and how to use them to execute recursive queries. Afterwards I’ll show how to apply these techniques...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset 4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my...
12 months ago
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4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024, and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script, I have Outstanding Episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am...
Ognjen Regoje •...
What if I spent exactly two hours on each post Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had dwindled. So, in the interest of being prolific and producing content that I can iterate and learn from, at the start of the year I decided that this year I would not spend more than...
Vadim Kravcenko
Fundraising for SaaS Startups This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
HTMHell
Landmarks and where to put them Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're important for SEO, make your pages more readable and, of course, also help people that use assistive technologies navigate through your page. Somewhat less known are landmark...
Kagi Blog
Update to Kagi Search pricing It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and...
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over a year ago
It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and we have been busy with three main large-scale initiatives: a new pricing model that ensures Kagi’s sustainability, new plans including Family plans, and enhancing search experience...
MMapped blog
Enlightenmentware
a year ago
Liz Denys
One idle dreary day many years ago Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull and sharp the sky was that day in San Francisco. When editing this photograph I took now about three and a half years ago, I only flattened the sky slightly and didn't touch up the...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lie still in bed I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Reflecting on YC, 2 years on Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
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over a year ago
Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
Irrational...
Mailbag: What should you do if you report to an underperforming executive? Recently, an email came in asking what to do when you report into a mediocre or underperforming...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, an email came in asking what to do when you report into a mediocre or underperforming executive. I’ve gotten variants of this question a number of times over the years, and it’s worth digging into a bit: Have you written anything about working in middle management where...
TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
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You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
Daniel Marino
Gamedev.js Jam 2021 Retrospective Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can...
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over a year ago
Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can run on the Web in a browser without extra plugins. This year’s theme for the competition was “mirror”, which could interpreted however participants chose. I had an itch I wanted to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to turn user interviews into actionable snapshots Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an...
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over a year ago
Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an efficient way to share what you learn. At PostHog…
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Power of Personal Podcasting Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog,...
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ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I’ve been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I’m announcing ThriftyName. What is...
HTMHell
HTML: The Bad Parts by Mayank You've probably heard statements along the lines of "HTML is already accessible by...
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by Mayank You've probably heard statements along the lines of "HTML is already accessible by default" or "You don't need to reinvent this perfectly fine HTML control". I consider these to be more of general claims rather than universal truths. It's extremely important for web...
MMapped blog
Square joy: tile crush
6 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2024 Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great...
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Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great write-up about the unit, its history, and how it was repaired. I’ll give the prize to Hessel. The guess given was about as close as anything I could have done myself — a pretty...
David Heinemeier...
Microsoft taught Apple nothing Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. They’re in full “cut off the air supply” mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost....
Steve Klabnik
Writing a su feature with Authlogic
over a year ago
Darek Kay
Open Graph images: Format compatibility across platforms While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are displayed when sharing a link on social media or messaging apps. Here's an example from WhatsApp: For each photo that I publish, I create a WebP thumbnail for the gallery. I wanted...
Epic Web Dev
Upgrading React Router (tip) Upgrade React Router from v5 to v7. Learn about nested routing, Outlet components, built-in error...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Upgrade React Router from v5 to v7. Learn about nested routing, Outlet components, built-in error boundaries, and other key improvements across versions
bunnie's blog
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
a year ago
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a year ago
IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
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Pseudocode for Intentionality I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my working definition of how to be more intentional.
Joel Gascoigne
Your startup is a rocket ship * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When you’re...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When you’re building a startup, the startup itself has a reputation and credibility around it. The startup has tremendous power. As the startup rocket ship takes off, the best thing you can do is...
alexwlchan
Adding locations to my photos from my Apple Watch workouts A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest...
a year ago
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a year ago
A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest Slovenia. It’s a very photogenic landscape, so I was taking some pictures with my “nice” camera. It’s an Olympus that takes better photos than my iPhone, but it’s quite old and it doesn’t have...
Maggie Appleton
Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes Visualising the cultural narratives around cultured meat
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps) My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers1 ask me...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers1 ask me about it, and everyone else ignores me. These effects are not undesirable, but further testing is required. The main reason I have such an unusual setup, though, is more...
davidyat.es
Print stylesheets
a year ago
Eric Bailey
a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s solarized-prism-theme for PrismJS. To not bury the lede, the new update: Supports Forced Colors mode, Is encapsulated in a Cascade Layer, Uses Custom Properties, Groups its selectors using the...
Quentin Santos
You can move !Unpin Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the exact meaning of Unpin. The documentation says: The documentation of Unpin says: Types that do not require any pinning guarantees. Where pinning is described as: From this, you could...
alexwlchan
Always running I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other evening, and I fleshed it out into a proper piece. I want to get better at writing fiction, and the only way to do that is with practice. I hope you like what I’ve written! When the...
Eric Bailey
Operating System and Browser Accessibility Display Modes
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Scars Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
7 months ago
Blog System/5
Code reviews: A success story A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Navigating the unpredictability of everything We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
Ognjen Regoje •...
Situations in which TDD is the way to go While I’m not a fan of using TDD all the time, here are a few situations where it’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
While I’m not a fan of using TDD all the time, here are a few situations where it’s effective. Bugfix Starting a bugfix by writing the broken test case is often very practical, especially with issues that show up somewhere in the front end, but the fix is somewhere deep in the...
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Developer Exception Engineering It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the uncomfortable ones.
Joel Gascoigne
The top reason we haven’t sold our startup We’ve been lucky at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] to receive a number of acquisition offers along...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’ve been lucky at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] to receive a number of acquisition offers along our journey so far. When I mention this to people, a key question that often comes up is “how did you decide not to sell?”. The earliest offer we had for Buffer was
Making software...
Dynamic Checkboxes Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you're selecting a pricing plan during a site's sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
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Serverless Machine Learning at Google ---
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
.toBeVisible() or .toBeInTheDocument()? (article) A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their differences, use cases, and best practices
Steve Klabnik
Five years with Rust
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Github Copilot suggesting links A potentially very useful but probably unintended and unpolished feature of GitHub Copilot is that...
a year ago
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a year ago
A potentially very useful but probably unintended and unpolished feature of GitHub Copilot is that it can suggest related links. That is, if you paste a link, then on a new line type https:// and wait for a second, Copilot often suggests a link or two. The results, at the moment,...
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is Rust? Illustrated notes on the core concepts in Rust
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
4 months ago
Epic Web Dev
Why I Won’t Use JSDOM (article) Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest Browser Mode for direct browser testing and native APIs
Yale E360
Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Using Next.js and Vercel to instantly load a data-heavy website A React application is JavaScript code that gets transformed into static HTML. This transformation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A React application is JavaScript code that gets transformed into static HTML. This transformation is called "rendering". Whenever you build a React application, you're inevitably making a decision on when to render it and you usually have 3 choices: Client-side rendering: the...
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add Whisper to your iOS Action Button The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows...
a year ago
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a year ago
The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts. Apple's default transcription is terrible. I got a new iPhone recently and so this is my chance.
Steve Klabnik
How to not rely on rubygems.org for development
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Beware of transparent backgrounds when using AVIF with ImageMagick 6 One of the things I did over my Christmas break was redo all the image handling on this site. Mostly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the things I did over my Christmas break was redo all the image handling on this site. Mostly I’m catching up on the current “best practices” for images on the web. I’ve written a Jekyll plugin which allows me to use an image in a post like so: {% picture ...
blag
Recurse Center Day 9: Papers We Love I learnt a few things about Dynamo
over a year ago