Sebastian Witowski
String Formatting
One of the most well-received features introduced in Python 3.6 were the f-strings. Unlike the...
2nd Mar 2023
One of the most well-received features introduced in Python 3.6 were the f-strings. Unlike the walrus operator (introduced in Python 3.8), f-strings quickly became popular - it's hard to find someone who doesn't love them! Officially named literal string interpolation, f-strings...
The Changelog
Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible
As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent...
28th Mar 2025
As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be...
Nelson's Weblog
My racism at accents
Interesting NPR segment today: A
powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on...
17th Dec 2023
Interesting NPR segment today: A
powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on earth.
What’s remarkable is it’s a PhD candidate talking to an NPR host about
solar flares, completely in two Southern Black accents. Two women, at
that.
I am dismayed at my own involuntary...
The Changelog
I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased
I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of...
11th Jun 2025
I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines. The last one that needed this was my Raspberry Pi hooked up to my DEC vt510 terminal and IBM mechanical keyboard. Yes I do still use that setup! To my surprise,...
Acko.net
On Progress
The known unknown knowns we lost
When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
18th Jan 2022
The known unknown knowns we lost
When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter.
Not me though. For whatever reason,...
Eric Migicovsky's...
What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
28th May 2024
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
Eric Bailey
How to not make a résumé in React
I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like...
7th Apr 2020
I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like recently. They all promise the same thing, namely how to use React to create a résumé.
I mean, I get it. It’s important to have something to build towards when learning a new skill,...
Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
5th Feb 2024
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - February 2023
✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the...
1st Feb 2023
✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the Chicago Winter. Since last Summer, I've been taking a "solo week" trip every quarter as a creat...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - March 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Mar 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in February - Published Three-ring binder and A fresh coat of paint on Contraption Co. - Launching a proj...
Julia Evans
How do Nix builds work?
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
3rd Mar 2023
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds
work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here.
I started by complaining on Mastodon:
are there any guides to nix that...
Boot.dev Blog
Creating and Remembering a Strong Passphrase
We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique...
3rd Aug 2019
We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique passwords. Unique passwords however present a difficult problem.
Making software...
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
7th Sep 2017
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I've most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome.
But that all changes...
A Beautiful Site
I switched from tabs to spaces and haven't looked back
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would...
25th Nov 2014
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would never do, but I'm glad I finally did.
Why I always preferred tabs #
Tabs are sensible. They were made to indent things, and code needs to be indented, so it was a good relationship....
A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and...
14th Jan 2022
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we made feature flags even faster and more reliable
Feature flags are high stakes. An outage affects not only our customers, but our customer's...
7th Oct 2025
Feature flags are high stakes. An outage affects not only our customers, but our customer's customers, who's experience it impacts. When flags are…
TokyoDev
Progress and Challenges: Reflections of a Working Mother in Japan
The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey...
7th Jul 2023
The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey 2022](/insights/2022-developer-survey) revealed that the country is still struggling to close the gender gap in the workplace in the tech industry.
As a Japanese woman and a mother of two children, I was very...
A Smart Bear
Your target market isn't demographic
How to define your actual target market, which probably isn't traditional demographics and...
7th Sep 2025
How to define your actual target market, which probably isn't traditional demographics and firmographics.
Marco.org
Overcast summer update
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features.
But first, I need to set low...
21st Jul 2019
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features.
But first, I need to set low expectations for iOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina updates this fall. Halfway through the summer, I’ve made much less progress than expected, having been overwhelmed by the required...
Irrational...
Middle management roles are also a trap.
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap.
My argument then was that TLM roles...
8th Aug 2026
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap.
My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into
a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineering and engineering management
aspects of the role made being...
Liz Denys
'First' thoughts on git
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git;...
5th Apr 2010
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git; I've certainly already been exposed to git in a variety of ways. I'd always been told that my love of graph theory would convert me over to this different type of version control.
I...
Josh Comeau's blog
CSS vs. JavaScript
There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether...
26th May 2026
There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performance cost compared to traditional CSS transitions and keyframe animations. In this blog post, we’ll compare the same animation across several different strategies...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler
Learn some CPython internals, ELF file format and loading, and how remote profilers work
11th May 2024
Learn some CPython internals, ELF file format and loading, and how remote profilers work
Charles Petzold
Rudimentary 3D on the 2D HTML Canvas
I’ve been working on a graphical web project that requires an interactive roll of a pair of dice....
29th Sep 2024
I’ve been working on a graphical web project that requires an interactive roll of a pair of dice. Dice are cubes and would be most convincingly rendered with 3D graphics. But because these dice are only a tiny part of this project, I was reluctant to call out the big guns. I...
Maggie Appleton
The Best Illustration Books and Courses
My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
6th Jul 2019
My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
Julia Evans
Making crochet cacti
I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools Day posts about topics they don’t...
1st Apr 2024
I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools Day posts about topics they don’t normally write
about (like decaf or microscopes). The goal isn’t to
trick anyone, just to write about something different for a day.
I thought those posts were fun so here is a...
Dan Slimmon
Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As...
4th Apr 2023
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As long as we’re creating standards for incidents, let’s track Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) and Mean-Time-To-Detection (MTTD) and Mean-time-Between-Failures (MTBF)!” they say things...
Seldo.com
There's no such thing as the fundamentals of web development
19th Mar 2023
Eric Bailey
Truths about digital accessibility
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind...
29th Jul 2019
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind (note that identity-first language is intentional):
Each screen reader behaves differently
This is by design. Behavior is a balancing act between a screen reader’s features, the...
The History of the...
Information is still free
Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it...
7th Jan 2026
Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it relatively untouched. We share information, freely.
The post Information is still free appeared first on The History of the Web.
bt RSS Feed
Over-Nesting
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I’ve recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Sedimental
Colophon
Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological,
causing the first post to appear last in the...
1st May 2015
Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological,
causing the first post to appear last in the archive. This convention
makes a colophon the King's Pawn Game of web
authorship; there's no better place to showcase certain implementation
details than the first post of a...
bt RSS Feed
Simple Accessibility
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward:
Basic design
Test that your project has the proper...
Buttondown's blog
Secure your account with MFA
Secure your account with MFA
6th Jul 2022
Secure your account with MFA
Eric Migicovsky's...
Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
6th Aug 2021
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
David Heinemeier...
Not everyone can be the best
Many software developers seem to have a uniquely hard time accepting that not everyone who just...
4th Aug 2023
Many software developers seem to have a uniquely hard time accepting that not everyone who just tries real hard will become so good as to be among the best in this field. That there really is a discrepancy of talent that leads to a discrepancy of competence. That not everyone can...
DevOps - Bitfield...
What's new, Kubernetes?
It’s hard to believe, but Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes has been out
for nearly a year!...
2nd Apr 2020
It’s hard to believe, but Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes has been out
for nearly a year! While much has changed in the Kubernetes landscape, a
lot is also the same. In this post we’ll cover some of the things that have
changed (and what hasn’t).
Steve Klabnik
How often does Rust change?
11th Apr 2020
ByteofDev
Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023?
Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare...
5th Feb 2023
Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare some of the most popular monorepo tools' performance, ease of use, and more.
bunnie's blog
Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon
Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure...
8th Mar 2023
Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure elements. But how do we come to trust our secure elements? I have been searching for solutions to this thorny supply chain problem. Ideally, one can directly inspect the...
Daniel Marino
JS13K 2018 Retrospective
In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a...
15th Oct 2018
In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a video game. I asked my JavaScript-whiz buddy, Brad, if he was interested in building a game with me. Without hesitation, he said “Yes!”
Concept
A couple of years ago I came up with...
charity.wtf
There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about...
19th Nov 2024
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all...
ntietz.com blog -...
Coding with LLMs can lead to more and better software
We are in the early days with a new technology.
There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and takes on...
3rd Apr 2023
We are in the early days with a new technology.
There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and takes on every end of the spectrum.
Some predict that programmers will be out of a job sooner than later.
Others predict that these will just contribute to spam.
Today I'd like to focus on one...
HTMHell
#22 the good ol’ div link
Context: A link to another page.
Bad code
<div>About us</div>
<div...
14th Oct 2020
Context: A link to another page.
Bad code
<div>About us</div>
<div onClick="location.href='about.html'">
About us
</div>
<div data-page="aboutus" data-url="index.php">
About us
</div>
…or any other variation of this pattern where an element other than <a> is used to link to a...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Moving to San Francisco
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole...
24th Feb 2020
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The...
27th Apr 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
Alice GG
Writing GDScript with Neovim
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation...
1st Nov 2024
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming.
In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment.
Today, I will show you how to use...
alexwlchan
Quick-and-dirty print debugging in Go
I’ve been writing a lot of Go in my new job, and trying to understand a new codebase.
When I’m...
8th Jan 2026
I’ve been writing a lot of Go in my new job, and trying to understand a new codebase.
When I’m reading unfamiliar code, I like to use print debugging to follow what’s happening.
I print what branches I’m in, the value of different variables, which functions are being called, and...
Coding Horror
Hacker, Hack Thyself
We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to...
2nd Jun 2017
We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default,...
SOS
Analyse and run simulations on your energy usage
I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they...
11th Mar 2026
I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they used to have a useful insights dashboard that let me analyse my power usage. Well, they seem to have removed it so I built a handy dashboard that anyone can use.
It’s at...
Eric Bailey
Battery Status API: We need to talk
13th Jan 2016
Joel Gascoigne
How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
I think I’ve...
3rd May 2014
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I
stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a
while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
MMapped blog
Good names form Galois connections
1st Apr 2024
swyx's site RSS Feed
(incomplete) Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024
We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the...
29th Jun 2024
We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the large, multi-track format of the AI Engineer series of conferences that my biz partner Ben and I are building. I am historically bad at writing down lessons and thoughts, so I am...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Fixed the two major problems with the MAME cabinet
Update on my MAME cabinet project.
24th Dec 2007
Update on my MAME cabinet project.
Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
27th Apr 2019
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014.
Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Multitrack Video: "In My Room"
On New Years Day some friends and I recorded a multitrack video of The Beach Boys' song 'In My...
4th Jan 2010
On New Years Day some friends and I recorded a multitrack video of The Beach Boys' song 'In My Room'.
Steve Klabnik
You can't "turn off the borrow checker" in Rust
14th Sep 2018
The Web Witch's Blog
And Suddenly Spring
And suddenly it happens one day in March.
The sun beams down in a rare cloudless sky.
It might be...
20th Mar 2026
And suddenly it happens one day in March.
The sun beams down in a rare cloudless sky.
It might be cold as the wind gently blows but
The Sun. The Sun beams down and it promises
Long nights on the horizon.
It promises miserable humid days
And lovely warm days.
Harsh mid-day...
Buttondown's blog
How Sasha Frere-Jones uses Buttondown
Sasha uses Buttondown to publish his writings on music and other topics that spark his interest.
1st Sep 2025
Sasha uses Buttondown to publish his writings on music and other topics that spark his interest.
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
9th Jun 2024
Boot.dev Blog
JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
Basta’s Notes
Happier development
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
26th Mar 2026
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
ntietz.com blog -...
Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem
I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer.
It has me thinking a lot about the systems we...
1st Dec 2022
I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer.
It has me thinking a lot about the systems we have in place and something clicked for why they feel so wrong despite being so prevalent.
I'm not sure what any solutions look like yet, but outlining a problem is the first step,...
David Crawshaw
I am building a cloud
I am building a cloud
2026-04-22
Today is fundraising . As is the nature of writing for a larger...
22nd Apr 2026
I am building a cloud
2026-04-22
Today is fundraising . As is the nature of writing for a larger audience, it is a formal, safe announcement. As it should be. Writing must necessarily become impersonal at scale. But I would like to write something personal about why I am doing...
Kagi Blog
Kagi + Wolfram
Building a search engine is hard.
4th Mar 2024
Building a search engine is hard.
Posts on Nikita...
This site has buttons!
This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it:
Click me!
I added buttons that act as a simple...
8th Jun 2025
This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it:
Click me!
I added buttons that act as a simple counter with a name attached. These are good for polls too!
Pineapple on pizza: Yay Nay
Of course, the results will be biased because there is no deduplication. I don’t limit the...
Boot.dev Blog
How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18]
Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features...
6th Dec 2021
Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features since the release of the language. Many devs have gone so far as to say Go’s previous lack of generic types made the language too painful to use at all. Let’s dive into what generics...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of...
1st Dec 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of signups, which was more than I expected. Overall, a great start! - Did a smaller launch for The Cont...
Boot.dev Blog
Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
Maggie Appleton
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
wingolog
guile lab notebook: on the move!
Hey, a quick update, then a little story. The big news is that I got
wired to a !Guilemoving...
8th Jul 2025
Hey, a quick update, then a little story. The big news is that I got
wired to a !Guilemoving garbage
collector
Specifically, this is the mostly-moving collector with conservative
stack scanning. Most collections will be marked in place. When the
collector wants to compact, it...
Steve Klabnik
Update GitHub Pages with Travis CI
16th Dec 2014
Irrational...
2022 in review.
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
13th Dec 2022
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak.
The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: Summer 2026
The year flies by when you're postpartum, sleep-deprived and your little bubba is suddenly on the...
3 weeks ago
The year flies by when you're postpartum, sleep-deprived and your little bubba is suddenly on the move and making developmental leaps. Time is this sort of weird compressed experience, not dissimilar to the way I felt about COVID and 2020 (wasn't that just yestersday? No indeed...
Dan Cowell
Breaking the rules: I threw away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job.
When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's...
30th Jun 2023
When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's ecommerce website. After 2 months leading the team, I decided to scrap it and start over. This is the story of how and why, and whether it all worked out.
the singularity is...
Where the Bitter Lesson ends
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
27th Mar 2024
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the thing we built can do the engineering.
Clips have been making the rounds on Twitter from my second Lex about the “bishop guy” in a chess engine, or a “cone guy” in a self driving...
Miguel Carranza
100 Lessons From Building a 100-Person Org
RevenueCat now has more than 150 team members. Around 100 of them are in my org.
This is still a...
3rd Jun 2026
RevenueCat now has more than 150 team members. Around 100 of them are in my org.
This is still a little crazy to me. My own org is now bigger than any company I had worked at before starting RevenueCat. As a technical founder, I always preferred computers over people. Computers...
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...
Marco.org
WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time...
26th Feb 2018
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet. He was right.
Developers weren’t given access to make native apps until the iPhone’s second year. Before the native development...
Boot.dev Blog
Create a Course on Boot.dev
We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented...
4th Sep 2025
We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented authors! If you’re interested in creating a course for Boot.dev, here’s some preliminary info about how we work:
bt RSS Feed
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
9th Jan 2023
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings.
Built to Fail?
I followed the manufactor’s suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - March 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups...
1st Mar 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups develop new products. For the last six months, I've unintentionally been working almost exclusively wit...
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
6th Jun 2022
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […]
The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly April 2024
8th Apr 2024
beep.blog
The Season of Mindfulness
Resolutions suck. Give yourself a theme instead.
2nd Apr 2021
Resolutions suck. Give yourself a theme instead.
Alice GG
Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik
Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi.
The...
4th Jan 2024
Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi.
The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub.
This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
Miguel Carranza
From J1 visa to Blue Passport: A startup founder's immigration journey
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times,...
1st Apr 2024
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times, but this will be the first time I’ll be using my shiny blue passport. No anxiety about aggressive questions, secondary inspection, or the possibility of deportation. A couple of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter
> 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost...
1st Nov 2024
> 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost $222.51 one way (44min labor pickup 55min labor dropoff, which i think was fraud, no way dropoff cost more than pickup) and total base fare 38 + 14.5 fee. for the two way move price i...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
CI Files in Their Own Namespace
I recently had a random idea to fix a problem that evidently only
bothers me. It has become de...
2nd Dec 2018
I recently had a random idea to fix a problem that evidently only
bothers me. It has become de rigueur to litter every project with a
random smattering of top-level dotfiles. I’m thinking of the
.travis.yaml-type files that are regarded as a necessary
evil to perform some kind of...
Founder's blog
Will AI kill SaaS helpdesks?
Do we even need helpdesk software? I mean, just give an AI agent a markdown skill file with your FAQ...
12th Jan 2026
Do we even need helpdesk software? I mean, just give an AI agent a markdown skill file with your FAQ and canned responses and let it answer tickets - right? I (obviously) gave it a lot of thought recently and here's my take:
If your entire support operation is one person...
Buttondown's blog
Q1 planning
We're excited for what's in store for 2023!
2nd Jan 2023
We're excited for what's in store for 2023!
Ink & Switch
01 · Universal version control
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators...
13th Feb 2024
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop: Major Updates for 2026 (article)
Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved...
22nd Jan 2026
Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved playgrounds, a revamped epicshop CLI, and MCP upgrades.
bt RSS Feed
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
2020-04-29
Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
29th Apr 2020
Faking 3D Elements with CSS
2020-04-29
Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible.
This is...
Josh Collinsworth
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
4th Sep 2015
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
Words and Buttons...
Image darning
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
28th Mar 2020
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
Eric Migicovsky's...
We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the...
11th Jan 2024
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
Dan Slimmon
Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent...
20th Feb 2024
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent building things. So we never forget to interview for skills at building stuff. Sometimes we ask candidates to write code on the fly. Other times we ask them to whiteboard out a sensible...
HTMHell
#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0">
<div alt="Browser...
9th Feb 2020
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0">
<div alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" aria-label="Browser Wars: The Last Engine">
<div>
<img alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" src="thumbnail.jpg">
</div>
</div>
</a>
Issues and...
Eric Bailey
Using a folder other than <code>posts/</code> with Eleventy
I just updated this site to use Eleventy.
I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more...
22nd Nov 2020
I just updated this site to use Eleventy.
I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more a place to centralize all the little tweaks and gotchas of web work, and less a platform for scaffolding websites.
In all honestly, enchilada was intended more to be more a simple...
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Web
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s...
9th May 2024
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web.
Today I’m pleased to announce that we are open sourcing Mission Control — Web and you can find it on...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Singapore H1B1 Tips
## much of the original piece below is outdated. this is my remaining 2023 updates for fellow...
1st Aug 2018
## much of the original piece below is outdated. this is my remaining 2023 updates for fellow singaporeans.
Herman's blog
Committing to creativity
The fine line between commitment and motivation
5th Aug 2026
The fine line between commitment and motivation
Ink & Switch
Beckett 01 · Version Control for Space and Structure
Exploring version control for spatial and hierarchical data in Godot scenes.
10th Nov 2025
Exploring version control for spatial and hierarchical data in Godot scenes.
orlp.net - Blog...
Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be?
This article is not about deciding whether two floating
point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are...
27th Jan 2023
This article is not about deciding whether two floating
point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are plenty of resources on
this (often subjective) problem. We simply want to know if ${x \leq y.}$
Suppose that you are a programmer, and that you have two numbers. You want to
know...
Making software...
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
2021-08-13
I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
13th Aug 2021
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
2021-08-13
I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn't as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
Steve Klabnik
Ten Years of Ru...ewriting my website
21st Dec 2022
Sometimes It Works...
Finally!
I said "no"! 😱
The only offer on the table
I'm no beggar
I haven't been super vocal about this very...
17th Apr 2023
I said "no"! 😱
The only offer on the table
I'm no beggar
I haven't been super vocal about this very much over the past few months (I maybe need to be better at that?), but you may know that I left Elvie back at the end of October 2022. I was there for almost 6 years, the...
Coding Horror
Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream:
1....
4th Feb 2026
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream:
1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now.
2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications
James Vaughan's blog
Building the Open Task Light
2 weeks ago
the singularity is...
the tiny corp raised $5.1M
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank.
What is the tiny corp?
The...
24th May 2023
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank.
What is the tiny corp?
The tiny corp is a computer company. We sell computers for more than they cost to make; I’ve been thinking about this one for a while. In the limit, it’s a chip company, but there’s a...
Maggie Appleton
A Collection of Design Engineers
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to...
11th Mar 2024
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
bt RSS Feed
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on...
3rd Dec 2021
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like “URL forwarding” through your domain provider could work,...
Irrational...
Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience.
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how
LLMs might impact a...
6th Oct 2024
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how
LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of
the developing software at the company.
In this chapter, we’ll work through:
Summary results...
The Web Witch's Blog
I'm an introvert and I gave a conference talk
I gave my first conference talk at Design It Build It conference in September this year. After my...
19th Oct 2019
I gave my first conference talk at Design It Build It conference in September this year. After my talk, an attendee invited me to connect on LinkedIn and in his message to me, asked how I had overcome being an introvert to give my talk.
And while I understood the sentiment, I...
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...
A Smart Bear
How to hire people who are better than you
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you...
19th Apr 2026
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you hire for something you don't understand?
Nelson's Weblog
Legal aid charities for immigrants (2024)
The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants
in the US. It’s not clear...
27th Nov 2024
The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants
in the US. It’s not clear what’s coming, my biggest fear is a violent
display of fascism. (Don’t
call them camps!) But even if it’s a polite legal process it will be
chaotic and disruptive to many...
Writing - Andreas...
It’s hard to grow without trust
Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key
inhibitor).
16th Jul 2024
Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key
inhibitor).
Jordan Eldredge's...
Implementing a Robust Web Audio API Balance Node
After more than four years, I'm finally happy with how Webamp implements balance.
16th Apr 2019
After more than four years, I'm finally happy with how Webamp implements balance.
The History of the...
Prepping for the endgame of the open web
Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare.
The post...
7th Apr 2026
Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare.
The post Prepping for the endgame of the open web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Some Bits: Nelson's...
NixOS generators
Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
1st Jun 2026
Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
Joel Gascoigne
The next step in Buffer’s social media journey
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Can you remember where you were seven years...
2nd Aug 2017
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Can you remember where you were seven years ago?
I was in my apartment in Birmingham, UK, coding up the very first version of Buffer as a tool to schedule tweets.
So much has changed since then: the Buffer product has
Boot.dev Blog
Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring
My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and...
1st Sep 2020
My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and more time refactoring our code and tests. As a result, and perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, we’ve noticed a significant increase in our throughput of features and bug fixes.
Josh Collinsworth
Forty-two
I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head,...
26th Oct 2022
I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head, and 42 things I've learned (or at least, think I've learned).
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL
Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL
The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of...
31st Dec 2015
Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL
The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Steve Klabnik
The hardest decision I've ever made
17th Nov 2010
bt RSS Feed
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...
A Smart Bear
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is...
5th Mar 2022
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” Turns out, this is incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If you have an incorrect model, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here...
blag
About
Some Stuff About Me
1st Jan 2001
Eric Migicovsky's...
7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now
To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability...
10th Apr 2025
To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability tools help them do this by capturing LLM provider…
Ferd.ca
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?
This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
7th Mar 2025
This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well.
AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
Acko.net
In Search of Sophistication
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice
The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
10th Sep 2021
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice
The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media:
"Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees."
This...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git squash is not nice history
Today I read a brilliant article about effective use of git
bisect, but I disagreed with a small...
5th Oct 2020
Today I read a brilliant article about effective use of git
bisect, but I disagreed with a small nuance of one of its
conclusions (and, by internet law, was honor bound to write a blog post
about it):
Had this happened in a code base with a ‘nice history’ (as the...
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...
Eric Bailey
Building a Good Download… Button?
3rd Feb 2018
General Robots
Why Build a Robot Company?
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
6th Feb 2023
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
Maggie Appleton
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
13th Apr 2024
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
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...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey
<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I...
15th Apr 2025
<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I rediscovered the first Lisp environment I ever used back then which contributed to my love for the language. Here it is, PC Scheme running under DOSBox-X on my Linux PC:
Screenshot...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
SumatraPDF 3.0 released
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 3.0 of Sumatra, a multi-format reader (PDF,...
29th Oct 2014
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 3.0 of Sumatra, a multi-format reader (PDF, epub and mobi ebooks, comic books, etc.) for Windows.
You can download it from official SumatraPDF website
The biggest change in this version is addition of tabs, contributed by...
bt RSS Feed
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
2022-05-13
Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby
My...
13th May 2022
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
2022-05-13
Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby
My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files.
But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
A Beautiful Site
How to use currentColor in your stylesheet
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way...
4th Dec 2014
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way to reference the current text color when writing CSS. Works in modern browsers, including IE9+.
If you use Less or Sass then you probably already use something like @text-color....
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
3rd Apr 2024
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
Epic Web Dev
Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop)
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS...
9th Jul 2024
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS techniques, and Tailwind v4 migration in this workshop.
Jordan Eldredge's...
no-unused-binary-expressions: From code review nit to ecosystem improvements
How implementing an ESLint rule led to changes in how people write JavaScript
7th Oct 2024
How implementing an ESLint rule led to changes in how people write JavaScript
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession
Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers...
5th May 2025
Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs. It’s about the disillusionment of designers since the ~2010s. Having ridden that wave myself, there’s a lot of very relatable stuff in there...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
3rd Jul 2019
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the...
31st Dec 2019
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the Everglades: the endless sea of grass, extending to the horizon, as far as the eye can see and beyond, and teeming with life. There are all kinds of animals there. Herons, egrets,...
Joel Gascoigne
What it's really like to grow a team when you're focused on culture-fit
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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It’s often...
23rd Feb 2014
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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It’s often interesting to look back and think about how much I’ve learned in the
past year or two. Especially areas where I almost had no understanding at all.
Company culture is one of those...
charity.wtf
How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole)
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of...
17th Aug 2023
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you go.🌈✨🥂 In this doc I mention Christine, my wonderful, brilliant cofounder and CEO,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Thought Lead (2026)
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic...
14th Mar 2026
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't know if I ever really nailed it / have a complete picture, 2) I was somewhat worried if I published...
davidyat.es
Adventures in pixel space
30th Mar 2025
Making software...
Stay Hungry
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
12th Feb 2018
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
blag
Oldest recorded transaction
The oldest recorded transaction was in 3100 BC
6th Sep 2025
The oldest recorded transaction was in 3100 BC
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...
15th Jul 2024
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...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. September 2024
The aracnum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month’s boss fight....
4th Sep 2024
The aracnum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month’s boss fight. 88,297,514 xp was gained over the course of the event, and 90,000,000 was all that was needed to secure victory. It’s a shame, but we can’t win them all. The hound will return soon.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
How I Take and Publish Notes
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com.
I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
3rd Dec 2023
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com.
I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design.
But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it.
The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to change custom domain on Substack
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
17th Mar 2023
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
Alex Meub
Fun with IE7 and the Zoom Property
This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any...
29th Jun 2012
This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any invalid numbers.
It replaces .my_class{ zoom:1; } with .my_class{ zoom:1px; }
Those two characters (“px”) on the zoom property will blow up IE7 as it tries to zoom to a value in...
Sometimes It Works...
Slow Tech is Good Tech
Avoid the shiny
Avoid comparison
Some examples
Laravel
Build tools
Typescript and JS frameworks
The...
29th May 2024
Avoid the shiny
Avoid comparison
Some examples
Laravel
Build tools
Typescript and JS frameworks
The Web Platform
What I keep up with
This morning, I watched a video advertising a course aimed at developers. One of the first sentiments proclaimed is that of feeling left behind,...
the singularity is...
High Trust Society
I just want you to see, I just want you to see
Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think...
2nd Nov 2024
I just want you to see, I just want you to see
Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think this gets fixed? Is Kamala going to restore trust in government? Is Trump going to restore trust in government?
Despite what Western media might have you believe about how the...
TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
8th Aug 2023
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
Charles Petzold
Stop Fascism: Vote Blue
It might seem silly for a retired technical writer and obscure blogger to endorse a Presidential...
20th Oct 2024
It might seem silly for a retired technical writer and obscure blogger to endorse a Presidential candidate. I am not vain enough to believe that my prestige (such as it is) has the power to influence people’s electoral choices. But I believe this election to be too important for...
bt RSS Feed
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
2021-08-13
I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
13th Aug 2021
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
2021-08-13
I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn’t as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces...
4th Oct 2023
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools. The fastest growing Mixpanel…
TokyoDev
Freedom, Risk, and Protection: What Japan’s Freelance Act Really Means for Tech Workers
Japan’s freelance IT market is worth over 100 billion yen annually, with projected demand up nearly...
7th Oct 2025
Japan’s freelance IT market is worth over 100 billion yen annually, with projected demand up nearly 30% year-on-year and a projected shortfall of 600,000 tech workers by 2030. That demand creates opportunity, but it could also leave more people stuck in shaky employment...
Joel Gascoigne
Focus on the line, not the dot
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2nd Jan 2013
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Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring?
[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker
News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half
a...
Boot.dev Blog
Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project
Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming...
12th Jul 2021
Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming languages offer an alternative to low-level machine code, which makes coding more accessible than ever. Let’s dive into how Golang, a modern higher-level language, matches up to C++, a...
Steve Klabnik
The next iteration of my blog
12th May 2011
Elad Blog
Anduril & Defense Tech
The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of...
17th Jun 2021
The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of threats to our country and world. Examples of this include issues responding to the COVID pandemic, the cybersecurity ransomware attacks on critical US infrastructure such as our
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
10th May 2019
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors.
I figured I did...
Sometimes It Works...
How I Update and Deploy this Site
I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and...
5th Sep 2023
I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and even a rapid CMS can cause an unprepared server to grind to a halt.
I used to love running my own servers, but I don't have the time to do it for my personal site - I just want it to...
Computer Things
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
6th Mar 2024
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
Marc Astbury
Annual Review 2024
Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the...
4th Jan 2025
Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the cool 15 degree climate. This year, I’m in freezing cold Sapporo drinking a carton of the delicious local milk. For simplicity, I’m largely sticking to the format from my 2023 annual...
Jake Zimmerman
Using my iPhone as a travel laptop
15th Sep 2024
The Changelog
Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
2nd Sep 2022
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
Hixie's Natural Log
When complaints are a good sign
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so...
27th Sep 2024
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so explicitly, but even if you don't, you're still implicitly doing so based on your design choices.
These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud....
Patrick Kayongo
Rhythms of Order
Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous...
5th Oct 2023
Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous generations could never have dreamed of. Whether it’s bypassing traffic jams on the outskirts of hills of Kampala, or it’s determining your public transport route from your hotel to your...
Nelson's Weblog
Restic
Restic is good backup software.
It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various
local...
5th Feb 2024
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...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Infinite javascript array using AJAX
A simple way to asynchronously load suggestions into an array in JavaScript.
10th Feb 2014
A simple way to asynchronously load suggestions into an array in JavaScript.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
What I Told the FCC
I think that new FCC proposal for “Restoring
Internet Freedom” would completely destroy the...
8th May 2017
I think that new FCC proposal for “Restoring
Internet Freedom” would completely destroy the internet. Should this
proposal go any further, the internet will no longer be recognizable
within a very short amount of time. I’m worried that I will no longer
have a place on the...
Buttondown's blog
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
5th Dec 2024
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
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.
Buttondown's blog
February updates
We started the year with lots of new updates
4th Feb 2019
We started the year with lots of new updates
David Heinemeier...
Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!
I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something...
3rd Jul 2025
I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something has really changed in the last few years. Maybe Linux just got better? Maybe powerful mini PCs made it easier? Maybe Apple just fumbled their relationship with developers one too...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Eating the Cloud from Outside In
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
4th Oct 2021
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Take a hard game, and make it shorter
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels,...
16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Vim, the OSX clipboard and Tmux
I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 4 years now. Since I started working at
Upsync 3 months ago, I’ve found...
9th Feb 2013
I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 4 years now. Since I started working at
Upsync 3 months ago, I’ve found myself a very lonely desktop Linux user.
Also, since this job is my first heavy-duty exposure to back-end web
development, I’ve found myself a very confused desktop Linux...
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