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Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need
7th Feb 2019
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Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need

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

7th Feb 2019
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
5th Jan 2021
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles

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

5th Jan 2021
Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
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Good Design Sells Open Source I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a...
7th Aug 2011
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Good Design Sells Open Source

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2011
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a blogging framework backed by the static site generator [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/). I first read about Octopress a couple of weeks ago on Hacker News. Although Octopress appealed...
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
28th Jun 2016
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons

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

28th Jun 2016
Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
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a perfect blog editor What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
11th May 2020
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a perfect blog editor

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

11th May 2020
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
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Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
7th Nov 2017
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Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.)

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

7th Nov 2017
When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written. Here’s a typical case: #if defined (_MSC_VER) // code specific to Visual Studio compiler #endif To perform those checks you need to check...
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Terroir Terroir Longmont Had an amazing meal tonight at Terroir in Longmont. Pictured is the most amazing...
14th Aug 2009
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Terroir

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

14th Aug 2009
Terroir Longmont Had an amazing meal tonight at Terroir in Longmont. Pictured is the most amazing thing you will never taste. Booya! I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet Archive. If you found this article useful or entertaining (or even if you didn’t)...
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My friend, JT I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
22nd Feb 2025
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My friend, JT

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Feb 2025
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
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Setting Up a Free SSL Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
7th Aug 2018
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Setting Up a Free SSL

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

7th Aug 2018
Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol. Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
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Getting the base directory of an sbt project This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $...
4th Dec 2022
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Getting the base directory of an sbt project

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2022
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $ sbt --batch -error "project $PROJECT" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d "\n" For example: $ sbt --batch -error "project ingests_api" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d...
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Tutorial for github.com/kjk/flex Go package (implementation of CSS flexbox algorithm) Package github.com/kjk/flex implements CSS flexbox layout algorithm in Go. It’s a pure Go port of...
4th Aug 2017
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Tutorial for github.com/kjk/flex Go package (implementation of CSS flexbox algorithm)

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

4th Aug 2017
Package github.com/kjk/flex implements CSS flexbox layout algorithm in Go. It’s a pure Go port of Facebook’s Yoga C library. High-level API overview Despite implementing CSS flexbox spec, it isn’t tied to CSS/HTML in any way. Yoga, for example, can be integrated with...
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Exploring the Immersive Web with Wolvic When I was interviewing for a role with Microsoft Edge in early 2016, I got to my final interview in...
1st May 2024
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Exploring the Immersive Web with Wolvic

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

1st May 2024
When I was interviewing for a role with Microsoft Edge in early 2016, I got to my final interview in the loop and I can still remember sitting across from my soon-to-be manager when he asked about the future of the web. HoloLens had been announced, so I must have had that in my...
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Austria 2022 Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We had a lovely time although...
27th Oct 2022
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Austria 2022

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

27th Oct 2022
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We had a lovely time although we did get a little worn out and ready for home after a couple of weeks. Along the way we stayed in Vienna, Graz, the Wörthersee, Zell am See, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Hallstatt,...
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Changing the Tires on a Moving Codebase 2020 was a year of reckonings. And for all that was beyond one’s control, as the year went on, I...
10th Mar 2021
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Changing the Tires on a Moving Codebase

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2021
2020 was a year of reckonings. And for all that was beyond one’s control, as the year went on, I found myself pouring more and more into the one thing that felt within reach: futureproofing of the large enterprise web application I helped build, SimpleLegal. Now complete, this...
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Back to Goodreads I’m back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use Goodreads please add me as a...
7th Apr 2022
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Back to Goodreads

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

7th Apr 2022
I’m back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use Goodreads please add me as a friend. After Goodreads lost my account I was furious and of course intended to never use it again. But to their credit, Goodreads did some extra work and managed to get me a copy of...
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Twenty Years of Guild Wars So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars...
30th Apr 2025
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Twenty Years of Guild Wars

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Apr 2025
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars on April 28, 2005, that it encouraged me to write this little bitty. I was heartened to see an article about Guild Wars in GameRant, which talked about the server infrastructure...
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Python Community Intro The PSF just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community", then autosubscribed a bunch of people and...
22nd Sep 2015
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Python Community Intro

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Sep 2015
The PSF just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community", then autosubscribed a bunch of people and solicited introductions. At first I was surprised, but I was quickly charmed by the response and joined in on the action. Here's what I wrote: If Alex Martelli is doing it, then...
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Disqus - An Apology Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
12th Jun 2024
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Disqus - An Apology

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

12th Jun 2024
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
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Package Releases Are Almost Done, You Won't Believe What Happens Next! This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes,...
9th Sep 2024
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Package Releases Are Almost Done, You Won't Believe What Happens Next!

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

9th Sep 2024
This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes, regression testing, updating metadata, taking screenshots, and releasing packages. We’re getting down to the last few items before we can release elementary OS 8. Read ahead to find out...
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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
15th Sep 2023
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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore

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

15th Sep 2023
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
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Based-30b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and...
3rd Jun 2023
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Based-30b

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

3rd Jun 2023
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-7b, I came to the realization that these models, despite being trained with no refusals, were still refusing. How could this be? It dawned on me, that...
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A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed 2023/01/01 A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed When I first started my forever project, a peer to...
1st Jan 2023
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A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2023
2023/01/01 A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed When I first started my forever project, a peer to peer file sync software using Interval Tree Clocks, I wanted to build it right. That meant property-based testing everything, specifying the protocol fully, dealing with error...
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@levelsio and survivorship bias Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s...
20th Oct 2021
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@levelsio and survivorship bias

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

20th Oct 2021
Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s close to making $1.5 million a year from his business, almost all of it profit. Almost all of it is his profit since for most of the time he was a sole developer / marketer / copy...
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Why I crave mistakes I’ve mentioned many [https://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas]...
3rd Jun 2012
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Why I crave mistakes

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2012
I’ve mentioned many [https://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas] times [https://joel.is/post/23348997538/what-online-gaming-taught-me-about-startups] before [https://joel.is/post/12790799237/achieving-scale-by-doing-things-that-dont-scale] on this blog that I...
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What I'm up to - December 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2023
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What I'm up to - December 2023

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

1st Dec 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...
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Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
11th Jun 2023
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Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence

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

11th Jun 2023
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
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Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
21st Sep 2016
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Fooling Around With Word Embeddings

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

21st Sep 2016
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Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve .title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} .gallery { ...
28th May 2026
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Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve

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

28th May 2026
.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} .gallery { display:flex; justify-content:center; } figure a:link, figure a:visited, figure a:hover, figure a:active {color:inherit; text-decoration: underline;} Netbooks are dead, but the Chuwi...
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What I'm up to - August 2023 I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Aug 2023
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What I'm up to - August 2023

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

1st Aug 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in July Booklet is a product I've been building to help communi...
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The World's Smallest Hash Table This December I once again did the Advent of Code, in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are...
4th Mar 2023
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The World's Smallest Hash Table

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2023
This December I once again did the Advent of Code, in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2 problem as it is both optimized completely beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For...
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"You didn't do it right" Four sincere attempts at OKRs, four failures, and every time: "you didn't do it right." Maybe the...
11th Oct 2026
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"You didn't do it right"

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

11th Oct 2026
Four sincere attempts at OKRs, four failures, and every time: "you didn't do it right." Maybe the framework doesn't fit you -- so how do you find one that does?
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Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors Explaining React through visual metaphors
1st May 2020
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Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors

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

1st May 2020
Explaining React through visual metaphors
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Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
14th Jan 2019
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Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show

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

14th Jan 2019
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions. I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
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A History of Cyborgs Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
1st Nov 2020
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A History of Cyborgs

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

1st Nov 2020
Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
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Resurfacing posts Some posts you may have missed
27th May 2026
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Resurfacing posts

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

27th May 2026
Some posts you may have missed
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Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a...
5th Nov 2025
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Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering

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

5th Nov 2025
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a project-based option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology. This service...
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The slopocalypse survival guide Slop is without a doubt everywhere. Be it in restaurant’s menus, music playlists, or online game...
2 weeks ago
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The slopocalypse survival guide

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

2 weeks ago
Slop is without a doubt everywhere. Be it in restaurant’s menus, music playlists, or online game storefronts, it is now impossible to escape it. Yet, I’ve never met anyone who was actually looking forward to consuming that. No matter how hard it’s shoved down our throats, the...
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A good first word for Wordle Ok, I gave in to the fad and took up Wordle. For those who have been living under a rock for the...
27th Jan 2022
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A good first word for Wordle

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

27th Jan 2022
Ok, I gave in to the fad and took up Wordle. For those who have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, Wordle is a relatively new online word game which has become viral. It is a variation of Bulls and Cows. You have six tries to guess a five-letter word. Each […] The...
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2023: The Rollercoaster Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal...
29th Dec 2023
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2023: The Rollercoaster

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

29th Dec 2023
Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal Things This year has been quite a ride! 🎢 It's felt like the first real year since 2020 that things have been somewhat "normal". However, looking back, it's been anything but...
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A Million Little Secrets I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in...
24th Feb 2025
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A Million Little Secrets

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

24th Feb 2025
I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my...
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Verifying my web archives with Playwright To protect against link rot and disappearing content, I save local copies of web pages I like into...
a week ago
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Verifying my web archives with Playwright

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
To protect against link rot and disappearing content, I save local copies of web pages I like into my web archive. Ideally, this archive is completely self-contained. I want a local copy of each page’s HTML and all the assets it depends on (CSS, images, scripts, and so...
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Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
14th Sep 2026
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Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

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

14th Sep 2026
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
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My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer The most stressful period of my career.
5th Sep 2020
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My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer

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

5th Sep 2020
The most stressful period of my career.
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Want to join the Rust docs team?
24th Mar 2017
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Want to join the Rust docs team?

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

24th Mar 2017
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Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home' I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
2nd Apr 2011
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Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home'

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

2nd Apr 2011
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
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My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist...
2nd Sep 2024
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My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2024
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere. After launching my notes section, I had to...
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Developer Tools, Hardware Enablement, and Multitasking Futures Your monthly updates post is here! This month we have a couple of releases for our developer tools,...
11th Aug 2025
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Developer Tools, Hardware Enablement, and Multitasking Futures

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

11th Aug 2025
Your monthly updates post is here! This month we have a couple of releases for our developer tools, plus plenty of improvements to Bluetooth, as well as a hardware enablement boost from Ubuntu and plenty to talk about in Early Access. Let’s dive in! System Settings The previously...
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Let's Talk OS 8 One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that...
3rd Nov 2023
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Let's Talk OS 8

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

3rd Nov 2023
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that make it more inclusive and accessible, protects your privacy and ensures apps always operate with your explicit consent, and addresses your feedback with over 200 bug fixes, design...
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Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
11th Dec 2023
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Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres

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

11th Dec 2023
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
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Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
3rd Dec 2023
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Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2023
A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
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The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live! In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
8th Dec 2022
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The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live!

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2022
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2022-developer-survey), please check them out! This year's survey had 42 questions, up from 24 questions for [2021's...
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#19 heading in the wrong direction Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product...
14th May 2020
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#19 heading in the wrong direction

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th May 2020
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product Status</h1> <h2>Is the product available?</h2> <div> <h3> <div> <div> <i> <h3 class="message is-success"> It‘s <a>available</a>. </h3> ...
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Terminal colours are tricky Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was...
1st Oct 2024
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Terminal colours are tricky

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

1st Oct 2024
Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what problems they’ve run into with colours in the...
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Headlamps are better flashlights A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a...
1st Feb 2024
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Headlamps are better flashlights

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

1st Feb 2024
A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a flashlight, you need to use your hands too. Headlamps solve that problem. They’re bright enough for most purposes and are usually smaller than flashlights too. There are very few...
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Advanced Promises Coordination: Serialization and Concurrency Limiting I'm sure you can chain promises with doBefore().then(() => doAfter()) and even run multiple promises...
20th Jun 2018
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Advanced Promises Coordination: Serialization and Concurrency Limiting

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

20th Jun 2018
I'm sure you can chain promises with doBefore().then(() => doAfter()) and even run multiple promises in parallel using Promise.any. However, chaining an unknown count of homogenous promises is trickier. Let me teach you to serialze promises like a pro! Suppose we want a list of...
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Big Tech Fails EU’s Digital Services Act: Only Wikipedia Passes the Test
7th Dec 2024
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Big Tech Fails EU’s Digital Services Act: Only Wikipedia Passes the Test

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7th Dec 2024
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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
7th May 2023
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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life

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

7th May 2023
A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
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elementary OS 7.1 Available Now Today, we’re proud to announce that OS 7.1 is available to download now and shipping on several...
3rd Oct 2023
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elementary OS 7.1 Available Now

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

3rd Oct 2023
Today, we’re proud to announce that OS 7.1 is available to download now and shipping on several high-quality computers. This release represents the sum of our work over the last several months as a single major update to the OS 7 series and includes all of the monthly OS updates...
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Designing a fast I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a thirsty couch. My eyes find the...
16th Jul 2015
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Designing a fast

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2015
I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a thirsty couch. My eyes find the clock. Cleaning will have to wait. I'm downing water like there's no tomorrow, but really tomorrow starts in one minute. Still drinking. All work is thirsty work if the day is long...
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Recently Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
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Recently

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1st Oct 2024
Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you. Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
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Standards for ANSI escape codes Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI...
7th Mar 2025
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Standards for ANSI escape codes

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

7th Mar 2025
Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understanding of where they were supposed to be defined or whether or not there were...
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A Distributed Systems Reading List 2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick...
8th Feb 2024
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A Distributed Systems Reading List

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2024
2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick definition of a lot of background information behind distributed systems. It is not complete, even though it is kinda sorta detailed. I had written it some time in 2019 when coworkers...
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Number theory explained from first principles
17th Sep 2022
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Number theory explained from first principles

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17th Sep 2022
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Create space-saving clones on macOS with Python The standard Mac filesystem, APFS, has a feature called space-saving clones. This allows you to...
3rd Aug 2025
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Create space-saving clones on macOS with Python

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Aug 2025
The standard Mac filesystem, APFS, has a feature called space-saving clones. This allows you to create multiple copies of a file without using additional disk space – the filesystem only stores a single copy of the data. Although cloned files share data, they’re independent – you...
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How to delete a tag on GitHub In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot...
16th Nov 2011
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How to delete a tag on GitHub

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

16th Nov 2011
In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot of folks will argue that you shouldn't delete tags, but there are real-world examples in which tags need to be deleted.  That said, it's both a good and a bad thing that GitHub...
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
13th Sep 2026
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.

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13th Sep 2026
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Kagi for Teams To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams...
5th Dec 2024
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Kagi for Teams

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

5th Dec 2024
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams ( https://kagi.com/teams ) - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide.
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Awesome Python Applications What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software. If you're reading...
20th Dec 2018
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Awesome Python Applications

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Dec 2018
What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software. If you're reading this (or hearing this), you read and write code, probably Python. And for all the code you've shipped, you've probably had your share of missed requirements. Somehere in the...
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Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
7th Oct 2021
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Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2021
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign function interface. New bindings in this...
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Hello world... 8 July 2019 Hello world! I've been blogging for what seems like a very very very long time. However,...
8th Jul 2019
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Hello world...

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

8th Jul 2019
8 July 2019 Hello world! I've been blogging for what seems like a very very very long time. However, all that blogging over the years has been focused on fashion, lifestyle and travel over on another URL and lately, I've been wanting to dig into more design and front-end focused...
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A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible? Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email,...
2nd Aug 2022
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A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible?

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

2nd Aug 2022
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious...
4th Jan 2025
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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks

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

4th Jan 2025
Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it
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The agent principal-agent problem The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code...
7th May 2026
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The agent principal-agent problem

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

7th May 2026
The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code review process, review-then-commit, was a straightforward mechanism that allowed a relatively low-trust group of engineers to collaborate. It appears to have been initially developed...
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December 2024
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December 2024

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

1st Dec 2024
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HMAC and MACs - The Inner Workings of JWTs HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A...
5th Aug 2020
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HMAC and MACs - The Inner Workings of JWTs

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

5th Aug 2020
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A Message Authentication Code (MAC) is a string of bits that depends on a secret key and is sent with a message to prove the message wasn’t tampered with. HMACs are a more strict...
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SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
13th Oct 2019
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SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Oct 2019
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
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Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder Last night I was out with a dear friend who has been an engineering manager for a year now, and by...
4th Jan 2019
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Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder

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

4th Jan 2019
Last night I was out with a dear friend who has been an engineering manager for a year now, and by two drinks in I was rattling off a long list things I always say to newer engineering managers. Then I remembered: I should write a post! It’s one of my goals this year to write […]
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Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS...
25th Aug 2017
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Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling

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

25th Aug 2017
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a page of text. One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
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Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library...
24th Mar 2022
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Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid

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

24th Mar 2022
How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library required!
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Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
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Proper UI Hierarchy

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

5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
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On Engineers and Influence (Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing...
17th Aug 2018
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On Engineers and Influence

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

17th Aug 2018
(Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing conversation, https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1029608573217587201) Let’s talk about influence. As an engineer, how do you get influence? What does influence look like, what is it rooted in, how do you wield it or lose it? How...
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The optics of pair programming If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with...
17th May 2022
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The optics of pair programming

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

17th May 2022
If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person to work on a problem. You’ll often hear it in development contexts, but I've also encountered it with design. In the Before Times, we paired by walking over to a...
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Square joy: tile crush
16th Dec 2024
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Square joy: tile crush

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

16th Dec 2024
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It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs An overview of some compelling alternatives.
18th Jan 2023
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It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs

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

18th Jan 2023
An overview of some compelling alternatives.
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a perfect blog editor What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
11th May 2020
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a perfect blog editor

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

11th May 2020
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us...
9th Jan 2023
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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

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

9th Jan 2023
ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
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Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. –...
22nd Apr 2023
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Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto

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

22nd Apr 2023
It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. – David Foster Wallace, This is Water At the heart of my management philosophy lies a simple belief: people are working as hard as they can. It’s a lazy assumption to assume people are...
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Undo send If you're like me, you notice a typo literally right as you press the Send Button.
16th Dec 2020
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Undo send

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

16th Dec 2020
If you're like me, you notice a typo literally right as you press the Send Button.
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My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
10th Jan 2018
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My first podcast appearance

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

10th Jan 2018
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
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LLM text makes human interactions less fun
12th Jan 2025
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LLM text makes human interactions less fun

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

12th Jan 2025
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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
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2024

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

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.
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How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
8th Jan 2019
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How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2019
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
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Squash and Stretch Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore...
13th Apr 2026
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Squash and Stretch

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

13th Apr 2026
Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the very first principle to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable. It’s one of those small things that has a big impact.
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Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
7th May 2012
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Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern

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

7th May 2012
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How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a...
1st Sep 2019
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How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2019
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a tutorial you'd read while sitting in public transportation or on your toilet seat. You might want to find a nice place to sit for an hour and follow the tutorial. We have 1 goal: set up...
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Early-stage engineering Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the confidence to break with best...
1st Oct 2023
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Early-stage engineering

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2023
Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the confidence to break with best practices.
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What I'm up to - January 2024 Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2024

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

1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
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Experimenting with a 7 day work week * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
10th Jun 2013
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Experimenting with a 7 day work week

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jun 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two weeks of last month, I religiously tried to follow a new routine I created for myself: a 7 day work week routine. The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7
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Ink Note Jan-Feb '26: How PlayBook Processes User Input The motivation and design of our input processing system
20th Feb 2026
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Ink Note Jan-Feb '26: How PlayBook Processes User Input

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

20th Feb 2026
The motivation and design of our input processing system
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It Can Happen to You
1st Mar 2021
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It Can Happen to You

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

1st Mar 2021
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2017 by the numbers These are some meaningless numbers. Books read: 34 (goal 50) White trash: the 400-year untold...
31st Dec 2017
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2017 by the numbers

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

31st Dec 2017
These are some meaningless numbers. Books read: 34 (goal 50) White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America by Nancy Isenberg Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Brave New World by Aldous...
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The best product analytics tools for startups, compared A tale as old as time: a founding team ships their MVP, installs Google Analytics , watches...
4th Mar 2026
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The best product analytics tools for startups, compared

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

4th Mar 2026
A tale as old as time: a founding team ships their MVP, installs Google Analytics , watches pageview numbers go up, and feels good about themselves…
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DuckDB vs ClickHouse: Why we use both at PostHog ClickHouse and DuckDB are two heavyweights in the OLAP category. This makes them appear as direct...
1st May 2026
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DuckDB vs ClickHouse: Why we use both at PostHog

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

1st May 2026
ClickHouse and DuckDB are two heavyweights in the OLAP category. This makes them appear as direct competitors. In a few respects they are, but they…
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows,...
1st Jun 2023
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation

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

1st Jun 2023
Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows, and how we might be able to make these more dynamic.
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What I want to do at Recurse Center Projects I want to work on at RC
24th Oct 2021
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What I want to do at Recurse Center

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Oct 2021
Projects I want to work on at RC
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Fundraising for SaaS Startups This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
1st Jul 2022
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Fundraising for SaaS Startups

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

1st Jul 2022
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.
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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...
13th Jan 2015
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The top reason we haven’t sold our startup

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2015
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
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Questionable Advice: “How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?” Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and...
5th Jun 2023
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Questionable Advice: “How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?”

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

5th Jun 2023
Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and high-performing teams. Honestly I did a terrible job, and I’m not being modest. I had just rolled off a delayed redeye flight; I realized partway through that I had the wrong slides loaded,...
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nsnotifyd-2.1 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
12th Jun 2024
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nsnotifyd-2.1 released

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

12th Jun 2024
I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes: more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line avoid...
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Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a...
25th Jun 2025
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Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2025
It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a result, Japan needs more international developers. However, most Japanese companies aren’t interested in hiring new graduates from overseas. While it’s easier than in some countries,...
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Incident SEV scales are a waste of time Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their...
29th Jan 2025
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Incident SEV scales are a waste of time

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

29th Jan 2025
Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their severity scale. “The first thing we do is we assign a severity to the incident,” they’ll say, “so the right people will get notified.” And this is sensible. In order to figure out...
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Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in...
7th Aug 2024
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Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)

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

7th Aug 2024
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
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Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
2nd Aug 2022
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Making a Website Under 1kB

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

2nd Aug 2022
Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
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Mommy bloggers react After a write-up in the New York Times, Mommy Bloggers had two options. Either lean in, or step...
22nd Sep 2026
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Mommy bloggers react

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

22nd Sep 2026
After a write-up in the New York Times, Mommy Bloggers had two options. Either lean in, or step back. Given how popular it became after that, it's not hard to guess which option they chose. The post Mommy bloggers react appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm I would like to thank Modern Health. It was not their intent, but using their service broke me out...
1st Feb 2023
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Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm

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

1st Feb 2023
I would like to thank Modern Health. It was not their intent, but using their service broke me out of a deep depression by launching me into an incandescent rage. I’ve read enough on destigmatizing mental health that I feel no shame in discussing this. In fact, in this regard I...
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How to build remote teams properly This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
26th Jun 2021
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How to build remote teams properly

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

26th Jun 2021
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Carrots, sticks, and making things worse This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well. Every...
3rd Oct 2024
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Carrots, sticks, and making things worse

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2024
This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well. Every organization has to contend with limits: scarcity of resources, people, attention, or funding, friction from scaling, inertia from previous code bases, or a quickly shifting...
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We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
5th May 2020
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We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th May 2020
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
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The gift of constraints One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do...
9th Sep 2024
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The gift of constraints

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

9th Sep 2024
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do the best possible work everywhere, but optimizing every piece takes time, and time is finite. I’ve done a poor job here countless times in my career. And I have seen many others...
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The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core...
17th Feb 2019
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The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer

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

17th Feb 2019
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core CPU speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We were...
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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
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The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared

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

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…
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First Letter Pseudo Element First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today’s TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
3rd May 2019
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First Letter Pseudo Element

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

3rd May 2019
First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today’s TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it’s still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset. The HTML Like most...
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Death by a thousand microservices The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
10th Sep 2023
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Death by a thousand microservices

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

10th Sep 2023
The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
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5 Ways of Debugging with IPython There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am...
23rd Dec 2019
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5 Ways of Debugging with IPython

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

23rd Dec 2019
There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am a puts debuggerer", that I enjoyed when I played with Ruby. The gist of it is to show you that, in many cases, you don't need a full-fledged debugger. Don't get me (or Tenderlove)...
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Focusing on Focus Styles
29th Mar 2018
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Focusing on Focus Styles

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

29th Mar 2018
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Overcast 4.1 now available Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually...
14th Mar 2018
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Overcast 4.1 now available

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

14th Mar 2018
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually two features: It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation. It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
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Optimizing memory use in markdown parser I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp. By which...
22nd Aug 2026
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Optimizing memory use in markdown parser

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

22nd Aug 2026
I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp. By which I mean: my friend Claude does the porting, I’m just directing. It uses markdown-rs (a CommonMark + GFM parser) markdown parser so I ported it too. Then I optimized it. This post...
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Saving $167,000 on Groceries
26th Feb 2018
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Saving $167,000 on Groceries

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

26th Feb 2018
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Trolley Problems as a Service Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it?  💔 Ethical problems are hard. ...
30th May 2020
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Trolley Problems as a Service

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

30th May 2020
Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it?  💔 Ethical problems are hard.  Even the ones that seem straightforward on the face of them get stickier the closer you look at them.  There are more stakeholders, more caveats, more cautionary tales, more...
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Twitter subscriptions I don’t need anything more than human support.
9th Feb 2021
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Twitter subscriptions

from beep.blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2021
I don’t need anything more than human support.
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Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at...
1st Apr 2021
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Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly

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

1st Apr 2021
Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at runtime.
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What I'm up to - February 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2026
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What I'm up to - February 2026

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

1st Feb 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Busy month at Chroma - including launching a case study with Mintlify who recently ...
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with...
19th May 2022
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard

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

19th May 2022
Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with newsletters and blogs as the ways I stay in touch. Not many people have blogs - so I built a bot to le...
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Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating...
6th Mar 2025
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Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners

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

6th Mar 2025
I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating a harm reduction mindset as an accessibility practitioner. They are adapted from The National Harm Reduction Coalition’s original eight principles. My adapted principles reflect...
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!!Con West 2019 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
24th Feb 2019
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!!Con West 2019 Notes

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

24th Feb 2019
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! At the beginning of last year’s !!Con, I wrote: This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m...
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Dolphin 🐬 Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and...
2nd Jul 2023
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Dolphin 🐬

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

2nd Jul 2023
Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and series of instruct-tuned language models based on Microsoft's Orca paper. The dataset is released here, with Apache-2.0 license. The dataset can be used for commercial or...
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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
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Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon

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

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...
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Announcing CalVer It's about time. Technologists expect things to get better with time. Your current laptop has more...
22nd Jun 2016
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Announcing CalVer

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2016
It's about time. Technologists expect things to get better with time. Your current laptop has more RAM than the last, your current car is safer than its predecessor, and the latest version of your code is certainly the best ever. What if the same be said of versioning...
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My Raspberry Pi Desktop My Raspberry Pi Desktop 2020-09-02 I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it’s...
2nd Sep 2020
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My Raspberry Pi Desktop

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

2nd Sep 2020
My Raspberry Pi Desktop 2020-09-02 I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it’s pretty great. I know these types of devices tend to be used for smaller pet-projects or fun experiments, but I thought I would share my experience using one as my main computer....
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Reflecting on 2025, preparing for 2026 As I do every year, it's that time to reflect on the year that's been, and talk about some of my...
5th Jan 2026
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Reflecting on 2025, preparing for 2026

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

5th Jan 2026
As I do every year, it's that time to reflect on the year that's been, and talk about some of my hopes and goals for the next year! I'll be honest, this one is harder to write than last year's. It was an emotionally intense year in a lot of ways. Here's to a good 2026! Reflecting...
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Letting Claude Teach Me Now that I use AI regularly to help write code and complete tasks, I find myself in a position where...
4th May 2026
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Letting Claude Teach Me

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

4th May 2026
Now that I use AI regularly to help write code and complete tasks, I find myself in a position where I’m not learning as much as I used to. That feels a bit crummy. Fairly often, Claude writes code I don’t fully understand. For example: I know enough TypeScript to be dangerous,...
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Writing Faster Python - Introduction 2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with...
18th Aug 2020
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Writing Faster Python - Introduction

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

18th Aug 2020
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with Intel CPU. In 2022, I switched to a new MacBook Pro with M1 CPU and decided to also switch to the latest Python 3.11 version as it offers some nice speed-up improvements. So all the...
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Mastodon support Mastodon support
1st Dec 2022
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Mastodon support

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

1st Dec 2022
Mastodon support
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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...
2nd Dec 2024
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Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps)

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

2nd Dec 2024
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...
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Offline spellcheck In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using Google as spellcheck. I am embarrassingly...
14th Aug 2017
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Offline spellcheck

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

14th Aug 2017
In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using Google as spellcheck. I am embarrassingly atrocious at spelling. In Vim, which I use for email via Mutt, I can use :set spell. In Emacs I can use flyspell-mode. Browsers all have spellcheck now, seemingly. Still… sometimes I...
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Implementing HATEOS with presenters
6th Jan 2012
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Implementing HATEOS with presenters

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

6th Jan 2012
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be...
13th Sep 2021
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

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

13th Sep 2021
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
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Adding page transitions in SvelteKit Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition...
1st Mar 2023
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Adding page transitions in SvelteKit

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

1st Mar 2023
Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition effects in SvelteKit sites and apps as easy as adding just a few lines of code.
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A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares...
8th Apr 2025
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A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2025
Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...
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My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a...
3rd Feb 2022
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My Cheapskate Commenting System

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

3rd Feb 2022
My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
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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
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Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem

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

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,...
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Higher-order reactive graph programming
10th Mar 2017
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Higher-order reactive graph programming

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

10th Mar 2017
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Vicuna A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models...
5th Apr 2023
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Vicuna

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

5th Apr 2023
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models like this, such as Alpaca and GPT4All. And I also fine-tuned my own. But Vicuna is a lot better. Here is a conversation I had with it. User: Write a limerick about language...
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But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
6th Mar 2008
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But we haven't even mastered Acid2!

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

6th Mar 2008
Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
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Recently Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun...
1st Sep 2023
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Recently

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

1st Sep 2023
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new, especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
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Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
11th Mar 2021
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Introducing PageRoast

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

11th Mar 2021
Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
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Profit is Not a Value Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company...
5th Aug 2015
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Profit is Not a Value

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

5th Aug 2015
Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company claims that they reward and value their employees exhibiting their brand values. But is that really accurate?
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The Overcast Redesign: Part One Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus...
25th Mar 2022
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The Overcast Redesign: Part One

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

25th Mar 2022
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one. For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused...
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Branchless Lomuto Partitioning A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a...
4th Dec 2023
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Branchless Lomuto Partitioning

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2023
A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a predicate) which indicates if an element should be in the first, or second partition. Then it returns two arrays, the two partitions: def partition(v, pred): first = [x for x in v...
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Enterprise Software with Python When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a...
22nd Mar 2016
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Enterprise Software with Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Mar 2016
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a lot of reactions. Some I expected: Surprise at Python in the enterprise space. Relief at more attestation of Python's use in the enterprise. And, as with all the best, a few...
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Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on...
21st Aug 2022
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Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it

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

21st Aug 2022
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We’ve dedicated the week of August 22nd to a brand new internal initiative called Build Week. We’ll all be putting aside our regular work for a single week to come...
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Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but really it is a multi-paradigm...
5th Oct 2022
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Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2022
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but really it is a multi-paradigm language, including object-oriented programming. My Scheme of choice for the past decade has been Guile. It comes with support for OOP via GOOPS: The Guile Object Oriented...
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists
22nd Jul 2023
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists

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

22nd Jul 2023
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What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website? Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...
27th Jun 2009
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What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website?

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

27th Jun 2009
Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
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Insulin dump My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type...
12th Oct 2021
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Insulin dump

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

12th Oct 2021
My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. The student is allowed to keep a small purse with her at all times, as it contains a smartphone that runs an app that talks to, and controls her insulin pump. The...
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Install JSDOM On Windows JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation...
6th Feb 2014
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Install JSDOM On Windows

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

6th Feb 2014
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation of the DOM that makes it super easy to work with pages retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, JSDOM relies on a node package called Contextify that is difficult to get working...
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It's time to become an ML engineer AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and...
11th Apr 2022
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It's time to become an ML engineer

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Apr 2022
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
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Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management. I did as well, but a...
4th Jun 2024
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Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different

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

4th Jun 2024
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management. I did as well, but a difference is that I started my career in 1981, long before the hordes of Scrums took root. 1981, you say, so you must have done Waterfall, so you are old and have
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2015-07-07 "I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types...
7th Jul 2015
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2015-07-07

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

7th Jul 2015
"I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types and when I came back, my hate was deeper and more nuanced."
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Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
17th Dec 2022
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Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI

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

17th Dec 2022
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
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What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
9th Jul 2024
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What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks

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

9th Jul 2024
Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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March updates There have been a bunch of great Buttondown updates.
4th Apr 2018
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March updates

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

4th Apr 2018
There have been a bunch of great Buttondown updates.
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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first...
30th May 2024
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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

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

30th May 2024
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
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Announcing the Hatnote Top 100 Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered...
14th Dec 2015
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Announcing the Hatnote Top 100

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Dec 2015
Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered around knowledge, always growing, and brimming with information. It's important to remember that the insight of our favorite community-run encyclopedia often follows the focus of its...
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Digital hygiene: Notifications Take back your attention.
6th Aug 2025
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Digital hygiene: Notifications

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

6th Aug 2025
Take back your attention.
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You are never taught how to build quality software Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn...
7th Dec 2023
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You are never taught how to build quality software

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2023
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn it?
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Flushing DNS cache on macOS Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP...
2nd Mar 2016
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Flushing DNS cache on macOS

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

2nd Mar 2016
Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; say cache flushed Notice that last part — that's why this is the best method. You get an audible "cache flushed" almost instantaneously, and the whole process becomes...
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finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control...
22nd Jul 2024
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finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jul 2024
Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See for more notes. Java’s / seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently with the mutator, by the...
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The Accidental DBA This morning there was yet another comment thread on hacker news about Yet Another outage involving...
2nd Oct 2016
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The Accidental DBA

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

2nd Oct 2016
This morning there was yet another comment thread on hacker news about Yet Another outage involving MongoDB and data loss, this time by some company called “CleverTap”. Recap To summarize: the CleverTap engineering team noticed that the WiredTiger storage engine was faster than...
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2014-05-06 "No space for poem" twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
6th May 2014
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2014-05-06

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

6th May 2014
"No space for poem" twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
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Springs and Bounces in Native CSS The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right...
28th Oct 2025
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Springs and Bounces in Native CSS

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

28th Oct 2025
The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips...
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Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
6th Nov 2021
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Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances

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

6th Nov 2021
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
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Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no...
6th Jul 2023
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Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2023
Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no signup or other throttling in place. Two approaches: but there will likely be only one winner.
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LinkedIn’s Broken Automation Took Down My Company’s Page Without Warning TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow...
2nd Sep 2024
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LinkedIn’s Broken Automation Took Down My Company’s Page Without Warning

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2024
TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow their careers in Japan. Given our focus, it’s not surprising that LinkedIn is the social network that delivers us the most traffic. Typically, about 4% of our total visitors arrive...
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Epistemic Disclosure Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
10th Nov 2021
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Epistemic Disclosure

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

10th Nov 2021
Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
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RWC 2016 Lightning Talk Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference...
7th Jan 2016
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RWC 2016 Lightning Talk

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2016
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference in Stanford, CA. This is a pseudotranscript of that lightning talk. I'm Mahmoud Hashemi and I work as a Lead Developer at PayPal. I mostly focus on Python frameworks and software...
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Enlightenmentware
20th May 2024
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Enlightenmentware

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

20th May 2024
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Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
24th Sep 2019
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Welcome, Prashanth!

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Sep 2019
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
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Binary search The page contains interactive plots to play with different strategies and distributions.
12th Feb 2020
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Binary search

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2020
The page contains interactive plots to play with different strategies and distributions.
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how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv...
13th Sep 2025
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how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv

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

13th Sep 2025
The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv compatible.
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October 2021
1st Oct 2021
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October 2021

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

1st Oct 2021
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Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a...
17th Oct 2024
1

Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2024
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a while. Whenever I wanted to launch something new or set up a waiting list, I couldn’t find a simple, flexible, and free tool to collect emails. Most options out there are either too...
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10 ways to speed up web image loading Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent...
19th Dec 2023
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10 ways to speed up web image loading

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Dec 2023
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
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Advent of Code 2024: Days 11–15
11th Jan 2025
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Advent of Code 2024: Days 11–15

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

11th Jan 2025
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Using the ':not()' pseudo-class to remove styles from ':last-child' I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links. I needed to add...
1st Dec 2024
1

Using the ':not()' pseudo-class to remove styles from ':last-child'

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

1st Dec 2024
I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links. I needed to add some padding between them, as one does, and was preparing to apply padding to the left of each icon so the final icon on the right remained aligned right. On smaller screens, when...
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Reflections on Founder Mode Paul Graham’s Founder Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason that...
2nd Sep 2024
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Reflections on Founder Mode

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

2nd Sep 2024
Paul Graham’s Founder Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason that "founder mode" will surely enter the lexicon (and as Graham grimly predicts: "as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it"). When...
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Erizo
6th Oct 2019
1

Erizo

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

6th Oct 2019
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How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in Japan At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard...
6th May 2014
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How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2014
At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard Chin](https://twitter.com/lchin) gave a presentation entitled "How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in a Foreign Land". Although the presentation is for a Japanese audience, it is based on his experience...
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Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 2
27th Jul 2016
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Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 2

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

27th Jul 2016
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Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
9th Sep 2019
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Plain Text Emails, Please

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

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