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Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
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AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Date and Time with a Static Site Generator Do you have a static site generator? If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts...
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Do you have a static site generator? If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts are published? For me, I record the publish date once: in the filename (e.g. 2023-05-16-my-slug.md). That YYYY-MM-DD string in the filename is the canonical location for my posts’...
macwright.com
Introducing the blogroll This website has a new section: blogroll.opml! A blogroll is a list of blogs - a lightweight way of...
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This website has a new section: blogroll.opml! A blogroll is a list of blogs - a lightweight way of people recommending other people’s writing on the indieweb. What it includes The blogs that I included are just sampled from my many RSS subscriptions that I keep in my Feedbin...
HTMHell
#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser...
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Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" aria-label="Browser Wars: The Last Engine"> <div> <img alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" src="thumbnail.jpg"> </div> </div> </a> Issues and...
Lennart Koopmann
Moving to Mastodon After the recent events of Elon Musk taking over, I and many others started using Mastodon and...
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After the recent events of Elon Musk taking over, I and many others started using Mastodon and reduced Twitter activity. I avoid calling this a "switch" because I do not plan to remove my account on Twitter.
David Heinemeier...
Challenging the guardians of the paradigm I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
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I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
Eric Bailey
Formative posts Blogs are good at communicating what you’re thinking about a specific topic, but not so great at the...
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Blogs are good at communicating what you’re thinking about a specific topic, but not so great at the larger framework of how someone came to be in the headspace that lead to the posts they share. Because of that, I’ve set up a formative posts page. This page is a list of blog...
Ralph Ammer
Show me! Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things.  But what does that mean?...
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Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things.  But what does that mean? Understanding Well, the world is complicated. And in order to make good decisions we need to know what is going on. Language can help us structure the world. So one way to understand things...
Liz Denys
Trashy Holidays from [the rats of] New York City! This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most...
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This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most iconic images: The back of the card explains why this problem is so commonplace on NYC's streets and says how we could fix it: Piles of trash blocking sidewalks and bike lanes are as...
Vadim Kravcenko
What does a CTO actually do? In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small...
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In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small […] The post What does a CTO actually do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
Generate random passwords in PHP Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
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Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
HTMHell
#7 multiple duplicate ids and table layout Bad code <table> <tr id="body"> <td id="body"> <table id="body"> <tr...
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Bad code <table> <tr id="body"> <td id="body"> <table id="body"> <tr id="body_row"> <td id="body_left">…</td> <td id="body_middle">…</td> <td id="body_right">…</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> ...
David Gerrells
why everyone hates levels Levelsio and I go way back, like 8 years back. I first met him on the twitter when I came across the...
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Levelsio and I go way back, like 8 years back. I first met him on the twitter when I came across the “indie hacker” scene.
Kagi Blog
Taking web search through the last mile (This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
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(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
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In-depth: PostHog vs Heap Want to know how PostHog and Heap are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two...
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Want to know how PostHog and Heap are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two points: Heap is a product analytics tool designed…
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023 The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
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The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
Julia Evans
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of...
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I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed. This hasn’t been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a few minutes while it restarts, and it only happens once a day at most, so I’ve...
Epic Web Dev
Why I Won’t Use JSDOM (article) Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest...
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Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest Browser Mode for direct browser testing and native APIs
Computer Things
Solving a math problem with planner programming The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either...
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The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange: Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
ByteofDev
My 2025 JavaScript Wishlist JavaScript has a lot of room for improvement. These five things are especially important.
6 months ago
Joel on Software
Strange and maddening rules There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get...
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There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work. Read more "Strange and maddening rules"
Ink & Switch
Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers. Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a...
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Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.28.0 Understand your conversion rates better, PostHog 1.28.0 has launched! Significantly revamped...
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Understand your conversion rates better, PostHog 1.28.0 has launched! Significantly revamped performance for slower queries, advanced engagement cohorts, SAML support, and many more improvements and fixes.
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2024 Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
6 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 1) ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to...
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ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to JavaScript. ReasonReact is Reason bindings for ReactJS (aka the translated ReasonML version of the ReactJS). It has improved a lot lately and even added support for hooks in a...
Liz Denys
Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The...
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Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The original signs announcing this ban only stated it in English. I'm in Streetsblog today with a piece about why reversing this arbitrary ban is a matter of equity: Over Memorial Day...
Elad Blog
Crypto Twitter With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter...
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With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter should be doing, that it has never done. There are lots of obvious features (edit tweets, longer form content, better user controls, better onboarding, better spam filtering,...
A Beautiful Site
DaFont: an excellent free font resource I came across an excellent website for free fonts online. No annoying pop-ups, minimal banner ads,...
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I came across an excellent website for free fonts online. No annoying pop-ups, minimal banner ads, and the best feature of all — custom previews for all their fonts. Check 'em out at dafont.com.
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta1 release
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Yale E360
Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
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Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
Ralph Ammer
René Descartes – How to be certain This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes. The post René...
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This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes. The post René Descartes – How to be certain appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Ryan Dahl Talks Deno on The Changelog Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more...
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Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more broadly. What follows are a few things that stood out to me. His Regrets From Node Are Now in Deno I think it’s interesting that Ryan’s famous talk 10 Things I Regret About Node.js...
Irrational...
What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs? Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering...
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Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large language models at work. Unsurprisingly, the intersection of those two ideas is a topic that I’ve been thinking about a...
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes Visualising the cultural narratives around cultured meat
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Multipage Version Zine, Issue 1 I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine. The zine is about HTML...
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I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine. The zine is about HTML elements, and is intended to be printed out as physical media. It was a ton of fun to make, and so refreshing to get back to print media design for a bit. Here are the two pages I...
Computer Things
TLA from first principles No Newsletter next week I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon! TLA from first principles I'm working on...
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No Newsletter next week I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon! TLA from first principles I'm working on v0.5 of Logic for Programmers. In the process of revising the "System Modeling" chapter, I stumbled on a great way to explain the temporal logic of actions that TLA+ is based on....
Joel Gascoigne
Start something small * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I was listening to Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and and I found it amazing how this book, which has now sold over 15 million copies, originally started: >...
Miguel Carranza
Technical debt isn't evil Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the...
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Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. There are multiple interpretations of what technical debt is, but I am going to focus on the financial debt metaphor. Like financial debt, technical debt is something...
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
5 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts Illustrated notes on the key concepts of how Gatsby.js works
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or...
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On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. – Google, Project Jigsaw Thu, 19 Aug 2021 @EmilyKager & @wardellbagby@androiddev.social I didn’t expect to learn...
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Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved...
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PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved feature flag persistence and much more!
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
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2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
Maggie Appleton
A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes Bringing visual explanations and embodied knowledge to programming tools
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
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I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere. It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire. My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
Dan Slimmon
Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
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It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
Making software...
Do You Have an Extra $10? Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
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Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it's a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it's a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it's an impulse buy while we're out shopping for...
Epic Web Dev
Debug React Router Applications with Custom Logs using react-router-devtools (tip) react-router-devtools enhances debugging by adding automatic logging for loaders & actions, plus...
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react-router-devtools enhances debugging by adding automatic logging for loaders & actions, plus direct links to code origins in console logs.
elementary Blog
GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for...
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I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for helping us reach 20% of our monthly funding goal! I’ve been seeing a ton of demand for Early Access which is super exciting. If you’re not already in Early Access, you can be among...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Pen-driven symbolic programming An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using...
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An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using formulas. We want a way of inputting formulas that is as “pen-driven” as possible.
Irrational...
Getting a job as an engineering executive. I started my first executive job search when I was 25. Eventually, I got an offer to lead...
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I started my first executive job search when I was 25. Eventually, I got an offer to lead engineering at a startup with four engineers, which I turned down to join Uber. It wasn’t until a decade later that I joined Calm and started my first executive role. If you start...
Marco.org
Low Power Mode on the Mac Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But...
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Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But sometimes you lose that lottery, as I did on my latest 8-hour daytime flight. Apple’s “Up to 10 hours” claim doesn’t apply to my work,1 which is usually a mix of Xcode, web browsing, and...
exist
Turing Machine Halting in Lean
over a year ago
MMapped blog
Book summary: Building a Second Brain
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Analytics without a cookie banner
a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Trade offs in designing versatile log format This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
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This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound. I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design: it should be simple and therefore easy to implement it should be human-readable it...
Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Keyboard (article) Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all...
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Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all users, including those using assistive technologies.
Steve Klabnik
A new introduction to Rust
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Snowmelt meetings “When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” -...
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“When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” - Andy Grove This quote comes from Andy Grove, Intel’s former CEO, and which I was reminded of in the most recent book I finished reading, Seeing Around Corners
HTMHell
#9 Cookie Consent from Hell Bad code <body> <header>…</header> <main>…</main> <footer>…</footer> <div...
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Bad code <body> <header>…</header> <main>…</main> <footer>…</footer> <div class="cookie_consent modal"> <p>We use cookies…</p> <div class="cookie_consent__close"> <i class="fa fa-times"></i> </div> <div class="cookie_consent__ok">OK</div> ...
Nelson's Weblog
Noom is exploitative I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT...
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I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT for upselling customers than CBT for weight loss. Now I’m hoping they’ll delete my sensitive medical data and refund the $3 they tricked me out of. (They did, quickly in...
TokyoDev
Winning a Coding Contest Got Me a Free Trip to Japan I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland...
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I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland for the last two years. Half a year ago I visited Japan where I really fell in love with the people, culture, and food; it felt like a different planet. After I returned to Poland,...
Steve Klabnik
Rust is more than safety
over a year ago
Contraption Co.
A mini data center Hosting web apps on a Mac Mini
5 months ago
bt RSS Feed
My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
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My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
Patrick Kayongo
The vastness of the ocean The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
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The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
Maggie Appleton
A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019 Illustrated notes on the new language changes in JavaScript ES2019
over a year ago
Miguel Carranza
The first five employees The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always...
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The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always aligned, and sometimes there is a notable lack of gratitude. But, for the most part, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Founders benefit from capital, and VCs need access to the best...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: CPython Memory Management Internals Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter...
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Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter (the VM), and the response from the attendees has been very encouraging. Next, I want to talk about how CPython implements memory management in its runtime. Most programming...
PostHog's RSS Feed
We just made PostHog Open Source 1000x more scalable via ClickHouse We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few...
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We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few weeks, our team have been hard at work moving over…
Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 Million ARR - June update
a year ago
Liz Denys
Black & white cookie jars, 2024 The classic New York City treat reimagined as a pill jar
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Complacency on the Front End We live in a world where front end developers are fatigued from the framework wars. Most have...
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We live in a world where front end developers are fatigued from the framework wars. Most have settled into a niche — especially the React crowd — and they’re happy to not have to think outside that box. They are, by far, the hardest crowd to sell web components to. I'm not...
A Beautiful Site
Parsing URLs in JavaScript There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John...
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There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John Long over on GitHub. This technique works great, but the resulting search property will be a raw query string. This isn't very useful if you need to access certain variables in said...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Consistent Navigation Across My Inconsistent Websites Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven...
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Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven development. I can convince myself that just about anything is a good idea at the time. But in retrospect my rationales are quite often specious. At one point in the past, I decided that I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Custom Elements, At Minimum, Only Need End With a Hyphen Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid...
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Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid custom element tag. The spec says you can have custom elements with emojis in them. For example: <emotion-😍></emotion-😍> But for some reason the Codepen where I tested this wasn’t...
bt RSS Feed
Dynamic Checkboxes Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
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Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you’re selecting a pricing plan during a site’s sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base...
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SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base started by me and written by mostly 2 people. The goals of SumatraPDF are to be: fast small packed with features and yet with thoughtfully minimal UI It’s not just a matter of...
Maggie Appleton
July 2022
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Data Modeling Deep Dive (workshop) The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas,...
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The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas, managing relationships, data mutations, and optimizations.
Neil Panchal
ZFS RAIDZ2 - Achieving 157 GB/s Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the...
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Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the --filename option. Actual bandwidth is approximately 22 GB/s, which is still mighty impressive. I built a new server that's also going to serve as a NAS. It
swyx's site RSS Feed
If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
Constructing a four-point egg For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The...
a year ago
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For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The Wikipedia article for Moss’s egg has a link to a tutorial on Euclidean Eggs by Freyja Hreinsdóttir which (amongst other things) describes how to construct the “four point egg”. I...
The Pragmatic...
Is the strategy of joining late-stage startups for the financial upside, a dead end? The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO...
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The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO company issuing generous equity, then wait for the IPO. This strategy seems to be less profitable in 2022.
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 11–15
6 months ago
Yale E360
You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not...
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Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not universal. They should be universal, though. Hackdays help you get great new ideas that are both impactful and feasible. They're probably the best thing you can do to improve your product and...
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Launching the Coding Career Handbook! I'm launching my career advice book today!
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How to better handle stress in a startup? Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on...
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Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on your journey. The […] The post How to better handle stress in a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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My typical day Hidde kindly nominated me to write one of the “typical day” posts that have been making the blogging...
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Hidde kindly nominated me to write one of the “typical day” posts that have been making the blogging rounds. I’ve been enjoying reading them, as they give a nice look into how other people are holding up in quarantine. I’m also all about demystifying things. Here’s my daily...
On Test Automation
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Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon, and since I’m deliberately slowing down this week and will be away from work for two weeks after that, this to me is a great time to look back on 2024 and what it has brought me...
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Buying a House in Portland After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically...
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After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically toured more than 70 houses, put in 13 offers and looked over hundreds of listings in nearly every neighborhood in the city. I thought it might be a good time to reflect on the...
blag
Recurse Center Day 19
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A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
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8 Q&A's for Bootcamp Students in 2020 I did a Q&A for Fullstack Academy Bootcamp Prep students - copying out my answers here!
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The Codist
Why I Use Swift To Make Generative Art Now that I am retired from programming for a living, I make generative art (not AI; see my post What...
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Now that I am retired from programming for a living, I make generative art (not AI; see my post What Is Generative Art?) every day. I belong to a discord community of generative artists, yet I stick out because I am the only person using Swift as my chosen language.
Maggie Appleton
March 2025
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Making software...
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for...
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Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it. Keeping Things...
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Software engineers hate code. This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
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over a year ago
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
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Building the future of game analytics - An interview with PureSkill.gg CTO, Evan Sosenko Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors...
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Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors and users. This time, we speak to Evan Sosenko, Co…
Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog feed update I've got a new feed for my linkblog. It's at https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/index.atom old feed...
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I've got a new feed for my linkblog. It's at https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/index.atom old feed at Pinboard will still work but isn't as fancy.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
So why write a blog? I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass...
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over a year ago
I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass when I’ve really needed to show off work…
A Smart Bear
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad...
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over a year ago
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
Words and Buttons...
The simplest possible smooth contouring algorithm The algorithm that takes a distance function and makes a smooth contour out of it in three steps.
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Google Tag Manager vs Google Analytics
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On Life and Lisp
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
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We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
Yale E360
Affirmations for bloggers Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of...
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Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated. It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you. But there are also some common issues that block people...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows,...
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Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows, and how we might be able to make these more dynamic.
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Glance through Docusaurus, Docz, and React-Static a survey of new documentation/static site generators
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samwho.dev
Memory Allocation .memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top:...
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.memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; } input[type=range]:focus { outline: none; } a[simulation] { cursor: pointer; } .size { color: #0072B2 !important; font-weight: bold; } .free { color: #009E73 !important; font-weight:...
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GDPR and fines: all there is to know
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Irrational...
Is engineering strategy useful? While I frequently hear engineers bemoan a missing strategy, they rarely complete the thought by...
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While I frequently hear engineers bemoan a missing strategy, they rarely complete the thought by articulating why the missing strategy matters. Instead, it serves as more of a truism: the economy used to be better, children used to respect their parents, and engineering...
Remains of the Day
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...
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over a year ago
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...
Eric Bailey
Little Library
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Proving that every program halts One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely...
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One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely thought[1] that you cannot write a program that will, for any arbitrary program as input, tell you correctly whether or not it will terminate. This is written from the framing of...
Steve Klabnik
Thoughts on Rust in 2019
over a year ago
The History of the...
The Analog Web On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The...
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On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
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The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. Software is a lot like life — probably because it models our lives — in that it’s constantly changing. The biggest threat to the economic value of code is...
Charles Chen
On Bakers, Ovens, and AI Startup Moats Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
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Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need
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A Beautiful Site
An Event Apart, Boston The plane took off from Orlando as I sat half asleep in my seat. With my laptop at my feet, I...
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The plane took off from Orlando as I sat half asleep in my seat. With my laptop at my feet, I wondered what kind of intriguing things I would learn at the web conference I had signed up for. I anticipated this day for months now and it was finally here. I was on my way to An...
TokyoDev
The Best Resources for Entrepreneurial Developers My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about...
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My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about business, I've always found other entrepreneurial developers are the best source, as they tend to have faced similar challenges to my own. If you're a developer starting your own...
Steve Klabnik
A blip in time
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Renegade Otter
Death by a thousand microservices The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
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a year ago
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Is Making Websites Hard, Or Do We Make It Hard? Or Is It Some of Both? Johan Halse has a post called “Care” where he talks about having to provide web tech support to his...
a year ago
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a year ago
Johan Halse has a post called “Care” where he talks about having to provide web tech support to his parents: My father called me in exasperation last night after trying and failing to book a plane ticket. I find myself having to go over to their house and do things like switch...
Charles Chen
Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical...
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Julia Evans
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section. A little while ago I started...
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over a year ago
Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section. A little while ago I started using a Mac, and one of my biggest frustrations with it is that often I need to run Linux-specific software. For example, the nginx playground I posted about the other day only...
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Forced to upgrade On finally having to upgrade my iPhone
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David Heinemeier...
Could Apple leave Europe? Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case, and Epic...
a year ago
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a year ago
Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case, and Epic Sweden's plans to introduce an alternative App Store in the EU have all been laced with a surprising level of spite and obstinacy. Even when Steve Jobs was pulling power moves...
Blog System/5
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
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A Beautiful Site
Creating stylesheets for handheld devices It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at...
over a year ago
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It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at least, trying to. Unfortunately, portable technologies still have a long way to go before they conquer the web with their tiny screens. The good news is that, with a little help from...
Alex MacCaw
The Manager's Handbook I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
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over a year ago
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version). If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Iterative Building and Decision Making Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This...
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Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This decision is much easier to make if you’ve been traveling that road for the last hour and you’re sitting there in your truck facing the reality of the decision. You can see the...
Ognjen Regoje •...
All conference talks should start with a small technical glitch that the speaker can easily solve At a conference a while back, I noticed a couple of speakers get such a confidence boost after...
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3 months ago
At a conference a while back, I noticed a couple of speakers get such a confidence boost after solving a small technical glitch. We should probably make that a part of every talk. Have the mic not connect automatically, or an almost-complete puzzle on the stage that the speaker...
Eric Bailey
I’ve had enough! When access friction becomes an access barrier
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Bridges 4 People Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation...
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over a year ago
Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn, North Brooklyn, and Manhattan activist committees. Bridges 4 People reimagines what the bridges that connect Brooklyn and Manhattan would look like if they...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers...
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2 months ago
Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs. It’s about the disillusionment of designers since the ~2010s. Having ridden that wave myself, there’s a lot of very relatable stuff in there...
Irrational...
Engineering strategy notes. Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy, and as part of that have started...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy, and as part of that have started re-reading previous resources on the topic, and looking for new things to read while I refine my point of view on what makes for good engineering strategy. The best introduction to my...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Ban std::string The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like...
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The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like heresy and you want to burn me at stake. But is it really controversial? Java, C#, Go, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP: they all have immutable strings that are basically 2 machine words:...
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The secrets of PostHog query performance We want PostHog to become the first choice for product analytics at any scale. To do that, users...
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We want PostHog to become the first choice for product analytics at any scale. To do that, users should have a smooth experience exploring their…
Ink & Switch
04 · Diff visualizations Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Hexadecimal Sucks Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are exceptions. – Dan...
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Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are exceptions. – Dan Kaminsky When SSH added ASCII art fingerprints (AKA, randomart), the author credited a talk by Dan Kaminsky. As a refresher, randomart looks like this: $ ssh-keygen -lv -f...
Liz Denys
ZRH Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
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Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather...
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over a year ago
This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather than the art and science of creating software itself.
charity.wtf
How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole) This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you go.🌈✨🥂 In this doc I mention Christine, my wonderful, brilliant cofounder and CEO,...
Alex Meub
Must-have Windows Apps Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net -...
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Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net - Fast, lightweight image editor Foobar2000 - Fast, lightweight, music player (supports FLAC) IrfanView - Awesome, lightweight, image viewer for all formats Media Player Classic -...
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How To Add Prettier and ESLint Automation to a React Codebase Automated code quality with GitHub Actions, Husky, Lint-staged, Prettier, and ESLint
over a year ago
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
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over a year ago
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2023 The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different era…but what does it do? Thanks to artemb for contributing this ware!
Eric Bailey
Let’s Talk About Speech CSS
over a year ago
Making software...
Sharing The Things We Use Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
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over a year ago
Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a "uses" page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
Seldo.com
Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Powering a blog with Notion and Netlify The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM...
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over a year ago
The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM ($5/month). Recently I’ve made 2 big changes: I converted it to a static site hosted on Netlify I used Notion for writing the posts instead of writing markdown files in a text editor Moving to...
A Smart Bear
Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
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over a year ago
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
alexwlchan
How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights &rarr; I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the...
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over a year ago
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the benefits of moving our data storage and processing to the cloud. Building out this infrastructure is a large part of what I’ve been working on for the last six (!) years. It’s been...
Alex Meub
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
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over a year ago
My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.14.0 Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of...
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over a year ago
Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of interviews with users and had a lot of discussions with…
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
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...
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over a year ago
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...
Tony Finch's blog
BIND zone transfer performance This year I have rewritten BIND’s DNS name compression and decompression code. I didn’t plan to, it...
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over a year ago
This year I have rewritten BIND’s DNS name compression and decompression code. I didn’t plan to, it just sort of happened! Anyway, last week my colleague Petr was doing some benchmarking, and he produced some numbers that seemed too good to be true, so I have re-done the...
Kevin Chen
Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed checkout clerk, you...
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over a year ago
Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed checkout clerk, you soon realize that half the patrons leave without actually checking out their books! This leaves everyone else scratching their heads when the catalog doesn’t match the shelves....
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into...
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over a year ago
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files: for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!
Coding Horror
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...
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over a year ago
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Scrollbar Shenanigans Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
over a year ago
Marco.org
The 2018 Mac Mini Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
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over a year ago
Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
HTMHell
#28 alert level 1 Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues...
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over a year ago
Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues and how to fix them The element is used for communicating status updates, not to structure the page. A div with a role of status or alert is more suitable than a h1. The heading is...
David Crawshaw
2014-05-06 "No space for poem" twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Fare-Wellcome Collection I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was...
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I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was living and working in the Cambridge at the time, and I’d come into London for the day to hang out with a friend who lived near King’s Cross. We wandered up the Euston Road, popped...
Greg Brockman
Stellar board I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their...
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over a year ago
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their board. Digital currencies are still nascent, and my hopes for them remain unchanged. Particularly, we need digital currency protocols like Stellar that work with the existing...
Elad Blog
Back to the office Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
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over a year ago
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
Eric Bailey
The lawnmower button As the press deadline approached closer and closer, the man became more and more exasperated....
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over a year ago
As the press deadline approached closer and closer, the man became more and more exasperated. Eventually, he wound up pacing in my cubicle, watching me frantically click on things. With the press running in less than an hour, he blurted out something that completely threw...
Maggie Appleton
Speculative Calendar Events Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems
a year ago
Grant Slatton
AI software I'm surprised doesn't exist yet Please make it
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The Pragmatic...
Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP This year, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all suffered comparable regional outages. How did they...
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This year, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all suffered comparable regional outages. How did they respond, and why do Azure’s processes stand out compared to its rivals?
Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics data collection
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HTMHell
There can be only one: Options for building “choose one” fields When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field...
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over a year ago
When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field types and too many. This is especially true when it comes to having users choose an option from a pre-defined list, also known as “choose one” fields. This article will take you on a...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Build system insights
over a year ago
Irrational...
Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty. Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts...
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Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts here. Although I covered some parts of this in Your first 90 days as CTO (understanding product analytics, shadowing customer support, talking to customers, and talking with your...
Maggie Appleton
Undetected AI Exam Answers A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A...
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A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study by Peter Scarfe, Kelly Watcham, Alasdair Clarke, Etienne Roesch
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
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SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
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SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
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How to build an Auto-Playing Slideshow with React In this article we'll build an auto-playing slideshow using React. The article is divided into two...
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In this article we'll build an auto-playing slideshow using React. The article is divided into two sections: The trick
TokyoDev
Mental Health in the Japanese Tech Industry Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a...
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Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a foreigner (such as Japan where standing out is not considered to be an exceptionally good thing) understandably takes a toll on someone’s mental health. At the same time, language...
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Benchmarking the impact of session recording on performance The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session...
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The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session recording – a screen-recording-like service that…
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Apple needs a new asshole in charge When things are going well, managers can fool themselves into thinking that people trying their best...
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When things are going well, managers can fool themselves into thinking that people trying their best is all that matters. Poor outcomes are just another opportunity for learning! But that delusion stops working when the wheels finally start coming off — like they have now for...
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Getting our focus back “We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
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“We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the nine unmonetized glances. An...
Maggie Appleton
Spatial Web Browsing Adding spatial affordances to the experience of browsing the web
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Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
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Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I’ve recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Neil Panchal
Favorite Perfumes A quick condensed list based on over 15 years of exploration in the world of perfumery. I didn't...
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A quick condensed list based on over 15 years of exploration in the world of perfumery. I didn't include obvious classics such as Polo Green and Aramis. If I were to pick 3 perfumes to wear for life, it would be: Hermes Bel Ami, Chanel Antaeus and Serge
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.toBeVisible() or .toBeInTheDocument()? (article) A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their...
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A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their differences, use cases, and best practices
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TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them About a month ago1, I was onboarding a friend into one of my side project codebases and she asked me...
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About a month ago1, I was onboarding a friend into one of my side project codebases and she asked me why I was using a particular type of UUID. I'd heard about this type while working on that project, and it's really neat. So instead of hogging that knowledge for just us, here it...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Small Web As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the...
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As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. ----------------------- What is Kagi Small Web? ----------------------- To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers...
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown...
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can’t help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won’t go...
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Increase open file limit on Ubuntu Linux What and why of open file limit If you run a webapp on a Linux server, your webapp needs...
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What and why of open file limit If you run a webapp on a Linux server, your webapp needs to open files and make network connections. Most Linux servers have horrible default for this and limit the number of opened files at the same time to e.g. 1024. To check the...
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4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js A quick book review of the new Mongoose.js book from Val Karpov
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The Ruthless Edit Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s...
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Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s say] We’ve recorded twenty-five songs. We think the album is going to have ten. Instead of picking our favorite ten, we limit it to: “What are the five or six we can’t live...
Cognitive...
Based-30b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and...
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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...
Computer Things
Know (of) the right tool for the job Last week's Picat essay did pretty well online! One of the common responses was "This looks really...
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Last week's Picat essay did pretty well online! One of the common responses was "This looks really interesting but I don't know where I'd use it." For Picat there was a gap of five years between me hearing about it and actually learning it. The same is true for most of the weird...
A Beautiful Site
Shoelace 2.0: a forward-thinking library of web components I've been having a lot of fun with Stencil and web components lately. Back in January, I decided to...
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I've been having a lot of fun with Stencil and web components lately. Back in January, I decided to use it to completely redesign Shoelace, an open source project I created a few years ago. I recently published Shoelace 2.0 — a collection of professionally-designed, accessible...
Miguel Carranza
The privilege of free education There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the...
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There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the closest school to their family home. A particular degree not being taught nearby, or not getting in (mostly due to the limited number of seats) are the main exceptions for traveling...
James Vaughan's blog
Thoughts on Qutebrowser
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Elad Blog
Clubhouse: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 1) This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
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This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
Neil Panchal
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS...
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If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.
Eric Bailey
Accessibility auditing and ego At its core, an accessibility audit is about determining if a disabled person can use a digital...
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At its core, an accessibility audit is about determining if a disabled person can use a digital experience. It takes a snapshot of a website, app, kiosk, or other digital experience and provides a summary of: What isn’t working, How numerous the problems are, How severe the...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 001: On Embark and Lude Some of you have expressed an interest in knowing more about what’s going on at the lab—wish...
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Some of you have expressed an interest in knowing more about what’s going on at the lab—wish granted! In this first dispatch, we want to share some of our recent work on Malleable Software with Embark, talk a bit about our Researchers-in-Residence program, and introduce you to...
A Beautiful Site
Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam...
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Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam bots post comments on someones blog, guestbook, or wiki for the sole purpose of boosting traffic and promoting better search engine rankings for their site. Like email spam, it can be...
Dan Quach Blog
Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing...
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Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater.  She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 4 In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I...
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In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I used to build the TNFS site. In this (much shorter) part, I’d like to take a step back from the hardcore geekery, and wrap up with my thoughts on the whole thing. Other Sites But...
The Codist
Puzzled Why Instagram Fails on Safari I wanted to look at Instagram to see if every art hashtag was still overwhelmed with terrible AI...
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I wanted to look at Instagram to see if every art hashtag was still overwhelmed with terrible AI art, but today on Safari, all I get for every page is: It works on every other browser I have. But why? In the console are two errors, found and placed there
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Dinner Conversation Read more about RSS Club. I love following the blogs of people in tech who have interesting,...
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Read more about RSS Club. I love following the blogs of people in tech who have interesting, insightful things to say about the industry and their craft. I also really enjoy when those same people post little insights into their personal lives. I love seeing the human side...
A Beautiful Site
Using the classList API jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff...
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jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff wasn't built into JavaScript. But wait — it is now! What your looking for didn't exist until IE10, but it's been in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera for some time now. It's...
MMapped blog
A swarm of replicated state machines
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Bouldering My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
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macwright.com
Recently November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most of New York before the snow...
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November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most of New York before the snow takes over. Reading I finally finished Barbarian Days. I think it took over a month to get through it - kept losing momentum by taking a few days off from reading during a trip. It...
Elad Blog
Leaving Delaware This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
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This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
Marco.org
Retreating to Safety Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
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Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community. I wrote this in response: Both Apple and Phil Schiller...
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Name that Ware, August 2023 The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me...
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The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me several wonderful photos, and the whole thing is actually pretty neat to look at. However, for better or for worse the parts in the ware are so unique that most of them resolve to an...
Eric Bailey
Global Accessibility Anger Day For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today,...
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For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today, ask: Does the announcement page support basic accessibility considerations (underlined links, captioned videos, valid markup, etc.)? Does the announcement include alternative descriptions...
Ink & Switch
Slow Software What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
over a year ago
the jsomers.net blog
DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word...
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For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word processor. After months of tinkering, a friend and I just finished building one. We call it the DocWriter. It’s a typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google...
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BHAGs Recently, [I asked tweeple](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1158902677289472001):
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ByteofDev
State of the Web: Static Site Generators Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about...
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Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
The Codist
Good Programmers Can Be Anyone, But Not Everyone In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no...
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In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no single type of person is good at programming. I've seen young people who could do amazing work and those without a clue. I've seen programmers
samwho.dev
Having a Baby During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
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During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn. This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
Acko.net
Headless React Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
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Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Live It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
Alice GG
Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words...
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When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words coming up in the output displayed to users. To solve this problem, I needed a way to detect and filter them out automatically. Do you really need an LLM for that? The problem of...
Steve Klabnik
Abstract vs concrete
over a year ago
Contraption Co.
Internal tools of Find AI Technical presentation at an AI meetup
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TokyoDev
Remote Worker Rights In Japan Are you working remotely for a Japanese company? What happens if your company suddenly issues a...
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Are you working remotely for a Japanese company? What happens if your company suddenly issues a return-to-office mandate? Will you have to move back to Tokyo? What if remote work is in your contract—do you have the right to refuse to return to the office? What standing do you...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and...
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I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and well. I'm not some crazy old fuck who thinks AngularJS is a promising new technology. Nor have I been waiting to publish this post for 3 years. It's just how things turned up for me....
A Beautiful Site
Converting a URL Object to a Plain Object in JavaScript I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's...
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I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's pretty handy for working with URLs! const url = new URL('https://example.com/'); console.log(url); // URL {origin: 'https://example.com', protocol: 'https:', username: '',...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Persisting State to localStorage in Recoil Across Browser Tabs I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some...
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I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs. That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multiple...
bt RSS Feed
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux 2023-04-13 Everyone seems to be running some...
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Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux 2023-04-13 Everyone seems to be running some version of VSCode as their main editor these days. But not me. I find VSCode to be too bloated for my needs - not to mention being built on top of electron instead of native code. I...
David Crawshaw
2015-01-11 while (1) { A0.set(); A0.reset(); } www.espruino.com/Performance
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The Pragmatic...
The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank The bank serving half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK collapsed more or less overnight....
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The bank serving half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK collapsed more or less overnight. How did it play out, and what are the next steps for startups?
orlp.net - Blog...
Extracting and Depositing Bits Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it. For example you just...
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Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it. For example you just performed a SWAR algorithm and wish to extract the least significant bit of each byte in the u64. This is simple enough, you simply perform a binary AND with a mask of the bits you wish...
macwright.com
Year in Review The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old...
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The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old writing is nostalgic and horrific. By the numbers, 2023 was pretty normal: I read around 20 books, ran around 400 miles. It’s funny how the statistics even out to the same numbers...
Don Melton
A metastasis in America America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange...
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America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange tumor in the White House next week will not be enough to affect a cure. The malignancy has spread. It didn’t even start with the presidency. We’ve been brewing and self-dosing a...
Blog System/5
The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Dreams come true > Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David...
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> Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David Thoreau [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau] I can distinctly remember that for the month of December in 2010, and for much of January 2011, I did a lot of dreaming.
Ognjen Regoje •...
Do forgettable work There was a great post about doing unforgettable work. Absolutely. Go above and beyond. Do what’s...
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There was a great post about doing unforgettable work. Absolutely. Go above and beyond. Do what’s right. But also, do forgettable work. Work that you won’t remember the following week. Do a lot of it. In fact, do at least 30 minutes of utterly forgettable work on something you’re...
Eric Bailey
Battery Status API: We need to talk
over a year ago
Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
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I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
Daniel Marino
Making Generative Art I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
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I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art. I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
Steve Klabnik
The language strangeness budget
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Making Software The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
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The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. More manpower !== more innovation. design innovation isn’t generally a question of team size but more about having the resources and freedom to experiment...
Julia Evans
Some Git poll results A new thing I’ve been trying while writing this Git zine is doing a bunch of polls on Mastodon to...
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A new thing I’ve been trying while writing this Git zine is doing a bunch of polls on Mastodon to learn about: which git commands/workflows people use (like “do you use merge or rebase more?” or “do you put your current git branch in your shell prompt?”) what kinds of problems...
Blog - Bitfield...
Master of my domain Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more...
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Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
Kevin Chen
Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few...
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I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few months, I’ve flown a drone as part of a stakeout to understand how they work. And I’ve taken a deep dive into an apparent Waymo outage to find the company charging its electric vehicles...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
The most useful programming language Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly...
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Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly work with JS — solid choice, but everyone and their dog learns JS these days, so it might be time to add some diversity. I'm curious — which single programming language covers the...
Liz Denys
Earl Grey infused white chocolate ganache latte syrup, inspired by Voltage Coffee I'm not frequently a fan of flavored lattes. I like an occasional pumpkin spice latte near...
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I'm not frequently a fan of flavored lattes. I like an occasional pumpkin spice latte near Halloween, an occasional vanilla latte if it's exceptionally well made, but I usually just stick with the simple unflavored latte. Furthermore, I'm definitely not a fan of mochas: I'd...
dthompson
Functional reactive user interfaces with propagators I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote...
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I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote a couple of blog posts back in 2014 describing my experiments. My initial source of inspiration was Elm, the Haskell-like language for the web that once had FRP as a core part of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Nuance of “Domain” I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links...
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I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye. What is a “Domain”? Let’s say you have a URL like this: https://example.com Put it in the URL constructor and...
The Changelog
The Hidden Drawbacks of P2P (And a Defense of Signal) Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some...
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Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some conversation followed, which led me to consider some of the problems with P2P protocols. P2P and Privacy Brave adopting IPFS has driven a lot of buzz lately. IPFS is essentially a...
Vadim Kravcenko
Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for...
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First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for Developers”, but then who […] The post Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Yale E360
A student asked how I keep us innovative. I don't. Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class. One of the students asked a question...
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Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class. One of the students asked a question that I loved. They asked something like, "As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?" There are two reasons I love this...
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
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Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
Julia Evans
Why is DNS still hard to learn? I write a lot about technologies that I found hard to learn about. A while back my friend Sumana...
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I write a lot about technologies that I found hard to learn about. A while back my friend Sumana asked me an interesting question – why are these things so hard to learn about? Why do they seem so mysterious? For example, take DNS. We’ve been using DNS since the 80s (for more...
bt RSS Feed
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
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Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS. The Demo Live CodePen Example The...
Ognjen Regoje •...
The managerial fear of the unknown There is nothing as inevitable as a re-org when a new VP joins. When a new executive joins they’re...
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There is nothing as inevitable as a re-org when a new VP joins. When a new executive joins they’re often overwhelmed by the amount of context they need to absorb to start being effective. The more seasoned ones aren’t pertrubed by this: they understand that gathering this context...
Chris Nicholas
Quick UI: Rotating text mask I came across an appealing text effect on the Adobe XD home page, and thought I'd recreate it here,...
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I came across an appealing text effect on the Adobe XD home page, and thought I'd recreate it here, and give it a quick colourful retouch.
Irrational...
Stuff I learned at Carta. Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years....
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a month ago
Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years. I’ve learned so much working there, and I wanted to end my chapter there by collecting my thoughts on what I learned. (I am heading somewhere, and will share news in a week or two...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still...
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4 months ago
Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still being simple and intuitive?
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2023 The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
a year ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Digital hygiene: Emails Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.
2 weeks ago
Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
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7 months ago
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
bt RSS Feed
Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don’t pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
On Life and Lisp
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
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over a year ago
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built!...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built! We’ll examine the tech stack and see how all of the pieces fit together, as well as dig into some of the details to see how they work.
Joel Gascoigne
5 things that seem essential that we launched Buffer without * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s a long time...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s a long time ago now, however I still remember it very well. When I first went about creating the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product] for Buffer,...
Nelson's Weblog
GAS I’ve been listening to the same music every night when I go to sleep 10+ years now. Weird...
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I’ve been listening to the same music every night when I go to sleep 10+ years now. Weird endorsement; I’ve listened to it with more attention plenty of times too. But it’s particularly good for going to sleep; calm, interesting, and comfortably familiar. That music is GAS,...
Joel Gascoigne
Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup, and why the reasons don&#x27;t matter Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this...
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Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as part of the values of the company [http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04]. Since we defined our value of...
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: An Optimistic Future (article) React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
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a year ago
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Humble Link I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is revealing itself: an acronym which merely drops letters. The Next Big Thing™ is clearly going to be “A”. 2010: Everyone needs an "API" 2020: Everyone needs "AI" 2030: Everyone needs...
Tony Finch's blog
I made a keyboard! Another keyboard! HHKbeeb A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup to...
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a year ago
Another keyboard! HHKbeeb A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup to the beeb’s 40th anniversary. I called it HHKBeeb: The HHKBeeb is made from: keycaps designed by me and printed by WASD Yiancar HS60 PCB generic HHKB aluminium / acrylic sandwich...
Yale E360
Paper review: The Gamma Database Project Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper...
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over a year ago
Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper for this group, this one was a lot more approachable in length: 19 pages. I'm putting up some of my notes here from reading the paper. If you read through to the end, there's...
davidyat.es
Image upload with render hooks
8 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have...
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On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
Alex Meub
Material Rewards for Motivation Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term...
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over a year ago
Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term goals. This isn’t a new idea but I’ve found it to be really helpful in keeping me on track and giving me that extra push to follow through on my goals. Set SMART Goals In order to...
A Beautiful Site
Moving to Node.js The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
TokyoDev
How to screen developers When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited resources to dedicate to the hiring process, so you want a process that minimizes the work for you and your team. On the other hand, you have a challenging time attracting talented...
The Pragmatic...
Inside Pollen's Software Engineering Salaries What was the compensation philosophy of the events tech startup, and how much were devs, EMs and PMs...
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
REST Endpoint + CRUD with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in 2 minutes A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD capability with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and AWS Amplify in 2 minutes.
Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification. Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then? One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
Contraption Co.
Behind the scenes of the Find AI API We recently released a Search API for Find AI, and announced its integration with Clay.com. APIs...
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8 months ago
We recently released a Search API for Find AI, and announced its integration with Clay.com. APIs allow developers to interact with a product using code. There are many different ways to build an API, and many tools to make it easier for customers to adopt. In this post, I&
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Minute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites I was reading Baldur’s article (which I took notes on) and he suggests an interesting overlap...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was reading Baldur’s article (which I took notes on) and he suggests an interesting overlap between AI enthusiasts and “idea people”: That algogen fans are predominantly idea people—the lot who think that 99% of the value delivered by any given form of media comes from the...
Making software...
CSS Value: `currentColor` CSS Value: currentColor 2019-04-13 There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of CSS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS Value: currentColor 2019-04-13 There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of CSS value types, but today we are going to focus on currentColor. So what is the currentColor value type anyway? The currentColor value type will apply the existing color value to other...
alexwlchan
Getting an Important Internet Checkmark to follow your cursor Are you an Important Brand? Do you have an Internet Presence? Do you worry about being Impersonated...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Are you an Important Brand? Do you have an Internet Presence? Do you worry about being Impersonated Or Parodied Online? Then I may have something for you. On your social media, you can bask in the warmth of an Important Internet Checkmark which tells your users that they’re...
Blog of Simple...
First challenge to the EU-US data transfer framework
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
beep.blog
.io considered harmful The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
Tony Finch's blog
Safe memory reclamation for BIND At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two...
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over a year ago
At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two different concurrency control mechanisms: A reader/writer lock This has poor read-side scalability, because every thread is hammering on the same shared location. But its write...
TokyoDev
Tokyo Rubyist Meetup ![Tokyo Rubyist...
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over a year ago
![Tokyo Rubyist Meetup](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBZzBsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--3303d10ebad28b15654bb8d6929ac263d91d1998/tokyo_rubyist_meetup.jpg) Last night's [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup] had...
A Smart Bear
Hiring Employee #1 If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down, and identify someone who is going to work well in your company?
bt RSS Feed
Billing for One CSS Change Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed back to the client. A simple button color change? Bill them. Additional links added to an existing menu? Send that invoice over. Some basic typeface changes? Don’t do it for...
Florian Bellmann |...
Time to market for personal projects How I created my blog in just 2 days.
a year ago
Yale E360
What's "good" code and does it matter? I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back...
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over a year ago
I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back and ask: what does that even mean? And does it matter? At a high level, "good code" is code that is suitable for its purpose and achieves its goals. That definition is pretty...
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions 2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
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a year ago
2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...