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Basta’s Notes
The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts A bit of a rant about Apple
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Wonderful vi The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic....
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3 months ago
The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic. Nothing highlights that perception more than the recent and relentless march of AI advancements. But for as much as some things in technology change, many other things stay the same....
Steve Klabnik
Random Ruby Tricks: Class.new
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
I could have been happy with Windows After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple....
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8 months ago
After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple. I've simply not been in the market for another computing platform in decades. Sure, I've dabbled a bit here and there, but never with true commitment. It wasn't until Cupertino...
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Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
ntietz.com blog
If it never breaks, you're doing it wrong When the power goes out, most people are understanding. Yet the most livid I've seen people is when...
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6 months ago
When the power goes out, most people are understanding. Yet the most livid I've seen people is when web apps or computers they use have a bug or go down. But most of the time, it's a really bad sign if this never happens1. I was talking to my dad about this recently. For most of...
Irrational...
Building your executive network. In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along...
a year ago
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a year ago
In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along well with your manager, your peers’ perspective will usually be closer to yours than your manager’s. Once you transition into an engineering executive role, you’ll still have peers,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: How to measure product-market fit Startups can't succeed without achieving product-market fit – it's one of the few things startup...
a year ago
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a year ago
Startups can't succeed without achieving product-market fit – it's one of the few things startup gurus agree on. It's often described as a feeling…
Oxide Computer...
RFD 1 Requests for Discussion One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet… …and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it! The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
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9 months ago
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
somenice
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
a year ago
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a year ago
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
Evan Jones -...
Network Latencies in the Data Center Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
Coding Horror
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
Maggie Appleton
Speculative Calendar Events
11 months ago
HTMHell
#12 accessible poll yes/no Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div> <div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup"> <div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title"> <input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
A Smart Bear
Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for...
8 months ago
Making software...
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser's URL - I've swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I'm a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I've been planning to do...
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
Liz Denys
L'Insurrection qui vient I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this. But there are few...
bt RSS Feed
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
The Changelog
KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a path of trying out some different options before finally landing at an unexpected place: KDE. I say “unexpected” because I find tiling window managers are just about a necessity....
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Don&#39;t trust JS library size, min+gzip Many modern front-end libraries and apps obsess over their bundle size. It’s a noble pursuit — an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many modern front-end libraries and apps obsess over their bundle size. It’s a noble pursuit — an app that uses smaller libraries has less bloat, loads faster, and the users are happier. We can agree to that. Measuring the impact of a library on the app’s bundle size sounds easy,...
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 3) A while ago I published this article about building an accessible and reusable modal/dialog...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A while ago I published this article about building an accessible and reusable modal/dialog component in React. The component achieves the following requirements: A reusable component API: we should be able to easily use our accessible modal anywhere and populate it with...
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m sorry Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
7 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook (Part 1) This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook. In this first part, we will use the scroll event to achieve that. Here’s a preview of what we will achieve by the end of the article:
The Changelog
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Not Sucking at TypeScript: 3 Tips I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting there with all those little "fuck-fuck-fucks" in my head, thinking of how I'd great it would be to burn the annotations, change the extensions to .js and get out of this nighmare...
Maggie Appleton
Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple...
a year ago
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a year ago
At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple Japan’s online store. Thanks to me not bothering to set up Find My, it’s now a worthless brick. To add insult to injury, I had paid ¥77,619 (500 USD) to have said brick returned to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
charity.wtf
Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager? The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
a year ago
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a year ago
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
A Beautiful Site
Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
Maggie Appleton
A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to get the first 10 paying customers for your devtool company (and other customer acquisition... Creating a product that people need and are willing to pay for is hard. At PostHog, it took us...
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
The secret to Rails OO design
over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently The weather is starting to get better. Listening Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands I am still...
a year ago
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a year ago
The weather is starting to get better. Listening Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands I am still really loving the constellation of bands around Mammal Hands. They just released a new album, “Gift from the Trees”, and it’s really excellent. RETURN by tAKX Their guitarist,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Hello, I am making a modern fullstack JS tutorial livestream. What questions do you have for me? ---
over a year ago
Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls! There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don’t style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
A Smart Bear
Why I feel like a fraud (Impostor Syndrome) Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
James Vaughan's blog
How To Make HTTP Requests In Elm
over a year ago
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2 In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system. Server...
Engineer’s Codex
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Animated Sparkles in React In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or images and watch them twinkle! This neat trick is a perfect way to emphasize positive or exciting things.
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2023 Recap It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and it was a [conference I helped organise](https://www.dddmelbourne.com). I didn’t know what to expect heading into Matsumoto for [RubyKaigi 2023](https://rubykaigi.org/2023/) this...
Josh Comeau's blog
Persisting React State in localStorage A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage, and re-initialize from that value on the next page-load. This quick tutorial shows you how we can build a custom hook that does exactly this!
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink 2024-07-24 A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink 2024-07-24 A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a standard pi-hole server with eero WiFi but since that time I have swapped out my “cell tower” internet for Starlink. The speed improvement has been incredible and there is no looking...
David Heinemeier...
The Musk Algorithm Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book....
a year ago
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a year ago
Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best business books, it's not merely an instruction manual, but an inspirational guide too. Not since reading Ricardo Semler's Maverick in the early 2000s have I...
Stephen Wolfram...
Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin KitThe New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram LanguagePrompts for Work & Play:...
Oxide Computer...
RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020 We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a car accident in Cairo on Friday night. Those of us who have known Khaled for years have known him to be a bold investor who appreciated hard technical problems – and also a profoundly...
James Vaughan's blog
Creating my own Field Desk
a year ago
HTMHell
An HTML structure for a tab component by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact you learnt about ARIA was the first rule “Don't use ARIA, use native HTML instead“ - and so did I. As someone who has been able to speak native HTML for many years, I always thought...
Liz Denys
Cancel Like Everything Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance: The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's: I've made an A4...
TokyoDev
Oh, that's not your job My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese startup](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan). The company had a stellar development team, and in a couple of months of working there I learned more about developing software than I did in my entire computer...
David Heinemeier...
Merchants of complexity It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't. This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That...
Making software...
Basic Gulp Build for Sass Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I've decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
Steve Klabnik
Closure
over a year ago
Making software...
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I've been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I'm announcing ThriftyName. What is...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Settlers of Catan in SQL One of the best New Year presents I've ever got was a copy of the German-style board game, The...
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over a year ago
One of the best New Year presents I've ever got was a copy of the German-style board game, The Settlers of Catan. This game has brought me and my friends many an hour of good entertainment. The game is played on a hexagon field with 19 hexagon tiles (3 + 4 + 5 + 4 […] The post...
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Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling...
a year ago
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a year ago
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun “hack” to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly. The only other minor issue I had...
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
Max Countryman
Publish Your Drafts When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating...
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a year ago
When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating at times to share unfinished work because it hasn't reached a level of polish that satisfies me. But the truth is, our unpublished work has no value to anyone.
Ink & Switch
Universal version control and rich text on Automerge In this dispatch we're sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
7 months ago
The Changelog
Remote Directory Tree Comparison, Optionally Asynchronous and Airgapped Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In the previous installment on store-and-forward backups, I mentioned how easy it is to do with ZFS, and some of the tools that can be used to do it without ZFS. A lot of those...
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
Maggie Appleton
Speaking the GraphQL Query Language
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the focus stage, light source, and methodology used to...
Nelson's Weblog
AI enhanced search LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research. I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
Engineer’s Codex
How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps The Burnout Playbook for software engineers
a year ago
Seldo.com
Databases: how they work, and a brief history
over a year ago
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Five It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter of weeks, RevenueCat will become the company where I have worked the longest in my career. As Jason Lemkin says, it’s important to continuously reinvent the company and oneself...
Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
a year ago
On Test Automation
The test automation quadrant, or a different way to look at your tests Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been...
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a week ago
Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been introduced to the concept of the test automation pyramid early on in my career. While this model has received its share of criticism in the testing community over the years, I still use...
A Beautiful Site
Smaller volume increments in macOS Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You already know you can increase and decrease your Mac's volume with the keyboard, but sometimes the intervals are a bit too much. I usually end up adjusting my external speakers just to...
Joel Gascoigne
How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s an exciting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s an exciting time for Buffer. Toby Osbourn [https://twitter.com/tosbourn] just joined and we’re now 16 people. Toby joined us as a Backend Hacker [http://jobs.bufferapp.com/backend-hacker],...
James Vaughan's blog
How I Take Notes With Vim, Markdown, and Pandoc
over a year ago
Darek Kay
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, which might lead to inconsistencies between different environments. In this post I will present the behavior of npm 7.15.1 and Yarn...
Ferd.ca
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents 2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
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2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
Epic Web Dev
The Epic Stack Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to production more efficiently.
Liz Denys
Intent! It's eldritch magic! or: house rules for warlocks who mean well As we all know, intent is an ancient eldritch power! Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks enter into pacts...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As we all know, intent is an ancient eldritch power! Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks enter into pacts with otherworldly patrons who grant them such ancient magics in the form of pact boons. From page 107 of the Player's Handbook (5e, 2014): At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron...
David Heinemeier...
Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
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9 months ago
I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:   1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 7 best free and open-source feature flag tools Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than...
a year ago
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a year ago
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than maintaining multiple feature branches in your…
A Smart Bear
Hello, I'm 1074018628 Is "customer service" a genuine service? Or is it a shield so that most people at your company never...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Is "customer service" a genuine service? Or is it a shield so that most people at your company never have to speak to one of those pesky customers?
Steve Klabnik
Rust-y Scraps: iterating with a step
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
2012: year in review
over a year ago
Oxide Computer...
Engineering a culture We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a...
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We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this particular issue was something of an Oxide object lesson, representative not...
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Friendcatchers Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
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How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a...
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Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a tutorial you'd read while sitting in public transportation or on your toilet seat. You might want to find a nice place to sit for an hour and follow the tutorial. We have 1 goal: set up...
David Gerrells
offer up is the tinder of marketplaces OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions,...
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OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions, and other "gameification" make it trashier than the perception most have of the venerable Craigslist.
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Uncensored Models I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
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Leave icebreakers to strangers, or how to spin friends and introduce people My favorite way to meet new people is through my existing set of friends. There are many benefits,...
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My favorite way to meet new people is through my existing set of friends. There are many benefits, the obvious one being that my friends tend to have great taste in people. But I'm also at least a little bit awkward. Despite consciously thinking about asking thoughtful versions...
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Dealing with complexity This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […] The post Dealing with complexity appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Codist
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How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down? Even more important is how many weeks and months of that max effort you can still be effective. In my life, there have only been three periods where I
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Swyx Faves: Software Engineering Daily > "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad...
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> "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad Masad](https://mobile.twitter.com/amasad/status/956603016513167360)
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The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
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The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you're wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
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When you don't have chocolate chips... But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate...
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But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate chip cookies? Turns out that while it's difficult to turn a large block into chip-sized chunks, it's a lot easier to turn it into shavings. Unfortunately, these shavings would get...
ntietz.com blog
Rust allows redeclaring local variables to great benefit A lot of programming languages allow variable shadowing in new scopes. Early on, you learn that it...
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A lot of programming languages allow variable shadowing in new scopes. Early on, you learn that it can cause errors and can be confusing, but is situationally appropriate sometimes. Something that's less commonly allowed is redeclaring variables to shadow them locally. And when...
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
Steve Klabnik
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Joel Gascoigne
Plan or build? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I met with Jesse...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I met with Jesse Nowlin [https://twitter.com/MrJNowlin] a few days ago, a great founder who’s really hustling. We spent some time discussing his idea and I shared some of my experiences with...
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What is HiFi I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless...
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I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless stream of speakers, amplifiers, turntables, and TVs passed through the household. And all of it had to be tested, of course. At max volume. Sometimes at odd hours. While that was...
A Smart Bear
"Authentic" is dead. And so is "is dead." It's lazy writing. It's boring and undifferentiated. Say something meaningful, specific, evocative,...
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It's lazy writing. It's boring and undifferentiated. Say something meaningful, specific, evocative, so your website wins, and you can be proud of it.
A Beautiful Site
Opening a new window after an async operation I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in...
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I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in a new window. However, I needed to fetch the target URL from the server first, then open the window. Kinda like this: const button =...
A Smart Bear
The unfortunate math behind consulting companies Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely...
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Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies.
Making software...
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
Vadim Kravcenko
Contracts you should never sign When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part...
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When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […] The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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#HeyForGood Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in...
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Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in Donations to Support Diversity in Tech!
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ET-Jekyll Theme ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which...
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ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which takes it’s style and inspiration from the wonderful book and handout designs of Edward Tufte. The differences are subtle when comparing my variation to Tufte CSS, but these...
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
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Compilers Copout Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of...
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Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of it but there's too much I want to do and I know I'm just going to do a shit job at everything by spreading my self thin and also putting an intense gun to my head.
Josh Comeau's blog
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar...
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If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing manual, covering all of the most...
Liz Denys
Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
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When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation. But all bets are off as soon as I...
MMapped blog
Enlightenmentware
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Coding Horror
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
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I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
Steve Klabnik
Rust's Golden Rule
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I’m keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
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Upgrade to Conform V1 and experience simplified form setup, enhanced error handling, and exciting new features.
Joel Gascoigne
What are you doing to feel uncomfortable? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I believe that...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I believe that when you’re building a startup, it is as much about developing yourself as it is about developing your startup. This week I’ve stepped up my gym routine and managed to go to the gym...
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My Journey from No CS Degree to AWS from Age 30 - 34 I was interviewed by Pete from No CS Degree on my journey, here are some extracts!
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The future of self-driving Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful...
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Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful enough for broader adoption. While I do believe that at some point in my lifetime I'll be able to hail an eTaxi, it'll really depend on where I am, the road infrastructure, and the...
elementary Blog
Happy Holidays! We Come Bringing Gifts! It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with...
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It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with updates just in time for the holidays! Terminal The headliner this month is Terminal which comes with a bunch of fixes and new features thanks to Jeremy. It now uses the more...
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Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
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Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
Alex Meub
My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out,...
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I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created. Finding Campsites My wife...
macwright.com
Don't use marked With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their...
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With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their obligation to maintain compatibility, I just have to put it out there: if you have a new JavaScript/TypeScript project and you need to parse or render Markdown, why are you using...
Liz Denys
Switching to Pelican Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances....
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Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances. To simplify my life, I decided to unify them into one content management system instead of keeping that somewhat unwieldly mess around. I had never really put a lot of thought into...
Code Of Honor
Debugging running server applications So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real...
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So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real users are playing the game server doesn’t work properly. Now what?!? I was reading an article by Mike Perham called Debugging with Thread Dumps and wanted to share a related...
Charles Chen
C# Discriminated Unions and .NET Channels For parallel processing of records, C# discriminated unions and .NET System.Threading.Channels make...
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Epic Web Dev
Quickly Determine Whether a Module is Bundled (tip) There's a faster alternative to using source-map-explorer to examine your client bundle for unwanted...
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Beginner interaction design with Principle Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and...
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Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and beyond with the animations and…
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...
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React Suspense Q&A a friendly cheat sheet for those wondering what React Suspense is and if they should care
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Processes don't create ownership, people do Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right...
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blag
Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go) In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and...
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In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and highly available log using S3
elementary Blog
elementary OS 8 Available Today We’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8 is available to download later today and shipping on...
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We’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8 is available to download later today and shipping on several high-quality computers! With OS 8, we’ve focused in on: Creating a new Secure Session that ensures applications respect your privacy and require your consent A brand new...
A Beautiful Site
A better way to write config files in PHP How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name...
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How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name = 'somedb'; $db_user = 'someuser'; $db_pass = 'somepass'; Then, of course, it gets included and the variables are referenced as globals: include('config.php'); echo $db_host; //...
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
Jibran’s Perspective
My knowledge management system This is a follow-up on my previous notes about Zettelkasten; Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip...
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This is a follow-up on my previous notes about Zettelkasten; Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box. Since then, I’ve had a chance to read and think more about the problems I listed out with trying to adapt a Zettelkasten style slip box for my knowledge management system. I’ve...
Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
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I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
Steve Klabnik
Living in the cloud
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A Smart Bear
Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and...
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Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Just” One Line From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a...
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From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just one line of code” is a pitch you hear all the time. It might also be the biggest...
Making software...
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling...
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Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun "hack" to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly. The only other minor issue I had...
Liz Denys
Better with Star Wars, baking is Isn't everything? Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather...
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Isn't everything? Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather insanely high quality cookie cutters: The set of four includes a Yoda face and helmets from each of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and a stormtrooper. I knew that if I ever got my hands on...
Epic Web Dev
Use Fetcher Keys for Registering Remix Fetchers (tip) Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve...
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Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve user experience and eliminate network delays.
A Smart Bear
Worse, but unique An objectively "worse" strategy can win, if it leverages something unique or unexpected. Startups...
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An objectively "worse" strategy can win, if it leverages something unique or unexpected. Startups can use this concept to beat incumbents.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
7 things you may not know about useState Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some...
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over a year ago
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some awesome features (and nasty pitfalls) useState offers. Since it's one of my favourite hooks, I decided to help spread a word. Don't expect any huge revelations, but here're the 7 facts...
Dan Slimmon
Ask questions first, shoot later The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that...
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The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that these two concurrent activities have different goals. The goal of fixing is to bring the system into line with your mental model of how it's supposed to function. The goal of...
The History of the...
Cool URLs Mean Something Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a...
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Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a virtual archive of pop […] The post Cool URLs Mean Something appeared first on The History of the Web.
samwho.dev
Fun With Rust's Traits Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees with this statement. It's...
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Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees with this statement. It's a great way to encode shared behaviour between data types, and create flexible APIs. It's also great for writing nonsense like this: use std::f64::consts::PI; use...
The Pragmatic...
How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA) The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What...
a year ago
Elad Blog
Things I Don't Know About AI The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
10 months ago
Steve Klabnik
DayZ
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Array 1.20.0 We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
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We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
bt RSS Feed
Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
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Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I’ve...
Blog - Bitfield...
Type parameters in Go Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll...
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9 months ago
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll find out why we need type parameters, how we write them, and how we can use them to create generic functions in Go.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Site Search in Arc Browser — For Your Own Site Arc just released site search built right into the browser. Want to search for something...
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Arc just released site search built right into the browser. Want to search for something specifically on Twitter? Pull up the search bar and start typing Twitter: Select the site search option and hit Tab. This puts you into what I’ll call “site search mode”: Once you enter...
Liz Denys
To the pretty pitter, pitter, patter I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically...
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I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically enjoy the process but don't walk in the rain because they dislike arriving at their destinations wet. However, unless I have something of a very pressing importance at the other end...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 2: Pairing is Awesome The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going...
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The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going too quickly. My batch is twelve weeks long, so I'm 17% through. Only ten weeks left! This is a precious time, so I'm trying to make the most of it, but also trying to not increase...
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
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Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol. Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Nelson's Weblog
Trump's plans for his second presidency The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a...
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The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a second presidency, mostly under the umbrella of Project 2025. There’s been a lot of good journalism about it. Some examples: Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside...
Kagi Blog
New features in the Orion Browser *Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing...
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a year ago
*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever.
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful...
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CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb...
Confessions of a...
CPython Memory Management Internals A high-level but detailed explanation of how CPython implements memory management
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bt RSS Feed
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
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Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
ntietz.com blog
Throw away your first draft of your code The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then...
a year ago
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a year ago
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all. Just throw it away. I'm serious. And you should probably have some of your best engineers doing this throwaway work. It's going to save you time in the long run. The...
The Codist
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Estimates In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the...
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a year ago
In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the 1980s when there was no estimating because no one had any idea how to do it to my last job where estimation was always demanded but never actually relevant. In
Basta’s Notes
No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Yet another floating point tutorial I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help...
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I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help someone understand floating point numbers better. To do fewer mistakes, to make things faster, to create better software in general.
Basta’s Notes
🌈 Pride 2023 #2: Horoscopes No June would be complete without Pride horoscopes
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Quentin Santos
Interactive Flamegraphs In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
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Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF...
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
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Bring Back Short Stories There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books"....
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There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books". Remarkably efficient things. Always-on display. Could survive dropping from a great height. Somewhat fragile but who cares when you could mass produce thousands of the things for...
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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...
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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.
ntietz.com blog
Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why? If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at...
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If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at some point you have to figure out if it does or not. This is where load testing comes in: if you want to see whether or not your application can handle scale, just generate scale...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense...
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That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense when I read it. But Paul Ford, writing in the Aboard Newsletter, helped it make even more sense in my brain. [AI tools] compress lots and lots of information—text, image, more—in...
A Beautiful Site
The difference between web designers and web developers If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
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If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
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The most important goal in designing software is understandability When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is...
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When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is understandability. Security, performance, and correctness are all important, but they come after understandability. Don't get me wrong, all of those are important. Software that isn't...
ntietz.com blog
Using search as a primary datastore since the docs said not to Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do...
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Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do it. So when I saw that the Typesense docs say not to use it as a primary datastore? Well well well, that's what we'll have to do. I spent a little bit of time figuring out what a...
Making software...
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about...
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It's a very good article overall, and I suggest...
Elad Blog
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment...
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About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
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How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
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Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
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The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
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The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
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My second year of blogging with Write.as <![CDATA[Two years ago these days I announced my blog Paolo Amoroso's Journal hosted at Write.as....
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<![CDATA[Two years ago these days I announced my blog Paolo Amoroso's Journal hosted at Write.as. Write.as is a paid instance of the lightweight, federated, open source blogging platform WriteFreely. Deciding on a blogging platform that meets my needs wasn't easy but going with...
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Live Session: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler Learn some CPython internals, ELF file format and loading, and how remote profilers work
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My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here&#x27;s why * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently received an email asking some advice about co-founders, specifically about whether a 50/50 ownership split makes sense for a startup. This is certainly a topic which has had heated...
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Passing data from PHP to JavaScript Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated...
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Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated trying to escape the output properly. Here's a way that always works—no escaping necessary. Let's say we have the following variable in PHP: $name = 'Bob Marley'; And we want to...
Kevin Chen
How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update) Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple...
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Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple added support for Suica to Apple Pay on iPhone 7 devices sold in Japan. In 2017, Apple added support to all iPhone 8/X and later, regardless of where they’re sold.1 Virtual Suica...
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Collapsing Layers As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another...
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As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another look at our full stack for continued gains in efficiency, reliability and security.
Vadim Kravcenko
How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is...
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When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is […] The post How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
Images display in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but...
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I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer. The weird thing is that it wasn't showing up as a broken link (no missing image icon with the infamous red 'X'). Instead, it wasn't showing up at...
A Beautiful Site
When To Create CSS Parts I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS...
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I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS Part? I've spent a lot of time building web components, most of which are intended for design systems, and my answer is pretty straight-forward. Every part you expose is an API that you're...
Code Of Honor
StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it...
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In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it from a follow-on to Warcraft — derisively called “Orcs in space” in 1996 — into the award-winning game that we were finally able to deliver after two more years of hardship. But one...
Computer Things
A list of ternary operators Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
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Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators. Almost all...
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僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
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The God Endpoints will continue until morale improves a brief meditation on why we keep trying to build God Endpoints and why we will fail until we figure...
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How to harness the awesome power of growth loops A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs...
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A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs repeatedly power the series to exponentially grow…
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Beware the leviathans I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for...
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I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for years now. Especially with those awful app store monopolies that have been choking out developers left, right, and center. But now that something finally looks to be happening, I'm...
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Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)
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Zero Disk Architecture State is pain. The next generation of infrastructure tools will be built on diskless paradigm. In...
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State is pain. The next generation of infrastructure tools will be built on diskless paradigm. In this short post I will explain what is Diskless / Zero Disk Architecture
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GIF, JPEG or PNG? Using images on the web This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on...
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This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on the Web, and how to use them effectively in your websites. JPEG # JPEG files are compressed images that maintain a balance of size versus quality. For example: More compression =...
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Lifestyle business FAQ I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger...
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I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger business. Lifestyle businesses are intriguing to people, they sound too good to be true but the reality is they are imminently doable. Since I get quite a lot of questions...
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A dive into the AMD driver workflow I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
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I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in...
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Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
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Array 1.0.11 Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Also...
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Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Also as you will see below we have added Celery…
Charles Chen
Google Firebase with dotnet6 Find out why Google Firebase is a great platform for application development with .NET 6
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Hold back on some of the sweet tooth: citrus almond poundcake When I had come across an article on "sneaking" citrus almond poundcake out of a food processor in...
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When I had come across an article on "sneaking" citrus almond poundcake out of a food processor in Mark Bittman's column, I realized that it had been too long since I had even eaten poundcake. Further, this one was flavored like oranges and marzipan - two of my favorite flavors -...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Search - New Features We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three...
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We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three months.
Alice GG
Learning Dutch online in 2023 Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning...
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Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning the language and reached an intermediate (B1-B2) level. While learning Dutch is not a hard requirement to live and work in the country, it does make day-to-day life a bit more...
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Every Public Engineering Career Ladder A list of the public engineering career ladders I've found
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The Changelog
Using dar for Data Archiving This is the third post in a series about data archiving to removable media (optical discs and hard...
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This is the third post in a series about data archiving to removable media (optical discs and hard drives). In the first, I explained the difference between backing up and archiving, established goals for the project, and said I’d evaluate git-annex and dar. The second post...
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Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for...
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Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for the first time, on a minimal budget. This is not…
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In-depth: PostHog vs Mixpanel Want to know how PostHog and Mixpanel are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these...
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Want to know how PostHog and Mixpanel are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two points: Mixpanel is a product analytics tool…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cool URIs Don’t Change — But Humans Do Here are two ideas at odds with each other: You should have human-friendly URIs Cool URIs don’t...
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Here are two ideas at odds with each other: You should have human-friendly URIs Cool URIs don’t change If a slug is going to be human-friendly, i.e. human-readable, then it's going to contain information that is subject to change because humans make errors. If “to err is human”...
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Slack is Fumbling Developers Reflecting on the sudden switch away from Slack for Developer communities
over a year ago
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Wonderful Rails World Vibes I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel...
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I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel somewhere to save money. It's expensive to outfit a cool venue with the gear and operations needed to pull off a great experience for speakers, sponsors, and attendees. And while the cost...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to polynomials and splines This is a brief introduction into polynomials. From how to make a polynomial run through your set of...
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This is a brief introduction into polynomials. From how to make a polynomial run through your set of points to how to make it into a spline.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My Hacktoberfest 2019 This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and...
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This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and really wanted to participate, but I had…
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Github Copilot suggesting links A potentially very useful but probably unintended and unpolished feature of GitHub Copilot is that...
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A potentially very useful but probably unintended and unpolished feature of GitHub Copilot is that it can suggest related links. That is, if you paste a link, then on a new line type https:// and wait for a second, Copilot often suggests a link or two. The results, at the moment,...
Nelson's Weblog
Class action employment suits Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to...
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Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to the plaintiffs, suing your employer is a difficult and stressful thing. But while the $118M headline looks big it works out to only $7600 per employee, less after the lawyers'...
Words and Buttons...
Honeycomb texture generator It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if...
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It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if you need more, there is some changeable code too. If you need more freedom, just get this thing on Github.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Domain Sins of My Youth I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the...
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I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the checkout screen, I realized it would cost me $105 to renew this domain for 5 years. Why 5 years? Right now my disposition is: if I plan on keeping a domain for as long as possible I...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2 Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
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Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
Vadim Kravcenko
 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob...
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Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob mentioned that I […] The post  🎭 Owning up to your mistakes appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 1.0 I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top...
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I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top for our situation. If they hadn't reached for those million-dollar contracts, we'd probably be stuck in enterprise vendor hell forever, buying over-priced consulting services for...
The Pragmatic...
Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The...
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I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The most popular are Cloudflare, Namecheap and Porkbun. Why do devs like them?
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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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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.
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A review of the blog in 2023 2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately. It was only in...
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2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately. It was only in December that I had meaningful time for writing. In the 2022 review I set a few targets for the blog in 2023: Targets for 2023 ❎ Publish at least 40 posts 14 ✅ Reach at least 150k...
macwright.com
Recently This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll...
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This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll write a standalone post again, soon enough. It’s been another busy year and I’m as aware as ever of the challenge of keeping all of my habits and outputs going. Some, like...
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Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
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Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the “golden age” in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
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...
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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...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I always wrap Context.Provider and useContext React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container...
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React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container / child component APIs (think <RadioGroup /> + <RadioButton />). Unfortunately, out of the box Context comes with a limiting and not very convenient API. In most cases, I choose...
bt RSS Feed
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos...
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Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos from iOS to iCloud they often render themselves into heif or heic formats. Both macOS and iOS have no problem working with these formats, but a lot of software programs will not even...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Mountains and Hills It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
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It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
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How to plan a killer company offsite in just 8 weeks As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its...
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As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its inception. Our team is 35+ people distributed across 1…
Paolo Amoroso's...
Samantha Cristoforetti's Logbook <![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space...
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<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space flight. On November 23, 2014 she was launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a mission to the International Space Station. I had the privilege of helping Samantha with a public...
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Behind the syntax: let and const variables Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more...
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Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more colloquially known as ES6 – was released…
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PostHog Launch Week I: A Universe of New Features PostHog made huge strides in 2021. To name just a few landmarks, we: Raised a $15 million Series B...
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PostHog made huge strides in 2021. To name just a few landmarks, we: Raised a $15 million Series B ahead of schedule Became one of YC's top-valued…
Tyler Cipriani: blog
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A brief and biased history. Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now – GitHub blog, Sat, 23 Feb 2008 When GitHub launched, it had no code review. Three years after launch, in 2011, GitHub user rtomayko became the first person to make a real code comment, which read, in full:...
Irrational...
My advice for how to use LLMs in your product. Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if...
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Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if their executives don’t see much applicability, their investors likely do, so they’re staring at the blank page nervously trying to come up with an idea. It’s straightforward to...
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Software estimates have never worked and never will Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and...
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Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and for just as long, they've consistently failed. Estimating even medium-sized projects is devilishly difficult, and estimating large projects is virtually impossible. Yet the...
ntietz.com blog
Email addresses are not primary user identities A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and...
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A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and which will never change. It can't be linked to someone else, and it can't change. This is, of course, not true. Email addresses do change. I changed my work email address recently...
A Beautiful Site
Styling Custom Elements Without Reflecting Attributes I've been struggling with the idea of reflecting attributes in custom elements and when it's...
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I've been struggling with the idea of reflecting attributes in custom elements and when it's appropriate. I think I've identified a gap in the platform, but I'm not sure exactly how we should fill it. I'll explain with an example. Let's say I want to make a simple badge component...
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Setting Up Jekyll on Windows Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as...
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Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as “optimized” as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my current...
Elad Blog
AI Safety: Technology vs Species Threats There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The...
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There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The conventional view is that AI is just yet another of many tool-based technological advances. Like all technologies, the main threat of AI in this scenario is if a human were to use it for...
Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2024 The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when...
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The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when utility power fails and automatically throws a switch to backup power. Thanks to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware; he has posted a nice write-up about his project using...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Quality Means The Flexibility to Change Here’s Ben Nadal quoting Dave Farley: I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in...
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Here’s Ben Nadal quoting Dave Farley: I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in code that makes any sense is our ability to change the code. If it's easy to change, it's high quality; if it's hard to change, it's not. Then Ben comments: I'm sure that some...
TokyoDev
Transferring from the Philippines to be a QA Engineer in Japan Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace...
a year ago
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a year ago
Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace Icay](https://www.tokyodev.com/authors/mary-grygjeanne-grace-icay) (Gray in the [TokyoDev Discord community](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV)) managed to do it. She originally worked...
Epic Web Dev
Professional Web Forms (workshop) The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that handle validation and file uploads while preventing spam.
Joel Gascoigne
10 lessons from my startup journey so far * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s almost...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s almost exactly a year since I started documenting my startup lessons learned through this blog, and since my first post last November, I’ve blogged 26 times. I’ve been lucky enough to have...
The History of the...
Where does SEO come from? In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It...
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6 months ago
In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It couldn't be owned. The post Where does SEO come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Nelson's Weblog
Toto C5 Washlet power usage I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses. About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is without the seat...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Takes Over Because of Human Hype, Not Machine Intelligence Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”: The idea that businesses are already waging...
a year ago
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a year ago
Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”: The idea that businesses are already waging an “AI arms race”…that one those very companies, Microsoft, can invest $11 billion into OpenAI while laying off the folks responsible for keeping AI, um, responsible…that real...
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large JSON value query performance Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
macwright.com
Running motivation hacks Things that have worked to get me back on a running regimen and might work for you: Try to run all...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Things that have worked to get me back on a running regimen and might work for you: Try to run all the streets in my neighborhood. I use CityStrides, there are many similar apps. Run the same exact route, every time, at any speed: focus on consistency-only. Repetition...
Acko.net
Stable Fiddusion Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ ...
a year ago
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a year ago
Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ {left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true}, {left: "$", right: "$", display: false}, ]}); }); Frequency-domain blue noise generator In computer graphics, stochastic...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Wäre July 2023 The Ware for July 2023 is a “KUP 10” by aditec. Also, thanks to FETguy, we now have a schematic of...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for July 2023 is a “KUP 10” by aditec. Also, thanks to FETguy, we now have a schematic of the ware: The spirit of Name that Ware is about demystifying electronics and encouraging people to learn by taking things apart. Drawing a schematic from an image of a circuit board...
Josh Comeau's blog
Boop! An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever created. We'll learn how to use React components and hooks to abstract behaviours, and see how to design the perfect API. Even if you're not into animations, I think you'll find it...
Josh Comeau's blog
The “const” Deception The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change....
a year ago
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a year ago
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between...
macwright.com
Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
a year ago
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a year ago
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
HTMHell
You Don't Need ARIA For That In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some nice side effects such as supporting browser "reader" modes, SEO, graceful degradation, and exporting. Implementing semantic HTML will also greatly reduce the need for ARIA...
bt RSS Feed
Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
Irrational...
What does it mean to be a cost center? When I shared my piece on Measuring an engineering organization, one point I made was that focusing...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I shared my piece on Measuring an engineering organization, one point I made was that focusing too heavily on optimization metrics (e.g. things like CI/CD time) can turn engineering into a cost center. That’s not because optimization metrics aren’t important, they’re...
Epic Web Dev
Use Zod for All Form Validation (tip) Learn how to use Zod and Conform to validate and transform form data into sessions
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
We need a Right To Compute The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you ought to have the right to...
Liz Denys
Early one morning The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
09 · Version history as chat This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
bt RSS Feed
WP Enqueue for Beginners WP Enqueue for Beginners 2020-05-05 Throughout my career designing, developing and auditing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
WP Enqueue for Beginners 2020-05-05 Throughout my career designing, developing and auditing WordPress themes, I’ve come across many that include their custom styles / scripts as static HTML elements inside their respective header and footer templates. This is perfectly fine, but...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Computer History Museum YouTube Channel I have been enjoying the CHM's YouTube Channel.
over a year ago
Seán Barry
What is TypeScript and why should I use it? A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
David Heinemeier...
Visions of the future Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of realizing that something is simply better, and the only reason it hasn't taken off yet is because the world hasn't realized it. It's amazing, and it's how I'm feeling about Linux...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Dev tool marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers. There are plenty of…
A Beautiful Site
Lessons from my 20s: a presentation by Ryan Allis Author and entrepreneur Ryan Allis shares 1,264 slides about life, entrepreneurship, and the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Author and entrepreneur Ryan Allis shares 1,264 slides about life, entrepreneurship, and the world. We all have goals, but sometimes they seem hard to reach. Really hard. Life happens and things get tough, but don't let it get you down. It's not impossible. It just means you'll...
Joel Gascoigne
5 realisations that helped me write regularly * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I was recently...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I was recently talking with Eytan Levit [http://twitter.com/eytanlevit], a really interesting founder who’s had a lot of amazing experiences. We were chatting about some of his current challenges,...
bt RSS Feed
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
Liz Denys
Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I would absolutely dread the 15 minutes every hour that I couldn't stay in the pool known as adult swim - until I headed over to the pool's snack shop and grabbed a...
TokyoDev
Calculating your growth ceiling When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers signing up every month, it feels like your revenue will keep growing forever. However, as customers will also cancel their subscriptions (churn), eventually your growth will...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Amazing Athletes of the 21st Century Read more about RSS Club. Content warning: wherein I talk about sports. If that’s not your...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Read more about RSS Club. Content warning: wherein I talk about sports. If that’s not your thing, feel free to skip this one. I’m not a rabid sports fan. I don’t have a team, though I do have teams I hate (or rather, like to hate on). But I do enjoy following sports. I’ve...
Alex Meub
The Yoto Mini is Perfect The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and put just the right set of features into a brilliantly designed package. I have no affiliation with Yoto, I’m just a happy customer with kids who love it. If you aren’t aware, Yoto...
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta2 release
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Yet another alternative to floating point numbers This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input error but keep computational error under control as well.
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
A Beautiful Site
Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote webpage. $c = curl_init(); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/"); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data =...
Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
Ink & Switch
08 · History and diffs with Automerge Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT...
9 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on ways to bootstrap a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * If you are a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * If you are a first time startup founder, or have done a few projects but are still working either full-time or freelancing part-time, you are likely to struggle to find investment for your startup...
The Changelog
Pipe Issue Likely a Kernel Bug Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a certain pipeline seems to have a deadlock. I described tracing it into kernel code. Indeed, it appears to be kernel bug 212295, which has had a patch for over a year that has never...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data. Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application. It uses modern,...
Making software...
Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn't bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Treats from git's contrib tools🍭 .title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
.title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README Git bundles handy tools along with its source repo. They live in a directory named contrib—short for contributed...