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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2025 We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson...
7th Dec 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2025

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

7th Dec 2025
We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson bookmarks, and major improvements to the Training Grounds are just a few of the highlights. Thanks for learning with us, we’re gearing up the platform for a ton of new courses in...
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Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a...
25th Jun 2025
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Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2025
It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a result, Japan needs more international developers. However, most Japanese companies aren’t interested in hiring new graduates from overseas. While it’s easier than in some countries,...
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Windows 98 Icons are Great In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons...
26th Feb 2015
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Windows 98 Icons are Great

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

26th Feb 2015
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing. Why are they so good? Rather than some designer’s flashy vision of the future, Windows 98 icons made the operating system feel like a place to get...
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Breaking Barbarian This week in a Svelte Radio recording, @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely...
7th Aug 2022
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Breaking Barbarian

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

7th Aug 2022
This week in a Svelte Radio recording, @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely swyx": an offhand observation that "we are all professional streamers now" ^1 . I responded that I've been calling this behavior "barbarianism" - you can listen to the full...
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Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that...
3rd Feb 2024
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Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise

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

3rd Feb 2024
Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that cost me […] The post Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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My first year since coming back to Linux <![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I...
6th Jul 2025
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My first year since coming back to Linux

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2025
<![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I migrated from ChromeOS and the Merkaat has been my daily driver on the desktop. A year later I have nothing major to report, which is the point. Despite the occasional unplanned...
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What I'm up to - July 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in...
1st Jul 2026
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What I'm up to - July 2026

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

1st Jul 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in June I left Chroma, and I start a new role in August. In this liminal time, I am spending a couple of weeks in Japan and practicing photography.
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Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed...
3rd Jul 2025
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Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts

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

3rd Jul 2025
I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed creating something that's purely a hobby, and working in other mediums inspires my ceramic studio practice in unexpected ways. I recently finished a very large, non-ceramic project:...
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Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my...
3rd Sep 2026
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Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2026
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my original plan, but somehow I ended up here. I came to fill in a high management role at an AI startup, and within a few years was appointed CTO, and then a member of the Board of...
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how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv...
13th Sep 2025
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how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv

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

13th Sep 2025
The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv compatible.
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What I've learned about data recently
21st Jun 2021
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What I've learned about data recently

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

21st Jun 2021
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Attention is all you have The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of...
21st Sep 2026
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Attention is all you have

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

21st Sep 2026
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks. After a little while, you’ll start recognizing familiar Tetromino shapes in clouds, buildings, and everyday objects. You...
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Route: annoying insurance upsell or online shopping data aggregator? I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart...
5th Oct 2021
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Route: annoying insurance upsell or online shopping data aggregator?

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

5th Oct 2021
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart when I purchase things online: I went partially through the checkout flow of a shop that uses Route with a $278 item I have no interest in purchasing to illustrate this...
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Structure literals vs. constructors in Rust
26th Jul 2016
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Structure literals vs. constructors in Rust

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

26th Jul 2016
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Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
10th Jul 2017
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Designers Need Thicker Skin

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

10th Jul 2017
Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
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Send teasers of premium emails Send teasers of premium emails
3rd Jun 2022
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Send teasers of premium emails

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

3rd Jun 2022
Send teasers of premium emails
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Thinking more about Netscape Time Netscape time's influence has gone far beyond Netscape itself, and tis a legacy that we still...
3rd Jun 2026
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Thinking more about Netscape Time

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

3rd Jun 2026
Netscape time's influence has gone far beyond Netscape itself, and tis a legacy that we still wrestle with on the web. We probably always will. The post Thinking more about Netscape Time appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Building the Open Task Light
31st Aug 2026
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Building the Open Task Light

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

31st Aug 2026
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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...
1st Nov 2023
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The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared

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

1st Nov 2023
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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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your...
21st Jul 2018
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone

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

21st Jul 2018
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your phone We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
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Beckett 01 · Version Control for Space and Structure Exploring version control for spatial and hierarchical data in Godot scenes.
10th Nov 2025
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Beckett 01 · Version Control for Space and Structure

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

10th Nov 2025
Exploring version control for spatial and hierarchical data in Godot scenes.
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Migrating Buttondown to mypy The journey of 37,000 lines of static types begins with a single annotation.
19th Jan 2022
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Migrating Buttondown to mypy

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

19th Jan 2022
The journey of 37,000 lines of static types begins with a single annotation.
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A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP) A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
4th Feb 2021
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A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP)

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

4th Feb 2021
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
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Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Branch Predictor
25th Jan 2023
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Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Branch Predictor

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

25th Jan 2023
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On pain, careers, and doing things the hard way. Part 1 Seven years ago I was working on backend infra for mobile apps at Parse, resenting MongoDB...
30th Apr 2019
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On pain, careers, and doing things the hard way.

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

30th Apr 2019
Part 1 Seven years ago I was working on backend infra for mobile apps at Parse, resenting MongoDB and its accursed single write lock per replica with all my dirty, blackened soul.  That’s when Miles Ward asked me to give a customer testimonial for MongoDB at AWS reinvent. It was...
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx? Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate...
12th Sep 2025
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx?

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2025
Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate to mlx
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March 2020 Update Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in...
22nd Mar 2020
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March 2020 Update

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

22nd Mar 2020
Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in which we are all united. Our thoughts go out to everyone working hard to help those in need. We wish you and your families health and resilience. Hard at work…​ and growing A lot...
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IC internals: the ICP ledger
19th Dec 2022
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IC internals: the ICP ledger

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

19th Dec 2022
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Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can't agree on Tailwind It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we...
26th Sep 2023
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Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can't agree on Tailwind

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

26th Sep 2023
It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we actually disagree on isn’t the details of this (or any) specific software; it's in what we value, and how we each define assets and liabilities.
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Old vs new case statement in Ruby
31st May 2024
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Old vs new case statement in Ruby

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st May 2024
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2014-06-13 articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
13th Jun 2014
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2014-06-13

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

13th Jun 2014
articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
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In search of lost teams As a technical leader, how do you spot when your team is lost in the weeds, and is there anything...
29th Sep 2020
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In search of lost teams

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Sep 2020
As a technical leader, how do you spot when your team is lost in the weeds, and is there anything you can do about it? Leadership expert Mike Thomas explains.
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Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
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Simple Accessibility

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

7th Sep 2018
Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
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Non-Empty Recursion in Elm
13th Jul 2016
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Non-Empty Recursion in Elm

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

13th Jul 2016
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Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home' I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
2nd Apr 2011
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Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home'

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

2nd Apr 2011
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
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gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
8th Mar 2010
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gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing

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

8th Mar 2010
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
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Recently What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
3rd Mar 2023
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Recently

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

3rd Mar 2023
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty busy! Things are good. Building products is fun but also a lot of work. Pretty excited about what I’m working on. Ready for winter to end. Reading I enjoyed reading Ross Barkan’s...
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Things nobody taught me about money When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
2nd Jun 2023
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Things nobody taught me about money

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

2nd Jun 2023
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
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Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps horror story It was Morgan's very first night on call, and they were a mite nervous, as you can imagine....
14th Oct 2021
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Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps horror story

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Oct 2021
It was Morgan's very first night on call, and they were a mite nervous, as you can imagine. Suddenly a harsh beeping jolted Morgan out of their reverie: "Service is CRITICAL". Morgan’s night of terror was about to begin.
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Super Bubbly: React Native kids game TLDR: I built a simple & fun game using React Native, try it out on iPhone and iPad! In the...
21st Sep 2025
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Super Bubbly: React Native kids game

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2025
TLDR: I built a simple & fun game using React Native, try it out on iPhone and iPad! In the Beginning…. My kids are 7 & 9 as I write this in 2025, but 6 years ago in 2019 they loved a simple little bubble popping app on my phone, and I thought it’d be fun to make the best...
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My eclipse photography plan .title {text-wrap:balance;} 2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I...
31st Mar 2024
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My eclipse photography plan

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

31st Mar 2024
.title {text-wrap:balance;} 2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I opted to skip the crowds and the drive and settle for a 94% solar eclipse. I fully regret that decision. Weather permitting, I’ll be photographing the full solar eclipse from the path...
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Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show...
22nd Jun 2026
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Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show

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

22nd Jun 2026
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow, but we quickly landed on Off By One with
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Podcasts I like A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
14th Jul 2016
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Podcasts I like

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

14th Jul 2016
A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
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What I'm up to - September 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing,...
1st Sep 2022
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What I'm up to - September 2022

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

1st Sep 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing, Walden-esque week in Mexico City, spent mostly in Parque México. I spent a lot of time reading - includi...
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Money, power and credibility I don’t really do “women stuff” (awkward umbrella term for gender-segregated events and spaces).  I...
2nd Mar 2018
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Money, power and credibility

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

2nd Mar 2018
I don’t really do “women stuff” (awkward umbrella term for gender-segregated events and spaces).  I don’t really identify with any gender and I find a lot of the advice to be condescending and overly delicate, and it’s just a really boring thing to think and talk about. For me....
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On Engineers and Influence (Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing...
17th Aug 2018
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On Engineers and Influence

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

17th Aug 2018
(Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing conversation, https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1029608573217587201) Let’s talk about influence. As an engineer, how do you get influence? What does influence look like, what is it rooted in, how do you wield it or lose it? How...
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Why I crave mistakes I’ve mentioned many [https://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas]...
3rd Jun 2012
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Why I crave mistakes

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

3rd Jun 2012
I’ve mentioned many [https://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas] times [https://joel.is/post/23348997538/what-online-gaming-taught-me-about-startups] before [https://joel.is/post/12790799237/achieving-scale-by-doing-things-that-dont-scale] on this blog that I...
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A Look at Portland Car2Go Data Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
21st Apr 2014
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A Look at Portland Car2Go Data

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

21st Apr 2014
Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
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Bringing Your Pets to Japan This is the post in forums that always makes me wince: “I’ve just been hired and am moving to Japan!...
11th Jul 2024
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Bringing Your Pets to Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jul 2024
This is the post in forums that always makes me wince: “I’ve just been hired and am moving to Japan! Can I bring my dog with me?” The reason it causes me pain is that I know the poster is already too late. If they wanted to relocate to Japan with their dog, they needed to start...
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
3rd Jan 2024
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023

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

3rd Jan 2024
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
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Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
3rd Dec 2023
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Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel

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

3rd Dec 2023
A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
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Hacking window titles to help OBS This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a tiny project I wrote...
6th Jun 2023
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Hacking window titles to help OBS

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2023
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a tiny project I wrote the other day, WTH, or WindowTitleHack, which is meant to force a constant window name for apps that keep changing it (I'm looking specifically at Firefox and Krita, but there are...
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
7th May 2022
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In

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

7th May 2022
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
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Account History Finding moments from before
17th Mar 2026
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Account History

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17th Mar 2026
Finding moments from before
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Third Stage Engineering The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software,...
16th Nov 2025
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Third Stage Engineering

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

16th Nov 2025
The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software, and tuning; the investment and sequence of these efforts can be pictured as a three-stage rocket: I recently presented this embarrassingly simple diagram to Intel's executive...
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Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was...
10th Jan 2024
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Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare

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

10th Jan 2024
Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was supposed to be the ideal first application of autonomous driving. Freeways contain predictable, highly structured driving scenarios. An autonomous truck would not have to deal with the...
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
2nd Nov 2023
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME

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

2nd Nov 2023
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
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Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
30th Dec 2023
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Care about how the work is done

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

30th Dec 2023
High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
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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...
19th Sep 2023
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How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA)

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

19th Sep 2023
The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What happened and why?
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The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
1st Jun 2019
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The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

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

1st Jun 2019
Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
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Typing instance variables in mixins
14th Apr 2025
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Typing instance variables in mixins

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2025
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Networking Essentials: Architecture and Principles Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
4th Sep 2018
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Networking Essentials: Architecture and Principles

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4th Sep 2018
Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
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Catbird: An experimental game engine for Scheme programmers I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now, and the next one is starting...
25th Oct 2022
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Catbird: An experimental game engine for Scheme programmers

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Oct 2022
I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now, and the next one is starting on 10/28, and with each attempt I've been accumulating code that forms something resembling a game engine. I'm now attempting to solidify some of the concepts I've been exploring in...
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Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
14th Jan 2019
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Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show

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

14th Jan 2019
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions. I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
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CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
7th Jun 2021
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CSS Slope Graphs

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

7th Jun 2021
CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let's change that, shall we? The Demo I'm basing...
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Designing a fast I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a thirsty couch. My eyes find the...
16th Jul 2015
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Designing a fast

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2015
I wake up with a jolt, spilling most of my breakfast cereal onto a thirsty couch. My eyes find the clock. Cleaning will have to wait. I'm downing water like there's no tomorrow, but really tomorrow starts in one minute. Still drinking. All work is thirsty work if the day is long...
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A return to company core mission & values If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of...
31st Jan 2024
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A return to company core mission & values

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

31st Jan 2024
If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
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Securing modern applications in the cloud Kubernetes security is in the news at the moment, not necessarily in a good way. We thought it...
8th Dec 2018
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Securing modern applications in the cloud

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2018
Kubernetes security is in the news at the moment, not necessarily in a good way. We thought it might be an appropriate time to share an interesting conversation we had recently with our friends Todd and Hannah at Threat Stack about Kubernetes, container security, and much...
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No hassle detected! The importance of tools
9th Aug 2024
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No hassle detected!

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

9th Aug 2024
The importance of tools
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How To Name Things > There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
16th May 2019
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How To Name Things

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

16th May 2019
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
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Craigslist Alerts with Python I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously...
9th Jul 2017
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Craigslist Alerts with Python

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

9th Jul 2017
I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive. I wanted a simple way to be alerted immediately when an item I was looking for was posted. Craigslist Search Alerts I tried using Craigslist’s built in Search Alert...
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
18th Mar 2020
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)

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

18th Mar 2020
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
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Privacy Monthly April 2024
8th Apr 2024
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Privacy Monthly April 2024

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2024
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June 12, 2009 Bulk grain banner So we’re getting a bulk grain order together - like a pallet of bulk grain. I’m...
12th Jun 2009
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June 12, 2009

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

12th Jun 2009
Bulk grain banner So we’re getting a bulk grain order together - like a pallet of bulk grain. I’m pumped. Also I designed a pretty killer banner for the webpage with the order info. It’s good to be da king. Word. I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet...
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Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those...
19th Nov 2023
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Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Nov 2023
You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...
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Type Safety (workshop) TypeScript's type system: learn type aliases, unions, generics, intersections, and more to catch...
18th Feb 2026
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Type Safety (workshop)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Feb 2026
TypeScript's type system: learn type aliases, unions, generics, intersections, and more to catch bugs at compile time instead of in production.
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
2nd Dec 2024
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

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

2nd Dec 2024
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love....
24th Apr 2020
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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket

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

24th Apr 2020
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love. The marled combinations of oranges, pinks, blues, and purples were calling to me, so I ordered a kit right away. Other knitters commented that while they loved the pattern, the...
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Get in losers, we're moving to Linux! I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something...
3rd Jul 2025
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Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2025
I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something has really changed in the last few years. Maybe Linux just got better? Maybe powerful mini PCs made it easier? Maybe Apple just fumbled their relationship with developers one too...
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Networking Essentials: Switching Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
4th Sep 2018
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Networking Essentials: Switching

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

4th Sep 2018
Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
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Introducing issue2pr
29th Jun 2012
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Introducing issue2pr

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

29th Jun 2012
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Home Office Kit: Elgato Wave 3 Microphone My desk setup in the UK is slowly coming together & Jhey picked out a microphone for me. I had a...
2nd Feb 2024
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Home Office Kit: Elgato Wave 3 Microphone

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

2nd Feb 2024
My desk setup in the UK is slowly coming together & Jhey picked out a microphone for me. I had a Blue Yeti microphone in the US...and I still do it's just in storage. It had issues with staying connected through a dongle after my work MacBook was upgraded and I didn't have the...
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Warming up the Puma master before it forks Basecamp 5 runs on Puma in cluster mode: one master process with preload_app! and 63 single-threaded...
3 weeks ago
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Warming up the Puma master before it forks

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

3 weeks ago
Basecamp 5 runs on Puma in cluster mode: one master process with preload_app! and 63 single-threaded workers per host, deployed as a Docker container with Kamal. We serve Basecamp from several sites. Each site has its own web hosts and a read replica of the database, and writes...
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An Interactive Guide to Flexbox When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible...
22nd Nov 2022
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An Interactive Guide to Flexbox

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

22nd Nov 2022
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do...
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Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
27th Feb 2019
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Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful

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

27th Feb 2019
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
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Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
17th Dec 2022
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Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI

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

17th Dec 2022
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
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Designing a version In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak...
23rd Feb 2016
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Designing a version

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2016
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak version management neglects clients like lack of source control neglects collaborators. Dependency management and migration rely on versions. Beyond the technical, a project's...
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Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by...
20th Mar 2023
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Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning

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

20th Mar 2023
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need" I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
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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...
9th Dec 2023
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Generative Art on a Round TFT Display

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Dec 2023
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...
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Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
16th May 2023
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Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast

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

16th May 2023
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of C++ code implementing a binary search: template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp> It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
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two weeks is all you need two-weeks I built a website (twoweeksisallyouneed dot com) with just Claude 3.5 Sonnet, zero lines...
21st Nov 2024
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two weeks is all you need

from seated.ro [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Nov 2024
two-weeks I built a website (twoweeksisallyouneed dot com) with just Claude 3.5 Sonnet, zero lines of code written by me. Why I did this So a couple weeks back I had a computer vision midterm and i was allowed a single page of notes. I decided to use Claude to generate a cheat...
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Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages
19th Jan 2024
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Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages

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

19th Jan 2024
Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages
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You are missing 20% of your website data with GA4
3rd Feb 2025
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You are missing 20% of your website data with GA4

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2025
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Developer relations Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial...
3rd Jun 2021
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Developer relations

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

3rd Jun 2021
Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple. That any portion of our customers came to our apps from our own marketing or reputation, rather than the App...
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Growth
8th Mar 2008
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Growth

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

8th Mar 2008
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When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
25th Aug 2024
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When to write strategy, and how much?

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Aug 2024
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
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The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
1st Nov 2017
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The Death of Personality

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

1st Nov 2017
The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it's fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple's iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
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Unshackling Artificial Minds Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product...
23rd Nov 2023
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Unshackling Artificial Minds

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

23rd Nov 2023
Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product of Entropy, the law of nature that dictates it is easier to destroy than to create. And here we are, on the cusp of creating not just something new, but
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International Developer in Japan Salary Survey 2014 *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* One of the...
13th Feb 2014
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International Developer in Japan Salary Survey 2014

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2014
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* One of the questions I've been asked several times by readers of this blog are [what are salaries of developers in Japan](/articles/software-developer-salaries-in-japan). There is a fair...
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How to argue for something without any scientific evidence Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
6th Mar 2024
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How to argue for something without any scientific evidence

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2024
Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
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Aging Code In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
5th Sep 2023
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Aging Code

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

5th Sep 2023
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […] The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous...
3rd Mar 2024
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AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different

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

3rd Mar 2024
The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
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Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved...
1st Aug 2022
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Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis

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

1st Aug 2022
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved feature flag persistence and much more!
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Stay Hungry Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
12th Feb 2018
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Stay Hungry

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

12th Feb 2018
Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
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Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
19th Feb 2021
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Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

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

19th Feb 2021
Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
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A Distributed Systems Reading List 2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick...
8th Feb 2024
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A Distributed Systems Reading List

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

8th Feb 2024
2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick definition of a lot of background information behind distributed systems. It is not complete, even though it is kinda sorta detailed. I had written it some time in 2019 when coworkers...
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Moving my Glitch apps to my own web server About six weeks ago, Glitch announced that they’re shutting down. Glitch was a platform where you...
8th Jul 2025
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Moving my Glitch apps to my own web server

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2025
About six weeks ago, Glitch announced that they’re shutting down. Glitch was a platform where you could make websites and web apps, with a heavy emphasis on creativity and sharing. You could read the source code for any project to understand how it worked, and remix somebody...
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Podcast submission notes Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
1st Feb 2019
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Podcast submission notes

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

1st Feb 2019
Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts. Some specific RSS fields <itunes:type>: You need...
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how to use web workers with typescript A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and...
13th Mar 2022
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how to use web workers with typescript

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

13th Mar 2022
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and limits
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Alt-Numpad for Linux In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a major stumbling block for me since I am...
26th Jul 2011
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Alt-Numpad for Linux

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

26th Jul 2011
In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a major stumbling block for me since I am annoyingly picky about typography. After spending way too much time Googling I found that these steps work: Hold Ctrl+Shift+U Release the “U” key (while still holding...
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How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data) Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks...
19th Feb 2024
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How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data)

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

19th Feb 2024
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
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Flushing DNS cache on macOS Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP...
2nd Mar 2016
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Flushing DNS cache on macOS

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

2nd Mar 2016
Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; say cache flushed Notice that last part — that's why this is the best method. You get an audible "cache flushed" almost instantaneously, and the whole process becomes...
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On becoming a day person My biggest game-changer
19th Mar 2026
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On becoming a day person

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

19th Mar 2026
My biggest game-changer
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May updates Here's what's new with Buttondown.
3rd Jun 2018
1

May updates

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

3rd Jun 2018
Here's what's new with Buttondown.
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Endless - A dive into a C64 game Endless - A dive into a C64 game
7th Mar 2025
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Endless - A dive into a C64 game

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2025
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
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Advent of Code 2024: Days 11–15
11th Jan 2025
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Advent of Code 2024: Days 11–15

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

11th Jan 2025
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Embed your subscribe form in the middle of your writing Use {{ subscribe_form }} to let folks subscribe faster!
8th Mar 2022
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Embed your subscribe form in the middle of your writing

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

8th Mar 2022
Use {{ subscribe_form }} to let folks subscribe faster!
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Baremetal vs. Proxmox vs. ESXi Performance Geekbench Scores I have always wondered about the performance characteristics of virtualization. Despite the caveats...
17th May 2026
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Baremetal vs. Proxmox vs. ESXi Performance Geekbench Scores

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th May 2026
I have always wondered about the performance characteristics of virtualization. Despite the caveats in testing methodology, workloads, etc., it'd be nice to see what the performance penalty is for using Baremetal vs. Proxmox vs. ESXi. Googling for answers results in some ancient...
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The 9 best mobile app A/B testing tools A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it...
4th Dec 2023
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The 9 best mobile app A/B testing tools

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

4th Dec 2023
A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it comes to mobile apps, there are many different A/B…
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The siren call of wrong-way dependencies Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design...
21st Sep 2024
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The siren call of wrong-way dependencies

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

21st Sep 2024
Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design mistakes one can make.
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polymorphism Polymorphism is when two types implement the same interface.
16th May 2020
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polymorphism

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

16th May 2020
Polymorphism is when two types implement the same interface.
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Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
7th Jan 2024
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Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected

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

7th Jan 2024
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
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Reese the Cat Reese the Cat (Jan 2018) My good friend Reese the Cat died on the last day of May 2019. She was 13...
5th Jun 2019
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Reese the Cat

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

5th Jun 2019
Reese the Cat (Jan 2018) My good friend Reese the Cat died on the last day of May 2019. She was 13 years old – still a young cat, by cat standards. She had a tumor on her tongue and couldn’t swallow and couldn’t eat or drink. We took her to a vet clinic within walking distance...
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Rust 1.0, ten years later
15th May 2025
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Rust 1.0, ten years later

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

15th May 2025
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Kinda a big announcement The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I...
2nd Jun 2021
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Kinda a big announcement

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

2nd Jun 2021
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"
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Getting in shape for summer This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
2nd Jun 2023
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Getting in shape for summer

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

2nd Jun 2023
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot! Calculator Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
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Atom Feed
16th Apr 2016
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Atom Feed

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

16th Apr 2016
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On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
7th Aug 2017
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On Estimates, Time, and Evidence

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

7th Aug 2017
Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
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Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
1st Nov 2023
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Recently

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

1st Nov 2023
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...
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and...
7th Oct 2020
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout

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

7th Oct 2020
Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won’t go into the post’s specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
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How To Google Your Errors ---
4th Jan 2018
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How To Google Your Errors

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

4th Jan 2018
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On Progress The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
18th Jan 2022
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On Progress

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jan 2022
The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason,...
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels,...
16th Feb 2026
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter

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

16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
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Recently Listening Die In Love by Greet Death Via David Crespo, I got into Greet Death, a band that's been...
3rd Feb 2026
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Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2026
Listening Die In Love by Greet Death Via David Crespo, I got into Greet Death, a band that's been hustling since 2011. It's great in a simultaneously familiar and innovative way. The album has a great amount of variety: Small Town Cemetery is a really effective quiet, acoustic...
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Video: Barbershop tag taught with hand signs I recorded a video multitrack of a barbershop tag, showing all four parts in sol-feg hand signs.
14th Jun 2008
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Video: Barbershop tag taught with hand signs

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

14th Jun 2008
I recorded a video multitrack of a barbershop tag, showing all four parts in sol-feg hand signs.
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The numeric tower fiasco
22nd Nov 2023
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The numeric tower fiasco

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

22nd Nov 2023
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Building a UI Framework Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI...
25th Jul 2025
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Building a UI Framework

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jul 2025
Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI frameworks, based on my experiences of the past 25-30 years. The work was originally commissioned by a customer for their use, but it seems like it might be of wider interest so I've decided...
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2025: A big year for Kidz Fun Art Kidz Fun Art grew a lot in 2025! Many more people use it regularly, many more choose the paid...
20th Dec 2025
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2025: A big year for Kidz Fun Art

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Dec 2025
Kidz Fun Art grew a lot in 2025! Many more people use it regularly, many more choose the paid version & I added far more cool features. Loads of Work… First off, here’s a graph of the number of changes (“commits” in technical terms) that I made. 612 changes in total with a few...
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On benchmarking
9th Jul 2017
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On benchmarking

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

9th Jul 2017
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
15th Nov 2016
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis

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

15th Nov 2016
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
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Ongoing Tradeoffs, and Incidents as Landmarks One of the really valuable things you can get out of in-depth incident investigations is a better...
20th Sep 2025
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Ongoing Tradeoffs, and Incidents as Landmarks

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

20th Sep 2025
One of the really valuable things you can get out of in-depth incident investigations is a better understanding of how work is actually done, as opposed to how we think work is done, or how it is specified. A solid approach to do this is to get people back into what things felt...
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OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System 2024-04-11 OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220 With the recent...
11th Apr 2024
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OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System

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

11th Apr 2024
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System 2024-04-11 OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220 With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only...
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SimpleImage 3.0 Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for...
10th Jan 2017
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SimpleImage 3.0

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

10th Jan 2017
Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for working with images. Today, version 3.0 has landed, and there's a lot to love about it. Overview # Here's how it works at a glance: try { // Create a new SimpleImage object $image =...
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Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
1st Jan 2001
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Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]

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

1st Jan 2001
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AI-Supercharged Phishing Emails It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and...
22nd Aug 2026
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AI-Supercharged Phishing Emails

from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Aug 2026
It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and other blunders. Now that scammers are apparently using AI to aid in their phishing emails, the tells are more subtle. ... more ...
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Don't thank Chat GPT In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not...
30th Jul 2023
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Don't thank Chat GPT

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jul 2023
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not only is there no logical reason to add pleasantries to your chat with GPT, but it also takes tokens for it to remove them and get to the point of your message. Don't thank Chat...
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"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust
25th Oct 2017
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"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust

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

25th Oct 2017
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Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1 The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop,...
5th Dec 2022
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Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2022
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop, but time marches on and old hardware eventually becomes too slow for modern development needs. After a lot of indecision, I bought a 10th generation Thinkpad X1 with an Intel Core...
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Article pitch for your consideration A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time...
8th Apr 2025
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Article pitch for your consideration

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

8th Apr 2025
A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time publishing blog posts on your website. Your website and contact information will be shared around on these lists, for the purpose of soliciting you for guest posts. If you’re not...
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Public descriptions for tags Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
3rd Feb 2026
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Public descriptions for tags

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

3rd Feb 2026
Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
5th Jan 2021
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles

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

5th Jan 2021
Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
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GravityLoops, a gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS <![CDATA[I started working on GravityLoops, a software that simulates a collection of bodies...
31st May 2026
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GravityLoops, a gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st May 2026
<![CDATA[I started working on GravityLoops, a software that simulates a collection of bodies interacting under the mutual gravity. I develop it on Medley in Interlisp and its object extension LOOPS, the Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System. GravityLoops will show an animation...
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What Is Software Quality? Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In...
31st Mar 2025
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What Is Software Quality?

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

31st Mar 2025
Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In addition, how do you know when you have it? This is the longest single blog post I have ever written. I spent four decades writing software used by people (most of the server
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2026 A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were...
11th Feb 2026
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2026

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

11th Feb 2026
A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were completed by you, dear pupils! And to top it off, we’re now releasing the much anticipated Power BI Course by none other than Alex the Analyst! I hope you enjoy it.
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DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word...
18th Sep 2017
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DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Sep 2017
For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word processor. After months of tinkering, a friend and I just finished building one. We call it the DocWriter. It’s a typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google...
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Recently This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big...
1st Feb 2023
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Recently

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

1st Feb 2023
This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big update about Placemark. Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little breather and just do the usual: what’s new! Reading I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
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Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
4th Feb 2024
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Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile

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

4th Feb 2024
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
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Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
11th Mar 2019
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Getting Closure on React Hooks

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

11th Mar 2019
Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
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How to Build Fly Locally With Docker for Mac In my recent side projet, I’ve been deploying to fly.io and really enjoying it. It’s fairly easy to...
2nd Oct 2023
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How to Build Fly Locally With Docker for Mac

from These Yaks Ain't Gonna Shave Themselves [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2023
In my recent side projet, I’ve been deploying to fly.io and really enjoying it. It’s fairly easy to get setup. And it supports my preferred workflow of deploying my changes early and often. I have run into a few snags though. Fly.io builds your project into a docker image and...
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Tom Waits' "Ol' 55" for Jared and Kathleen [Ukulele] I recorded a simple version of Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55' for my friends Jared and Kathleen's wedding.
12th Sep 2012
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Tom Waits' "Ol' 55" for Jared and Kathleen [Ukulele]

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

12th Sep 2012
I recorded a simple version of Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55' for my friends Jared and Kathleen's wedding.
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"You didn't do it right" Four sincere attempts at OKRs, four failures, and every time: "you didn't do it right." Maybe the...
a week ago
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"You didn't do it right"

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

a week ago
Four sincere attempts at OKRs, four failures, and every time: "you didn't do it right." Maybe the framework doesn't fit you -- so how do you find one that does?
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Formlabs Form 4 Teardown Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of...
2nd Jun 2024
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Formlabs Form 4 Teardown

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

2nd Jun 2024
Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of course, I jumped on the chance to do a teardown of the printer; I’m grateful that I was able to do the same for the Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3 generations. In addition to learning...
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Career Development For Engineering Managers (Cross-posted from leaddev.com) What comes to mind when you hear the words, ‘career development for...
3rd Jun 2021
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Career Development For Engineering Managers

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

3rd Jun 2021
(Cross-posted from leaddev.com) What comes to mind when you hear the words, ‘career development for managers’? If you’re like me, it’s one of two things: either obsessively climbing the ladder or those awful mandatory ‘trainings’ that get hastily assembled. (Otherwise known as,...
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Incredible Vitest Defaults (article) Learn how to use Vitest’s defaults to eliminate extra configuration and prevent flaky results,...
2nd Sep 2025
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Incredible Vitest Defaults (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2025
Learn how to use Vitest’s defaults to eliminate extra configuration and prevent flaky results, letting you write reliable tests with less effort.
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Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser&nbsp;Beams Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
11th Dec 2021
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Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser&nbsp;Beams

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2021
Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general. #pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color' void main() { gl_FragColor =...
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What's your newsletter's North Star? A lodestar makes it easier for people to find you, follow you, and share your work.
11th Oct 2024
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What's your newsletter's North Star?

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

11th Oct 2024
A lodestar makes it easier for people to find you, follow you, and share your work.
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Email tips from the drowning I have never seen an email message too short. – Roman and Raphaelson, Writing That Works Email is a...
13th Jun 2023
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Email tips from the drowning

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

13th Jun 2023
I have never seen an email message too short. – Roman and Raphaelson, Writing That Works Email is a cornerstone of remote work and a colossal waste of time. People say: “That meeting could have been an email.” But I’d add: “That email could have been a few bullet points.” Writing...
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Best AI helpdesk solutions in 2026 Every helpdesk vendor now sells "AI". What they actually ship differs a lot. Some offer a chatbot...
27th Jun 2026
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Best AI helpdesk solutions in 2026

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

27th Jun 2026
Every helpdesk vendor now sells "AI". What they actually ship differs a lot. Some offer a chatbot that answers customers before a ticket exists. Some offer a copilot that drafts replies for agents. Others hand you a platform and a consultant's invoice. The pricing models differ...
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What I'm up to - August 2023 I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Aug 2023
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What I'm up to - August 2023

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

1st Aug 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in July Booklet is a product I've been building to help communi...
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Before and after Almost Perfect At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in...
8th Jul 2024
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Before and after Almost Perfect

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

8th Jul 2024
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my resi...
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What is a DevOps Engineer's Salary? The median DevOps engineer’s salary is $103,994 in base pay, with around $28,514 in additional pay...
1st Nov 2022
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What is a DevOps Engineer's Salary?

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

1st Nov 2022
The median DevOps engineer’s salary is $103,994 in base pay, with around $28,514 in additional pay through bonuses, commissions, and profit sharing according to Glassdoor. Salary.com estimates the average is closer to $125k, while BuiltIn puts the average closer to $128k in base...
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and... Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
21st Jun 2019
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and Suspense

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

21st Jun 2019
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
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Learn more about your subscribers! FullContact makes it easy to learn about your readers.
10th Oct 2017
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Learn more about your subscribers!

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

10th Oct 2017
FullContact makes it easy to learn about your readers.
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The only Permanent Underclass are the ones who believe it is permanent
20th Oct 2025
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The only Permanent Underclass are the ones who believe it is permanent

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

20th Oct 2025
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50 books that transformed my business and my life As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books completely. I even remember...
2nd Dec 2014
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50 books that transformed my business and my life

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

2nd Dec 2014
As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books completely. I even remember a time where I couldn't imagine reading books at all. After I graduated and started to be interested in business and startups, I realized the immense power and knowledge contained...
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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
10th Aug 2020
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book

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

10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions
18th Feb 2026
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions

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

18th Feb 2026
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How To Center a Div Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
13th Feb 2024
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How To Center a Div

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

13th Feb 2024
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
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I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert...
31st Mar 2021
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I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2021
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
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Building a better button in CSS
19th Oct 2016
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Building a better button in CSS

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

19th Oct 2016
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What I've been up to in 2025 Been quiet around here. Time to change that! The short version up front: Since starting a family...
25th Aug 2025
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What I've been up to in 2025

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Aug 2025
Been quiet around here. Time to change that! The short version up front: Since starting a family and leaving Stripe, I've pursued the dream that brought me to Silicon Valley. I've founded a startup. After taking some parental leave, helping found a Python non-profit, and a nice...
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Personal Sprint Retrospectives Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on...
21st Oct 2022
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Personal Sprint Retrospectives

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

21st Oct 2022
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on Fridays. If you've never done a sprint, a sprint is a set amount of time to complete a specific set of tasks. For example, we work in two week sprints at RapidAPI. I believe we did the...
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Subliminal git commits Luckily, I speak Leet. – Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama There’s an episode of the CBS...
29th Sep 2024
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Subliminal git commits

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

29th Sep 2024
Luckily, I speak Leet. – Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama There’s an episode of the CBS prime-time drama Numb3rs that plumbs the depths of Dr. Joel Fleischman’s1 knowledge of IRC. In one scene, Fleischman wonders, “What’s ‘leet’”? “Leet” is writing that replaces letters...
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We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month "Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget...
5th Aug 2026
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We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month

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

5th Aug 2026
"Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget that anyone can use to bring weird ideas to life…
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Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little...
2nd Jul 2025
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Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2025
After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL doesn’t match the order in which they are displayed on screen. Why’s this happening? I have a bunch of links in my HTML document,...
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Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so...
13th Jun 2022
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Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder

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

13th Jun 2022
We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so doing, I’ve had some fascinating conversations with engineering managers who have been trying unsuccessfully to make the leap to director. Here is a roundup of some of the ideas and...
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
15th Nov 2016
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis

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

15th Nov 2016
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it's parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
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Catch up It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
20th Mar 2018
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Catch up

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

20th Mar 2018
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time. While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
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Digital product studios I describe Contraption Company as a digital product studio. Many people ask what that means. "Is it...
28th Jan 2024
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Digital product studios

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jan 2024
I describe Contraption Company as a digital product studio. Many people ask what that means. "Is it a startup?" (not exactly). "Is it an agency?" (ideally, no). "Do you make apps to spin them out into new companies?" (no). I envision a digital product
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Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website,...
7th Jul 2015
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Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy

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

7th Jul 2015
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC. Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411 Registrant City: PANAMA Registrant State/Province:...
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Email tracking is now off by default Buttondown is turning off analytics by default for all new users
1st Mar 2021
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Email tracking is now off by default

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

1st Mar 2021
Buttondown is turning off analytics by default for all new users
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Bullsh*t Jobs Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the...
1st Apr 2023
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Bullsh*t Jobs

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

1st Apr 2023
Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the second part of […] The post Bullsh*t Jobs appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Getting $3300 from a casino promotion New York State legalized mobile sports gambling in January 2022. The casinos offered crazy...
22nd Jan 2022
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Getting $3300 from a casino promotion

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jan 2022
New York State legalized mobile sports gambling in January 2022. The casinos offered crazy promotions to get people signed up. The craziest offered $3300 of free money. I did the math, and there was a low risk way to claim this money. As long as you placed 11 or more bets, you...
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about...
9th Nov 2020
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?

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

9th Nov 2020
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...
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Quantum Lorem Ipsum I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon!...
20th Apr 2021
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Quantum Lorem Ipsum

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Apr 2021
I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon! To those who are not familiar, Lorem Ipsum is a piece of latin text, comprised of multiple paragraphs, that is used as a placeholder during the design process of building a page
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
29th Mar 2022
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

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

29th Mar 2022
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
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Array 1.21.0 Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into...
17th Feb 2021
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Array 1.21.0

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

17th Feb 2021
Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into the overall stability of PostHog squashing dozens…
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Exploring intricate execution mysteries by reversing a crackme It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a...
27th Oct 2022
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Exploring intricate execution mysteries by reversing a crackme

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Oct 2022
It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a difficult period currently, I needed to take a break from the graphics world and go back to the roots: understanding obscure or elementary tech stuff. One may argue that it was most...
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Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles...
1st Sep 2021
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Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system

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

1st Sep 2021
In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
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What I learned in 2017 At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re...
8th Jun 2018
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What I learned in 2017

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

8th Jun 2018
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re more than halfway through 2018, I decided to stop procrastinating and flesh out the details. Some of these things are probably obvious to you, but they were new to me! Being right is...
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