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Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
My jeans’ metadata may outlive the company that sold them I buy clothing in sudden bursts of need. I do this because I wear things past the point where I...
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over a year ago
I buy clothing in sudden bursts of need. I do this because I wear things past the point where I probably should not, and then rush to address the gap so I don’t look strange on a Zoom call or at the grocery store. This is to say that quarantine has melted my brain. Speaking of...
Irrational...
How to plan as an engineering executive. Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question...
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Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question about planning. I enjoyed their response, “Ah yes, the ‘P’ word, planning.” That answer captured an oft heard perspective that planning is some sort of business curse word. Even when...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences Tips for Speakers Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
a year ago
Renegade Otter
A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts A tale of two rewrites Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”,...
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a year ago
A tale of two rewrites Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”, invented that whole thing where you can send HTML in emails, and more. In his harrowing work diary of how Mosaic/Netscape came to be, Jamie described the burnout rodeo that was...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Pen & Teller’s Masterclass I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids. I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of their craft....
Josh Comeau's blog
Boop! An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever created. We'll learn how to use React components and hooks to abstract behaviours, and see how to design the perfect API. Even if you're not into animations, I think you'll find it...
Yale E360
Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just...
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a year ago
One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just a fun diversion. I ran into that recently for a side project I'm working on. It wasn't really necessary to test database options semi-rigorously, but here we are. This project is...
Stephen Wolfram...
The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and...
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over a year ago
Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and 13.0. In late June this year it was Version 13.1. And now we’re releasing Version 13.2. We continue to have a huge pipeline of R&D, some short term, some medium term, some long term...
Blog of Simple...
Google pulls Uno Reverse card: Rolls back decision to kill third-party cookies
11 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work > Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer...
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> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer News](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/naked-promises-are-not-safe-for-work/). A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll...
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a year ago
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2. Step 2: Hit the “Send” button. Shortly after...
bunnie's blog
Control and Autofocus Software for Chip-Level Microscopy This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through...
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This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through non-destructive IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) inspection. Here’s the previous posts: This post will discuss the control software used to drive IRIS. Above is a screenshot of the IRIS machine...
David Gerrells
How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
8 months ago
Dan Slimmon
Incident SEV scales are a waste of time Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their...
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5 months ago
Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their severity scale. “The first thing we do is we assign a severity to the incident,” they’ll say, “so the right people will get notified.” And this is sensible. In order to figure out...
Steve Klabnik
A break with the past
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
I'm quitting Hacker News
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
2016-01-07 "Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know."
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
A year at GitHub I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its...
a year ago
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a year ago
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its design system. The hope here is that the work done there eventually makes its way to the site itself. It still feels surreal to have this job. I still vividly remember learning that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
JAMstack or 'Pilha de Atolamento'? i18n in Gatsby + Netlify _Originally published on...
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over a year ago
_Originally published on [Scotch.io](https://scotch.io/@sw-yx/jamstack-or-pilha-de-atolamento-let-your-user-decide-i18n-in-gatsby-netlify)_
Irrational...
Grab bag of random thoughts. A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a...
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over a year ago
A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a bit to braindump the numerous loose threads in my head as I transitioned from Calm to the past month of full-time writing, and then into this new role. This isn’t really a job...
macwright.com
Recently I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon...
a year ago
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a year ago
I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon as I got home. It is, crudely explained, like if Zoë Keating dialed up the synths and pedals and rhythm, and it was also a remarkable live show. Distant Intervals by MIZU Reading I...
Liz Denys
Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer as a purse So I made a purse shaped like the Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer for a Kill Bill themed party... The...
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over a year ago
So I made a purse shaped like the Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer for a Kill Bill themed party... The spherical shape comes from quilt batting stuffed between the beach ball style outside and a stiff dodecahedron lining. The body is hand-painted, punched out vinyl over black...
TokyoDev
Permanent Residency in Japan Getting a Permanent Residence visa (永住権, eijuuken) is a big accomplishment for anyone living in...
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11 months ago
Getting a Permanent Residence visa (永住権, eijuuken) is a big accomplishment for anyone living in Japan. It is one of the most desired visas that presents you as a stable member of society, and it affords you a host of privileges, such as not being restricted in what activities you...
Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 1 One of the things I love most about working in a community studio is hearing about other...
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One of the things I love most about working in a community studio is hearing about other ceramicists' experiences with new-to-me clay bodies. This has helped me feel confident in trying out many different clay bodies, and I now use a bunch of different clay bodies in my...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.22.0 PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual bug squashing. Community MVP The community MVP…
macwright.com
Headlamps are better flashlights A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a...
a year ago
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a year ago
A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a flashlight, you need to use your hands too. Headlamps solve that problem. They’re bright enough for most purposes and are usually smaller than flashlights too. There are very few...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pseudocode for Intentionality I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my...
6 months ago
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I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my working definition of how to be more intentional.
A Smart Bear
You can have two Big Things, but not three No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Improving the User Experience of IoT Firmware Updates
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
The choices we make when we build startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’ve recently...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’ve recently reached the point with Buffer where I’ve started to think about a lot of key higher level choices. As a CEO these can be difficult decisions to make. I’ve been taking time to...
Epic Web Dev
Two Factor Auth is Included in the Epic Stack (tip) A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The YC Interview We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear back, but then we did. It was now October 16th…
A Smart Bear
Pivot Points Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point"...
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9 months ago
Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point" grapples with the same reality, but more constructive and useful.
bt RSS Feed
Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
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over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I’ve...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website...
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over a year ago
The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website if you use Transistor. But also it's a simple guide to do clientside customizations of almost any website whose code you don't control.
the singularity is...
The Tragic Case of Intel AI Intel is sitting on a huge amount of card inventory they can’t move, largely because of bad...
3 months ago
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Intel is sitting on a huge amount of card inventory they can’t move, largely because of bad software. Most of this is a summary of the public #intel-hardware channel in the tinygrad discord. Intel currently is sitting on: 15,000 Gaudi 2 cards (with baseboards) 5,100 Intel Data...
A Smart Bear
Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
Joel on Software
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway? For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of...
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over a year ago
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more "So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?"
Irrational...
Making images consistent for book. TODO: fix TODOs below After working on diversifying strategies I linked as examples in...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
TODO: fix TODOs below After working on diversifying strategies I linked as examples in #eng-strategy-book, the next problem I wanted to start working on was consistent visual appearances across all images included in the book. There are quite a few images, so I wanted to started...
Eric Bailey
The case for null in design systems
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Jaguar is lost but Volvo knows the way Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as...
7 months ago
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Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as the diversity pandering is dated. CREATE EXUBERANT. LIVE VIVID. DELETE ORDINARY. You'd think these were slogans from a Will Ferrel bit about insufferable marketing trons, but nope,...
A Day In The Life...
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
over a year ago
ByteofDev
State of the Web: Static Site Generators Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
dthompson
Chickadee 0.10.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. This release is on the smaller side...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Green flags for investable founders Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
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Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication. Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will: a) be for their company, not for them b) be the sales pitch, not a...
Liz Denys
Quiche as a method and lightly sweet pâte brisée I love to make and eat quiche. In fact, there was hardly a week last year that would pass where...
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over a year ago
I love to make and eat quiche. In fact, there was hardly a week last year that would pass where there wasn't a quiche in my refrigerator because I just love quiche that much. Why? Well, it's great any time of day, it reheats well, it can feed a crowd, and it doesn't have to be...
HTMHell
Boosting testing efficiency: how semantic HTML transforms End-to-End testing by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human...
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a year ago
by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human interaction but also the efficiency of software systems. For instance, when users fill out forms with clear labels and accessible input fields, this reduces errors and ensures...
bt RSS Feed
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
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over a year ago
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn’t cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
Blog of Simple...
Facebook data transfers declared illegal
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lie still in bed I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even...
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a year ago
I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even started using one of the loudest and most annoying alarm clocks I could find. (That sound still gives my university housemate flashbacks.) In my search for ways to fix my sleep...
Nelson's Weblog
My surprise brother I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and...
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over a year ago
I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and immediately gave him up for adoption. My mother died two decades ago so details are hard to come by. My brother worked for years to find us. I'm glad he succeeded! And I feel sad...
TokyoDev
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
Epic Web Dev
The True Purpose of Testing (article) Discover the true essence of automated testing and the difference between an implementation and...
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Trolling is a art
over a year ago
Neil Panchal
ZFS RAIDZ2 - Achieving 157 GB/s Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the...
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Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the --filename option. Actual bandwidth is approximately 22 GB/s, which is still mighty impressive. I built a new server that's also going to serve as a NAS. It
ByteofDev
My 2025 JavaScript Wishlist JavaScript has a lot of room for improvement. These five things are especially important.
6 months ago
A Smart Bear
How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10) If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list...
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If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.
TokyoDev
Software Developer Salaries in Japan Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software development doesn’t pay exceptionally well: according to [a 2022...
macwright.com
Recently We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The...
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a year ago
We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The landscape is just native pollinators and native plants growing wild, with a wood platform above the field so you can walk around and see the bugs and plants. It’s also built on a...
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
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over a year ago
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
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I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, git@vger.kernel.org Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
Don Melton
Cranking up the blogging machine again For whatever reason I started blogging again last week. Not knowing why isn’t due to a lack of...
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For whatever reason I started blogging again last week. Not knowing why isn’t due to a lack of introspection on my part. Maybe the nauseating weight of the Trump administration was suppressing my desire to write for the previous three-and-a-half years? Or maybe I’m just arbitrary...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I reverse engineered Notion API Notion is a great tool for writing but the content is trapped inside the web app. The company is...
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Notion is a great tool for writing but the content is trapped inside the web app. The company is working on an official API but I’m impatient. This article describes how I reverse engineered their API and created a Go library notionapi. It all began with a failure. My...
Yale E360
Measuring the overhead of HashMaps in Rust While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my...
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over a year ago
While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my hashmaps were taking up a lot of RAM. I mean, a lot of RAM. I did a back of the napkin calculation for what the minimum memory usage should be, and I was getting more than twice...
Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
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a year ago
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
Making software...
Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
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Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it's nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Docker Deployment Best Practices Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use...
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Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use self-hosted gitlab.Goal: Both initial and subsequent automated deployments to different environments (staging and production). Rejected ApproachesMost existing blog articles and...
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
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Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Tracking the cursor in Selenium driven Chrome From the links in the sources, the following code snippet can be used to track the cursor: <style> ...
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From the links in the sources, the following code snippet can be used to track the cursor: <style> .dot { background: red; position: absolute; width: 2px; height: 2px; z-index: 10000; } </style> (function () { "use strict"; document.onmousemove =...
James Vaughan's blog
Custom iPhone text tones
8 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
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over a year ago
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
Eric Bailey
The possibilities of the color-adjust property
over a year ago
HTMHell
#2 div with button role Bad code <div tabindex="-1"> <div role="button"> <svg width="28" height="24"> … </svg> ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <div tabindex="-1"> <div role="button"> <svg width="28" height="24"> … </svg> </div> </div> Issues and how to fix them Setting button semantics explicitly using the role attribute isn’t necessary, there’s an element for that (button). You don’t need the tabindex...
the singularity is...
Critical Trade Theory You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
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You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false. The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
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a year ago
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bottom-Up Idea Exploration My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
over a year ago
Yale E360
RSA is deceptively simple (and fun) While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack...
a year ago
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a year ago
While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack that Daniel Bleichenbacher demonstrated in 1998, which effectively broke RSA with a particular encoding function called PKCS #1. It was only mentioned briefly, so I dug in and...
Joel Gascoigne
Want to help your hometown? Pack up and leave * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve done a lot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve done a lot of traveling [https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] throughout my journey with Buffer. I started in the UK, and since then I’ve lived in Hong...
Steve Klabnik
"C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Buying a house in Karuizawa, Japan After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the...
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a week ago
After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the Shinkansen, I have bought a house here. This article describes my experience of purchasing a house, and contains tips that are useful both if you’re considering buying in Karuizawa...
Eric Bailey
I’ll Make an Exception Just for You: Using the Exception Comment to Help Maintain Mature,...
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
They want your ethics for $105 If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes." Recently, I got one which was a little different flavor than the usual spam, so I bit and replies. The end result was...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is...
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When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is […] The post How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Blogpost Annealing Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
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Alice GG
Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The...
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Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub. This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
Sometimes It Works...
Getting background colours to go all the way The problem Why is this happening? Back to why... There is a solution! I'm pretty proud of the...
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The problem Why is this happening? Back to why... There is a solution! I'm pretty proud of the Gitamic diff viewer. It's not perfect (and probably never will be thanks to different browser rendering engines), but it can handle some pretty gnarly diffs quite rapidly. ("Quite...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2024 The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited....
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The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited. Their sales part number is ES-P2-I, but the silkscreen says DCHY-P2-6464-1515-VP. The seller is just the name slapped on the box; like most commodity wares, there’s likely multiple...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Software is What We Learned Along the Way Trent absolutely nails it: [the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not...
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Trent absolutely nails it: [the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not merely the picker of fonts, the dropper of shadows, the executor of deliverables. My greatest value as a designer lies in orchestrating the process and gathering insights — applying...
Josh Comeau's blog
Animated Pride Flags Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll...
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over a year ago
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️‍🌈
ByteofDev
Migrating ByteofDev from SvelteKit to Astro Why and how I rebuilt my blog in Astro
over a year ago
Alex Meub
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
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My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
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Digital Garden Terms of Service This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who...
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This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.
Remains of the Day
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
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It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Six Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
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Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
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80/20 is the new Half-Ass Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look...
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Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look back and wonder why you never hit 100% on anything.
Seán Barry
Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
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The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
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Slack is Fumbling Developers Reflecting on the sudden switch away from Slack for Developer communities
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
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Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
Maggie Appleton
Fixing Common Git Mistakes Illustrated notes on common mistakes people make in Git, and how to fix them
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David Heinemeier...
Software estimates have never worked and never will Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and...
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Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and for just as long, they've consistently failed. Estimating even medium-sized projects is devilishly difficult, and estimating large projects is virtually impossible. Yet the...
alexwlchan
Fare-Wellcome Collection I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was...
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I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was living and working in the Cambridge at the time, and I’d come into London for the day to hang out with a friend who lived near King’s Cross. We wandered up the Euston Road, popped...
Making software...
Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
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Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn't as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
The Changelog
Flying Joy Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a...
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Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too! Moments like this make me smile at being a pilot dad. A week ago, I also got to give 8 children and one adult their first ever ride …...
Charles Chen
Nuxt 3 with SSR on Google Cloud Firebase Functions (2023) If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no...
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HTMHell
Security Headers using &lt;meta&gt; by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the...
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by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the request-response cycle. Some of these HTTP response headers sent by the server to the browser help enhance the security and privacy of the website's users. These sets of headers are...
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I recommend starting it if you find that
Making software...
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at...
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser's URL - I've swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I'm a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I've been planning to do...
Steve Klabnik
Some people understand REST and HTTP
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Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL: Implementing a typechecker in Rust
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
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Home Assistant Voice Preview is an unusable mess. I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
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macwright.com
Don't use marked With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their...
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With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their obligation to maintain compatibility, I just have to put it out there: if you have a new JavaScript/TypeScript project and you need to parse or render Markdown, why are you using...
Remains of the Day
Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing...
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Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private. More than that, though, the Internet, with all the status games and incentives I wrote about in my last post, began to...
Confessions of a...
Context Switching and Performance: What Every Developer Should Know Understand how context switching affects CPU registers, caches, TLB, and pipeline performance, and...
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Understand how context switching affects CPU registers, caches, TLB, and pipeline performance, and learn strategies to mitigate performance penalties
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Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or...
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It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or fanatic. The skeptic thinks AI sucks, that it’s overhyped, it only ever parrots nonsense and it will all blow over soon. The fanatic thinks general human-level intelligence is just...
Josh Comeau's blog
Delightful React File/Directory Structure How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a...
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How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a solution I'm really happy with. In this blog post, I'll share how it works, what the tradeoffs are, and how I mitigate them.
Making software...
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn't the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
General Robots
ML for Robots, Specialization vs Overfitting So You Want To Do Robots: Part 5
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Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it. * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We are what...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle I’ve been obsessed with thinking about, adjusting and building upon my habits for a long time now, and...
Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
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Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
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HIPAA violations
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Yale E360
Kill the crunch time heroics Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
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Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
Confessions of a...
Building (and Breaking) Your First X86 Assembly Program We build a minimal X86 assembly program, run it… and hit a crash. But that crash is exactly what...
2 months ago
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The Case for the React Native Web Singularity There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice...
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There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice for developing for the mobile web than `react-dom`. If this speculation comes true, this would be gamechanging.
Liz Denys
Dan dan mian, the clearly Not Chinese way Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This...
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over a year ago
Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This isn't it. In fact, I've never actually made it because I couldn't acquire all of the ingredients without going out of my way. Also, I don't really like committing to making a certain...
Yale E360
RC Week 9: Parallels of Proofs and Programs I have three weeks left at Recurse Center. This last week was significantly less productive for me...
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I have three weeks left at Recurse Center. This last week was significantly less productive for me than usual, because I've been pretty fatigued and just recovered from a cold. But I still got some work done that I'm proud of. More than that, I'm excited for the coming three...
Quentin Santos
Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one...
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a year ago
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Treating the Symptoms If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app...
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a year ago
If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app called “Arc Search”. Its key feature? It’ll browse the web for you. What happened? “Surfing the web” used to be — and still can be — the funnest part about being on the web! How did...
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Fave New Podcasts in 2021 My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
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My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
Ink & Switch
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
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The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
alexwlchan
Plates and states I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I...
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I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to. Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
Computer Things
TLA from first principles No Newsletter next week I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon! TLA from first principles I'm working on...
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No Newsletter next week I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon! TLA from first principles I'm working on v0.5 of Logic for Programmers. In the process of revising the "System Modeling" chapter, I stumbled on a great way to explain the temporal logic of actions that TLA+ is based on....
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
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2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
Making software...
Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
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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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Supervised Learning: Computational Learning Theory What's the big O of machine learning? Lets put some formal theory around HOW we learn!
over a year ago
Cognitive...
Playing with ChatGPT API I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code...
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I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code is located here: I wanted it to be conversational, so it will remember your conversation history as you type. Similar to chatgpt-wrapper. ...
Steve Klabnik
git, history modification, and libuv
over a year ago
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swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
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Kagi Blog
The Age of PageRank is Over When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
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When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
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over a year ago
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
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Building the future of game analytics - An interview with PureSkill.gg CTO, Evan Sosenko Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors...
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Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors and users. This time, we speak to Evan Sosenko, Co…
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5 essential PostHog apps for new users PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
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PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
Miguel Carranza
The first five employees The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always...
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The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always aligned, and sometimes there is a notable lack of gratitude. But, for the most part, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Founders benefit from capital, and VCs need access to the best...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours... On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
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When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
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Notes on RSI for Developers I'm starting to feel some RSI in my left hand. It's a matter of time. I decided to collect some...
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I'm starting to feel some RSI in my left hand. It's a matter of time. I decided to collect some information about it to make improvements now rather than later.
Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
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over a year ago
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
alexwlchan
Improving millions of files on Wikimedia Commons with Flickypedia Backfillr Bot &rarr; I’ve written a post on the Flickr Foundation blog about Flickypedia Backfillr Bot, a new bot I built...
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I’ve written a post on the Flickr Foundation blog about Flickypedia Backfillr Bot, a new bot I built last year and which has been running ever since: Last year, we built Flickypedia, a new tool for copying photos from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons. As part of our planning, we asked...
Steve Klabnik
Transmuting Philosophy into Machinery
over a year ago
TokyoDev
How to Write Resumes for Jobs in Japan Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially...
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a year ago
Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially for software developers. The stakes are high (a job you want!), but the advice is uncountable and often contradictory. While many people may first think that it would be natural to...
Elad Blog
Market Ending Moves Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's...
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Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's competitive dynamic
Making software...
Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD 2023-06-13 It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor...
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Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD 2023-06-13 It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor battery performance on laptops. Although not as impressive as something like Alpine Linux or FreeBSD, you can tweak OpenBSD just enough to squeeze more life out of your machine's...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Robots.txt A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing...
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a year ago
A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt: User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / That felt a bit “ex post facto“ as they say. Or, as Jeremy put it, “Now that the horse has bolted—and...
Words and Buttons...
Sine and cosine Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can...
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Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can make things like O or 8 by using them both.
Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
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I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes) Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes) 2023-05-05 I recently tooted about my hatred of website...
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Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes) 2023-05-05 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don’t actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep...
Steve Klabnik
Thoughts on Rust in 2019
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And...
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Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love this stuff. While some apps made this transition fun (and further infused their brand with character), others did not. They did...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s...
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That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s course and it’s been on repeat in my mind ever since June 6th. June 6th I was on vacation at the beach with my family and tried something that, looking back now, maybe I’m too old for....
Blog of Simple...
GDPR Compliance Checklist
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: React This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
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This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React? We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
Words and Buttons...
Error codes are not numbers. But they are. Can we exploit that? People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with...
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People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with guilt for an obscure hack. Which is odd since there is nothing particularly hacky about it. The ISO/IEC 14882 is ok with it. The IEEE 754 is ok with it. So why is it a hack and not a...
alexwlchan
Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that...
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Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that involves moving photos in and out of albums. The tool I’ve built is very specific to my workflow and unlikely to be immediately useful to anyone else, but I thought some of the code for...
the singularity is...
Can tinygrad win? This is not going to be a cakewalk like self driving cars. Most of comma’s competition is now out of...
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This is not going to be a cakewalk like self driving cars. Most of comma’s competition is now out of business, taking billions and billions of dollars with it. Re: Tesla and FSD, we always expected Tesla to have the lead, but it’s not a winner take all market, it will look more...
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Searching for The Early Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
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When deciding which framework to use a few months back for all of our new systems, there wasn’t even a mention of framework speed. The truth is in practice that it just doesn’t matter for a large proportion of use-cases and certainly not for ours (funded startup with tens of...
A Beautiful Site
Downloading a list of URLs automatically I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to the bucket — I only had a list of URLs. There were too many to fetch one by one, so I wanted to fetch them automatically. Here are a couple ways I found to do that. Using curl # Curl...
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any dedicated engineering managers....
David Crawshaw
Service Throughput Tradeoffs Service Throughput Tradeoffs 2018-04-13, David Crawshaw I am currently writing a service that lets...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Service Throughput Tradeoffs 2018-04-13, David Crawshaw I am currently writing a service that lets users upload files. The typical file size is about 25KB, the maximum is 100MB, with file sizes following a power-law distribution. The nature of the service is that I need to buffer...
Irrational...
Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles. The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering leadership styles. It’s an interesting chapter to me peronally, precisely because it’s not something I would have agreed with or written five years ago. This past Friday I gave a...
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Line Lengths Reflecting on what I have learned about CSS Units and Line Lengths
over a year ago
Liz Denys
The Patriarchy as an otherworldly patron As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I feel that such figments of the imagination are well suited for becoming otherworldly patrons for Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks, so we created a variant otherworldly patron for the...
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values. The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
Liz Denys
The underappreciated men's rights activist as a character background As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights movement looks to be about getting equal rights with respect to things like adoptions and custody disputes, but actually, the movement is primarily a coordinated attack on women....
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still being simple and intuitive?
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 4 In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I used to build the TNFS site. In this (much shorter) part, I’d like to take a step back from the hardcore geekery, and wrap up with my thoughts on the whole thing. Other Sites But...
Epic Web Dev
Replace Remix's unstable_parseMultipartFormData with @mjackson/form-data-parser (tip) Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or @mjackson/form-data-parser with custom file size validation.
Paolo Amoroso's...
A brief experience with the Cardputer uLisp Machine <![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
<![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack Cardputer that can run uLisp. The M5Stack Cardputer is a card-sized, microcontroller-based portable system for home automation, hobby, and industrial applications. Although not...
TokyoDev
How Cybozu Built an International Engineering Team While domestically quite successful, Cybozu struggled to attract international customers—until they...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
While domestically quite successful, Cybozu struggled to attract international customers—until they started their own English-speaking, international unit from scratch. Domestic vs. foreign success Cybozu, founded in 1997, was one of Japan’s first B2B software companies. They’ve...
The Changelog
I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of...
a month ago
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a month ago
I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines. The last one that needed this was my Raspberry Pi hooked up to my DEC vt510 terminal and IBM mechanical keyboard. Yes I do still use that setup! To my surprise,...
Writing - Andreas...
Overconfidence and future-proofing “Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand what the tradeoffs are.
Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification. Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then? One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
orlp.net - Blog...
When Random Isn't This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive me if I do not accurately remember all the details. Some details are also simplified so that anyone that likes computer security can enjoy this article, not just those who have...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How (and why) our marketing team uses PostHog We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and their product using PostHog. This is our fault. We…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making a Website is for Everyone Dave asked what makes people excited about building for the web and Thomas answered with this...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dave asked what makes people excited about building for the web and Thomas answered with this wonderful articulation: the web is the only programming platform (that I know of) that considers its builders regular people, not IT Professionals and continues to write standards with...
David Heinemeier...
Rails World and Rails 8 in 2024 The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success...
a year ago
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a year ago
The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success this past October in Amsterdam. Not only did the conference sell out more than 700 tickets in less than 40 minutes, but it was the atmosphere from those in attendance that really...
bt RSS Feed
Basic Gulp Build for Sass Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I’ve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Why Startups Should Build Their Own Models The importance of startups training their own AI models for differentiation and control.
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
SVG Repo I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images. Check it out over at SVG repo. Looks like they have a sister site for fonts, too. Lots of 'em.
the singularity is...
A One Way Bridge Okay I went to Devcon. And while there I had a great idea that the crypto space really needs. It...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Okay I went to Devcon. And while there I had a great idea that the crypto space really needs. It seems like while AI infrastructure has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 5 years, crypto infra has actually gotten worse. I’m proposing some great new infrastructure that the...
HTMHell
#10 <section> is no replacement for <div> Bad code <section id="page-top"> <section data-section-id="page-top" style="display:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <section id="page-top"> <section data-section-id="page-top" style="display: none;"></section> </section> <main> <section id="main-content"> <header id="main-header"> <h1>...</h1> <section class="container-fluid"> <section class="row"> ...
Tony Finch's blog
Moaning about YAML frontmatter As is typical for static site generators, each page on this web site is generated from a file...
a year ago
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a year ago
As is typical for static site generators, each page on this web site is generated from a file containing markdown with YAML frontmatter. Neither markdown nor YAML are good. Markdown is very much the worse-is-better of markup languages; YAML, on the other hand, is more like...
alexwlchan
Google is showing outdated results from the UK’s election Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough night for every Conservative candidate, many of whom either lost their seat or saw their majorities severely diminished. One of those Conservative candidates was Nigel...
Liz Denys
Podcast submission notes Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Steve Klabnik
The CXX Debate
over a year ago
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
TokyoDev
Japan Needs International Developers No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe labor shortage. A report by the Teikoku Databank states that across all industries, 52.6% of Japanese companies say they don’t have the workers they need. 260 bankruptcies in 2023...
Eric Bailey
Use of the design system should factor into promotion packets That’s it, that’s the post.
a year ago
TokyoDev
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...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
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,...
Alex Meub
Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and works amazingly well. It has more than enough grill space for me and is pretty minimalist on features, which I like. Last Thanksgiving, many people wished they didn’t get the...
HTMHell
Forced Colors Mode Futility by Matthias Zöchling figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
by Matthias Zöchling figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid #000}figcaption,sup,.highlight,section:has(#resources) span,section:has(#fns)...
Eric Bailey
Building a Good Download… Button?
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to promote your SaaS without being an ass? There’s several things to remember when promoting your SaaS without coming off as an ass: Always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s several things to remember when promoting your SaaS without coming off as an ass: Always provide value when promoting. […] The post How to promote your SaaS without being an ass? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Maggie Appleton
Command K Bars Command line bars you can quickly summon with a keyboard shortcut
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Mornings are for madeleines Madeleines are probably my favorite baked good - both to eat and to make. They're rich in flavor,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Madeleines are probably my favorite baked good - both to eat and to make. They're rich in flavor, but light in texture. They're quick to make (hellooo, morning option), but don't get boring as they exercise good techniques (easy to learn good techniques, even). And they go really...