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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
02 · Group Key Agreement with BeeKEM How Keyhive groups can agree on keys over time
5 months ago
blag
Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000 This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes): the only way to build a great product is to...
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Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes): the only way to build a great product is to use it every day, to stare at it, to hold it in your hands to feel its lumps. The data and customers will lie to you but the product never will. Oof. That lands with me. As a...
Sometimes It Works...
Why You (Probably) Shouldn't Start With an SPA Some history, some context When does an SPA make sense? So, why are SPAs bad again? Your front-end...
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Some history, some context When does an SPA make sense? So, why are SPAs bad again? Your front-end and back-end get decoupled! It may hurt customisability Performance will suffer So what's the alternative? I came across this interesting article by @gregnavis the other day. I...
Neil Panchal
Eternal Robustness "Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take...
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"Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take great care to provide you with excellence year after year. Your involvement with us will be predictable and stable."
Ink & Switch
06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
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Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
Eric Bailey
Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well I remember feeling numb learning that my writing had been sucked up by OpenAI. It came out of...
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I remember feeling numb learning that my writing had been sucked up by OpenAI. It came out of nowhere and was done without my permission or consent. I have a lot of ethical issues with contemporary AI productization, notably notions around consent, ownership, and environment....
David Heinemeier...
Pick promise over proof After hiring people for twenty years, I've come to accept that it's impossible to know up front what...
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After hiring people for twenty years, I've come to accept that it's impossible to know up front what someone is truly capable of. Sure, we try our best to make good, educated guesses during the hiring process, and this is why asking finalists to do sample work projects is so...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to hire first rockstar employee You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can...
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over a year ago
You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can survive being locked […] The post How to hire first rockstar employee appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Making software...
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint 2020-06-14 I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air...
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Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint 2020-06-14 I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air with Linux Mint. It's a distro I've used a few times in the past, but never set it as one of my main daily drivers until now. Setting up all my go-to applications (Sublime, LocalWP,...
alexwlchan
Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example,...
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At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example, we have a staging version of our website, where we test new changes before they’re deployed to the live site. We’re only making changes during UK office hours, so running the...
Alex Meub
The Holy Grail of IE Testing I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This...
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I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This setup allows you to test authentic versions of IE6, IE7, and IE8 without the need to boot up virtual machines. It also allows you to have a debug bar in each of these versions so...
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...
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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...
Steve Klabnik
Show solidarity to all who resist
over a year ago
Dan Slimmon
Don’t fix it just because it’s technical debt. Why should we only spend part of our time doing work that maximizes value, and the rest of our time...
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Why should we only spend part of our time doing work that maximizes value, and the rest of our time doing other, less optimal work?
bt RSS Feed
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to...
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to user Achraf JEDAY for putting these instructions together on Stack Overflow (although his comments were targeting an older version of Ruby). This post is more for my own personal...
David Gerrells
never give up Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
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Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
Julia Evans
Confusing git terminology Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15...
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Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s idiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s confusing about it. So I asked people on Mastodon: what git jargon do you find...
Patrick Kayongo
Disenchantment Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her...
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Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her phone after recharging at her parents’ home earlier in the day. In addition to that, there had been no water since the morning. Joburg Water had promised restoration by 2pm, but 48...
the singularity is...
Nobody Profits Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and...
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Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA Except it isn’t and Joe Biden is a senile moron....
HTMHell
Mini-guide to add an image Adding an image with HTML is pretty easy, it’s just a simple tag, after all, right? <img...
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Adding an image with HTML is pretty easy, it’s just a simple tag, after all, right? <img src="path/to/image.jpg" /> But when you start taking into consideration topics such as performance, screen sizes, accessibility, pixel density, or user preferences, you might ask yourself at...
Julia Evans
Popular git config options Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options...
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Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options are, like: “basically nobody uses this one” “80% of people use this, probably take a look” “this one has 6 possible values but people only really use these 2 in practice” So I...
ByteofDev
State of the Web: WebAssembly What is WebAssembly, why does it matter, and how is it currently used on the web?
over a year ago
Yale e360
A systems design perspective on why chess.com's servers have been melting January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website,...
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January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website, chess.com1. Their service has been experiencing an unprecedented amount downtime because of a huge influx of users2. There have been days where it's all but unusable. It's frustrating as...
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Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfuffle Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
TypeScript: What’s the Point?! (article) TypeScript elevates JavaScript with static typing, offering scalable, maintainable code despite...
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TypeScript elevates JavaScript with static typing, offering scalable, maintainable code despite initial challenges.
The Pragmatic...
A Return to the Office (RTO) Wave? Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with...
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Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with software engineers and managers at these companies. Are we seeing the start of a trend?
macwright.com
Luxury of simplicity by An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too...
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An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too complicated.” With the risk of stating the obvious: Writing a blog engine, with one customer, yourself, is the most luxuriously simple web application possible. Complexity lies...
Nelson's Weblog
Goodreads lost all of my reviews Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully...
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Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I've never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2025 Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware!...
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Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware! Hopefully this one is a smidge easier to guess compared to last month’s.
TokyoDev
A Developer’s Crash Course in Coming to Japan Thinking about moving to Japan? You’re not alone—Japan is a popular destination for those hoping to...
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Thinking about moving to Japan? You’re not alone—Japan is a popular destination for those hoping to move abroad. What’s more, Japan actually needs more international developers. But how easy is it to immigrate to and work in Japan? Scores of videos on social media warn that...
Contraption Co.
Wine craft 2024 harvest season in Alsace
9 months ago
TokyoDev
Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
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Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
blag
Galloping Search I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used...
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I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used to search sorted items when the upper bound is unknown. In this short post, I will share my notes and other alternatives I discovered for searching over unbounded items
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: December
a year ago
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
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I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
Eric Bailey
<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)...
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The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) standard. It allows a property/value declaration in HTML as a way of providing an accessible name for an interactive element. Accessible names Accessible names use text to identify...
Steve Klabnik
How often does Rust change?
over a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems
over a year ago
Founder's blog
How I learned to stop worrying and wrote my own memory-cache Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly...
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over a year ago
Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly monitoring and investigating bottlenecks for our SaaS helpdesk webapp is my favorite thing ever. And I'm proud to say that with thousands of clients, even some really big ones, our app's...
Making software...
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven't seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
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Designing a Logo I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo:...
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I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-brand-ai-engineering-podcast-help-define-industry-1307842/
Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
over a year ago
David Gerrells
all the ways to css I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was...
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I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was bunches of fun doing but recently I looked back on the code and work and had to come to terms with something....my code was bad...really bad.
bt RSS Feed
CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
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over a year ago
CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I’d like to focus specifically on the “new” CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let’s just jump...
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.
7 months ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Github Copilot suggesting links A potentially very useful but probably unintended and unpolished feature of GitHub Copilot is that...
a year ago
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a year ago
A potentially very useful but probably unintended and unpolished feature of GitHub Copilot is that it can suggest related links. That is, if you paste a link, then on a new line type https:// and wait for a second, Copilot often suggests a link or two. The results, at the moment,...
Steve Klabnik
Thoughts on Rust in 2019
over a year ago
Irrational...
Navigators In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is...
a year ago
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In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is creating a centralized process to curate technical changes: Curate technology change using architecture reviews, investment strategies, and a structured process for adopting new tools....
Joel Gascoigne
When creating new habits, let yourself be sloppy * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Don’t let...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good" - Gretchen Ruben [http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2012/12/secret-of-adulthood-dont-let-the-perfect-be-the-enemy-of-the-good/] One...
Liz Denys
L'Insurrection qui vient I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
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over a year ago
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this. But there are few...
Charles Chen
Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
6 months ago
Maggie Appleton
A Meta-Tour of This Site A video tour through how I build the old version of this site
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
2015-03-09 lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
A Selective Survey of Efficient Speculative Decoding Techniques for LLM Inference What is speculative decoding, how it works and what are some of the recent advances in this area?
8 months ago
HTMHell
#18 main divigation Context: The main navigation of a personal website. Bad code <div class="nav"> <div> ...
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over a year ago
Context: The main navigation of a personal website. Bad code <div class="nav"> <div> <div>about</div> <div>thoughts</div> </div> </div> Issues and how to fix them The <div> element is an element of last resort, for when no other element is suitable. Use of the <div>...
Nelson's Weblog
Cronometer is a good food diary Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge...
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Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge improvement over MyFitnessPal (MFP) or Lose It and is not exploitative like Noom. The key improvement with Cronometer is accuracy, particularly good data sources for nutrition...
Joel Gascoigne
From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition > Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
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> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/from-startup-to-scaleup-what-were-changing-as-we-make-the-transition/] . In the past couple of months, I’ve had a number of thoughts around the growth Buffer has experienced in the last year and some...
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Fixing Up the Svelte Community Site Adding GitHub Actions and Updating Data Dependencies
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Facebook didn't try to change the world A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some...
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over a year ago
A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some great insight into how to become a successful entrepreneur. > **Interviewer:** Where are you taking Facebook, you can expand to those other schools that you're not at, and then...
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Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
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over a year ago
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, WordPress WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It...
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over a year ago
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It transformed my career path and enabled me to do anything I wanted at every point in my journey. So why leave it now?
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HogMail #19: Which meetings should you kill? Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Words and Buttons...
Why did I write Geometry for programmers This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
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This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
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over a year ago
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
A Beautiful Site
What is my browser? This tool will tell you Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
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over a year ago
Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier. As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
Tony Finch's blog
What does it mean to be an RCU implementation? The other day, Paul McKenney posted an article on LiveJournal about different flavours of RCU,...
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over a year ago
The other day, Paul McKenney posted an article on LiveJournal about different flavours of RCU, prompted by a question about couple of Rust RCU crates. (There are a few comments about it on LWN.) McKenney goes on to propose an RCU classification system based on the API an...
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...
TokyoDev
Paid Leave and Vacations in Japan Japan has a reputation for being a country of overworked people who never take holidays. While this...
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Japan has a reputation for being a country of overworked people who never take holidays. While this has been true in the past, the government has been trying to incentivize people to take more vacations and enjoy better work-life balance. Some challenges remain from a cultural...
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
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Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
alexwlchan
I deleted all my tweets I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X). I wasted a lot of time there, got into some...
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6 months ago
I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X). I wasted a lot of time there, got into some embarrassing arguments, and wrote things I now regret. But it’s also where I met friends and partners, started my career in cultural heritage, and began my queer awakening. Maybe...
Yale e360
Where is the source code for ping? Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to...
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Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to deepen my knowledge of networks. I'm just going for a super basic utility here, nothing fancy, not even all the features of ping. But since the language is new to me and my...
Contraption Co.
Is fractional work the future? A conversation with Taylor Crane
9 months ago
Oxide Computer...
RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020 We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a...
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We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a car accident in Cairo on Friday night. Those of us who have known Khaled for years have known him to be a bold investor who appreciated hard technical problems – and also a profoundly...
Coding Horror
Let's Talk About The American Dream A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of...
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A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
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I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
Blog of Simple...
The road to 1 Million ARR - September Update
a year ago
Liz Denys
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....
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over a year ago
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...
Dan Slimmon
did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote? Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I...
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3 months ago
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So we’ve got these spikes in WALWrite: the number of processes waiting to write to the write-ahead...
Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
Eric Bailey
I don’t want your job
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Blogging for 7 Years Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven...
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over a year ago
Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven years ago. In that time, quite a lot has changed in my life both personally and professionally. So, I figured it would be interesting to reflect on these years and document it for...
Maggie Appleton
Speculative Calendar Events Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems
a year ago
HTMHell
#21 Legendary legend! Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text. Bad code <button...
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over a year ago
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text. Bad code <button class="panel-heading" tabindex="0" href="#collapse0" aria-expanded="true"> <legend> Industries Served </legend> </button> Issues and how to fix them legend is not allowed as a child of any other...
Coding Horror
The Rise of the Electric Scooter In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are...
over a year ago
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In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it's not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right? On an
Eric Bailey
The case for adding validation state to your design tokens .verbal-token { border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-radius: 0.5rem; ...
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.verbal-token { border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-radius: 0.5rem; padding: 0.15rem 0.5rem; } Naming things is hard. One way to go about naming things is via topology, the practice of classifying things by way of their visual characteristics. It is...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Covering your webcams! Plus, our new newsletter and articles! A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't...
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A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't using them, and it features my favorite episode art yet: Covering your webcams Liz and Geoffrey take a look at how attackers compromise webcams and discuss why it's worth physically...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Kubit Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built...
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Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built primarily for engineers. In this article we’ll…
Irrational...
Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
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More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
Making software...
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I've made the switch...
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Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I've made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux "installer" I used for this...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Samantha Cristoforetti's Logbook <![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space...
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<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space flight. On November 23, 2014 she was launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a mission to the International Space Station. I had the privilege of helping Samantha with a public...
Seldo.com
You Will Never Be A Full Stack Developer
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David Heinemeier...
Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more We had originally planned to go all-in on passkeys for ONCE/Campfire, and we built the early...
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We had originally planned to go all-in on passkeys for ONCE/Campfire, and we built the early authentication system entirely around that. It was not a simple setup! Handling passkeys properly is surprisingly complicated on the backend, but we got it done. Unfortunately, the user...
Joel Gascoigne
5 reasons as a CEO you should develop a habit of daily meditation * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Through my...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Through my journey from a founder whose role it was to essentially build the product and code all day, to growing into a CEO role with more management duties and a fast growing team of 7 people,...
Liz Denys
Printable shrinkage rulers Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the...
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Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the final size of in-progress work - especially if you're making multiples or trying to fit pieces together. One way to do this is with shrinkage rulers. I figured I'd design my own...
Making software...
Looping Through Jekyll Collections Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my...
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Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my wife's personal recipe website (cookingwith.casa) which I hadn't touched in quite a while. The Jekyll build still worked fine, but I realized I was statically adding each collection by...
Yale e360
The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong. With...
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Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong. With great logs, you can see what your application is doing. And without them? Things can be broken left and right without you ever finding out. Instead, you wonder why your customers...
Alice GG
5 kubectl plugins to make your life easier I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance...
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I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance my kubectl commands. I will show you five plugins that help me avoid repetitive tasks, make cluster administration simpler, and incident response less stressful. All the plugins...
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on...
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Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz. For what Doug was fundamentally trying to do over the forty years he spent developing his CYC system was to use the framework of...
Joel Gascoigne
Zero notifications * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
the singularity is...
Dangerous Misinformation When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not...
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When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not 5’4” Google, please take this misinformation seriously before you end up in a very large libel suit. This is not on a site you are linking to, this is first party misinformation...
TokyoDev
Recruiting Developers Through Conferences Conferences bring together passionate developers, typically around a specific technology such as a...
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Conferences bring together passionate developers, typically around a specific technology such as a programming language like Ruby. This makes them the perfect place to recruit developers for your company. This article outlines how a company can get the most value out of these...
Don Melton
That bleeping kerfuffle After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via...
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After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via Twitter that all my colorful metaphors had been “bleeped” on the audio. I didn’t realize that because I hadn’t listened to the recording myself. And I don’t normally listen to my own...
Vadim Kravcenko
Fundraising for SaaS Startups This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Errors Are Not Exceptions Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is...
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Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is wrong.
A Smart Bear
Brittle Points: How to make companies robust Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for...
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Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Humble Link I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is...
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I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is revealing itself: an acronym which merely drops letters. The Next Big Thing™ is clearly going to be “A”. 2010: Everyone needs an "API" 2020: Everyone needs "AI" 2030: Everyone needs...
A Smart Bear
Satisficing vs Maximizing Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural...
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Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural perfectionist.
Irrational...
Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement. Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity...
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Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools, which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time: Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learn Instrumenting metrics...
alexwlchan
What mammal is that? I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take...
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I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held close to...
Hixie's Natural Log
The Spectrum of Openness "Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe...
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"Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe various ways to look at openness to aid project leaders in determining what they want their project to look like. I originally wrote this for my colleagues at Google, but the concepts...
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
over a year ago
davidyat.es
Review: The Lost Room
a year ago
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How To Add Monaco Editor to a Next.js app ## Bottom Line Up Front
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Steve Klabnik
Rust has finally outgrown me
over a year ago
Cognitive...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
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With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
Josh Comeau's blog
The World of CSS Transforms The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take...
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The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
Steve Klabnik
Extracting domain models: a practical example
over a year ago
Remains of the Day
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
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In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.   If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
David Heinemeier...
The last RailsConf Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started...
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Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
Julia Evans
What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person...
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Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person commented: There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it all came out of the box. My immediate reaction was “oh, getting a modern terminal experience isn’t...
Yale e360
What's in my software engineering tool belt? One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I...
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One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I use. When I read a post recently about a data journalist's data tool belt, well... I knew I'd have to share my own software engineering tool belt, too. So, here's my software...
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog...
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2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog is on Github Issues](https://www.swyx.io/github-cms) and [I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1531330889535602688).
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
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Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
Liz Denys
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 -...
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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...
Tony Finch's blog
BIND zone transfer performance This year I have rewritten BIND’s DNS name compression and decompression code. I didn’t plan to, it...
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This year I have rewritten BIND’s DNS name compression and decompression code. I didn’t plan to, it just sort of happened! Anyway, last week my colleague Petr was doing some benchmarking, and he produced some numbers that seemed too good to be true, so I have re-done the...
David Heinemeier...
The compounding seeds of creativity Early on in my career, I learned a very important lesson about creativity: It can’t be saved for...
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Early on in my career, I learned a very important lesson about creativity: It can’t be saved for later. Creativity is perishable, just like inspiration. It has to be discharged regularly or it will spoil. And if you let enough of it go to waste, eventually your talents will sour...
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PostHog is now available on Segment! We're happy to announce that PostHog is now available as a destination on Segment. Segment is a...
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We're happy to announce that PostHog is now available as a destination on Segment. Segment is a platform that works as an integrated data pipeline to…
Engineer’s Codex
The most valuable trait of great software engineers A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable...
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Getting Senpai To Notice You How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting...
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How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting the leaders of that field to at least read your writing and know your name.
Basta’s Notes
My friend, JT I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
4 months ago
Blog System/5
Rust doesn't solve the CrowdStrike outage Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages...
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Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages like C++ should not be used anymore. But claiming that Rust would have prevented the massive outage that the world went through last Friday is misleading and actively harmful to...
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Hyperfocus and hobbies &rarr; One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it...
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One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it affects my cross-stitch. I’m really proud of this one, and I hope you’ll consider reading. Writing for Stories was one of my “bucket list” items while working at Wellcome, and I...
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
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ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Seeing Others in Data, But Not Ourselves Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human...
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Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human behavior. Subjects were given incomplete words and asked to complete them with the first word that came to mind. For example, you’re given the fragments B__T and CHE__ and you write...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 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. Notable improvements and...
Alex MacCaw
Nothing matters I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
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over a year ago
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn't
Liz Denys
It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: homemade pumpkin spice latte It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: the weather is finally cooling down, leaves are browning,...
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It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: the weather is finally cooling down, leaves are browning, and pumpkin spice lattes are abundant. Being a coffee fan, I caved about a year ago and bought pumpkin spice latte syrup. It made for a delicious replica of the coffee shop classic,...
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...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2024 The Ware for May 2024 is shown below. This is a guest ware, but I’ll reveal the contributor when I...
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The Ware for May 2024 is shown below. This is a guest ware, but I’ll reveal the contributor when I reveal the ware next month, as the name and link would also lead to the solution.
Joel Gascoigne
Feeling like a fraud while doing startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Before I had any...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Before I had any success with Buffer, I helped many startups with their ideas. I attended events, spoke at events and even created my own meetup for startups. These were not particularly big...
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The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces...
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The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools. The fastest growing Mixpanel…
The History of the...
Would the internet exist today if the printing press didn’t come before it? The breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist...
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The breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist without the latter? The post Would the internet exist today if the printing press didn’t come before it? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Could I Have Some More Friction in My Life, Please? A clip from “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” features a former executive of an online retailer...
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A clip from “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” features a former executive of an online retailer explaining how motivated they were to make buying easy. Like, incredibly easy. So easy, in fact, that their goal was to “reduce your time to think a little bit more critically about a...
Ink & Switch
01 · Versioning and provenance for empirical research Introducing Jacquard: a project exploring better collaborative editing environments for empirical...
10 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog's new VP focused the company on nailing funnels in his first week Ramping up fast in any senior product role requires understanding as much context as possible across...
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over a year ago
Ramping up fast in any senior product role requires understanding as much context as possible across 3 axes (Market, Product and People). I’ll talk…
Ognjen Regoje •...
Do what's right Doing what’s right is so interesting. It’s so difficult It’s difficult to be completely honest with...
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Doing what’s right is so interesting. It’s so difficult It’s difficult to be completely honest with yourself when you know what’s right but you don’t want to do it. It’s often physically more difficult: you’ll have to spend more effort, more time, more money. But it’s so...
David Heinemeier...
Challenging the guardians of the paradigm I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
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a year ago
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
Joel Gascoigne
What no one talks about when building a team: Letting people go * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the things I enjoy most about building a company is to focus on culture, and to think about how we can create a team which is a joy to be part of. A large part of this is
David Crawshaw
2016-01-18 docs.pipelinedb.com/continuous-views.html
over a year ago
Yale e360
Approximating pi using... a cake? Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and...
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over a year ago
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and I'm not stopping anytime soon. The celebrations have evolved. It used to be just "bake a pie" and "haha pi, pie". Over time, I twisted it a bit (pizza is a pie of sorts! a cake with...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2024 Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware,...
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Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware, and congratulations to marcan for nailing it. Ping me if you want a prize!
A Beautiful Site
Dynamic Slots Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
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Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with them? Here's an interesting technique to use (or abuse) slots in your custom elements. I've been calling the pattern dynamic slots. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at how...
sancho.dev
What's possible with Melange
a year ago
HTMHell
Test-driven HTML and accessibility by David Luhr When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD)...
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by David Luhr When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD) workflow, I was stoked with the immediate feedback and confidence I gained in every line of JavaScript I wrote. TDD improved my software design with simpler, more predictable code. It...
Maggie Appleton
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
a year ago
Elad Blog
Silicon Valley & Defense Tech Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a...
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Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a defense contract. This has led to claims Silicon Valley is no longer engaging in defense tech, despite tech's roots working with the Department of Defense
PostHog's RSS Feed
How (and why) to track your website with PostHog PostHog may have been built for product analytics, but that doesn’t mean you can only deploy it on...
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PostHog may have been built for product analytics, but that doesn’t mean you can only deploy it on your core product — you can also use it to gather…
Confessions of a...
Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Should Know Write faster code by understanding how it flows through your CPU
3 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Programmable Notes Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Ten years of blogging I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared...
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I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared shortly after that (but the exact date is lost to history). This means I’ve been writing at alexwlchan.net for about a decade. The site looks very different now to how it...
bt RSS Feed
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...
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89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I’ll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :) This is my personal blog (if that wasn’t already obvious). I...
Steve Klabnik
Announcing Rust Contributors
over a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps The Burnout Playbook for software engineers
a year ago
The Changelog
The Good, Bad, and Scary of the Banning of Donald Trump, and How Decentralization Makes It All... It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit...
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It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit for the moment. It may well save lives, perhaps lots of lives. But it raises quite a few troubling issues. First, as EFF points out, these platforms have privileged speakers with...
A Beautiful Site
A clean fade-in effect for webpages Here's a nice way to fade your pages in using CSS and a bit of JavaScript. The solution is clean and...
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over a year ago
Here's a nice way to fade your pages in using CSS and a bit of JavaScript. The solution is clean and smooth, with no flickering on load. If JavaScript is disabled, the page will still load but the fade effect will not occur. How it works # This trick works by adding the fade-out...
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
Liz Denys
Has Baby Yoda been engaging in Twitter 'platform manipulation?' and the broad brush of Twitter's... Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and...
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Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and spam" according to their Instagram. Twitter's policy on platform manipulation and spam allows for "using Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account," as...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging and Composting Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct...
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a year ago
Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of the banana you get the peel. And if you compost, you can make good use of the peel. Similarly, whatever you’re building is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of whatever...
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Recently Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun...
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Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new, especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
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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...
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Changing the macOS accent colour without System Preferences In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects...
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In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects colours throughout your Mac’s user interface, including buttons, menus, and tickboxes. When you pick a new colour, it updates everywhere, immediately. I want to write some automations...
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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...
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Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
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The innovative designs of 1995 In 1995, a new industry was born, and design became a true practice. The post The innovative designs...
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In 1995, a new industry was born, and design became a true practice. The post The innovative designs of 1995 appeared first on The History of the Web.
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The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices...
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While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices for statement terminators. . is very appealing, or !. Ultimately, I might make the "boring" choice of using either ; or significant whitespace. But that had me asking: why is it...
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Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
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Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files. Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
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10x-ing Svelte (Svelte Summit 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
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Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
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Sean Voisen has a great post about 1) how we as humans think of randomness, 2) how computers simulate randomness, and the difference between the two. He puts forth an intriguing thought: in a world increasingly driven by computation, how does that affect randomness in our lives?...
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Best Go books for 2024 What are the best Go books for 2024? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go...
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What are the best Go books for 2024? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go books you should absolutely buy and read right now, whether you’re a beginner or expert Gopher.
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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...
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2015-06-26 "While the Union survived the civil war, the Constitution did not. In its place arose a new, more...
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"While the Union survived the civil war, the Constitution did not. In its place arose a new, more promising basis for justice and equality, the 14th Amendment, ensuring protection of the life, liberty, and property of all persons against deprivations without due process, and...
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Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of...
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I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed. This hasn’t been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a few minutes while it restarts, and it only happens once a day at most, so I’ve...
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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/)
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of [insert design industry here] and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
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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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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. On today's commutes to and from work: A Fine Frenzy's "Rangers" is a much more poetic song than Taylor Swift's awkwardly similar "I Know Places." A hunted...
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Rakuten and Globalization Hiroshi Mikitani started [Rakuten's Technology Conference] in English, but quickly switched to...
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Hiroshi Mikitani started [Rakuten's Technology Conference] in English, but quickly switched to Japanese. He claimed there was a strong demand from the Japanese participants for him to present in Japanese. This shows how much work ahead of him he has if Rakuten is going to meet...
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Suppose you're making a cool library that sums numbers in an array. You add a new option, inital, that lets users specify an initial value for the summation: sum([1, 1, 1], { inital: 10 }) // 13 Oh no! You made a typo — of course you meant initial, not inital. What's done is...
Posts on Nikita...
How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23 Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very...
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Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very different cultural background than me. Russians approach life in their own way and some things might seem strange. Still, this was my path and I would like to share it. My name is...
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My Life as a Con Man Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it...
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Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it everywhere I look.
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The 6 best free and open-source A/B testing tools Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your...
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Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your audience to test variations of a product design…
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Pen-driven symbolic programming An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using...
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An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using formulas. We want a way of inputting formulas that is as “pen-driven” as possible.
wingolog
tracepoints: gnarly but worth it Hey all, quick post today to mention that I added tracing support to the . If the support library...
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Hey all, quick post today to mention that I added tracing support to the . If the support library for is available when Whippet is compiled, Whippet embedders can visualize the GC process. Like this!Whippet GC libraryLTTng Click above for a full-scale screenshot of the trace...
Ink & Switch
04 · Opening the Pre-Alpha Open-souring the code
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
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i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
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My favourite books from 2023 I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with...
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I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with that number, although overall I found it a slightly disappointing year for reading. Although I read more books, there were less that I really loved – less of the sort of book that...
TokyoDev
Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on...
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I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/not-setting-up-find-my-bricked-my-macbook), and how Apple refused to unlock it for me. Well, I did manage to finally get it unlocked. All it took was...
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How communication breaks down In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their...
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In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their primary advocacy group, the Undergraduate Association. Every year around later February and early March, students who consider themselves relatively politically active request an...
Eric Bailey
Ham biscuit on There is a tweet from a suspended Twitter user that shows a “ham biscuit sign” in its dark and...
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over a year ago
There is a tweet from a suspended Twitter user that shows a “ham biscuit sign” in its dark and lit-up state. Here’s a screenshot of it: Reddit. The sign is used to indicate if that particular McDonald’s had Country Ham Biscuits left in stock. Presumably, they’re a popular...
Ralph Ammer
Confucius – Why we need rituals This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius. The post Confucius – Why we...
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This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius. The post Confucius – Why we need rituals appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
The Changelog
The Joy of Easy Personal Radio: FRS, GMRS, and Motorola DLR/DTR Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not...
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Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not just the usefulness, but even the joy, of having our own radios. For instance: When traveling to national parks or other wilderness areas, family and friends can keep in touch even...
David Crawshaw
Limits of Superintelligence research.google.com/pubs/pub40565.html
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The Changelog
Joyful is the Dark “Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that...
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“Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that midnight   touched by dread and gloom; darkness was the cradle   of the dawning.” – Brian Wren Most of us are not personally experiencing symptoms of a pandemic virus, but with all...
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The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its...
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This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit Turning LLM Capabilities into Functions So far, we mostly think of LLMs as things we...
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over a year ago
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Why Creator Clones Fail The Innovator's Dilemma according to MKBHD, applied to YouTube's attempt to clone TikTok
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a whippet waypoint Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language...
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Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
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Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
Irrational...
Trying Tailscale. Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...
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Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uber’s contemporaneous security implementation didn’t include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...
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Introducing PostHog Cloud EU It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR...
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It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR regulations in the EU. That's one reason why we…
Alex MacCaw
The Beginning of Infinity It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just...
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It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just look up. There are a hundred billion stars in a hundred billion galaxies (that we know of!). What are we but a spec of dust? And don'
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What You Can Do with Netlify Build Plugins Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
over a year ago
alexwlchan
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my...
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I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my local machine for analysis or backup. When I’m starting a new project and the database is near-empty, this is a simple rsync operation: $ rsync --progress...
Eric Bailey
Tech metaphors Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors...
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Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors to drop at your next sprint planning meeting: Winchester Mystery House A mansion in San Jose, California that was once occupied by Sarah Winchester, widow of the eponymous firearms...
TokyoDev
To -San or Not to -San? Addressing Japanese People in English It’s your first day at your new Japanese company, and your coworker approaches with a smile....
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9 months ago
It’s your first day at your new Japanese company, and your coworker approaches with a smile. “Hello!” she says in English. “My name’s Rin Takahashi. I look forward to working with you.” “Likewise!” you say. “It’s nice to meet you, Takahashi-san.” “Oh, you can call me Rin!” Oh no,...
On Test Automation
On life as an independent contractor right now Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
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Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here. As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019 I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
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over a year ago
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
Patrick Kayongo
Rhythms of Order Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous...
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Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous generations could never have dreamed of. Whether it’s bypassing traffic jams on the outskirts of hills of Kampala, or it’s determining your public transport route from your hotel to your...
Computer Things
"Integration tests" are just vibes New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software...
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a year ago
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software cause us to miss deadlines, and how we can address some of them. Patreon here. "Integration tests" are just vibes You should write more unit tests than integration tests. You should...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why IaaS beat PaaS The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
over a year ago
Yale e360
Asheville Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
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Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of...
bt RSS Feed
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible, while still maintaining the original UI concept. Let’s build out a demo example with a simple menu dropdown element. Interesting facts about our final CSS menu: Total weight 121 bytes...
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...
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Steve Klabnik
Thankfulness
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Animated Sparkles in React In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or...
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In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or images and watch them twinkle! This neat trick is a perfect way to emphasize positive or exciting things.
TokyoDev
The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
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In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2021-developer-survey), please check them out! With 435 people responding, I had about 20% more responses than [2020's...
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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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.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
UI=f(org): UI is a Function of Your Organization The Domino’s “Pizza Tracker” is an intriguing piece of UI. As an end user, it provides the precision...
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The Domino’s “Pizza Tracker” is an intriguing piece of UI. As an end user, it provides the precision of detail you want in tracking your order: Your order has been received Your pizza is being prepped Your pizza is in the oven Your pizza is being checked for quality by...
Blog of Simple...
German authority cracks down on cookie banners
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Ralph Ammer
Aristotle — How to live a good life 2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual...
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2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life: What is good? First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good thing fulfils its unique function. A good knife is a knife that is good at cutting. A good eye is...
Vadim Kravcenko
Embracing Hacker Culture This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
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This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post Embracing Hacker Culture appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Smart Bear
Being who you are, while becoming better We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means...
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We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means striving to become better? What is "yourself?"
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How to speed up ClickHouse queries using materialized columns ClickHouse supports speeding up queries using materialized columns to create new columns on the fly...
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ClickHouse supports speeding up queries using materialized columns to create new columns on the fly from existing data. In this post, I’ll walk…
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Logic programming in C++ When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one...
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over a year ago
When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one is the invisible Prolog. If written properly, the second program is helpful. However, if being neglected, it turns your code into an untangleable mess of incomprehencibles...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Building WebSites With LLMS And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). I recently shipped some updates to my blog....
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And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). I recently shipped some updates to my blog. Through the design/development process, I had some insights which made me question my knee-jerk reaction to building pieces of a page as JS-powered interactions on top of the...
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Unsupervised Learning: Feature Transformation Presenting the same information a different way... helps! Plus, one algorithm that does better than...
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Presenting the same information a different way... helps! Plus, one algorithm that does better than Principal Components Analysis!
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your personal finances Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your personal...
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Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your personal finances: Credit and debit card security An important part of your personal digital security is making sure your credit and debit cards are secure. In this episode, Liz and Geoffrey take a...
Engineer’s Codex
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
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Irrational...
Our own agents with their own tools. Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading...
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Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents, followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering. I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I also decided to do a personal experiment of...
Eric Bailey
a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s...
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I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s solarized-prism-theme for PrismJS. To not bury the lede, the new update: Supports Forced Colors mode, Is encapsulated in a Cascade Layer, Uses Custom Properties, Groups its selectors using the...
somenice
Golden Glide Silhouette This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to...
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This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to watch.
A Beautiful Site
Tips for the aspiring web developer So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a...
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So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a lot more fun than most other programming jobs. However, before you take the plunge into a career in web development, there are a few things you should probably consider. A different...
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Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for...
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Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for the first time, on a minimal budget. This is not…
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The top reason we haven’t sold our startup We’ve been lucky at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] to receive a number of acquisition offers along...
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We’ve been lucky at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] to receive a number of acquisition offers along our journey so far. When I mention this to people, a key question that often comes up is “how did you decide not to sell?”. The earliest offer we had for Buffer was
A Beautiful Site
A clever way to style the <mark> element I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
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I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials: Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
Making software...
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my...
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn't shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
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Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
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David Heinemeier...
Coding should be a vibe! The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire...
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The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire project with AI — appears partly to be based on the fact that so many development environments are deeply unpleasant to work with. So it's no wonder that all these programmers stuck...
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8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know 1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is...
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1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is including users in your experiment who aren't actually…
Alex MacCaw
A personal update In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As...
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In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As COVID started to spin out of control in the states, my girlfriend and I made the decision to stay. A ten day trip turned into a year-long adventure. I
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
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This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Daniel Marino
Why I Still Prefer to Prototype Using Code There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of...
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There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of them over the years. I think these days, most everyone is using Figma, but whatever app you’re using—most of them typically have some sort of prototyping feature. Typically they have...
Yale e360
Recovering from a lost disk: how I setup, backup, and restore dev machines Last Wednesday just before 3pm, I went pack up my laptop to get ready to drive 7 hours to visit my...
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Last Wednesday just before 3pm, I went pack up my laptop to get ready to drive 7 hours to visit my family in Ohio. Fedora had some updates to apply and when it went to come back on after those, I saw the words no one wants to see: Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed....
macwright.com
Recently If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
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If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight upgrade this month. I’ve been publishing a lot of content in the /micro/ section, and I update my /reading/ list once or twice a month when I finish books, but these proper...
Maggie Appleton
The Best Illustration Books and Courses My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
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What we built at our sun-kissed Aruba hackathon Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've...
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Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've been to Italy, Portugal and Iceland. This year, we…
Eric Bailey
Evaluating overlay-adjacent accessibility products I get asked about my opinion on overlay-adjacent accessibility products with enough frequency that I...
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I get asked about my opinion on overlay-adjacent accessibility products with enough frequency that I thought it could be helpful to write about it. There’s a category of third party products out there that are almost, but not quite an accessibility overlay. By this I mean that...
macwright.com
Hacker News Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s the only JavaScript on most pages, which are...
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Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s the only JavaScript on most pages, which are otherwise pretty minimal. try { if (document.referrer) { const ref = new URL(document.referrer); if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') { window.location.href =...
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HogMail #18: What can SaaS learn from the New York Times? Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Antoine Mayerowitz
Mario meets Pareto
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Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker...
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My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669762) came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into [blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider...
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OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪 a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
over a year ago
Irrational...
Building your executive network. In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along...
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In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along well with your manager, your peers’ perspective will usually be closer to yours than your manager’s. Once you transition into an engineering executive role, you’ll still have peers,...
Oxide Computer...
Engineering a culture We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a...
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We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this particular issue was something of an Oxide object lesson, representative not...
Blog of Simple...
CCPA vs CPRA: what is new?
a year ago
Grant Slatton
"Passage" A poem
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A Beautiful Site
The difference between web designers and web developers If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
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over a year ago
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
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Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
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Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I’ve...
blag
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
6 months ago
MMapped blog
If composers were hackers
over a year ago
David Gerrells
chasing the dragon Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer...
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Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer with an honest side by side comparison to the more, exotic options.
Ink & Switch
Slow Software What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
over a year ago
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My New Mac Setup (2018-2020) quick checklist for setting up a new macbook
over a year ago
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Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git 2024-09-20 I recently began the process of setting...
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Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git 2024-09-20 I recently began the process of setting up my self-hosted1 cgit server as my main code forge. Updating repos via cgit on NearlyFreeSpeech on its own has been simple enough, but it lacked the “wow-factor” of having some...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Cost of Avoiding Annoyance tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the...
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tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the sophisticated workarounds we create to avoid them. I really enjoyed this well-reasoned article explaining why htmx, the open-source hypermedia JS framework, does not have a build...
A Day In The Life...
A comprehensive list of failed projects A comprehensive list of failed projects
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A Beautiful Site
Flash of Undefined Custom Elements (FOUCE) Web components are defined and registered with JavaScript. Depending on how and when you load the...
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Web components are defined and registered with JavaScript. Depending on how and when you load the scripts that perform registration, you may see a brief flash of unstyled HTML where your custom elements should be when the page loads. This is not dissimilar to FOUC, which occurs...
Steve Klabnik
git, history modification, and libuv
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2022 / Berlin] Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
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Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
Jake Zimmerman
Approximating strace with Instruments.app
8 months ago
Nelson's Weblog
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
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I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
Alex MacCaw
The six principles of lifestyle businesses Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
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The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...