Tinker, Tamper,...
KY-040 Rotary Encoder with Linux on the Raspberry Pi
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a...
over a year ago
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a numerical value. So I bought some rotary encoders off Amazon.If you search the Internet for information/tutorials on how to use a “KY-040” rotary encoder with Linux and the Raspberry...
MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
over a year ago
Confused bit
Simply explained: how does GPT work?
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
a year ago
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
bt RSS Feed
Prescription Form UI Improvements
Prescription Form UI Improvements
2019-03-13
I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
over a year ago
Prescription Form UI Improvements
2019-03-13
I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn’t bad per se, but it could certainly be improved.
Current design of the...
Jibran’s Perspective
Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box
I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively...
over a year ago
I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively to manage my knowledge base. I started the day by dumping my thoughts into Logseq. Here they are.
These are open questions for now. I plan to investigate this further and try out...
Maggie Appleton
A Journey into Vue-Router
over a year ago
alexwlchan
My custom <picture> plugin for Jekyll
About seven months ago, I did a complete rewrite of how I handle images on this site.
It’s working...
a year ago
About seven months ago, I did a complete rewrite of how I handle images on this site.
It’s working well and nothing seems to have broken, so I thought it might be good to explain what I’m doing.
For readers: I want images to load quickly and look good.
That means looking sharp on...
Making software...
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
2019-01-15
Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
over a year ago
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...
Marco.org
The Overcast Redesign: Part One
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus...
over a year ago
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one.
For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused...
37signals Dev
Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and...
a year ago
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and richer UIs grew, teams came up with different frontends to deliver on those expectations. Client-side frameworks such as Angular, Ember, and React emerged as popular choices.
One of...
General Robots
ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
HTMHell
#21 Legendary legend!
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button...
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...
Alex Meub
The Yoto Mini is Perfect
The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and...
7 months ago
The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and put just the right set of features into a brilliantly designed package.
I have no affiliation with Yoto, I’m just a happy customer with kids who love it.
If you aren’t aware, Yoto...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Keeping track of visited URLs in WebCard
<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system.
It can...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system.
It can only command the browser to visit a URL when the user traverses a Web link or executes the Visit URL menu command. But with no precautions the browser would open a new tab for...
Alex Meub
Building an Arcade Stick
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an...
over a year ago
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an arcade stick (also called a “fight stick”). Here’s the finished product:
Materials and Components
I had some leftover IKEA oak butcher block from a kitchen project and I thought...
orlp.net - Blog...
Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be?
This article is not about deciding whether two floating
point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are...
a year ago
This article is not about deciding whether two floating
point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are plenty of resources on
this (often subjective) problem. We simply want to know if ${x \leq y.}$
Suppose that you are a programmer, and that you have two numbers. You want to
know...
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native
As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a...
2 months ago
As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a brand new, yet familiar, framework for building hybrid mobile apps.
Background
But first, let me provide some context. Last year, shortly before Rails World 2023, we open sourced...
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 1.0
I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top...
a year ago
I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top for our situation. If they hadn't reached for those million-dollar contracts, we'd probably be stuck in enterprise vendor hell forever, buying over-priced consulting services for...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I always wrap Context.Provider and useContext
React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container...
over a year ago
React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container / child component APIs (think <RadioGroup /> + <RadioButton />). Unfortunately, out of the box Context comes with a limiting and not very convenient API. In most cases, I choose...
Steve Klabnik
Living with a terrible taste in music
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Profilers in Python
Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python
6 months ago
Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python
Posts on Nikita...
Handmade Seattle 2023
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
11 months ago
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract:
An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.”
Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
Charles Chen
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1
The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
over a year ago
The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
over a year ago
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […]
The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Perfect Restaurant
This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
over a year ago
This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Case for the React Native Web Singularity
There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice...
over a year ago
There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice for developing for the mobile web than `react-dom`. If this speculation comes true, this would be gamechanging.
A Beautiful Site
Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may...
over a year ago
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise. It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers.
After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
Nelson's Weblog
The Sandbaggers
I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The
Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the...
a year ago
I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The
Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the show name-checks
James Bond frequently the soul of it is more of a Le
Carré thing. Intelligence as a series of dismal political battles
between underpaid civil servants at the home...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSC, Localfirst, and Coordination Between Multiple Computers
Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which...
7 months ago
Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which gives the conceptual background around how the team came up with the idea for React Server Components (RSC)[1].
I found the talk intriguing. It’s like watching someone take something...
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
7 months ago
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere.
It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire.
My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
Making software...
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser
2022-05-17
After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
over a year ago
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser
2022-05-17
After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari.
This switch back doesn't mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
TokyoDev
Progress and Challenges: Reflections of a Working Mother in Japan
The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey...
a year ago
The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey 2022](/insights/2022-developer-survey) revealed that the country is still struggling to close the gender gap in the workplace in the tech industry.
As a Japanese woman and a mother of two children, I was very...
Quentin Santos
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s...
10 months ago
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
Max Countryman
Breaking Free from Results-Oriented Thinking
Magic: The Gathering, poker, and business strategy all have something in common: they're vulnerable...
a year ago
Magic: The Gathering, poker, and business strategy all have something in common: they're vulnerable to a cognitive bias known as results-oriented thinking. But to optimize for success, we should avoid this bias and strive to replace it with sound strategy.
swyx's site RSS Feed
JavaScript: the First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich
A link to the 190 page history of JS by its original creator and the editor of ES6.
over a year ago
A link to the 190 page history of JS by its original creator and the editor of ES6.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
over a year ago
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Joel Gascoigne
Founders: failure comes with the territory
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
A couple of...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
A couple of things have happened this week that made me think a little about
what failure means for startup founders.
Firstly, one of my favorite startups Sprouter has announced that it is...
Hixie's Natural Log
How big is the Flutter team?
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter.
It's a hard question to answer because...
10 months ago
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter.
It's a hard question to answer because "contribute" is a very vague concept. There's tens of thousands of packages on pub.dev, all of which are written by contributors to the community. There's over 100,000 of issues...
The Changelog
Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas
It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The...
8 months ago
It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them “too controversial”. Facebook then censored the article about...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home:
I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday:
I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election.
I don't unfriend people due to political views....
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome)
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this...
over a year ago
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are a…
Maggie Appleton
Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro
over a year ago
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,...
over a year ago
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...
charity.wtf
On Versioning Observabilities (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…10.0?!?)
Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker. As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a...
2 days ago
Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker. As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a preview draft of her post: “PLEASE don’t post this! I feel like I spend all my time trying to help bring clarity and context to what’s happening in the market, and this is NOT...
alexwlchan
Going between Finder and the Terminal
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the...
3 months ago
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the Terminal’s command line and the Finder’s GUI.
He has some neat ideas, and I particularly like his AppleScript sel for selecting multiple items in Finder.
I’ve written a couple of similar...
alexwlchan
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our...
over a year ago
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case.
I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
Acko.net
On Sperging Out
The Boy Who Cried Leopard
Recently there's been a new dust up about Richard Stallman and the Free...
over a year ago
The Boy Who Cried Leopard
Recently there's been a new dust up about Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. For those of you just tuning in: an open letter demands that the entire board of the Free-as-in-speech Software Foundation resign, because of past statements and...
bt RSS Feed
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and...
over a year ago
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and implementing a grid layout is no different.
Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
Steve Klabnik
Ember.js and accessibility
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers
an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
over a year ago
an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
The Pragmatic...
Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
4 months ago
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
Words and Buttons...
Error codes are not numbers. But they are. Can we exploit that?
People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with...
over a year ago
People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with guilt for an obscure hack. Which is odd since there is nothing particularly hacky about it. The ISO/IEC 14882 is ok with it. The IEEE 754 is ok with it. So why is it a hack and not a...
orlp.net - Blog...
Extracting and Depositing Bits
Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it.
For example you just...
11 months ago
Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it.
For example you just performed a SWAR
algorithm and wish to extract the least significant bit of each byte in the u64.
This is simple enough, you simply perform a binary AND with a mask of
the bits you wish...
Maggie Appleton
Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts
over a year ago
Alex MacCaw
The Illusion of Free Will
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
a year ago
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2024
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last...
a month ago
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last month’s ware. The main reason I liked this ware is actually the board shown below with the prominent star-routing. It’s such traditional hand-routing work, I love craftsmanship like...
Acko.net
I is for Intent
Why your app turned into spaghetti
There's a certain kind of programmer. Let's call him...
10 months ago
Why your app turned into spaghetti
There's a certain kind of programmer. Let's call him Stanley.
Stanley has been around for a while, and has his fair share of war stories. The common thread is that poorly conceived and specced solutions lead to disaster, or at least,...
Liz Denys
Dinosaur pie!
I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago....
over a year ago
I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago. Naturally, I decided to make an apple pie because he likes apple pie and because I can make a mean apple pie with fresh ground cinnamon and a small amount of pre-cooking the apples on the...
wingolog
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera
Consider
. Compared
to finalizers, in which the ,
guardians allow the mutator to control...
5 months ago
Consider
. Compared
to finalizers, in which the ,
guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See
for more notes. Java’s
/
seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently
with the mutator, by the...
Jake Zimmerman
Approximating strace with Instruments.app
2 months ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Thanks React, I'm fine with an imperative setInterval
Like many of you, I've read Dan Abramov's excellent article, making setInterval declarative with...
over a year ago
Like many of you, I've read Dan Abramov's excellent article, making setInterval declarative with React hooks. It's a great introduction to hook thinking and gotchas, highly recommended to any react dev. But by now the insistence on being declarative in every hook ever has gone...
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
a year ago
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
HTMHell
#7 multiple duplicate ids and table layout
Bad code
<table>
<tr id="body">
<td id="body">
<table id="body">
<tr...
over a year ago
Bad code
<table>
<tr id="body">
<td id="body">
<table id="body">
<tr id="body_row">
<td id="body_left">…</td>
<td id="body_middle">…</td>
<td id="body_right">…</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
...
The Pragmatic...
Paying down tech debt: further learnings
In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more...
3 months ago
In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more confidence in a new codebase, and can start to move faster.
Remains of the Day
The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity
I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from...
over a year ago
I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from structural ossification in the music, film, and publishing businesses, to name the most prominent.
One of the ways this manifests is in the one-way broadcast nature of much of our...
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #20: Why do startups fail?
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
A Beautiful Site
Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image
This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of...
over a year ago
This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of dimensions.
get_resized_dimensions() #
Parameters #
$width - The width of the image to be resized
$height - The height of the image to be resized
$max_width - The maximum allowed width of the...
Seán Barry
How to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application
A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
over a year ago
A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
The Codist
Puzzled Why Instagram Fails on Safari
I wanted to look at Instagram to see if every art hashtag was still overwhelmed with terrible AI...
a year ago
I wanted to look at Instagram to see if every art hashtag was still overwhelmed with terrible AI art, but today on Safari, all I get for every page is:
It works on every other browser I have. But why?
In the console are two errors, found and placed there
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is now for sale
After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is...
10 months ago
After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all! This is The Moment of Truth where we get to see whether all that excitement turns into credit card swipes. That release rush. I love it.
And I especially love...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Do forgettable work
There was a great post about doing unforgettable work. Absolutely. Go above and beyond. Do what’s...
11 months ago
There was a great post about doing unforgettable work. Absolutely. Go above and beyond. Do what’s right.
But also, do forgettable work. Work that you won’t remember the following week.
Do a lot of it.
In fact, do at least 30 minutes of utterly forgettable work on something you’re...
elementary Blog
elementary OS 7.1 Available Now
Today, we’re proud to announce that OS 7.1 is available to download now and shipping on several...
a year ago
Today, we’re proud to announce that OS 7.1 is available to download now and shipping on several high-quality computers. This release represents the sum of our work over the last several months as a single major update to the OS 7 series and includes all of the monthly OS updates...
David Heinemeier...
Google's sad ideological capture was exactly what we were trying to avoid
The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the...
9 months ago
The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the smartest acquisitions in tech when they bought DeepMind in 2014. They helped set the course for the modern AI movement with the Transformer paper in 2017. They were poised to be right...
Daniel Miessler
Welcome to Unsupervised Learning
Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free...
over a year ago
Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free to reach out if you find something you love. Best, Daniel InfoSec When to Use Vulnerability Assessment, Pentest, Red Team, vs Bug Bounty How to Build a Successful Information...
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
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
charity.wtf
The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...
over a year ago
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...
Irrational...
Numbers go up.
There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be...
3 months ago
There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be summarized as, “numbers go up.” These games focus on the fundamental gaming loop rather than plot, characterization or anything beyond the foundational satisfaction of numbers...
Liz Denys
A short comic about the Internet Protocol
Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer...
over a year ago
Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer Systems Engineering) recitation last semester:
Josh Collinsworth
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS
Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel...
over a year ago
Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.
Nelson's Weblog
Starlink in Nov 2022
My Starlink Internet service has gotten pretty bad; every evening I'm well under 50Mbps
and some...
over a year ago
My Starlink Internet service has gotten pretty bad; every evening I'm well under 50Mbps
and some hours I only get 2Mbps. (Compare 100Mbps+ last
year.) I've given up trying to stream 1080p video at night; that's a pretty
dismal result for a new Internet service in 2022.
Starlink...
Paolo Amoroso's...
A demo notefile for WebCard
<![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file...
a month ago
<![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file that stores the data of a NoteCards hypertext.
The notefile WCDEMO.NOTEFILE contains exmples of Web cards filed into various types of containers and cards such as fileboxes and Text...
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Don't Rush to Simplicity
Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the...
over a year ago
Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?
David Heinemeier...
Cold reading an ADHD affliction
I'm sure there are truly pathological cases of ADHD out there, and maybe taking amphetamines really...
a month ago
I'm sure there are truly pathological cases of ADHD out there, and maybe taking amphetamines really is a magic pill for some folks. But there clearly is also an entire cottage industry cropping up around convincing perfectly normal people that they suffer from ADHD, and that this...
Irrational...
Engineering strategy notes.
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy,
and as part of that have started...
a year ago
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy,
and as part of that have started re-reading previous resources
on the topic, and looking for new things to read while I refine
my point of view on what makes for good engineering strategy.
The best introduction to my...
Vadim Kravcenko
How do you know when to use which programming language?
Hello Alex, Congrats on graduating. So the question you’re asking is very vague, but I’d like to...
10 months ago
Hello Alex, Congrats on graduating. So the question you’re asking is very vague, but I’d like to help you out […]
The post How do you know when to use which programming language? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Code Of Honor
The making of Warcraft part 2
In my previous article about Warcraft I talked about the beginnings of a series that would come to...
over a year ago
In my previous article about Warcraft I talked about the beginnings of a series that would come to define Blizzard Entertainment and lead it to being one of the best-known and most-loved game companies in the world. But how did Warcraft go from an idea to a full-fledged game? Let...
Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
a year ago
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
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JAMstack for Indie Hackers
_This article was [published on Indie...
over a year ago
_This article was [published on Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/jamstack-for-indie-hackers-b07f7a943d)!_
Vadim Kravcenko
Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way
As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it...
over a year ago
As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it wrong, […]
The post Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal
A case study I published for my work at Temporal
over a year ago
A case study I published for my work at Temporal
David Heinemeier...
Beautiful motivations
Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A...
7 months ago
Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A thin sheen of flashy marketing design covering up for a rotten or deficient product. Something that looks good from afar, but reveals itself to be a disappointing imitation up...
On Test Automation
Contract testing - what (not) to test for - part 1
Recently, I started working with a new client who have been working on their contract testing...
4 weeks ago
Recently, I started working with a new client who have been working on their contract testing implementation for a while and figured out they could use some outside help. I’ve paid them a visit recently, and to make the most out of our time together (there was some travel...
A Smart Bear
Stop saying "fail"
Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations...
a year ago
Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations and to suggest the next step.
Greg Brockman
How I became a machine learning practitioner
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little...
over a year ago
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but not impossible, and I think most...
David Heinemeier...
Automattic is doing open source dirty
Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to...
2 months ago
Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to WordPress is a wanton violation of general open source ideals and the specifics of the GPL license. Automattic is completely out of line, and the potential damage to the open source world...
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The Part Time Creator Manifesto
Why we need more people creating Part Time and how you can do it too.
over a year ago
Why we need more people creating Part Time and how you can do it too.
Maggie Appleton
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology
over a year ago
markround.com
A Splinter In Your Mind
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
ntietz.com blog
Feature flags and authorization abstract the same concept
When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things.
They...
a year ago
When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things.
They are used for different purposes.
But ultimately, they are abstractions of the same thing.
They might even be the same thing except for how they are used and the consequences for...
macwright.com
Homeownership
Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house
and they can’t, or...
a year ago
Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house
and they can’t, or they’ve bought a house. The desire to own ones own home is
almost universal in the people I know in the US. It’s even stronger for folks
who live outside of major cities. And people...
Maggie Appleton
Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
bt RSS Feed
Fixing Jekyll's dart-sass Dependency on OpenBSD
Fixing Jekyll’s dart-sass Dependency on OpenBSD
2024-06-30
I recently wrote about working with...
5 months ago
Fixing Jekyll’s dart-sass Dependency on OpenBSD
2024-06-30
I recently wrote about working with multiple Ruby versions on OpenBSD which still works just fine, but I noticed a bug when trying to build a couple of my Jekyll projects locally:
NotImplementedError: dart-sass for...
bt RSS Feed
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
2019-09-28
I recently began working on a small side...
over a year ago
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
2019-09-28
I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I’m writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
Steve Klabnik
Create a more compelling experience for your users through game mechanics
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours...
On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
over a year ago
On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in its default form), since it transmits IP addresses…
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential PostHog apps for new users
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
over a year ago
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
macwright.com
Recently
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days
late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
a year ago
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days
late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty busy! Things
are good. Building products is fun but also a lot of work.
Pretty excited about what I’m working on. Ready for winter to
end.
Reading
I enjoyed reading Ross Barkan’s...
Josh Comeau's blog
My experience as a remote worker
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
over a year ago
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
Dan Slimmon
3 questions that will make you a phenomenal rubber duck
As a Postgres reliability consultant and SRE, I’ve spent many hours being a rubber duck. Now I...
11 months ago
As a Postgres reliability consultant and SRE, I’ve spent many hours being a rubber duck. Now I outperform even the incisive bath toy. “Rubber duck debugging” is a widespread, tongue-in-cheek term for the practice of explaining, out-loud, a difficult problem that you’re stumped...
ntietz.com blog
Fiction as a lens into technological change
The world is changing right now.
We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact...
a year ago
The world is changing right now.
We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact on almost every field, and we could see anything from minor efficiency gains to catastrophic AI apocalypses to mass disruption of many jobs.
The cone of possibility is wide, and...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and...
over a year ago
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and well. I'm not some crazy old fuck who thinks AngularJS is a promising new technology. Nor have I been waiting to publish this post for 3 years. It's just how things turned up for me....
Ognjen Regoje •...
Remote job sites need a "Timezone overlap" filter
There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a...
a year ago
There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a timezone. (n often seems to be 2).
But I have not come across a remote job site that has a filter that supports this.
Most allow you to choose your timezone and then filter jobs...
Blog System/5
Links: February 2024 edition
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
9 months ago
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
Irrational...
Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional.
In some pockets of the industry, an axiom of software development is that deploying software quickly...
11 months ago
In some pockets of the industry, an axiom of software development is that deploying software quickly is at odds with thoroughly testing that software. One reason that teams believe this is because a fully automated deployment process implies that there’s no opportunity for manual...
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES explained
AES is the modern standard encryption algorithm, but how does it work?
Where does it come from?...
11 months ago
AES is the modern standard encryption algorithm, but how does it work?
Where does it come from? Let’s kick the tyres with a high-level overview of
AES internals.
TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。
TokyoDev...
a year ago
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。
TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
ntietz.com blog
Profiling Rust programs the easy way
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust.
It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
a year ago
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust.
It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need.
So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that?
Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
alexwlchan
Agile and iterative project management
Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project...
over a year ago
Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project management.
I was talking about how READMEs serve as the first point of contact for a project; how they get new users interested in and excited about the project.
The cohort calls...
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The Roaring 2020's
Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea...
over a year ago
Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea about.
ntietz.com blog
Paper review: C-store
It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it!
This week I read...
over a year ago
It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it!
This week I read "C-store: a column-oriented DBMS" from chapter 4 of the Red Book.
This one I picked since I thought it would be helpful for the chess database I'm working on, and it does seem...
ntietz.com blog
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college.
In that time, I've worked at three...
over a year ago
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college.
In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!).
I've also struggled with depression...
Blog System/5
Running GNU on DOS with DJGPP
Peeking under the covers to see how DJGPP manages to run GCC on DOS
10 months ago
Peeking under the covers to see how DJGPP manages to run GCC on DOS
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 9: Parallels of Proofs and Programs
I have three weeks left at Recurse Center.
This last week was significantly less productive for me...
over a year ago
I have three weeks left at Recurse Center.
This last week was significantly less productive for me than usual, because I've been pretty fatigued and just recovered from a cold.
But I still got some work done that I'm proud of.
More than that, I'm excited for the coming three...
A Smart Bear
Tech Support is sales
Tech support isn't just troubleshooting; it's the face of your company. Which means it's your brand,...
a month ago
Tech support isn't just troubleshooting; it's the face of your company. Which means it's your brand, your positioning, and when it's excellent, it is sales.
Liz Denys
The baked apple pancake
I don't have a lot of complete memories from my childhood. Somehow, my photographic memory didn't...
over a year ago
I don't have a lot of complete memories from my childhood. Somehow, my photographic memory didn't kick in until the middle of seventh grade, when all of a sudden I started to remember everything. Sadly, everything from before that time is either a blurry film played a fifteen...
Making software...
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-10
Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
over a year ago
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-10
Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
Joel Gascoigne
What it's really like to grow a team when you're focused on culture-fit
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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It’s often...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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It’s often interesting to look back and think about how much I’ve learned in the
past year or two. Especially areas where I almost had no understanding at all.
Company culture is one of those...
Julia Evans
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS
periodically runs out of...
a month ago
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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Using DEV.to as a CMS
Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
over a year ago
Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
Blog System/5
20 years of blogging
A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a...
6 months ago
A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a newsletter using Substack.
David Gerrells
how not to run a saas company
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
2 months ago
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
blag
How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x...
7 hours ago
This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
exist
Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Speculative Calendar Events
11 months ago
Irrational...
Who runs Engineering processes?
Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was...
a year ago
Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was created as a deliberate non-acronym–but was otherwise a fairly typical review process. When I first joined, we’d review one or two specs each week.
The volume of requested reviews...
David Heinemeier...
Tesla wins
When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was...
a year ago
When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was spotty, brakes didn't match the performance, and handling was at best so-so. But it could carry seven, including luggage, was electric, and the dual-motor acceleration was a hoot. So...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired...
11 months ago
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired 10 people into our team. It's been extremely tiring: around 80 hours of active interviewing, plus writing interview reports, plus screening CVs and take-home assignments, plus...
samwho.dev
Fun With Rust's Traits
Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees
with this statement. It's...
over a year ago
Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees
with this statement. It's a great way to encode shared behaviour between
data types, and create flexible APIs.
It's also great for writing nonsense like this:
use std::f64::consts::PI;
use...
Stephen Wolfram...
What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine...
4 months ago
The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine learning. Yes, from an engineering point of view, an immense amount has been figured out about how to build neural nets that do all kinds of impressive and sometimes almost...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Search - New Features
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three...
over a year ago
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three months.
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 5: Wrapping up projects and starting a new one
Another week of my RC batch wraps up.
I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left!
Time is...
over a year ago
Another week of my RC batch wraps up.
I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left!
Time is still flying by, and I've hit an inflection point.
I have gotten what I want out of the two projects I've worked on so far, so I'm going to wrap them up and move on to one new...
A Beautiful Site
How to use currentColor in your stylesheet
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way...
over a year ago
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way to reference the current text color when writing CSS. Works in modern browsers, including IE9+.
If you use Less or Sass then you probably already use something like @text-color....
alexwlchan
Two examples of hover styles on images
I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites.
A good hover style reminds me of how fast and...
2 months ago
I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites.
A good hover style reminds me of how fast and responsive our computers can be, if we let them.
For example, I add a thicker underline when you hover over a link on this site, and it appears/disappears almost instantly as I move my...
Charles Chen
Nuxt 3 with SSR on Google Cloud Firebase Functions (2023)
If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no...
a year ago
If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no further!
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to run a transparent startup
There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
over a year ago
There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
Paolo Amoroso's...
Fixing and enhancing the WebCard card constructor
<. A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
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Know Your Tools
> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
over a year ago
> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Network Security
What is Traffic Engineering?
over a year ago
What is Traffic Engineering?
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Six
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
11 months ago
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How the internet became shit
I recently replaced the battery on my iPhone 8 (it's the perfect smartphone; fight me) in an attempt...
8 months ago
I recently replaced the battery on my iPhone 8 (it's the perfect smartphone; fight me) in an attempt to prolong its life by a few more years. However, the iStore service centre required that the phone be wiped to comply with the POPIA act prior to any kind of service work...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The best open-source analytics tools you can self-host
Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide...
a year ago
Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide we've split them into two categories: Self-hosted…
macwright.com
Web technology optimism hour
It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology.
Between the developer...
over a year ago
It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology.
Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced
negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and
the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter
and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Persisting State to localStorage in Recoil Across Browser Tabs
I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React.
I needed to persist some...
a month ago
I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React.
I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs.
That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multiple...
Seldo.com
Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly
over a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Laying myself off from Amazon
Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize...
over a year ago
Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize the timing of this is quite coincidental…
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a waitlist with Supabase and Next.js
Let's build a simple app where:
1. Users sign up and join a waitlist.
2. Upon admin approval,...
11 months ago
Let's build a simple app where:
1. Users sign up and join a waitlist.
2. Upon admin approval, users get a notification email and can use the app.
Miguel Carranza
The privilege of free education
There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the...
over a year ago
There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the closest school to their family home. A particular degree not being taught nearby, or not getting in (mostly due to the limited number of seats) are the main exceptions for traveling...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is SSO and why you should enable it for PostHog
Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used...
over a year ago
Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used and appreciated by both IT teams and everyday…
Elad Blog
Discussion w Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI
Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
9 months ago
Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
HTMHell
My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving...
2 days ago
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol' CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy CSS nonsense here. No siree. We use HTML as the good lord intended and shalln't...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Five Tricks for Debug-Logging in JavaScript
Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple...
over a year ago
Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple tricks you can use right now.
We'll be talking about console.log and friends for debugging javascript, mostly in the browser. If you don't use devtools debugger — try it, but I'm...
James Vaughan's blog
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win
Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
over a year ago
Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Quick Tip: docx is a zip Archive
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached...
over a year ago
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached media. Super useful, everyone should know it!
When I tell my colleagues, friends, or students about it, they don't take me seriously the first time. So, here we go again. If you have...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically.
In this article I...
over a year ago
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically.
In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data.
Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application.
It uses modern,...
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 -...
over a year ago
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions.
I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
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Array 1.29.0
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
over a year ago
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How Bear does analytics with CSS
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great...
a year ago
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there, but I wanted to build one native to Bear.
tldr;
One of my constraints for Bear is to not use client-side javascript. This...
ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing MIDI messages in Rust
I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI.
That means I need a MIDI...
a week ago
I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI.
That means I need a MIDI implementation!
I chose to use an existing library, midir, to connect to devices and receive messages.
But the reason I was interested in this not-yet-announced project is because I...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22: failure and success
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Epic Web Dev
Only use GET and POST (tip)
Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and...
a year ago
Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and how it can affect the user experience.
Making software...
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
2017-10-10
Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
over a year ago
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...
A Beautiful Site
How to upgrade or downgrade Node.js using npm
Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command...
over a year ago
Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command line using npm.
Upgrading to the latest stable version #
This will update you to the latest available stable version:
sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n...
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...
over a year ago
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
bt RSS Feed
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
2021-04-27
Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
over a year ago
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
2021-04-27
Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS.
The Demo
Live CodePen Example
The...
The Changelog
How Gapped is Your Air?
Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things. For instance: An industrial control...
a year ago
Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things. For instance: An industrial control system for a municipal water-treatment plant should never have data come in or out Or, a variant of the industrial control system: it should only permit telemetry and monitoring data...
Steve Klabnik
The hardest decision I've ever made
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups
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over a year ago
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It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people
who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that
way, it is completely understandable...
Making software...
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-03-03
For the longest time I've been using a Samsung...
a year ago
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-03-03
For the longest time I've been using a Samsung 27" UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn't a bad setup, but I have since...
the singularity is...
A One Way Bridge
Okay I went to Devcon. And while there I had a great idea that the crypto space really needs. It...
a month ago
Okay I went to Devcon. And while there I had a great idea that the crypto space really needs. It seems like while AI infrastructure has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 5 years, crypto infra has actually gotten worse. I’m proposing some great new infrastructure that the...
Confessions of a...
Live Session on CPython Virtual Machine Internals + Upcoming Posts
We are long overdue for a new live session as well as some more articles.
8 months ago
We are long overdue for a new live session as well as some more articles.
On Life and Lisp
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
over a year ago
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
A Beautiful Site
Hide the mouse cursor with CSS
I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it...
over a year ago
I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it altogether.
.no-cursor {
cursor: none;
}
Of course, that doesn't mean you should, it just means you can. Practical uses for this are definitely limited, but things like...
Steve Klabnik
Beware subclassing Ruby core classes
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor)
How AI beat me at code optimization game.
When I started writing this article I did not...
3 months ago
How AI beat me at code optimization game.
When I started writing this article I did not expect AI to beat me at optimizing JavaScript code. But it did.
I’m really passionate about optimizing JavaScript. Some say it’s a mental illness but I like my code to go balls to...
Remains of the Day
TikTok and the Sorting Hat
I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
over a year ago
I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
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...
a year ago
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...
David Heinemeier...
Finished software
One of the driving aspirations behind once.com is the notion that not all software needs to evolve...
12 months ago
One of the driving aspirations behind once.com is the notion that not all software needs to evolve forever. We’ve become so used to digital services being malleable that we’ve confused the possibility of software updates with their necessity. Some software can simply be finished,...
elementary Blog
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
a year ago
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
bt RSS Feed
"This Key is Useless Now. Discard?"
“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?”
2024-08-28
The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic...
3 months ago
“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?”
2024-08-28
The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic memories for old school Resident Evil veterans like myself. My personal favourite in the series (not that anyone asked) was the original, 1998 version of Resident Evil 2 (RE2). I...
David Heinemeier...
Picking a purpose
Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War...
12 months ago
Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War II. He observed the outer extreme of what happens to people who no longer have a WHY to live for. They’d wither and die in the camp. Even the most dire rations and punishing labor...
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...
over a year ago
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>...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Creating Some Noise on Behalf of Silence
How do you write about the value of silence?
It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use...
5 months ago
How do you write about the value of silence?
It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use words to extol the value of something whose essence is the very absence of words?
It’s like making a painting of the invisible. Do you use visible means to depict something that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Developer Exception Engineering
It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the...
over a year ago
It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the uncomfortable ones.
Making software...
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World
2023-09-26
The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
a year ago
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World
2023-09-26
The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you're wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The God Endpoints will continue until morale improves
a brief meditation on why we keep trying to build God Endpoints and why we will fail until we figure...
over a year ago
a brief meditation on why we keep trying to build God Endpoints and why we will fail until we figure out interfaces.
Neil Panchal
Introducing Berkeley Mono
Now publicly available!
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Download a trial:...
over a year ago
Now publicly available!
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Download a trial: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono
It will be available through Berkeley Graphics agency as a first release.
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Berkeley Mono is a love letter to the golden era of computing....
David Heinemeier...
Basecamp turns 20
On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve...
10 months ago
On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve our own problems running client projects as an agency where we found email alone to be lacking. The first version was really just the basics: Messages, todo lists, milestones. We...
Elad Blog
Transcript & Video: Fireside w/ Dylan Field
Figma, AI, Design, & Education
a year ago
Figma, AI, Design, & Education
A small freedom area...
Figuring out round, floor and ceil with integer division
Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to
make it bit-exact....
over a year ago
Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to
make it bit-exact. Preserving the precision as best as possible was way more
challenging than I initially though, which forced me to go deep down the rabbit
hole. During the process I realized I had...
HTMHell
Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS
by John Allsopp
A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications...
2 weeks ago
by John Allsopp
A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications (and web sites for those who maintain there's a difference), opening up new possibilities for web app architectures, and website experiences. So let’s take a look at View...
Steve Klabnik
Transmuting Philosophy into Machinery
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
The different ways of traveling
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over a year ago
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One of the incredible side-effects of doing retreats 3 times a year with my
startup
[https://joel.is/post/79092725144/why-we-go-on-international-retreats-3-times-a-year-with]
is that I get the...
Epic Web Dev
What's Coming in React 19 Beta (tip)
7 months ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Shameless green: TDD in Go
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty...
6 months ago
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty solutions, without worrying about whether the code is
elegant and readable—yet. Let’s see how to use the TDD technique called
“Shameless Green”.
blag
PSA: Most databases do not do checksums by default
Most databases don’t do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
a month ago
Most databases don’t do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
37signals Dev
Kamal 2.0 released
We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or...
2 months ago
We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers.
Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer.
With Kamal 2.0...
General Robots
Writing Libraries for AIs to Use
Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers...
a year ago
Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” but in the future we have a third category. I think that programs and libraries (and programming languages?) that lend themselves to effective AI assistance will win...
HTMHell
#33 make me one (input) with everything
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more.
Bad...
3 months ago
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more.
Bad code
<label for="textinput">First name</label>
<input type="text" id="textinput" aria-label="First name" placeholder="First name" title="First name">
Issues and how to fix them
The...
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Book Poll 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
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):
A Beautiful Site
A Web Components Primer
On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple...
over a year ago
On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple thought quickly turned into a series of tweets that folks seem to find useful. I've adapted the thread and I'm posting it here for prosperity.
Overview #
Shadow DOM? Light DOM? Slots?...
Liz Denys
Hardbrücke, Zürich
The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite...
over a year ago
The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite a captivating neighborhood. It's literally quite colorful, and home to Freitag's flagship store.
macwright.com
Recently
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and
will write about some retrospectives...
a year ago
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and
will write about some retrospectives on how the business and such
have gone, but for now, let’s keep this traditional, a good old-fashioned
Recently.
Reading
This month’s theme, looking back on it, was feminism, and...
Irrational...
Safe defaults.
Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice...
a year ago
Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice rankled a colleague. He wanted to spin up a new engineering team of two people, which I thought was a bad idea. It would be a fragile team that would fall apart quickly if it...
A Beautiful Site
Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were...
over a year ago
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were rotating on a page in the form of a slideshow, fading in and out for a nice, smooth transition. One problem, though: in Internet Explorer 7 (and 6, as it turned out), one of the images...
Julia Evans
Behind "Hello World" on Linux
Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World”
Python program on...
a year ago
Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World”
Python program on Linux, like this one?
print("hello world")
Here’s what it looks like at the command line:
$ python3 hello.py
hello world
But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on....
elementary Blog
The System Settings Redesign Has Landed
This month the biggest story is System Settings, but we also have some great progress on the new...
8 months ago
This month the biggest story is System Settings, but we also have some great progress on the new Dock and Wayland. Plus a small change to default keyboard shortcuts that you might appreciate. Read ahead to find out the new developments you have to look forward to in the upcoming...
Making software...
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal...
over a year ago
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It's pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc.
The only small...
bt RSS Feed
HTML Dark Mode
HTML Dark Mode
2023-04-11
I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark
Mode...
a year ago
HTML Dark Mode
2023-04-11
I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark
Mode where I explained how to implement
a very basic “dark mode” by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute.
This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
The Changelog
Asynchronous Email: Exim over NNCP (or UUCP)
Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with...
over a year ago
Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with modern encryption and onion routing, here is the first of my posts showing how to put it into action. Email is a natural fit for async; in fact, much of early email was carried by...
Blog - Bitfield...
Master of my domain
Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being
the boss? Some more...
9 months ago
Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being
the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
David Heinemeier...
Finishing Hotwire with the introduction of Strada
When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is...
a year ago
When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is Turbo. That's the drop-in level-up that makes multi-page web apps feel like single-page web apps – without giving up any of the development advantages to server-side programming....
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are...
over a year ago
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great.
This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...
Epic Web Dev
Web Application Testing (workshop)
Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing...
a year ago
Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing covers unit testing, E2E, integration testing, and more!
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fibonacci Goals
A system for goalsetting.
over a year ago
A system for goalsetting.
A Beautiful Site
Get comfortable with abstraction
I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly...
over a year ago
I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly because it's something I tend to have a problem with.
You see, I have this thing where I try really hard to understand exactly how something works—all the way down to the last nut and...
Kagi Blog
Summarize anything with the Universal Summarizer
Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing...
a year ago
Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing just about any content of any type and any length, by simply providing a URL address (and soon ( #roadmap ) by uploading a file).
Steve Klabnik
Ruby on Rails maintenance policy
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
over a year ago
Making software...
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
2019-04-26
I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
over a year ago
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...
Epic Web Dev
What is a Superset (in programming?) (article)
Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency,...
9 months ago
Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
Acko.net
Climbing Mount Effect
Declarative Code and Effects
This is a series about incrementalism in code and coding. On the one...
over a year ago
Declarative Code and Effects
This is a series about incrementalism in code and coding. On the one hand, I mean code that is rewindable and resumable. On the other, I mean incremental changes in how we code.
This is not an easy topic, because understanding some of the best...
37signals Dev
The gift of constraints
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do...
3 months ago
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do the best possible work everywhere, but optimizing every piece takes time, and time is finite.
I’ve done a poor job here countless times in my career. And I have seen many others...
Epic Web Dev
Inverse Assertions (article)
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives...
2 months ago
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives in time-dependent tests without using sleep.
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