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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
alexwlchan
Starting Docker just before I need it Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog,...
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Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog, and even if it’s doing nothing it can make my laptop feel sluggish. I’ll often stop if it my computer feels slow, which is great right until the next time I need to use it: $...
Sometimes It Works...
Simon Shares I've started a little podcast! If you give it a listen, I'd love to know what you think.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia FizzBuzz
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
How to build a cloud-hosted accessibility testing Windows computer using Amazon WorkSpaces
over a year ago
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...
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Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used and appreciated by both IT teams and everyday…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
over a year ago
General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Step 4: Profit? About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and...
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About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of...
bt RSS Feed
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice...
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Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice in web design, but many times it requires JavaScript to properly implement. Fortunately it is possible to create tabbed content with only using CSS. Live CodePen...
David Gerrells
a perfect blog editor What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
A designer developing for Android
over a year ago
Alice GG
Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The...
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Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub. This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is React Suspense? Illustrated notes on how React suspense works
over a year ago
Seán Barry
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
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Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate It's been almost 2 years since I moved to a team lead role, then to a full-time engineering...
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It's been almost 2 years since I moved to a team lead role, then to a full-time engineering management position after the expansion of our team. I've been a front-end developer for 7 years before that, and initially I took the "advanced individual contributor" career track before...
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
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A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
David Gerrells
How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
8 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Either your estimates suck or your job does This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
a year ago
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
IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020 Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
over a year ago
Blog System/5
Code reviews: A success story A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
a year ago
Computer Things
A list of ternary operators Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
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Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators. Almost all...
Engineer’s Codex
Meta reveals their serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more...
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XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more efficient than AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The conformist startup rule you can ignore This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
Chris Nicholas
A reactive framework in 40 lines In this article I'll be explaining one method to create a basic reactive framework (in just 40 lines...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article I'll be explaining one method to create a basic reactive framework (in just 40 lines of code).
samwho.dev
Having a Baby During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
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During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn. This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
Basta’s Notes
25 terrible engineer interview questions Ones that you should never ask
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #17: The personal traits that can't be taught 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…
Blog - Bitfield...
Programming with confidence: TDD in Go There’s an easy, pleasant, and reliable way to build software in Go, guided by tests. Let’s find...
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a year ago
There’s an easy, pleasant, and reliable way to build software in Go, guided by tests. Let’s find out what it’s like to program with confidence, in the first part of this TDD tutorial series.
Founder's blog
ChatGPT won't "kill Google" because Google is already dead I have just conducted an experiment where I forced myself to use Bing's new chat-based search for...
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I have just conducted an experiment where I forced myself to use Bing's new chat-based search for almost a week, and spoiler alert: I loved it. But I'll get into that later. Googling without Google When was the last time you searched Google and found the answer on the...
Blog of Simple...
Cookie banners: How to stay GDPR compliant?
over a year ago
dthompson
Haunt 0.2.6 released Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that...
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Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that was accidentally broken in 0.2.5. Additionally, Haunt now uses the inotify API to watch for file changes on Linux when running haunt serve --watch, replacing a slower and more naive...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Domain Sins of My Youth I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the...
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I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the checkout screen, I realized it would cost me $105 to renew this domain for 5 years. Why 5 years? Right now my disposition is: if I plan on keeping a domain for as long as possible I...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The sound of silence Thoughts on being in my head
5 months ago
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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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
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #15 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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over 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…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Data Management for PostHog PostHog is growing fast. In just the last year we've measured ~36.5B total events ingested in...
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PostHog is growing fast. In just the last year we've measured ~36.5B total events ingested in PostHog Cloud, and hundreds of self-hosted users reached…
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2025: What I’ve Learned by Building to Last Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2025. This year, the theme is Sustaining Software Development...
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Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2025. This year, the theme is Sustaining Software Development Craft, and here’s the description from the conference website: The big question we want to explore is – how can we keep doing the work we do, when it sustains us, provides meaning...
The Codist
What I Miss And Don't From Working As A Programmer I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code...
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I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code daily, I do so to support my generative art rather than get paid for it. Most of my career was spent building new applications, and no matter what my title was, I
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
Max Countryman
Data for Decisions Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our...
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Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our businesses. That said, the value of data is rarely the data itself but instead the insights we derive from it. In order to ensure these insights are meaningful and impactful it's...
Steve Klabnik
Docember
over a year ago
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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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...
Code Of Honor
StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it...
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In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it from a follow-on to Warcraft — derisively called “Orcs in space” in 1996 — into the award-winning game that we were finally able to deliver after two more years of hardship. But one...
Vadim Kravcenko
How much a CTO makes and where can I find CTO Jobs? Question: Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in...
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Question: Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in terms of $$$, most of the people in the field are secretive about how much they're getting. It's not just about the money (okay, it's a bit about the money), but also understanding if...
Darek Kay
GitHub developer statistics Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
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Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee: 1002 pull requests shipped 3062 pull requests reviewed 5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise) LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
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...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2023 The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to...
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The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to guess it exactly! Congrats, email me for your prize. It is the case that Pioneer gear has a very distinctive design style to it. I wonder if their PCB design software isn’t some...
TokyoDev
Working with Tech Recruiters in Japan **Recruiters, Consultants, Career Advisors, Headhunters.** I've heard so many names from...
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a year ago
**Recruiters, Consultants, Career Advisors, Headhunters.** I've heard so many names from different people that I've talked to, but all in all, the bulk of the work is the same -- they receive information on what kind of employee a client wants to hire, and start looking for...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
All About That Button, ’Bout That Button In modern SPAs it’s common to immediately escape baked-in browser behaviors. For example, using...
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In modern SPAs it’s common to immediately escape baked-in browser behaviors. For example, using <button> often looks like this: <div> <input type="text" name="q" /> <button type="submit" onClick={(e) => { // Stop the baked-in behavior ...
Making software...
Billing for One CSS Change Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed...
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Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed back to the client. A simple button color change? Bill them. Additional links added to an existing menu? Send that invoice over. Some basic typeface changes? Don't do it for...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React...
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On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React what REST APIs are to local-first sync engines. jQuery was manual DOM manipulation. You were in charge of writing the instructions to create, read, update, and delete DOM...
Eric Bailey
How to not make a résumé in React I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like...
over a year ago
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I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like recently. They all promise the same thing, namely how to use React to create a résumé. I mean, I get it. It’s important to have something to build towards when learning a new skill,...
Darek Kay
Grab browser links and titles in one click When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link...
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When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link as rich text (e.g., when pasting the link into OneNote or Jira). Sometimes I prefer a Markdown link. There are browser extensions to achieve this task, but I don't want to...
Yale E360
Email addresses are not primary user identities A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and...
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A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and which will never change. It can't be linked to someone else, and it can't change. This is, of course, not true. Email addresses do change. I changed my work email address recently...
Epic Web Dev
Inverse Assertions (article) Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives...
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Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives in time-dependent tests without using sleep.
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
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A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
the singularity is...
There is no hard takeoff Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view....
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Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view. Soon, Go agents would beat top humans learning from self play. By the end of 2017, the same algorithm mastered Chess and Shogi. By 2020, it didn’t even need tons of calls to the...
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...
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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...
blag
About Some Stuff About Me
over a year ago
HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
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This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development: 🔥 the close button. 🔥 In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
Steve Klabnik
Narratives
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Re: Selling your extension Although my fifteen minutes of fame for Millennials to Snake people is long over, I still get the...
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Although my fifteen minutes of fame for Millennials to Snake people is long over, I still get the occasional email offering to: Buy the extension outright, or Pay me to add their code into it. The goal of each offer is the same. The solicitor wants to add malicious code for some...
ntietz.com blog -...
Debugging my wife's alarm clock My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately. Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't...
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My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately. Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't blare in the morning at the set time. Instead, when it was supposed to go off it would... reset itself. The time would start flashing in that "I'm confused because the power went...
Sometimes It Works...
How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac ¶How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP...
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How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac ¶How to install the MongoDB extension in MAMP for Mac Yes, I use MAMP. Sue me (please don’t sue me). It’s actually a pretty good stack for standard web dev and I’ve found that it works fine for most of my needs, even with...
wingolog
whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been...
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Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been finally starting to look at getting into , and there are some open questions.WhippetGuile I started by taking a look at how Guile uses the ‘s API, to make sure I had all my bases...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials...
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In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials of stolen Nazi riches stored in the local salt mine. Eventually, the Americans found the mine and began exploring it, ending up at a vaulted door. Here’s the story, as told by Greg...
Grant Slatton
HTML5 Canvas simulations A collection of little HTML5 canvas demos
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Write better cukes with the rel attribute
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
04 · Opening the Pre-Alpha Open-souring the code
4 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.20.0 We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
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We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.3.0 Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and...
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Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. Release notes…
HTMHell
#22 the good ol’ div link Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div...
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Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div onClick="location.href='about.html'"> About us </div> <div data-page="aboutus" data-url="index.php"> About us </div> …or any other variation of this pattern where an element other than <a> is used to link to a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Reflecting on YC, 2 years on Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
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Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
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I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
Epic Web Dev
Exploring the has Utility in Tailwind CSS (tip)
a year ago
Julia Evans
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed) I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my playgrounds (nginx, dns,...
11 months ago
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I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my playgrounds (nginx, dns, memory, more DNS) are written in Go, but many of those projects are just a few hundred lines and I don’t come back to those codebases much. I thought I more or less understood the...
bt RSS Feed
Using HTML Validator Badges Again Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
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over a year ago
Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren’t great (and still aren’t perfect) but they represented a...
Eric Bailey
Free idea: design token ugly mode A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every...
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A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every other page or view. It’s just good design. Smaller, newer experiences tend to be more uniform than not. This makes sense in that the bulk of the experience is created at the same...
A Beautiful Site
Moving to Node.js The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
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The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
beep.blog
Rolumns 1.3 & Recompose 1.0 I built them, and now you're going to hear about it.
a year ago
Hixie's Natural Log
Indexing into a string I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into...
a year ago
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a year ago
I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into an integer type.
Grant Slatton
Design Patterns An honest primer
6 months ago
MMapped blog
Effective Rust canisters
over a year ago
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
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Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post: On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
Making software...
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux...
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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It's been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it's nice to use...
A Smart Bear
Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an...
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a year ago
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
A Beautiful Site
Converting a URL Object to a Plain Object in JavaScript I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's...
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I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's pretty handy for working with URLs! const url = new URL('https://example.com/'); console.log(url); // URL {origin: 'https://example.com', protocol: 'https:', username: '',...
Irrational...
Systems model of API deprecation In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a...
3 months ago
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In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a significant cause of customer churn. While there is internal data that can be used to correlate deprecation with churn, it’s also valuable to build a model to help us decide if we...
David Heinemeier...
Europe's impotent rage Europe has become a third-rate power economically, politically, and militarily, and the price for...
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Europe has become a third-rate power economically, politically, and militarily, and the price for this slowly building predicament is now due all at once. First, America is seeking to negotiate peace in Ukraine directly with Russia, without even inviting Europe to the table....
David Heinemeier...
The price of managed cloud services One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
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One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
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Personnel update This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt...
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This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt coldly impersonal for such a deeply personal event, so I imagined what it would be like if the same approach were taken to other deeply personal events. * * * Subject: Personnel...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2023 The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware!...
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a year ago
The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware! Unfortunately this image does have an exact hit on Google images, as it is already in Cedric’s social media feed — but I think the ware itself is functionally interesting, yet simple...
The Codist
How To Know When It's Time To Go I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not...
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I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore. Everyone will eventually reach a point at
macwright.com
Headlamps are better flashlights A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a...
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A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a flashlight, you need to use your hands too. Headlamps solve that problem. They’re bright enough for most purposes and are usually smaller than flashlights too. There are very few...
Ink & Switch
Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles...
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In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
Epic Web Dev
.toBeVisible() or .toBeInTheDocument()? (article) A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their...
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A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their differences, use cases, and best practices
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Gestures Some of the techniques we use to handle events and gestures in our prototypes
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I’m keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
David Crawshaw
Under the heel of the spirit "Everybody thought Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon were spending four-and-a-half percent of the...
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"Everybody thought Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon were spending four-and-a-half percent of the federal budget each year to prove that America owned Science. This was all a fiction. The Apollo Program was an elaborate demonstration of how even the blandest among us are under the...
Making software...
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Europeans spend 575 Million hours per year clicking cookie banners
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Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
a year ago
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Asking questions the right way In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
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In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […] The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Serverless Machine Learning at Google ---
over a year ago
Neil Panchal
Overkill Objects for Everyday Life I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
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I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
Founder's blog
How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS...
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TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS default 64 plus one). ••• On my recent mountain biking trip to France I accidentally booked an Airbnb without WiFi. Bummer. But hey, 5 minutes of googling and I found a...
Blog System/5
Why do I know shell, and how can you? My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
a year ago
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Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Give me a definition for the word dashboard I finished up a research project a couple of weeks ago, and I'd like to share a detail that...
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over a year ago
I finished up a research project a couple of weeks ago, and I'd like to share a detail that completely threw me for a loop. We were conducting user research with a demographic with a high degree of variability in both skill level and technological literacy. The common thread was...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
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We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
Josh Comeau's blog
Demystifying styled-components For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses...
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over a year ago
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how styled-components works by...
Grant Slatton
Ghost Side Control Escape System (BJJ) A video instructional on my preferred side control escape system
11 months ago
TokyoDev
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
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over a year ago
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
A Beautiful Site
Downloading a list of URLs automatically I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to...
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over a year ago
I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to the bucket — I only had a list of URLs. There were too many to fetch one by one, so I wanted to fetch them automatically. Here are a couple ways I found to do that. Using curl # Curl...
Josh Comeau's blog
Statements Vs. Expressions One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of...
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over a year ago
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us...
Maggie Appleton
Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding How IP Addressing evolved over time, how it works today, and how we can transition to IPv6 in future
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Increase open file limit on Ubuntu Linux What and why of open file limit If you run a webapp on a Linux server, your webapp needs...
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What and why of open file limit If you run a webapp on a Linux server, your webapp needs to open files and make network connections. Most Linux servers have horrible default for this and limit the number of opened files at the same time to e.g. 1024. To check the...
sancho.dev
Hello Internet
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Making inventory spreadsheets for my LEGO sets One of my recent home organisation projects has been sorting out my LEGO collection. I have a bunch...
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5 months ago
One of my recent home organisation projects has been sorting out my LEGO collection. I have a bunch of sets which are mixed together in one messy box, and I’m trying to separate bricks back into distinct sets. My collection is nowhere near large enough to be worth sorting by...
Steve Klabnik
Twitter ghosts
over a year ago
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Sunsetting Kubernetes support for PostHog We're sunsetting support for our Kubernetes deployment for PostHog. Because we're an open source...
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over a year ago
We're sunsetting support for our Kubernetes deployment for PostHog. Because we're an open source company, I want to be transparent about what this…
swyx's site RSS Feed
My New Mac Setup (2018-2020) quick checklist for setting up a new macbook
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
01 · Universal version control We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators...
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We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
David Crawshaw
Leaving Google Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work...
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over a year ago
Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers. I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0. As an operating system it gets so many things right. No doubt I will get a chance to be a user. For the...
A Beautiful Site
Getting it right To my awesome users: I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes,...
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over a year ago
To my awesome users: I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes, the betas were pretty awesome, but they weren't what I wanted them to be in terms of design, code, and function. I can do better, and you deserve nothing less than my very best. The...
Yale E360
PyOhio This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted...
over a year ago
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This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted soon, so I will opt to link to those as they come in, but first, here are some of the highlights: Ed Finkler of OSMI gave a great talk on mental illness in tech, resources that are...
Kagi Blog
Introducing the Kagi Family Plan We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the power of Kagi Search together.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023 The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
Engineer’s Codex
How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer How Fireship wins YouTube
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Miguel Carranza
From J1 visa to Blue Passport: A startup founder's immigration journey I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times, but this will be the first time I’ll be using my shiny blue passport. No anxiety about aggressive questions, secondary inspection, or the possibility of deportation. A couple of...
Maggie Appleton
Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born? A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive
3 months ago
macwright.com
The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
a year ago
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I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop Test Tab Demo (tip)
10 months ago
The Codist
My Art And Color-After Tiling I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged...
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I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged randomly and contain everything appearing in the final image. What I do differently is to separate the layout of tiles from colorizing the image. I call this technique...
Eric Bailey
Websites are like bridges An incomplete list: Most of them are made to make it easier for someone to get to where they want to...
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a year ago
An incomplete list: Most of them are made to make it easier for someone to get to where they want to go. Some are purely utilitarian, a few are completely decorative, and most are a combination of both. Some are built by governments, some are built by organizations, and some are...
Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
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TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Creator Clones Fail The Innovator's Dilemma according to MKBHD, applied to YouTube's attempt to clone TikTok
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Adding page transitions in SvelteKit Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition effects in SvelteKit sites and apps as easy as adding just a few lines of code.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
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a week ago
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
Florian Bellmann |...
You are never taught how to build quality software Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn...
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach...
Maggie Appleton
Instachatting with Vue & Socket.io Illustrated notes on how to implement web sockets with Vue.js and Socket.io
over a year ago
MMapped blog
3000 days of Duolingo
3 months ago
Don Melton
How not to blog First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping your audience riveted in anticipation.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write one…
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
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...
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over 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...
ByteofDev
Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that? While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling....
a year ago
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a year ago
While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling. Luckily, there are solutions to this.
Yale E360
My reference was dropped, why is the compiler complaining about multiple borrows? Recently someone I was talking to ran into a fun borrow checker problem in Rust which is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently someone I was talking to ran into a fun borrow checker problem in Rust which is illustrative of some current underlying limitations of Rust's borrow checker. The problem boiled down to: they took a reference in a loop (dropped on each iteration), and the borrow checker...
Liz Denys
Bridges 4 People Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn, North Brooklyn, and Manhattan activist committees. Bridges 4 People reimagines what the bridges that connect Brooklyn and Manhattan would look like if they...
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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a year ago
We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means striving to become better? What is "yourself?"
charity.wtf
There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about...
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Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all...
Steve Klabnik
Ten Years of Ru...ewriting my website
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 348
over a year ago
HTMHell
#27 <a6> Context: Visually a list of links. Bad code <h6>Popular Cities</h6> <div> <h6...
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Context: Visually a list of links. Bad code <h6>Popular Cities</h6> <div> <h6 class="footerLinks">Amsterdam</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Rotterdam</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Utrecht</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Den Haag</h6> <h6...
Steve Klabnik
Community Versions for Rust
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
The quiet pivot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6 months, we’ve quietly shifted the direction of Buffer. Our adjustment is now almost complete and we’re charging ahead with our new vision. It’s interesting to reflect on how we came...
Epic Web Dev
Full Stack Foundations (workshop) The Full Stack Foundations workshop covers modern web development best practices including Styling,...
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The Full Stack Foundations workshop covers modern web development best practices including Styling, Routing, Data Loading, Forms, SEO, Error Handling, and more!
alexwlchan
Some small accessibility fixes I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides for a new exhibition at work. I like to think my site is already pretty accessible – I put alt text on my images and I use semantic HTML – but I did find a few rough edges to...
Steve Klabnik
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
over a year ago
Irrational...
Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional. In some pockets of the industry, an axiom of software development is that deploying software quickly...
a year ago
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a year 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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Little Swarming Gnats of Data Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer vacation: That’s pretty representative of the flurry of emails I get when I fly, e.g.: Check in now Track your bags Your flight will soon depart Your flight will soon...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This is the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This is the second article in my achieving overnight success [https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
Alice GG
Atlas: Declarative schemas for SQL databases Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many...
a year ago
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a year ago
Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many cases, teams end up keeping a bunch of timestamped .sql files and automatically running them in order. While this work, it doesn’t scale well: the more developers you have working...
David Heinemeier...
Pessimism is on the retreat I feel it in the feed. I feel it in the discourse. I smell it in the vibes.  Much of the pessimism...
a year ago
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a year ago
I feel it in the feed. I feel it in the discourse. I smell it in the vibes.  Much of the pessimism that once was is lost, for none now wish to remember it. We’ve lived through some strange years in the recent past. Much stranger than any I can remember since my earliest, solid...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes From “You Are Not A Gadget” Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget was written in 2010, but its preface is a prescient banger...
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Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget was written in 2010, but its preface is a prescient banger for 2024, the year of our AI overlord: It's early in the 21st century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons...[they] will be minced...within industrial...
Yale E360
Gaining depth perception In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly full depth perception. When I was a kid, I was always the one who was bad at ball sports. Not for lack of trying, either. I'd run after a ball to catch it, only to be off by a few...
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
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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...
Irrational...
Eng org seniority-mix model. One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company maintains their current margin and grows revenue at 25-30%, or they instead grow slower and increase their free cash flow year over year. In many organizations, engineering costs have a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving to a GitHub CMS Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Implicit Assertions (article) Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
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a year ago
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
A Beautiful Site
Lessons from a failed Kickstarter Last week, I launched Particle on Kickstarter. Today, I pulled the plug and canceled the campaign....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week, I launched Particle on Kickstarter. Today, I pulled the plug and canceled the campaign. We had 50 backers and were 5% funded. So why would I do this with 25 days left to go? The fact is, this campaign failed before it started, and it was all my fault. I became so...
bunnie's blog
Designing The Light Source for IRIS This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. IRIS allows us to see the insides of certain types of chips, even after they are soldered to a circuit board. This is possible...
TokyoDev
Bank Account, Mobile Number, Apartment - Which Comes First after Moving to Japan? When you move to Japan for a long-term stay, you’ll need to set up some things when you get here - a...
a year ago
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a year ago
When you move to Japan for a long-term stay, you’ll need to set up some things when you get here - a place to live, a mobile number, a bank account, etc. And this is where you may encounter the following chicken-and-egg problem. > To rent an apartment, you need a mobile...
Making software...
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk's post, How to Create...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk's post, How to Create a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box and loved the simplicity of it. I'm a sucker for using pseudo elements in creative ways but still managing to make them useful. Of course, this got me...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance...
tonsky.me
Talk: Clojure workflow with Sublime Text @ SciCloj A deep overview of Clojure Sublimed, Socket REPL, Sublime Executor, custom color scheme, clj-reload...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A deep overview of Clojure Sublimed, Socket REPL, Sublime Executor, custom color scheme, clj-reload and Clojure+. We discuss many usability choices, implementation details, and broader observations and insights regarding Clojure editors and tooling in general.
Patrick Kayongo
The vastness of the ocean The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
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The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
Basta’s Notes
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?) My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
a year ago
The History of the...
Our Online Homes Need Infastructure A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we...
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A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we heading to build this new web together? The post Our Online Homes Need Infastructure appeared first on The History of the Web.
Ralph Ammer
Why study Philosophy? Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy?...
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Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Ralph Ammer
The perfect drawing tool The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. ...
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The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed.  I want every single pen, every brush, every quill, and a sheet of every paper, ranging from crude cardboard to magnificent handcrafted Japanese washi. And yes, I need papyrus. And...
wingolog
an annoying failure mode of copying nurseries I just found a funny failure mode in the garbage collector and thought readers might be...
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6 months ago
I just found a funny failure mode in the garbage collector and thought readers might be amused.Whippet Say you have a semi-space nursery and a semi-space old generation. Both are block-structured. You are allocating live data, say, a long linked list. Allocation fills the...
Seldo.com
Twenty years of blogging
over a year ago
Computer Things
My patented Miracle Tonic would have prevented the CrowdStrike meltdown Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I...
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11 months ago
Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I didn't bother to learn anything else about it because I was too busy writing my 10k whitepaper about how all the problems were all caused by one simple mistake: not drinking my...
TokyoDev
TokyoDev 2023 Recap 2023 was an interesting year. While the tech market crashed in the US, I’d decided to expand...
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a year ago
2023 was an interesting year. While the tech market crashed in the US, I’d decided to expand TokyoDev, growing it beyond myself, and reinvesting the success we’ve had so far to expand the business further than I could on my own. As I heard about wave after wave of layoffs, it had...
TokyoDev
How to create your own company in Japan Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk...
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over a year ago
Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk in the park, I think it is easier than the general perception is. Part of the problem is the lack of English-language information about it. I hope by sharing my experiences I can...
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...
Maggie Appleton
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
over a year ago
Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
Marco.org
Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year to build. Voice Boost 2 is an all-new audio engine that includes professional-grade, mastering-quality loudness normalization. When I first introduced Overcast in 2014, Voice Boost...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now...
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a year ago
The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now live](https://surveys.tokyodev.com/en-US/survey/tokyodev/2023)! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it. [Last year’s survey](https://www.tokyodev.com/insights/2022-developer-survey)...
Liz Denys
A meeting of mindsets This spring, I finally had time in the right places in my schedule to incorporate teaching into my...
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over a year ago
This spring, I finally had time in the right places in my schedule to incorporate teaching into my semester. I'm a Learning Assistant (LA) for 6.042: Mathematics for Computer Science, which offers an introduction to discrete mathematics oriented towards computer science and...
TokyoDev
AI Disrupts The Traditional Hiring Process In the face of AI, there are two strategies: embrace the algorithm, or embrace being human. As a job...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In the face of AI, there are two strategies: embrace the algorithm, or embrace being human. As a job board operator, this has been weighing on me. I see hints that AI will disrupt the industry and transform the hiring process, perhaps not for the better. Ultimately, I’ve decided...
Irrational...
Is this strategy any good? We’ve read a lot of strategy at this point in the book. We can judge a strategy’s format, and its...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We’ve read a lot of strategy at this point in the book. We can judge a strategy’s format, and its construction: both are useful things. However, format is a predictor of quality, not quality itself. The remaining question is, how should we assess whether a strategy is any...
Steve Klabnik
WebAssembly is more than just the web
over a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
Autonomy: What it is and what it isn’t Goldilocks Autonomy What it isn’t So what is autonomy? Crossing lines Business leaders don’t have a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Goldilocks Autonomy What it isn’t So what is autonomy? Crossing lines Business leaders don’t have a clue Business leaders want to be too involved in the ‘how’ The agile team want to own the ‘what’ Blurred lines Not too much, not too little — just right The goal ¶Goldilocks...
Ruud van Asseldonk
The yaml document from hell
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Learn ESLint concepts, not rules What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's start with the problems we have when writing JavaScript code. Problem #1: JavaScript is not compiled while you write it
Joel Gascoigne
Work harder on yourself than you do on your startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Work harder...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Work harder on yourself than you do on your job." - Jim Rohn A long time ago, I came across the amazing quote above, which was said often by Jim Rohn. It stook in my mind, and as the years
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The 9 best mobile app A/B testing tools A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it...
a year ago
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a year ago
A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it comes to mobile apps, there are many different A/B…
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build a community around your SaaS This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post How to build a community around your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Nerding out about heaters Keeping warm in the winter
a month ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Iterative Building and Decision Making Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This...
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11 months ago
Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This decision is much easier to make if you’ve been traveling that road for the last hour and you’re sitting there in your truck facing the reality of the decision. You can see the...
charity.wtf
On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week —...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week — scoping it down, writing straight through, trying real hard to avoid over-writing or editing down to a pulp. Week 1 — “On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written. Here’s a typical case: #if defined (_MSC_VER) // code specific to Visual Studio compiler #endif To perform those checks you need to check...
Steve Klabnik
Ember.js and accessibility
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An election just finished in the US, which means that half the country lost and has to face the coming changes. In particular, this is a scary time for many folks who have been targets in...
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OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪 a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
a year ago
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a year ago
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
Alex Meub
Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Elad Blog
Clubhouse: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 1) This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
Alex Meub
My Favorite Web Apps and Tools I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
The Changelog
Joyful is the Dark “Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“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...
TokyoDev
Heroku + Travis CI: Tokyo Rubyist Meetup Report While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp), thanks to all the great people who attended, we were able to turn it into a lively event. Anchoring the night were presentations about...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Consistent Navigation Across My Inconsistent Websites Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven development. I can convince myself that just about anything is a good idea at the time. But in retrospect my rationales are quite often specious. At one point in the past, I decided that I...
Steve Klabnik
User-Agent: moz://a
over a year ago
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
HTMHell
Modern HTML as a foundation for progressive enhancement Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's a way to make sure anyone gets a viable version of your page whatever is their context — slow bandwitdh, oldish browser, etc. — but also making the said page more resilient (e.g....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Clone Open Source Apps > Author's note: This is part 3 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Author's note: This is part 3 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/).
charity.wtf
Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 weeks later, the thread is still going!!), which I would sort into roughly three camps: “OMG this...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2 In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system. Server...
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5 analytics ideas for marketing teams using PostHog One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making analytics accessible to more than just analysts. There’s…
Joel Gascoigne
How to gain traction in two sided markets * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas that involve two sided markets are notoriously difficult to get off the ground. It’s the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
A Beautiful Site
Swapping variables with JavaScript Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I told you there was an easier way to do this with JavaScript? Traditional method # The goal is to swap the values of a and b. The textbook method for doing this looks something like...
Eric Bailey
I love my slightly smart tiny TV details { font-size: var(--scale1); margin-top: 0.25rem !important; } details summary...
a year ago
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a year ago
details { font-size: var(--scale1); margin-top: 0.25rem !important; } details summary { line-height: 1.2; } details p { line-height: 1.35; margin-top: var(--scale0); } I swear this isn’t a sponsored post. I impulse bought a TinyTV 2 recently. It...
A Beautiful Site
How to File a Bug Report They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal...
a year ago
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a year ago
They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal reproduction will give you the best chance of a speedy resolution. When a potential bug is discovered, many developers' first reaction is to file an issue. That's great, but please exercise...
Irrational...
Those five spare hours each week. One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology Officers should actively write code. There are a lot of strongly held positions, from “Real CTOs code.” at one end of the spectrum, to “Low ego managers know they contribute more by...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Why I don&#x27;t shield my team from bad news I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and other negative aspects that are inevitable on
swyx's site RSS Feed
Are we human? Or are we reCAPTCHA? ---
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: How to measure product-market fit Startups can't succeed without achieving product-market fit – it's one of the few things startup...
a year ago
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a year ago
Startups can't succeed without achieving product-market fit – it's one of the few things startup gurus agree on. It's often described as a feeling…
HTMHell
Improving SEO without knowing where to start Summary Introduction What is SEO ? Web quality with Opquast SEO-related Opquast...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Summary Introduction What is SEO ? Web quality with Opquast SEO-related Opquast rules Conclusion Introduction ↑ Colleagues sometimes ask me: “Hey Alex, I would like to learn a bit about search engine optimisation (SEO) but I don't really know where to start. Do you have tips for...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Git’s push url
over a year ago
Posts on Nikita...
Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
Blog - Bitfield...
Getting nothing done You don't need a special place, or a special time, or even special clothes, to meditate. It's just...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
You don't need a special place, or a special time, or even special clothes, to meditate. It's just letting the mind rest when it's not needed, and that's the case more often than you might think.
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is SaaS without the aaS It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve already sold more than quarter of a million dollars worth of this beautifully simple installable chat system. People are using it to replace existing systems costing tens of thousands...
Joel Gascoigne
For the first few people, hire from your network * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky enough to have reached the stage with Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we have had to start to think about growing the team. For the first 10 months the team consisted of just...
Steve Klabnik
Node
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Love For Interoperable Apps I like to try different apps. What makes trying different apps incredible is a layer of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I like to try different apps. What makes trying different apps incredible is a layer of interoperability — standardized protocols, data formats, etc. When I can bring my data from one app to another, that’s cool. Cool apps are interoperable. They work with my data, rather than...
A Beautiful Site
Determine file extensions using JavaScript A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension. function fileExt(path) { return...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension. function fileExt(path) { return path.substr(path.lastIndexOf('.') + 1); }
Ognjen Regoje •...
During a difficult conversation, remember to take a minute One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten is to take a minute, or a week, after you’ve had a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten is to take a minute, or a week, after you’ve had a difficult conversation. By and large, people are not unreasonable. They’re not out to get you. They’re not trying to make your life miserable. They’re probably trying to do what...
Yale E360
Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in question was not particularly complicated, and had been reviewed by multiple people. It included a timeout, and is straightforward: allow a Websocket connection to test that the client...
Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 Million ARR - October update
a year ago
charity.wtf
On Dropouts and Bootstraps In my early twenties I had a cohort of friends and coworkers, all Silicon Valley engineers, all...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In my early twenties I had a cohort of friends and coworkers, all Silicon Valley engineers, all quite good at their jobs, all college dropouts. We developed a shared conviction that only losers got computer science degrees. This sounds like a joke, or a self-defense mechanism,...
Steve Klabnik
0b100000
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop) Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS techniques, and Tailwind v4 migration in this workshop.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we do customer support at our open source devtool company Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the feedback loop between your customers and your product…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Power of Fast Feedback Cycles I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position on the (controversial?) steps Svelte is taking to move off Typescript in favor of types-via-JSDoc comments. First off, I love how Rich prefaces his comments by basically saying,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte for Sites, React for Apps Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on Framework Churn I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
a year ago
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a year ago
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster. Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
The Pragmatic...
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
a year ago
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a year ago
For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
HTMHell
Dear developer, your assumptions are wrong As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught. So, for example,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught. So, for example, we may think it would be a good idea to put some restrictions in an input field for a name: <label for="name">First name:</label> <input type="text" minlength="3" maxlength="20"...
Dan Slimmon
It’s fine to use names in post-mortems The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is not to make everyone feel comfortable. Discomfort can be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is not to make everyone feel comfortable. Discomfort can be healthy and useful. The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is to let us find explanations deeper than human error.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The really important job interview questions engineers should ask (but don't) Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from this? It's normal for candidates not to ask harder…
David Heinemeier...
Microsoft taught Apple nothing Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. They’re in full “cut off the air supply” mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost....
the jsomers.net blog
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
The Pragmatic...
Lyft in Trouble Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just...
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over a year ago
Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just stepped down and a former Amazon executive is the new CEO. What does this major change mean?
Maggie Appleton
October 2021
over a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the...
Julia Evans
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve gotten a few times is – why does the x86 architecture use 8-bit bytes? Why not some other size? With any question like this, I think there are two options: It’s a historical accident,...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
over a year ago
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Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
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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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s...
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That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s course and it’s been on repeat in my mind ever since June 6th. June 6th I was on vacation at the beach with my family and tried something that, looking back now, maybe I’m too old for....
Irrational...
2022 in review. Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
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Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak. The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊 At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty...
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At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone wants. Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have no idea when it’ll be back. So, driven by the...
samwho.dev
I finally figured out how to take notes! I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking...
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I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking software, odds are I’ve tried it. I’ve even tried going old school with pen and paper. Nothing sticks. Until recently. Some time ago, I learned about Apple’s Shortcuts app. It’s...
TokyoDev
The Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination: My Experience Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country....
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Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country. I started studying the Japanese language and began to wonder what it would take for me to move there and work as a software developer. While still at university, I had an...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Nuance of “Domain” I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links...
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I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye. What is a “Domain”? Let’s say you have a URL like this: https://example.com Put it in the URL constructor and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web...
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I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to “React components”. JSX had <MyComponent> and now the web had <my-component>. But when you try building web components...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Upcoming changes to the discovery feed Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
12 months ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...
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This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and over-specification, direct and iterative solvers. The guide should give you enough knowledge to find a proper solution for your task but not enough to implement one efficiently yourself.
Liz Denys
Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
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When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
macwright.com
I wish there was a better default for database IDs by Every database ID scheme that I’ve used has had pretty serious downsides, and I wish there was a...
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Every database ID scheme that I’ve used has had pretty serious downsides, and I wish there was a better option. The perfect ID would: Be friendly to distributed systems - multiple servers should be able to generate non-overlapping IDs at the same time. Even clients should be able...
blag
How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x...
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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
Grant Slatton
Nobody Cares A rant about caring
9 months ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Digital hygiene: Emails Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.
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Irrational...
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis. A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy...
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A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis, which I gave at QCon last week. They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
Eric Bailey
thoughtbot.com, dark mode, and other user preferences thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog. Dark mode is...
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thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog. Dark mode is all the rage in web design right now. It’s a toggle in your operating system settings that allows you to update your operating system from traditional lighter colors to a darker...
The Pragmatic...
Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs? Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline...
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Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline possible options and give my opinion on the likelihood of layoffs in the coming months.
A Day In The Life...
From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
over a year ago
Liz Denys
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
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I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
Tony Finch's blog
Joining ellipses with matching tangents In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg, using curcular arcs that join...
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a year ago
In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg, using curcular arcs that join where their tangents are at 45°. I wondered if I could do something similar with ellipses. As before, I made an interactive ellipse workbench to experiment with the problem. I got...
Steve Klabnik
Closure
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Product Pseudoscience In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the...
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In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the pseudoscientific approach to product building prevalent across the software industry: when folks at tech companies talk about data they’re not talking about a well-researched study from a...
Alex Meub
Material Rewards for Motivation Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term...
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Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term goals. This isn’t a new idea but I’ve found it to be really helpful in keeping me on track and giving me that extra push to follow through on my goals. Set SMART Goals In order to...
Kagi Blog
New features in the Orion Browser *Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing...
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over a year ago
*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever.
Making software...
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a...
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
Irrational...
Video of Using LLMs in your product. A month ago, I wrote up some notes on using LLMs in your product, and yesterday I got to present an...
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A month ago, I wrote up some notes on using LLMs in your product, and yesterday I got to present an iteration on those notes to the folks at the Sapphire Venture’s 2024 Hypergrowth Engineering Summit. If you’re interested, you can watch a recording of my talk on Youtube. There’s...
Coding Horror
Password Rules Are Bullshit Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv — Jeff Atwood
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q2 2025: Sketchy Calendar Can we have a calendar that combines the convenience of a digital calendar with the simplicity and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Can we have a calendar that combines the convenience of a digital calendar with the simplicity and expressivity you get from pen & paper?
Making software...
Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
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Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn't this same approach...
alexwlchan
How I test Rust command-line apps with `assert_cmd` Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like...
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Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like create_thumbnail, emptydir, and dominant_colours. There’s no place for Rust in my day job, so having some self-contained hobby projects means I can still have fun playing with it. I’ve...
A Smart Bear
Put down the compiler until you learn why they're not buying Technical founders, step away from the code. Gather insights from non-buyers, rather than just...
over a year ago
macwright.com
Incentives My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives....
a year ago
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My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...