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Stop Breaking TLS Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an...
9th Dec 2025
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Stop Breaking TLS

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

9th Dec 2025
Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an industry would just knock it the fuck off and stop pretending it’s some great security benefit. Every time I encounter it, in whatever form, it’s a gigantic headache that makes...
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Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL The post Happy New Year: 3D picture...
31st Dec 2020
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Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2020
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL The post Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
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Maybe not so much with the "optimization" In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun...
22nd Mar 2026
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Maybe not so much with the "optimization"

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

22nd Mar 2026
In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun and value of creative work.
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Go: Functional options are slow The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a...
23rd May 2022
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Go: Functional options are slow

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

23rd May 2022
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a variable number of arguments, which are themselves functions (a type like ...func(*config). I think it was first introduced by Rob Pike in a 2014 blog post. It is now used by many...
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Super Bubbly: React Native kids game TLDR: I built a simple & fun game using React Native, try it out on iPhone and iPad! In the...
21st Sep 2025
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Super Bubbly: React Native kids game

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2025
TLDR: I built a simple & fun game using React Native, try it out on iPhone and iPad! In the Beginning…. My kids are 7 & 9 as I write this in 2025, but 6 years ago in 2019 they loved a simple little bubble popping app on my phone, and I thought it’d be fun to make the best...
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A Metaphorical Reading Collection A collection of my favourite books on conceptual metaphor theory
1st Jun 2020
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A Metaphorical Reading Collection

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

1st Jun 2020
A collection of my favourite books on conceptual metaphor theory
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programming, i hate it There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
1st Aug 2024
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programming, i hate it

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

1st Aug 2024
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
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What if Stripe is the next Google? Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
14th May 2021
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What if Stripe is the next Google?

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

14th May 2021
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
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Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform...
11th Dec 2022
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Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic

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

11th Dec 2022
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is. But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
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March updates We have lots of great new updates in store!
2nd Mar 2019
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March updates

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

2nd Mar 2019
We have lots of great new updates in store!
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Why Build a Robot Company? So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
6th Feb 2023
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Why Build a Robot Company?

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2023
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
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Disrupt the Government I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by...
4th Nov 2023
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Disrupt the Government

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2023
I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides. The key thing the government is supposed to be able to do is infrastructure. Most of the wealth that we give to...
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Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed...
3rd Jul 2025
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Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts

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

3rd Jul 2025
I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed creating something that's purely a hobby, and working in other mediums inspires my ceramic studio practice in unexpected ways. I recently finished a very large, non-ceramic project:...
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Speculative Calendar Events Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems
7th Jan 2024
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Speculative Calendar Events

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

7th Jan 2024
Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems
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How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
1st Mar 2020
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How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg

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

1st Mar 2020
A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
17th Jul 2023
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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jul 2023
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
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Scars Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
1st Dec 2024
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Scars

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

1st Dec 2024
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
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No more boring drawings! Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. They teach us how to make photo-like drawings....
28th Jan 2026
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No more boring drawings!

from Ralph Ammer [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jan 2026
Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. They teach us how to make photo-like drawings. Such renderings look decent but also generic, conventional—like something an AI tool might produce. And they are also…  boring. Why is that? Because they don’t mean anything. Meaning...
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Whose bug is this anyway?!? At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the...
18th Dec 2012
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Whose bug is this anyway?!?

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Dec 2012
At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Right?!? Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered...
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Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip “Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus,...
19th Dec 2022
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Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip

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

19th Dec 2022
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus, it piqued my interest when an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy. This blog post explains my reasoning...
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Logs vs Structured Events I got an interesting tweet the other day from @evntdrvn in response to this thread of mine....
5th Feb 2019
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Logs vs Structured Events

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

5th Feb 2019
I got an interesting tweet the other day from @evntdrvn in response to this thread of mine. Paraphrasing, “So I’ve almost got our group at work up to Step 1 in your observability maturity model, but some of the devs that I work with want to turn OFF our lovely structured logging...
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Programmable Notes Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
18th Mar 2022
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Programmable Notes

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

18th Mar 2022
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
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Eating the Cloud from Outside In AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
4th Oct 2021
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Eating the Cloud from Outside In

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

4th Oct 2021
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
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IPython Startup Files In one of the companies where I worked, I was a part of a pretty small team of five developers. We...
4th Jan 2019
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IPython Startup Files

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2019
In one of the companies where I worked, I was a part of a pretty small team of five developers. We had a support rota, so each week, one of us was responsible for handling tickets from users. Apart from requesting new features, users often asked for changes in the system that...
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My 2025 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
6th Aug 2025
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My 2025 New Mac Setup

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

6th Aug 2025
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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too many birthdays I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
10th Mar 2021
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too many birthdays

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

10th Mar 2021
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
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OpenAI fixed their unsafe policy around names Update October 2, 2023: This is now fixed: you can update your name in your user settings. This...
4th Sep 2023
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OpenAI fixed their unsafe policy around names

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

4th Sep 2023
Update October 2, 2023: This is now fixed: you can update your name in your user settings. This works for the OpenAI Platform accounts, and they say the same for ChatGPT (etc.) is coming soon. Thank you to those who reached out to OpenAI employees about this, and thank you so...
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Puffed millet and qui'nola I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been...
11th Mar 2020
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Puffed millet and qui'nola

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

11th Mar 2020
I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been obsessed. All I want for breakfast these days is a bowl of this granola with some plain yogurt. UPDATE: I no longer order from Sqirl after hearing about their jam mold and the deeper...
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Stress And Programming Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern...
9th May 2025
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Stress And Programming

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

9th May 2025
Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern software development processes are far more stressful than when I started. It's not simply that developing software today is more complex than it was back in 1981. In that early...
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Getting Started With Docker (Part 1) What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
16th Jan 2021
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Getting Started With Docker (Part 1)

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jan 2021
What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
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The Case for Use.GPU Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of...
13th Jun 2022
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The Case for Use.GPU

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

13th Jun 2022
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird. In this post I will explain why, because it's a microcosm of the issues that lead me to build Use.GPU, a WebGPU rendering...
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Privacy Monthly April 2024
8th Apr 2024
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Privacy Monthly April 2024

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

8th Apr 2024
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I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009. In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most...
1st Jan 2024
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I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009.

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

1st Jan 2024
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
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One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment Why we need collaborative AI engineering
13th Apr 2026
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One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment

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

13th Apr 2026
Why we need collaborative AI engineering
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The serial TX path seems to be down The previous series of articles about UART was initially motivated by an error I was getting when...
11th Aug 2025
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The serial TX path seems to be down

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Aug 2025
The previous series of articles about UART was initially motivated by an error I was getting when using the ESP-Prog. I could have jumped straight to the conclusion, but I took the time to really understand what was going on, and we are finally reaching the end of this...
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Doodling with the Mac’s command icon The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by...
4th Jul 2024
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Doodling with the Mac’s command icon

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jul 2024
The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by legendary icon designer Susan Kare, who picked it from a symbol dictionary – this shape was already being used in Sweden to highlight an interesting feature on a map. It’s an...
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Ember Data: ‘DS’ is not defined
5th Jul 2015
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Ember Data: ‘DS’ is not defined

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

5th Jul 2015
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Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop) Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS...
9th Jul 2024
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Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop)

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

9th Jul 2024
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS techniques, and Tailwind v4 migration in this workshop.
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Early-stage engineering Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the confidence to break with best...
1st Oct 2023
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Early-stage engineering

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

1st Oct 2023
Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the confidence to break with best practices.
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The Transcantábrico Train We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
22nd Oct 2023
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The Transcantábrico Train

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Oct 2023
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in 2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here. The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
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Iinkomo “I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing...
30th Sep 2023
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Iinkomo

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Sep 2023
“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing the last bit of her belongings into her bags, rushed by her anger and irritation. “I told you; it will just be for a few days. My grandfather is here for a medical procedure, and...
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary...
31st Oct 2018
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8

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

31st Oct 2018
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary things. The first is that a young toddler can go trick-or-treating in your apartment building and acquire a huge amount of candy. When they are this young they have no interest in the...
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Manage your priorities and energy. Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I...
3rd Aug 2023
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Manage your priorities and energy.

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

3rd Aug 2023
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making...
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The Manager's Handbook I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
9th Sep 2021
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The Manager's Handbook

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

9th Sep 2021
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version). If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
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Cocoa brownies Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice...
16th Aug 2018
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Cocoa brownies

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

16th Aug 2018
Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice Medrich's ingredient list is nearly flawless. (Okay, okay, I can never truly stick to a recipe as written. Here, I prefer a little more vanilla extract and like to put a pinch of flaky...
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The Caretakers If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to...
8th Aug 2026
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The Caretakers

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2026
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to cover, you may have missed that BINGOS just hit 247 consecutive monthly uploads to CPAN1. This is noteworthy as it surpasses DROLSKY’s record set a while back. That’s an upload to...
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Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich....
28th Dec 2011
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Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich

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

28th Dec 2011
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich. Don't get me wrong - I like chocolate - but that's just it, I like chocolate, not a pinch of cocoa flavor. Chocolate chip cookies always tasted better to me with the chips on the...
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If composers were hackers
1st Apr 2023
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If composers were hackers

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

1st Apr 2023
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Universal domain types
26th Feb 2024
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Universal domain types

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

26th Feb 2024
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Making html_of_jsx ~10x faster A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
3rd Dec 2025
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Making html_of_jsx ~10x faster

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

3rd Dec 2025
A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
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Why React Re-Renders In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and...
16th Aug 2022
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Why React Re-Renders

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

16th Aug 2022
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the...
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The next version of PHP may very well be 7 We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact,...
1st Aug 2014
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The next version of PHP may very well be 7

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

1st Aug 2014
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact, the project was so plagued with problems that in 2010, it was abandoned. It almost felt like PHP would be perpetually stuck at version 5. Except now there's talk about another major...
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What's With All the Humanoid Robots? If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid...
7th May 2024
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What's With All the Humanoid Robots?

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2024
If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid robot startups. What's with that? Why humanoids? Why now?
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The hardest decision I've ever made
17th Nov 2010
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The hardest decision I've ever made

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

17th Nov 2010
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The optics of pair programming If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with...
17th May 2022
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The optics of pair programming

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

17th May 2022
If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person to work on a problem. You’ll often hear it in development contexts, but I've also encountered it with design. In the Before Times, we paired by walking over to a...
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Amazon's Top Rated Items I developed a set of scripts that scrape Amazon’s product pages. The result of scraping and...
18th Feb 2013
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Amazon's Top Rated Items

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

18th Feb 2013
I developed a set of scripts that scrape Amazon’s product pages. The result of scraping and processing nearly 300,000 products from 26 departments is my own Amazon Top 400 List. _chart("scatter","scatter-chart2", "Amazon Product Ratings", {categories:[ 'Average Rating', 'Number...
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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...
15th Oct 2021
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator

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

15th Oct 2021
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...
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Publish Your Drafts When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating...
2nd Mar 2023
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Publish Your Drafts

from Max Countryman [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2023
When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating at times to share unfinished work because it hasn't reached a level of polish that satisfies me. But the truth is, our unpublished work has no value to anyone.
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Winning a Coding Contest Got Me a Free Trip to Japan I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland...
11th Jan 2024
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Winning a Coding Contest Got Me a Free Trip to Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2024
I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland for the last two years. Half a year ago I visited Japan where I really fell in love with the people, culture, and food; it felt like a different planet. After I returned to Poland,...
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Year X
7th Apr 2024
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Year X

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

7th Apr 2024
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Introducing The Contraption Company Today I'm introducing my new business, The Contraption Company - a product studio building...
4th Nov 2022
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Introducing The Contraption Company

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

4th Nov 2022
Today I'm introducing my new business, The Contraption Company - a product studio building dependable software tools for online work. Slow growth makes steady progress In the past, I've built VC-backed startups like Moonlight and Staffjoy. For these companies, we worked hard...
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Observer Theory The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But...
11th Dec 2023
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Observer Theory

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2023
The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
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We Are Still the Web Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great...
5th Aug 2025
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We Are Still the Web

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

5th Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it. The post We Are Still the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Spring cleaning is in full effect March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get...
5th Apr 2023
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Spring cleaning is in full effect

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

5th Apr 2023
March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get excited about improved stability and closed issue reports! The team has been hard at work sorting through your feedback and smoothing out all of the wrinkles. Sideload Since sideloading...
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Third Stage Engineering The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software,...
16th Nov 2025
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Third Stage Engineering

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

16th Nov 2025
The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software, and tuning; the investment and sequence of these efforts can be pictured as a three-stage rocket: I recently presented this embarrassingly simple diagram to Intel's executive...
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Plugin Systems "What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems...
11th Jul 2017
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Plugin Systems

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jul 2017
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems BoF. Update: This BoF and post inspired [a talk I gave at PyGotham 2017][pygotham2017]. Within the programming world, and the Python ecosystem in particular, there are a lot of...
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Sometimes, the outside is inside Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
24th May 2010
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Sometimes, the outside is inside

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

24th May 2010
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
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Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1 The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop,...
5th Dec 2022
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Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2022
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop, but time marches on and old hardware eventually becomes too slow for modern development needs. After a lot of indecision, I bought a 10th generation Thinkpad X1 with an Intel Core...
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental...
9th Feb 2021
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions

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

9th Feb 2021
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
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The lasting influence of Netscape Time After Netscape, the speed of software sped up beyond what anyone could have imagined. Thanks to a...
12th May 2026
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The lasting influence of Netscape Time

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

12th May 2026
After Netscape, the speed of software sped up beyond what anyone could have imagined. Thanks to a documentary crew and a ghost writer, we have a full view of the whole thing. The post The lasting influence of Netscape Time appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Constructing a four-point egg For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The...
29th Jan 2024
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Constructing a four-point egg

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

29th Jan 2024
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The Wikipedia article for Moss’s egg has a link to a tutorial on Euclidean Eggs by Freyja Hreinsdóttir which (amongst other things) describes how to construct the “four point egg”. I...
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The Illusion of Free Will One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
19th Mar 2023
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The Illusion of Free Will

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

19th Mar 2023
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
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AI Flame Graphs Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry --...
28th Oct 2024
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AI Flame Graphs

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

28th Oct 2024
Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry -- based on extreme estimates such savings could reduce the total US power usage by over 10% by 20301. At Intel we've been creating a new analyzer tool to help reduce AI costs called...
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That Bullshit Income-Inequality Meme Memes can be fun and sometimes even informative, but when memes contain numbers — and particularly...
17th Jun 2024
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That Bullshit Income-Inequality Meme

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

17th Jun 2024
Memes can be fun and sometimes even informative, but when memes contain numbers — and particularly numbers without a source — memes can be deceptive and just plain wrong. For example, here’s a meme that’s been floating around that purports to illustrate income inequality in the...
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Winner, Name that Ware August 2023 The Ware for August 2023 is a viewfinder from a JVC Super VHS Camcorder, model number GR-SXM915U....
30th Sep 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware August 2023

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

30th Sep 2023
The Ware for August 2023 is a viewfinder from a JVC Super VHS Camcorder, model number GR-SXM915U. I’ll give the prize to Jin because of the correct identification of the SOIC as the BA7149F. Congrats, email me for your prize! The exact model number of the originating camera...
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels,...
16th Feb 2026
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter

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

16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
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p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to...
4th Aug 2025
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p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map

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

4th Aug 2025
Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to something already described in the literature – if you know of something, please let me know via the links in the footer! The gist is to throw away the tree and interior pointers from...
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Chickadee 0.5.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
8th Apr 2020
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Chickadee 0.5.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2020
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile that is built on top of SDL2 and OpenGL. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in...
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Godot4 w/ C# in VSCode setup I spent some time trying to set up my dev environement to be able to run and debug a Godot game...
16th Jun 2024
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Godot4 w/ C# in VSCode setup

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jun 2024
I spent some time trying to set up my dev environement to be able to run and debug a Godot game written in .Net inside VSCode. Here are the steps I took to setup: Install Godot Engine for .Net Link Install .Net SDK Link Go into VSCode and install the following extensions .NET...
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Effective code review Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most...
25th Jul 2020
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Effective code review

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jul 2020
Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most tech companies1. However, it is not always implemented as well as it should. In this post, I will describe some practices that I try to follow when opening pull requests, and that...
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2024: Just the Start 2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023...
31st Dec 2024
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2024: Just the Start

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2024
2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023 was tough, but 2024 went some way to redressing the balance and I am even more positive about 2025 because of it. Here are a few highlights: We went to Japan! My first time in...
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My Stance on AI-generated Code I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
8th Jul 2022
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My Stance on AI-generated Code

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

8th Jul 2022
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code. As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
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Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create...
18th Aug 2023
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Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Aug 2023
The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create all your resources by writing a file that defines them, and any time you change something, you update the definition in that file. It’s a nice idea, but easier said than...
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Escaping the local maxima when i was a student, everything was simpler. grind leetcode. build projects. get an offer. i knew...
5th Apr 2025
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Escaping the local maxima

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2025
when i was a student, everything was simpler. grind leetcode. build projects. get an offer. i knew the salaries. i knew what “winning” looked like. it was a somewhat straight line from broke student to backend engineer at a top company. and i did it, i 10x my life in the span of...
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Website Backups with Apple iCloud Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really...
16th Feb 2024
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Website Backups with Apple iCloud

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

16th Feb 2024
Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really well with my iPhone SE (they are in the same ecosystem after all - duh!). Since both of these devices are Apple products, it makes sense that I pay for the optional iCloud service...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean

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

2nd Feb 2021
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
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Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs). Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the...
3rd Sep 2023
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Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs).

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

3rd Sep 2023
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There was a prolonged fight against even documenting the feedback, which was viewed...
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AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
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AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot

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

8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
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Implementing HATEOS with presenters
6th Jan 2012
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Implementing HATEOS with presenters

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

6th Jan 2012
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Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples) Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
5th Jan 2023
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Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples)

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

5th Jan 2023
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
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Winner, Name that Ware December 2024 The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited....
30th Jan 2025
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Winner, Name that Ware December 2024

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

30th Jan 2025
The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited. Their sales part number is ES-P2-I, but the silkscreen says DCHY-P2-6464-1515-VP. The seller is just the name slapped on the box; like most commodity wares, there’s likely multiple...
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested...
7th Jan 2020
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook

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

7th Jan 2020
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
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Thanks, 201X! Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten...
2nd Dec 2019
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Thanks, 201X!

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2019
Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten years, but it's flown past. This particular decade happens to coincide with my first years of full-time professional software engineering. The Quantity I can't possibly summarize it...
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Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
5th Aug 2024
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Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU

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

5th Aug 2024
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
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Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with...
14th Sep 2026
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Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces

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

14th Sep 2026
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
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Community Versions for Rust
23rd Aug 2015
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Community Versions for Rust

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

23rd Aug 2015
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Personal Newsletter 2023 Q1 Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the...
5th Apr 2023
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Personal Newsletter 2023 Q1

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2023
Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the past, I used to post quite a bit, and I dare say probably 10 years ago to the point of oversharing. It seems to me that the popularity of Facebook has been dropping in my network to...
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My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
13th Feb 2021
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My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2021
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
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Chickadee 0.6.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
19th Nov 2020
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Chickadee 0.6.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Nov 2020
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. As Chickadee is still alpha software,...
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10 ways to speed up web image loading Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent...
19th Dec 2023
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10 ways to speed up web image loading

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Dec 2023
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
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DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word...
18th Sep 2017
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DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc

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

18th Sep 2017
For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word processor. After months of tinkering, a friend and I just finished building one. We call it the DocWriter. It’s a typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google...
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Don't make me read your PR description I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s...
3rd Feb 2023
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Don't make me read your PR description

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

3rd Feb 2023
I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s been a net positive. There are more than a handful of problems that make me slower: Sometimes it suggests a closing quote or paren that isn’t needed. Removing the duplicate character...
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Overcast summer update Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features. But first, I need to set low...
21st Jul 2019
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Overcast summer update

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

21st Jul 2019
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features. But first, I need to set low expectations for iOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina updates this fall. Halfway through the summer, I’ve made much less progress than expected, having been overwhelmed by the required...
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Thoughts on uploads Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil....
21st Mar 2017
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Thoughts on uploads

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

21st Mar 2017
Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil. Users have to be able to view and delete files they upload; but at the same time, I've never felt that it should be an integral part of the app. Last night I had to face the fact...
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10 lessons from my startup journey so far * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s almost...
19th Dec 2011
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10 lessons from my startup journey so far

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

19th Dec 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s almost exactly a year since I started documenting my startup lessons learned through this blog, and since my first post last November, I’ve blogged 26 times. I’ve been lucky enough to have...
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2024 Potions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I’ve been sick for like 10 days...
6th Dec 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2024

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

6th Dec 2024
Potions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I’ve been sick for like 10 days straight… hope your Holidays are staying healthier than mine!
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Gathering Structures How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
20th Feb 2024
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Gathering Structures

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

20th Feb 2024
How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
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journey before destination It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
24th Feb 2021
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journey before destination

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

24th Feb 2021
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
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Overconfidence and future-proofing “Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable...
18th Mar 2023
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Overconfidence and future-proofing

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

18th Mar 2023
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand what the tradeoffs are.
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Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group My top 10 highlights from the book:  1.  Ortega has created a business model that is studied in...
1st Dec 2024
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Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group

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

1st Dec 2024
My top 10 highlights from the book:  1.  Ortega has created a business model that is studied in universities he could not access. 2.  “One afternoon, after school, I went with my mother to a store to buy food.  The store we walked into was one of those old-time grocery stores,...
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Animated Pride Flags Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll...
6th Jun 2023
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Animated Pride Flags

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

6th Jun 2023
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️‍🌈
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Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
10th May 2019
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Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate

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

10th May 2019
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
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Behind "Hello World" on Linux Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on...
4th Aug 2023
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Behind "Hello World" on Linux

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2023
Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on Linux, like this one? print("hello world") Here’s what it looks like at the command line: $ python3 hello.py hello world But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on....
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Using buck to build Rust projects
13th Apr 2023
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Using buck to build Rust projects

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

13th Apr 2023
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What I'm up to - September 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Sep 2025
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What I'm up to - September 2025

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

1st Sep 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Launched Chroma Cloud - Had a quick trip to Colorado - Went on a first bike ride ...
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Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here! This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8....
7th Aug 2024
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Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here!

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

7th Aug 2024
This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8. We’re getting very close to releasing the latest version of our operating system and that means releasing new versions of all of the projects we maintain! That means big new versions...
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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...
19th Nov 2024
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There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0

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

19th Nov 2024
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...
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Run Rails with custom patches
4th Oct 2012
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Run Rails with custom patches

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

4th Oct 2012
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Hiring Employee #1 If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down,...
12th Dec 2011
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Hiring Employee #1

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

12th Dec 2011
If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down, and identify someone who is going to work well in your company?
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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...
11th Sep 2023
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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux

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

11th Sep 2023
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...
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The best general advice on earth These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology,...
26th Jul 2012
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The best general advice on earth

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

26th Jul 2012
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, "Habit": The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at...
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Disenchantment Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her...
1st Jul 2023
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Disenchantment

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2023
Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her phone after recharging at her parents’ home earlier in the day. In addition to that, there had been no water since the morning. Joburg Water had promised restoration by 2pm, but 48...
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Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I...
15th Apr 2020
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Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart

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

15th Apr 2020
I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I look back at the last year, I look at how much has changed in my professional and personal life. It feels like yesterday and forever ago. I did not think I would be in this spot...
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How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code) I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI...
23rd Dec 2025
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How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code)

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

23rd Dec 2025
I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI influencer "built 15 apps in a weekend" crowd, but Claude Code just did something wild for me. Had it help us rip out our entire search engine - we're talking millions and millions of...
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
2nd Dec 2024
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2024
English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
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Flying Joy Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a...
28th Nov 2022
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Flying Joy

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

28th Nov 2022
Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too! Moments like this make me smile at being a pilot dad. A week ago, I also got to give 8 children and one adult their first ever ride …...
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Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the...
26th Apr 2024
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Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD

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

26th Apr 2024
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128 pixels, a D-pad, and 3 other buttons. I will cover the prerequisite work to make the port possible, dig into the GPIO and SPI...
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Curvature Beziers Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ ...
15th Aug 2026
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Curvature Beziers

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

15th Aug 2026
Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ {left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true}, {left: "$", right: "$", display: false}, ]}); }); Improving on a timeless recipe The bezier curve is a staple of CAD and...
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The Design Process There’s a recurring take doing the rounds on socials. Thought leaders declaring that AI has killed...
4th Mar 2026
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The Design Process

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2026
There’s a recurring take doing the rounds on socials. Thought leaders declaring that AI has killed the design process (e.g. Lenny’s podcast). I personally think they’re wrong. But more importantly, I think most people (including designers) don’t know what they mean when they say...
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Why did I write Geometry for programmers This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
29th Dec 2022
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Why did I write Geometry for programmers

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Dec 2022
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
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Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
22nd Feb 2023
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Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS

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

22nd Feb 2023
The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
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The Height Enigma One of the most perplexing and befuddling things in CSS for me, for many years, was the behaviour of...
12th May 2025
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The Height Enigma

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

12th May 2025
One of the most perplexing and befuddling things in CSS for me, for many years, was the behaviour of percentage-based heights. Sometimes, seemingly at random, setting “height: 100%” would have no effect at all. When I finally figured out what was going on, it was like a puzzle...
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Prepping for the endgame of the open web Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare. The post...
7th Apr 2026
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Prepping for the endgame of the open web

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

7th Apr 2026
Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare. The post Prepping for the endgame of the open web appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Signifier flotation devices
27th Sep 2025
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Signifier flotation devices

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

27th Sep 2025
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Advent of Code 2024
2nd Jan 2025
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Advent of Code 2024

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

2nd Jan 2025
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Boot.dev Beat. January 2023 If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this...
1st Feb 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. January 2023

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

1st Feb 2023
If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this month.
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So you think you know everything about React refs React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you...
17th May 2021
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So you think you know everything about React refs

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th May 2021
React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you can access the current DOM node for that component in your JS. This is one of those great APIs that work just the way you'd expect, so you don't even think about how, exactly, it...
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What I've been up to in 2025 Been quiet around here. Time to change that! The short version up front: Since starting a family...
25th Aug 2025
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What I've been up to in 2025

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Aug 2025
Been quiet around here. Time to change that! The short version up front: Since starting a family and leaving Stripe, I've pursued the dream that brought me to Silicon Valley. I've founded a startup. After taking some parental leave, helping found a Python non-profit, and a nice...
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HMAC and MACs - The Inner Workings of JWTs HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A...
5th Aug 2020
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HMAC and MACs - The Inner Workings of JWTs

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

5th Aug 2020
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A Message Authentication Code (MAC) is a string of bits that depends on a secret key and is sent with a message to prove the message wasn’t tampered with. HMACs are a more strict...
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Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
5th Oct 2021
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Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs

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

5th Oct 2021
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him. But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world. He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
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Secure your account with MFA Secure your account with MFA
6th Jul 2022
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Secure your account with MFA

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

6th Jul 2022
Secure your account with MFA
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Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image TLDR: Click here for code to implement a lightweight, resilient clickable YouTube preview. YouTube...
11th Aug 2025
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Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Aug 2025
TLDR: Click here for code to implement a lightweight, resilient clickable YouTube preview. YouTube videos are expensive to load on a web page. This compounds if you want your page to display many videos at the same time for the user to choose from. Before the user even plays the...
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Texttools dot py I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
14th Aug 2024
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Texttools dot py

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

14th Aug 2024
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image: Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really...
22nd Dec 2012
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies

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

22nd Dec 2012
There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really makes it feel like the Christmas season (or maybe I just like having excuses to bake). Before leaving New York for holidays with the family in Chicago, I made candy cane brownie...
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#30 Bullet “list” Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p>...
13th Jan 2022
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#30 Bullet “list”

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2022
Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p> for paragraphs, not lists. The standard way for creating basic lists is <ul> (when the order doesn't matter) or <ol> (when the order matters), and <li> for each item. The “list”...
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Using Dall-E/AI to create kids colouring pages in KidzFun.art Over the past couple of years I’ve been building KidzFun.art, an art & education app for my young...
9th Apr 2024
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Using Dall-E/AI to create kids colouring pages in KidzFun.art

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Apr 2024
Over the past couple of years I’ve been building KidzFun.art, an art & education app for my young kids and hopefully yours. The first feature I ever added was simple colouring pages, hand drawn by my lovely and talented wife. However that was a slow and laborious process, and...
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The endless search for “here” in the unhelpful “click here” button
11th Nov 2021
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The endless search for “here” in the unhelpful “click here” button

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

11th Nov 2021
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the...
25th Feb 2022
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer

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

25th Feb 2022
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
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Web Witch's Grimoire: April 2025 I really haven't done a review of my months since November. I've been deep in hibernation mode,...
3rd May 2025
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Web Witch's Grimoire: April 2025

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

3rd May 2025
I really haven't done a review of my months since November. I've been deep in hibernation mode, conserving energy for what will be a busy few months. I started to write a log about what happened in March, the first March that did not drag on this year, at least for me, but now...
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Reflections at 44, Tofu, Ancient Robots, Fanny Crosby 44 I recently turned 44, and this year resonates more than others for the simple fact that there are...
24th Oct 2025
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Reflections at 44, Tofu, Ancient Robots, Fanny Crosby

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Oct 2025
44 I recently turned 44, and this year resonates more than others for the simple fact that there are two repeating numbers. Other numbers that have come to mind are 22, 44, and 88. At 22,  I had just graduated from college with a computer science degree during a mild recession,...
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Pick Up What They Put Down > Translations welcome! (Português)
1st Jan 2020
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Pick Up What They Put Down

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

1st Jan 2020
> Translations welcome! (Português)
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Folk Interfaces People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
24th Aug 2022
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Folk Interfaces

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

24th Aug 2022
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
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Eventually consistent plain text accounting .title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past...
24th Oct 2024
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Eventually consistent plain text accounting

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

24th Oct 2024
.title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past six months, I’ve tracked my money with hledger—a plain text double-entry accounting system written in Haskell. It’s been surprisingly painless. My previous attempts to pick up...
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The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents 2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
1st Nov 2022
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The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents

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

1st Nov 2022
2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
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A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
8th Oct 2012
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A Horrifying User Experience

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Oct 2012
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
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Creating a personal wrapper around yt-dlp I download a lot of videos from YouTube, and yt-dlp is my tool of choice. Sometimes I download...
7th Oct 2025
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Creating a personal wrapper around yt-dlp

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2025
I download a lot of videos from YouTube, and yt-dlp is my tool of choice. Sometimes I download videos as a one-off, but more often I’m downloading videos in a project – my bookmarks, my collection of TV clips, or my social media scrapbook. I’ve noticed myself writing similar...
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Terminal colours are tricky Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was...
1st Oct 2024
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Terminal colours are tricky

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2024
Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what problems they’ve run into with colours in the...
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question
17th Aug 2024
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question

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

17th Aug 2024
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Choose Boring Technology Culture Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot;...
1st May 2023
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Choose Boring Technology Culture

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

1st May 2023
Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot; Emily summed it up crisply as, “Living another day on someone else’s money isn’t business success, even though it is a lovely vote of confidence.” Agreed. The vote of confidence...
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Enhancements to the Kagi search experience We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
3rd May 2023
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Enhancements to the Kagi search experience

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

3rd May 2023
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
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My Text Edtior is Not Open Source My Text Edtior is Not Open Source 2024-01-02 I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than...
2nd Jan 2024
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My Text Edtior is Not Open Source

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

2nd Jan 2024
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source 2024-01-02 I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than I can remember. I think Sublime has been around since the start of my “real” career over 10 years ago, but I could be mistaken1. It certainly feels that long. And in that time I...
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IndexedDB is Weird Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking...
3rd Mar 2025
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IndexedDB is Weird

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2025
Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking API would mean fully blocking the page, render and basic user interaction included, while the request is being processed. Although this is apparently good-enough for JSON.parse(),...
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Are you an experienced software buyer? I could use some help. If it seems like I’ve been relatively quiet lately on social media and my blog, that’s because I...
19th Sep 2025
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Are you an experienced software buyer? I could use some help.

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

19th Sep 2025
If it seems like I’ve been relatively quiet lately on social media and my blog, that’s because I have. Liz, Austin, George and I have been busy toiling away on the second edition of “Observability Engineering” ever since April or May. I personally have been trying to spend 75-80%...
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025 Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from...
7th Mar 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025

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

7th Mar 2025
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from scratch is just around the corner, and the TypeScript track couldn’t be closer.
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partitioning ambiguous edges in guile Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with...
25th Apr 2025
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partitioning ambiguous edges in guile

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Apr 2025
Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with conservatively-traced references. The context is that I have finally started banging into , initially in a configuration that continues to use the conservative Boehm-Demers-Weiser (BDW)...
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Terroir Terroir Longmont Had an amazing meal tonight at Terroir in Longmont. Pictured is the most amazing...
14th Aug 2009
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Terroir

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

14th Aug 2009
Terroir Longmont Had an amazing meal tonight at Terroir in Longmont. Pictured is the most amazing thing you will never taste. Booya! I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet Archive. If you found this article useful or entertaining (or even if you didn’t)...
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What I'm up to - May 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st May 2024
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What I'm up to - May 2024

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

1st May 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in April - Cat's out of the bag - the "Shenanigans" I referenced in March and April are revealed. I...
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Data Binding in React As developers, we don't like working with forms, but they're a critical part of most web...
9th Jan 2023
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Data Binding in React

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

9th Jan 2023
As developers, we don't like working with forms, but they're a critical part of most web applications! In this tutorial, you'll learn exactly how to wire up all of the different form controls in React. Never forget how to data-bind a checkbox or radio button again!
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#13 link or label Bad code <input type="checkbox" id="accept" required> <label for="accept"> <a href="/legal"> I...
15th Jan 2020
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#13 link or label

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jan 2020
Bad code <input type="checkbox" id="accept" required> <label for="accept"> <a href="/legal"> I accept the confidentiality policy and data… </a> </label> Issues and how to fix them It’s bad practice to nest elements with activation behavior (e.g. click). Users don’t expect a new...
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The Best Illustration Books and Courses My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
6th Jul 2019
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The Best Illustration Books and Courses

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

6th Jul 2019
My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
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CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
15th Apr 2024
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CSS in React Server Components

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

15th Apr 2024
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
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AI Market Clarity A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for...
22nd Jul 2025
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AI Market Clarity

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

22nd Jul 2025
A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for the next year or two suddenly clear
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The case for frameworks
10th Feb 2023
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The case for frameworks

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

10th Feb 2023
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2015-07-07 "I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types...
7th Jul 2015
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2015-07-07

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

7th Jul 2015
"I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types and when I came back, my hate was deeper and more nuanced."
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Winner, Name that Ware January 2026 The Ware for January 2026 is a FNIRSI DPS-150. Tim nailed it almost immediately; congrats, email me...
27th Feb 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware January 2026

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

27th Feb 2026
The Ware for January 2026 is a FNIRSI DPS-150. Tim nailed it almost immediately; congrats, email me for your prize! The DPS-150 is a small, portable DC “benchtop” power supply that converts USB-C into a range of voltages and currents. samchin convinced me to get one of these as...
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A lazy dark mode A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
20th Jun 2020
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A lazy dark mode

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

20th Jun 2020
A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
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When should I use String vs &str?
6th Oct 2024
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When should I use String vs &str?

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

6th Oct 2024
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The Coddling of the Professional Mind "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The...
1st Oct 2021
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The Coddling of the Professional Mind

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

1st Oct 2021
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." – Thomas Sowell I'm not one to miss an important milestone, so let me draw your attention...
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Introducing issue2pr
29th Jun 2012
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Introducing issue2pr

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

29th Jun 2012
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Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
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Over-Nesting

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

6th Jan 2019
Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I’ve recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
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Switching Things Over to ikiwiki Switching Things Over to ikiwiki 2023-12-17 I’ve done it again. My personal website is no longer...
17th Dec 2023
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Switching Things Over to ikiwiki

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

17th Dec 2023
Switching Things Over to ikiwiki 2023-12-17 I’ve done it again. My personal website is no longer generated with barf but is instead built on top of ikiwiki. The old RSS feed (btxx.org/atom.xml) still exists but will no longer receive updates. The new feed can be found on the...
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Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
29th Jul 2021
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Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

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

29th Jul 2021
On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
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The best web analytics tools for developers, compared Welcome. Grab a chair. There's coffee in the back. No one's judging you for ignoring your analytics...
15th Jan 2025
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The best web analytics tools for developers, compared

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

15th Jan 2025
Welcome. Grab a chair. There's coffee in the back. No one's judging you for ignoring your analytics for six months. We've all been there. This is a…
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Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees) Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
6th Nov 2022
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Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees)

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

6th Nov 2022
Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
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how to draw a tetrapod Concrete tetrapods are used to dissipate wave energy in coastal defences. There’s a bit of a craze...
24th Oct 2025
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how to draw a tetrapod

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

24th Oct 2025
Concrete tetrapods are used to dissipate wave energy in coastal defences. There’s a bit of a craze for making tetrapod-shaped things: recently I’ve seen people making a plush tetrapod and a tetrapod lamp. So I thought it might be fun to model one. I found a nice way to describe...
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#35 a perfectly structured button button table { margin: 0; } .fa-arrow-left::before {content:"←"} Bad code <button type="button"...
11th Sep 2025
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#35 a perfectly structured button

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Sep 2025
button table { margin: 0; } .fa-arrow-left::before {content:"←"} Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')"> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <i class="fa fa-arrow-left" aria-hidden="true"></i> </td> ...
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What I Told the FCC I think that new FCC proposal for “Restoring Internet Freedom” would completely destroy the...
8th May 2017
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What I Told the FCC

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

8th May 2017
I think that new FCC proposal for “Restoring Internet Freedom” would completely destroy the internet. Should this proposal go any further, the internet will no longer be recognizable within a very short amount of time. I’m worried that I will no longer have a place on the...
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Snapshot tests for your own ppx
1st Jan 2025
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Snapshot tests for your own ppx

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

1st Jan 2025
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hybrid quota-linear rate limiter A while back I wrote about the linear rate limit algorithms leaky bucket and GCRA. Since then I have...
13th Jan 2026
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hybrid quota-linear rate limiter

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

13th Jan 2026
A while back I wrote about the linear rate limit algorithms leaky bucket and GCRA. Since then I have been vexed by how common it is to implement rate limiting using complicated and wasteful algorithms (for example). But linear (and exponential) rate limiters have a...
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Hiring as an incomplete information game Hiring is an incomplete information game and to succeed you have to treat it as such.
18th Oct 2025
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Hiring as an incomplete information game

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

18th Oct 2025
Hiring is an incomplete information game and to succeed you have to treat it as such.
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Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no...
6th Jul 2023
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Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling

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

6th Jul 2023
Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no signup or other throttling in place. Two approaches: but there will likely be only one winner.
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5 Ways of Debugging with IPython There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am...
23rd Dec 2019
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5 Ways of Debugging with IPython

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Dec 2019
There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am a puts debuggerer", that I enjoyed when I played with Ruby. The gist of it is to show you that, in many cases, you don't need a full-fledged debugger. Don't get me (or Tenderlove)...
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When Random Isn't This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive...
10th Jan 2024
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When Random Isn't

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

10th Jan 2024
This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive me if I do not accurately remember all the details. Some details are also simplified so that anyone that likes computer security can enjoy this article, not just those who have...
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User-Agent: moz://a
12th Dec 2017
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User-Agent: moz://a

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

12th Dec 2017
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Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy...
9th May 2018
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Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2018
This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy sell, full API docs and tutorial are already available at glom.readthedocs.io. met me at PyCon, this 5-minute talk. The Spectre of Structure In the Python world, there's a...
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Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce Learn how to handle advanced things like core fees when importing products into WooCommerce.
9th Dec 2017
1

Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Dec 2017
Learn how to handle advanced things like core fees when importing products into WooCommerce.
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Sketches I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face. Faces...
31st Jan 2026
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Sketches

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

31st Jan 2026
I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face. Faces are different for me than any other kind of drawing. Somewhere in the process the face looks real enough for me to recognize it as a human being, if it's a good drawing. About 30% of...
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Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266 Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s...
1st Aug 2020
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Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266

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

1st Aug 2020
Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s pretty cool to order pizza, turn on a light, send a tweet, or even run a custom script at the press of a physical button. But I recently tried to use one of my dash buttons and couldn’t...
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My Favorite Macbook Tools This list is outdated. For a list of macOS apps that I'm currently using, click here. I could spend...
9th Jan 2020
1

My Favorite Macbook Tools

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2020
This list is outdated. For a list of macOS apps that I'm currently using, click here. I could spend days just tweaking things on my computer. Actually, I do. Whenever I see something annoying, I want to drop everything and try to fix it right away. It can be anything. From a...
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Colophon Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the...
1st May 2015
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Colophon

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2015
Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the archive. This convention makes a colophon the King's Pawn Game of web authorship; there's no better place to showcase certain implementation details than the first post of a...
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