Sometimes It Works...
Moving from Medium
What this runs on
I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog.
It's been many...
31st Jan 2023
What this runs on
I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog.
It's been many years since I ran my own site 'properly'. And now that it's practically free, it was about time.
For the eagle-eyed among you, you'll know that I sporadically published content to...
tonsky.me
I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient...
15th Oct 2025
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient yourself in a large file.
Like any tool, it can be used correctly or incorrectly. Let’s see how to use syntax highlighting to help you work.
Christmas Lights Diarrhea
Most color themes...
macwright.com
Recently
Listening
My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own
beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
1st Jun 2023
Listening
My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own
beer-centric podcast, Taplines, and guest-starred on the enormous
Chapo Trap House podcast.
Reading
It’s been a slow few weeks for books, but since I skipped
Recently in May, I can still talk about Achieving...
macwright.com
Recently
Writing in from Washington, DC, my once-hometown and
the birthplace of Mapbox.
This one will be...
3rd Jul 2023
Writing in from Washington, DC, my once-hometown and
the birthplace of Mapbox.
This one will be quick because I’m between one thing
and another!
Listening
Dry Daniel by Buke and Gase
Buke and Gase released some music they recorded a while ago,
and there are some hits in it. I...
Tony Finch's blog
I made a keyboard!
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to...
4th Aug 2023
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to the beeb’s 40th anniversary. I called it HHKBeeb:
The HHKBeeb is made from:
keycaps designed by me and printed by WASD
Yiancar HS60 PCB
generic HHKB aluminium / acrylic sandwich...
Tony Finch's blog
An update on leap seconds
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap
seconds, though I have been...
4th Dec 2022
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap
seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly
frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an
index of threads. But Twitter now seems a lot less likely to stick
around, so I’ll aim to...
Coding Horror
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
2nd Dec 2024
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?
teaching the aliens how to exit Vim
(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
Dan Quach Blog
Accurate Predictions
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
6th Jun 2023
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
Grant Slatton's Blog
Manufacturing as Maintenance
The cleansing fire of rebirth
8th Jun 2025
The cleansing fire of rebirth
Boot.dev Blog
Systems and Processes that Aren't in Code are Terrifying
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten...
3rd Oct 2019
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten about. I don’t know how to find these systems reliably, I don’t know where they came from, what depends on them, and if they are safe to delete. For example, the dreaded 15 6 2 1 *...
Josh Comeau's blog
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
27th Jun 2022
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single
tag.
blag
Scraping Javascript page using Python
Simple code example to illustrate scraping a javascript driven website, using Python and Dryscape.
18th Oct 2014
Simple code example to illustrate scraping a javascript driven website, using Python and Dryscape.
elementary Blog
A Little Bit Now, A Lotta Bit Later
In mid-March we released a big bug fix update—elementary OS 8.0.1—and since then we’ve been hard at...
6th May 2025
In mid-March we released a big bug fix update—elementary OS 8.0.1—and since then we’ve been hard at work on even more bug fixes and some new exciting features that I’m excited to share with you today! Read ahead to find out what we’ve released recently and what you can help us...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
3rd Jul 2019
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
The Web Witch's Blog
The hard truth about using AI in coding
In a recent experience while building a website, I tried to use ChatGPT to help me out with...
7th Feb 2025
In a recent experience while building a website, I tried to use ChatGPT to help me out with JavaScript. Something I've never needed to fully learn because my work has always been divided by JavaScript devs and HTML/CSS devs. A long time ago I used to be able to write bits in...
On Life and Lisp
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release!
We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release!
We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new
driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is
still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth
desktop...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the...
31st Dec 2019
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the Everglades: the endless sea of grass, extending to the horizon, as far as the eye can see and beyond, and teeming with life. There are all kinds of animals there. Herons, egrets,...
Alex Meub
How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have...
20th Jan 2019
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6. This means that visitors won’t be able to access your content with IPv6-only enabled which is not good. On top of that, I think its important to...
Sometimes It Works...
Thinking in packages
Thinking in packages
Path repository
Override PSR-4 Autoloading
¶Thinking in packages
If you’re in...
6th Jun 2018
Thinking in packages
Path repository
Override PSR-4 Autoloading
¶Thinking in packages
If you’re in the mindset of writing and using your own Composer packages, no doubt you’ve come across the following problem:
“How do I keep the (frequently updated) package code in the main...
Acko.net
Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams
Hassle free GLSL
I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
11th Dec 2021
Hassle free GLSL
I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general.
#pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color'
void main() {
gl_FragColor =...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant.
Rather than failing completely when encountering...
2nd Jan 2024
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant.
Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax.
For someone who is...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Exceptional results: error handling with C# and Rust
17th Jun 2015
Miguel Carranza
Books I read in 2020
Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books....
3rd Jan 2021
Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books. But that was about it. Even reading The Lord of the Rings or easier to digest books like Harry Potter would be a struggle. It was not until I started getting access to technical...
alexwlchan
Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy
I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a...
3rd Nov 2024
I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy.
(Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.)
Hopefully nobody noticed!
When I flipped the DNS records to...
Blog of Simple...
Sweden declares Google Analytics illegal
3rd Jul 2023
Boot.dev Blog
Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course,...
4th Oct 2021
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the...
Boot.dev Blog
What Are the Career Options in Computer Science?
The future is bright for career options in computer science with remote work opening up doors that...
1st Aug 2022
The future is bright for career options in computer science with remote work opening up doors that weren’t present before. Trying to navigate through computer science career options can be overwhelming what with all the options at your disposal. While we won’t go through every...
Liz Denys
Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced...
24th Feb 2015
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
17th Jul 2024
Boot.dev Blog
Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
The Web Witch's Blog
Setting intentions and goals for 2020
Last year I took a mindfulness course led by a former team lead who had switched careers at...
2nd Jan 2020
Last year I took a mindfulness course led by a former team lead who had switched careers at Microsoft. We had four in-person all day sessions and at the end of each session we would set intentions for the next few months between classes. Intentions are different than goals, as...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Fixing delivery: a guide for engineering managers
Humans, by and large, feel good when they set small goals and meet
them regularly.
– Camille...
16th Aug 2022
Humans, by and large, feel good when they set small goals and meet
them regularly.
– Camille Fournier, The Manager’s Path
Shipping motivates software teams.
So it’s understandable for a team’s morale to suffer when delivery
drags.
Getting the team pushing software they’re proud...
Tony Finch's blog
poached eggs
A few weeks ago I was enjoying a couple of boiled eggs
(in the shell, with plenty of salt and...
14th Mar 2026
A few weeks ago I was enjoying a couple of boiled eggs
(in the shell, with plenty of salt and pepper, and buttery fingers of
toast to dunk into the runny yolk)
and pondering how fiddly it is to cut off one end of the shell after
boiling compared to eating a poached egg. And I was...
Confessions of a...
The Pythonic Emptiness
Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...
9th Nov 2024
Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most cases
Eric Bailey
<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell
The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)...
31st Oct 2022
The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) standard. It allows a property/value declaration in HTML as a way of providing an accessible name for an interactive element.
Accessible names
Accessible names use text to identify...
Liz Denys
Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity
Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs:
The...
3rd Jun 2022
Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs:
The original signs announcing this ban only stated it in English.
I'm in Streetsblog today with a piece about why reversing this arbitrary ban is a matter of equity:
Over Memorial Day...
Alex Meub
My Mac OSX Setup
Application Installs
Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge...
9th Jul 2014
Application Installs
Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge step above MacPorts and Fink when it comes to installing and managing open source software.
Spectacle is a free window resizing utility that gives you keyboard shortcuts to resize...
Buttondown's blog
Q1 planning
We're excited for what's in store for 2023!
2nd Jan 2023
We're excited for what's in store for 2023!
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't thank Chat GPT
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are.
Not...
30th Jul 2023
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are.
Not only is there no logical reason to add pleasantries to your chat with GPT, but it also takes tokens for it to remove them and get to the point of your message.
Don't thank Chat...
bunnie's blog
Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White...
6th Nov 2023
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
charity.wtf
How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy”
Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it...
20th Jan 2022
Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it was founded by two engineers and our mission involves building an engineering product for other engineers. We are never going to stop being engineering-driven in the sense that we...
Liz Denys
ZRH
Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
22nd Aug 2012
Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Lisp interpreter in SQL
This year, I'll be implementing a Lisp interpreter in SQL. Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to...
31st Dec 2025
This year, I'll be implementing a Lisp interpreter in SQL. Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to do that? Well, let me tell you a little story about that. Several decades ago, I got a New Year's present from my roommate's girlfriend. It was a book. She got it at a used...
Jibran’s Perspective
Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is...
15th Jun 2024
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is a good failure. It has taught me things, lessons I can use in the future to avoid failing this way again.
But first a bit of context. What did I fail at?
In February of 2024 I...
Eric Migicovsky's...
In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
1st Jun 2022
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Naked Emperors in Tech
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
6th Nov 2020
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
On Test Automation
On my new ‘Valuable feedback, fast’ course
A couple of weeks ago, I published the training page for a brand-new course that I’m looking to run...
7th Jan 2026
A couple of weeks ago, I published the training page for a brand-new course that I’m looking to run at least a couple of times in 2026. The course is called ‘Valuable feedback, fast’, and in this blog post, I’d like to share a little more about why I created this course, why it...
bt RSS Feed
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and...
22nd Nov 2018
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and implementing a grid layout is no different.
Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
TokyoDev
The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live!
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
8th Dec 2022
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2022-developer-survey), please check them out!
This year's survey had 42 questions, up from 24 questions for [2021's...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Six
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
8th Jan 2024
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
Steve Klabnik
Porting steveklabnik.com to Workers Sites and Zola
26th Sep 2019
David Gerrells
what is a favicon?
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app...
11th Nov 2025
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app which sports the default favicon (favorite icon) of whatever framework, tool, or library used to make said project, website, or app, I cannot help but be disappointed. Nay, more than...
David Gerrells
How fast is javascript? Simulating 20,000,000 particles
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the...
6th Jul 2024
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the cpu. Let’s go.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a...
1st Apr 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...
Daniel Immke
My Hacktoberfest 2019
Hardest I've ever worked for a free t-shirt.
26th Oct 2019
Hardest I've ever worked for a free t-shirt.
Sedimental
Designing a version
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a
proper versioning scheme.
Weak...
23rd Feb 2016
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a
proper versioning scheme.
Weak version management neglects clients like lack of source control
neglects collaborators. Dependency management and migration rely on
versions. Beyond the technical, a project's...
The Web Witch's Blog
Recomposed: Spring 1
A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about...
1st May 2023
A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about JWT tokens, session IDs and OAuth.
I am not an engineer and I don't pretend to be one. I have web development chops, but I loathe JavaScript and lean into my design background (CSS...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Spent Labor Day in Boulder - Went to Alchemy Springs Sauna in SF- I'm happy to see...
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
30th Nov 2023
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
Eric Migicovsky's...
We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the...
11th Jan 2024
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
Nelson's Weblog
Proxmox
Proxmox is good software
for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that
lets...
18th Jan 2024
Proxmox is good software
for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that
lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It
also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high
availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
A Beautiful Site
Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery
A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of...
9th Dec 2007
A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of checkboxes:
<fieldset id="group_1">
<input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="0" />
<input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="2"...
Charles Chen
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1
The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
1st May 2022
The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
Josh Comeau's blog
Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream
Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really,...
2nd Nov 2020
Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really, but that shouldn't discourage us! In this article, I'll show how I became designers' best friend by leveraging a series of tricks to get my implementation looking...
Quentin Santos
The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
2nd Jul 2025
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
The Changelog
Artificial Intelligence: Shades of Gray
AI sure is a hot topic right now, and I see a lot of people arguing about it. To a lot of people...
25th Mar 2026
AI sure is a hot topic right now, and I see a lot of people arguing about it. To a lot of people around here, I’m the “computer person” they know and I get asked a lot about AI. I’m going to suggest a lot of things can be true at once. For instance: LLMs … Continue reading...
DevOps - Bitfield...
In search of lost teams
As a technical leader, how do you spot when your team is lost in the weeds,
and is there anything...
29th Sep 2020
As a technical leader, how do you spot when your team is lost in the weeds,
and is there anything you can do about it? Leadership expert Mike Thomas
explains.
Charles Chen
AI Startup Moats: The Difference Between Bakers and Ovens
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
9th Nov 2024
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
Irrational...
Who gets to do strategy?
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with
the prevalent idea that they...
6th Mar 2025
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with
the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can
work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea
perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization,
it just...
David Crawshaw
2014-01-17
"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel...
17th Jan 2014
"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel coming into the engine, reducing engine pressure, causing more fuel to come in and increasing engine pressure again."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation
sancho.dev
OCaml documentation as markdown
Turn your OCaml API documentation into publishable Markdown
3rd Mar 2026
Turn your OCaml API documentation into publishable Markdown
Daniel Marino
How I Handletter
When I first got into hand-lettering, I had a hard time finding people who shared their full...
19th Sep 2025
When I first got into hand-lettering, I had a hard time finding people who shared their full process—especially the digitizing phase. So here’s a look at how I typically work. Everyone’s process is different, and a lot depends on your style and how you plan to present the piece....
Words and Buttons...
Either your estimates suck or your job does
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
19th Sep 2023
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to estimate.
Seldo.com
Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly
6th Jan 2022
TokyoDev
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).*
If you're an...
7th Jan 2020
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).*
If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
David Crawshaw
Zero Trust Networks
Zero Trust Networks
2019-09-10
I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next...
10th Sep 2019
Zero Trust Networks
2019-09-10
I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next engineer, but there comes a point where there are just too many precise, narrowly-understood terms polluting your vocabulary. The circle of people you can talk to shrinks until going to...
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we designed the PostHog mascot
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
7th Oct 2021
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
Tinloof - Blog
How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions
We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's...
6th Nov 2022
We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's portfolio companies into their Jobs page.
Renegade Otter
Death by a thousand microservices
The Church of Complexity
There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
10th Sep 2023
The Church of Complexity
There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of
microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
Steve Klabnik
Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse
10th Sep 2013
Alex Meub
About the Apple Captive Network Assistant
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site...
10th Apr 2017
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site for a better resource on the Captive Network Assistant.
If you’re a mac user, you likely have seen a strange popup window appear on your computer when you try to connect to the...
Sebastian Witowski
My Favorite CLI Tools
Previously, I wrote about my favorite Mac apps. But I spend half of my time in the terminal, and I...
18th Jun 2020
Previously, I wrote about my favorite Mac apps. But I spend half of my time in the terminal, and I have a handful of CLI tools that makes my life easier. Here are some of them:
This is a long list, so here is a table of content with tl;dr summaries:
fish shell - easy to use,...
markround.com
It’s Only When You Look Back
I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in...
17th Jun 2026
I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in his lifetime. Born in 1911, the thing he said that really stuck with me was that when he was a child people were barely puttering around off the ground in aeroplanes; A few years...
Irrational...
Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
1st Dec 2023
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
The Codist
Why Buying An Apple II+ In 1979 Changed My Life
After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had....
16th Mar 2026
After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had. Little did I know that everything that happened after that was not what I expected.
I went to graduate school in Chemistry, but my faculty advisor resigned after being denied...
Buttondown's blog
Send your RSS digest on any day of the month
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a...
1st Aug 2026
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a given weekday.
Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
28th Jun 2023
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
8th Jun 2023
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
charity.wtf
The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating...
23rd Sep 2022
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, which she accepted with relish. Molly was smart, driven, and fiercely ambitious, so...
Quentin Santos
Merging Responsibly
tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing...
28th Apr 2024
tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing MR/PRs git commit git has emerged as the obvious choice for SCCS (Source Code Control System). The consensus is that it is unambiguously better than the previous standard, SVN. There...
Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
6th Jan 2012
dthompson
Functional reactive user interfaces with propagators
I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for
about a decade now. I even wrote...
8th Jul 2024
I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for
about a decade now. I even wrote a couple of
blog
posts back in 2014
describing my experiments. My initial source of inspiration was
Elm, the Haskell-like language for the web
that once had FRP as a
core part of...
macwright.com
Recently
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days
late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
3rd Mar 2023
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days
late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty busy! Things
are good. Building products is fun but also a lot of work.
Pretty excited about what I’m working on. Ready for winter to
end.
Reading
I enjoyed reading Ross Barkan’s...
Alex Meub
Windows 98 Icons are Great
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons...
26th Feb 2015
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing.
Why are they so good?
Rather than some designer’s flashy vision of the future, Windows 98 icons made the operating system feel like a place to get...
Boot.dev Blog
How To Cache Images - React Native Expo (Managed)
Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The...
4th Feb 2020
Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The problem many devs run into is that React Native only supports caching images on IOS out of the box.
The Web Witch's Blog
The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 13 May 2022
15 May 2022
My life has been a bundle of joy since I moved into Seattle from Redmond in March, and I...
15th May 2022
15 May 2022
My life has been a bundle of joy since I moved into Seattle from Redmond in March, and I couldn't be happier. I've managed to get out and paddle board a few times though the weather has been largely abysmal. It's still snowing in the mountains but the snowpack is well...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are...
24th Dec 2017
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great.
This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...
The Changelog
The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of...
4th Apr 2024
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want to say not only is that view so myopic that it pushes towards the incorrect, but also it...
charity.wtf
Deploys Are The ✨WRONG✨ Way To Change User Experience
This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m...
8th Mar 2023
This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m no stranger to ranting about deploys. But there’s one thing I haven’t sufficiently ranted about yet, which is this: Deploying software is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad way to go about the...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Staging is a trap
@mipsytipsy
Software staging clusters only grow.
As production accrues more services, staging’s...
15th Sep 2022
@mipsytipsy
Software staging clusters only grow.
As production accrues more services, staging’s costs ramp up.
And maintaining a single, massive, production-like staging may no
longer be the right answer.
But several, small staging clusters—each fit for their purpose—offers
a...
Ink & Switch
Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
31st Oct 2022
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
The Codist
Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts
For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their...
4th Feb 2025
For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their complete control over the Treasury Department is entirely insane.
Unless you intend to destroy everything, making arbitrary changes to complex computer systems will result in destruction,...
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
9th Jun 2024
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks. To me, this...
6th Feb 2025
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks. To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interfaces. The terminology...
Buttondown's blog
Managing your drafts through the API
Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
1st Jul 2019
Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
Eliran Turgeman
I am a junior, and can't find a job - now what?
“The market is tough” is something many juniors hear today. people are frustrated. graduating after...
25th Jul 2024
“The market is tough” is something many juniors hear today. people are frustrated. graduating after 3-4 years with a CS degree is not easy. They graduate only to find out nobody wants to hire them or even move forward beyond the initial screening.
I’ll be real with you. there’s...
Alex Meub
Finding Campsites with Python
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
3rd Aug 2015
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite.
If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Email tips from the drowning
I have never seen an email message too short.
– Roman and Raphaelson, Writing
That Works
Email is a...
13th Jun 2023
I have never seen an email message too short.
– Roman and Raphaelson, Writing
That Works
Email is a cornerstone of remote work and a colossal waste of
time.
People say: “That meeting could have been an email.” But I’d add:
“That email could have been a few bullet points.”
Writing...
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
13th Feb 2025
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth!
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
24th Sep 2019
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
alexwlchan
Using Pytester to test my Playwright fixtures
A month ago, I wrote about my Playwright fixture for testing static websites in a browser.
I’ve been...
5th Jun 2026
A month ago, I wrote about my Playwright fixture for testing static websites in a browser.
I’ve been copying that fixture from project-to-project, but recently I decided to add it to chives, the utility library I use for all my static websites (or tiny archives).
One of my rules...
Code Of Honor
Uh-oh: was the company site hacked?
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your...
9th May 2013
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
Writing - Andreas...
Agents are commoditizing the complement
Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing
down what the code...
3rd Nov 2025
Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing
down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing
up demand for the latter.
Julia Evans
Open sourcing the nginx playground
Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations
called nginx...
8th Jul 2023
Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations
called nginx playground. There’s a
blog post about it here.
This is an extremely short post to say that at the time I didn’t make it open source,
but I am making it open source now. It’s not a lot of...
sancho.dev
Making html_of_jsx ~10x faster
A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
3rd Dec 2025
A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
elementary Blog
Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More
As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and...
5th Jul 2023
As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and a major platform improvement. Enjoy this month’s contributions to the upcoming OS 7.1!
AppCenter
As we work towards our continual goal of better supporting alternative app stores,...
Lee A Johnson
Snowsports and the Normalisation of Deviance
Les Dents du Midi, March 2025
There’s a mountain range visible from the office here that i’ve looked...
4th May 2025
Les Dents du Midi, March 2025
There’s a mountain range visible from the office here that i’ve looked at almost everyday for the last 12 years, when weather conditions allow of course. Les Dents du Midi. Often i’ve thought “I wonder if anyone has ever skied or snowboarded down one...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The Unreasonable Fight for Municipal Broadband
I love Longmont’s municipal broadband, but we had to fight Comcast
every step of the way to get...
20th Apr 2022
I love Longmont’s municipal broadband, but we had to fight Comcast
every step of the way to get it.
NextLight—Longmont’s
Broadband
As a gracious person, I’ll dutifully pretend that the problem
might be on my side of the Zoom call. But the problem is never
me—my internet is just...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The Deployment Fidelity Problem
The most important problem that we face as software professionals is
this: If somebody thinks of a...
31st Aug 2021
The most important problem that we face as software professionals is
this: If somebody thinks of a good idea, how do we deliver it to users
as quickly as possible?
– Continuous Delivery
Production is a low-fidelity version of your codebase. Many
deployment metrics are just a...
bt RSS Feed
My Cheapskate Commenting System
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of…
I went down a...
3rd Feb 2022
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of…
I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
Cognitive...
Uncensored Models
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
15th May 2023
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
TokyoDev
LinkedIn’s Broken Automation Took Down My Company’s Page Without Warning
TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow...
2nd Sep 2024
TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow their careers in Japan. Given our focus, it’s not surprising that LinkedIn is the social network that delivers us the most traffic. Typically, about 4% of our total visitors arrive...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2024
A new Pub/Sub Architecture course, lootable chests, and ThePrimeagen’s Git course is only a couple...
1st May 2024
A new Pub/Sub Architecture course, lootable chests, and ThePrimeagen’s Git course is only a couple weeks away. It’s been a good April. glhf.
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m sorry
Question:
Answer:
The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
9th May 2024
Question:
Answer:
The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Irrational...
Crafting Engineering Strategy!
On November 3rd, 2023, I posted Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer
to celebrate the...
25th Oct 2025
On November 3rd, 2023, I posted Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer
to celebrate the completion of my work on my prior book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer.
Three weeks later, I posted Engineering strategy notes on November 21st, 2023,
as I started to pull together...
Florian Bellmann |...
You are never taught how to build quality software
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn...
7th Dec 2023
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn it?
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
7th Aug 2018
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol.
Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Kevin Chen
What I learned in 2017
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year.
And now that we’re...
8th Jun 2018
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year.
And now that we’re more than halfway through 2018, I decided to stop
procrastinating and flesh out the details. Some of these things are probably
obvious to you, but they were new to me!
Being right is...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.8.0
What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If...
3rd Jun 2020
What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If you're self hosting and want these features - update…
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Command-Timing-Bash-Prompt
A few years ago I was using ZSH with Sindre Sorhus’s Pure prompt and
generally enjoying the...
19th Jan 2016
A few years ago I was using ZSH with Sindre Sorhus’s Pure prompt and
generally enjoying the experience. The big, dumb, obvious caveat of
using ZSH is that it’s not Bash. As a result, when you SSH into
production machines that only have bash installed, you feel a...
Sebastian Witowski
Upgrade Your Python Version
Here is an idea for a completely free[1] speed improvement for your code - upgrade your Python...
14th Nov 2022
Here is an idea for a completely free[1] speed improvement for your code - upgrade your Python version!
I started this series of articles using Python 3.8, but today we already have version 3.11. Python 3.11 is the first version of Python that brings pretty significant speed...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering.
Older...
18th Jul 2018
Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering.
Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server.
It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
Jordan Eldredge's...
“Alexa, add half & half”
The funniest Alexa interaction I’ve ever had
22nd Jul 2024
The funniest Alexa interaction I’ve ever had
Buttondown's blog
May updates
Here's what's new with Buttondown.
3rd Jun 2018
Here's what's new with Buttondown.
Josh Collinsworth
Announcing Hondo
Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from....
14th Jul 2022
Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from. Eventually, those ideas took the shape of a whole new word game, named Hondo.
Steve Klabnik
The hardest decision I've ever made
17th Nov 2010
Ruud van Asseldonk
An API for my Christmas tree
1st Dec 2017
Ruud van Asseldonk
An algorithm for shuffling playlists
22nd Jul 2023
Jordan Eldredge's...
Silly fach generator
I created a website that will generate silly fach names.
2nd Jan 2013
I created a website that will generate silly fach names.
TokyoDev
Freedom, Risk, and Protection: What Japan’s Freelance Act Really Means for Tech Workers
Japan’s freelance IT market is worth over 100 billion yen annually, with projected demand up nearly...
7th Oct 2025
Japan’s freelance IT market is worth over 100 billion yen annually, with projected demand up nearly 30% year-on-year and a projected shortfall of 600,000 tech workers by 2030. That demand creates opportunity, but it could also leave more people stuck in shaky employment...
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much?
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful,
it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
25th Aug 2024
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful,
it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy.
When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that
your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
Contraption Co.
Digital product studios
I describe Contraption Company as a digital product studio. Many people ask what that means. "Is it...
28th Jan 2024
I describe Contraption Company as a digital product studio. Many people ask what that means. "Is it a startup?" (not exactly). "Is it an agency?" (ideally, no). "Do you make apps to spin them out into new companies?" (no).
I envision a digital product
Nue developer blog
Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine
**Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect...
18th Feb 2024
**Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect 2023 how Tailwind CSS was born out of this sentence:
wingolog
ahead-of-time wasm gc in wastrel
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the
ahead-of-time
WebAssembly compiler now supports managed...
6th Feb 2026
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the
ahead-of-time
WebAssembly compiler now supports managed memory via garbage collection!Wastrel
The quickest demo I have is that you should check out and build wastrel
itself:
Then run a quick check with :hello, world
Now give a check...
Quentin Santos
On-Die ECC
This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory....
11th Nov 2024
This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory. So, I looked around for DDR5 ECC memory. Surprisingly, DDR5 memory sticks that mentioned ECC was not significantly more expensive than other DDR5 memory sticks. Sometimes, they were...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Being a minor AI public figure
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
3rd Nov 2023
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHnNnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
markround.com
Stop Breaking TLS
Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an...
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...
Boot.dev Blog
Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography
Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When...
4th May 2020
Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When a message is sent, particularly using an untrusted medium, data integrity provides us with confidence that the message wasn’t tampered with. For example, the SSL signature of...
A Beautiful Site
How to use currentColor in your stylesheet
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way...
4th Dec 2014
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way to reference the current text color when writing CSS. Works in modern browsers, including IE9+.
If you use Less or Sass then you probably already use something like @text-color....
HTMHell
#17 inaccessible cards
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text.
Bad code
<section>
...
14th Mar 2020
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text.
Bad code
<section>
<section>
<h2>Overview</h2>
<figure class="card" data-url="image1.html" style="background: url(image1.jpg)">
<figcaption>
<h4>My heading</h4>
...
David Heinemeier...
Servers can last a long time
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing...
7th Feb 2025
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to fill all the app, job, cache, and database duties we needed. The entire outlay for this fleet was about half a million dollars,...
Boot.dev Blog
(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc)
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and...
1st Jan 2020
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and retrieve data, among other useful computational tasks. As a practical example, all user passwords on boot.dev are hashed using Bcrypt to ensure that if an attacker were ever to gain...
A small freedom area...
Hacking window titles to help OBS
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a
tiny project I wrote...
6th Jun 2023
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a
tiny project I wrote the other day, WTH, or WindowTitleHack, which is
meant to force a constant window name for apps that keep changing it (I'm
looking specifically at Firefox and Krita, but there are...
Civic Hax
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
27th Mar 2019
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
Making software...
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
6th Jan 2022
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please...
Google has created one of the best operating systems...
alexwlchan
Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of...
11th Apr 2023
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq.
Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - January 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a...
1st Jan 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest - Published "Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to s...
Jaz's Blog
Continued Fraction Streams
17th Aug 2016
alexwlchan
When square pixels aren’t square
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080...
5th Dec 2025
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080 pixels, I’d write:
<video style="aspect-ratio: 1920 / 1080">
If I also set a width or a height, the browser now knows exactly how much space this video will take up on the page –...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While
preparing for this election, I...
6th Jun 2022
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While
preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco
Chronicle and SPUR endorsements.
Contents
California
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Controller
Treasurer
Insurance Commissioner
United...
Josh Collinsworth
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
25th Jun 2016
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
7th Jul 2023
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
Dan Slimmon
Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
14th Jun 2024
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Estimating floating point error the easy way
Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go...
11th May 2019
Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go unpredictably. The bugs that don't reproduce on unit-tests and lay low through the integration phase only to be seen by your most important customer.
Julia Evans
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
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...
Blog System/5
ioctls from Rust
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
13th Feb 2025
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
Blog of Simple...
Meta fined $102 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission
12th Nov 2024
The Web Witch's Blog
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
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...
Eric Migicovsky's...
After the HN launch
PostHog launched on Hacker News . We were pleased with the reception. The reason we launched wasn’t...
1st Mar 2020
PostHog launched on Hacker News . We were pleased with the reception. The reason we launched wasn’t trying to get the world’s attention – we wanted to…
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Beaglebone Black Setup on Debian 8
Flash eMMC with latest Debian image
Download Debian image...
1st Apr 2016
Flash eMMC with latest Debian image
Download Debian image [whatever].img.xz
http://beagleboard.org/latest-images
unxz bone-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-01-4gb.img.xz
Insert microSD card and make sure that it is unmounted
lsblk
fdisk -l
Copy the img to the microSD...
A Beautiful Site
Passing data from PHP to JavaScript
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated...
5th Mar 2015
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated trying to escape the output properly. Here's a way that always works—no escaping necessary.
Let's say we have the following variable in PHP:
$name = 'Bob Marley';
And we want to...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser...
9th Mar 2023
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser session.
Since I’m using Svelte, having it available as a store makes sense.
This article describes how to implement a Svelte store whose values are persisted in IndexedDB.
What is...
Elad Blog
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment...
6th Jul 2022
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
Daniel Immke
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition
Focusing entirely on government contributions this year.
15th Oct 2020
Focusing entirely on government contributions this year.
Maggie Appleton
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
20th Feb 2022
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2026
A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were...
11th Feb 2026
A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were completed by you, dear pupils! And to top it off, we’re now releasing the much anticipated Power BI Course by none other than Alex the Analyst! I hope you enjoy it.
Epic Web Dev
The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article)
Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making,...
11th Mar 2025
Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making, boost your career, and help you build better software.
Charles Chen
To Comment or Not to Comment
Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
6th Jul 2023
Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
Blog System/5
Bazel and action (non-) determinism
A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of...
21st Jul 2025
A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of actions.
Philip I. Thomas
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
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...
Eric Bailey
Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names
24th Jun 2022
Don Melton
A metastasis in America
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange...
15th Jan 2021
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange tumor in the White House next week will not be enough to affect a cure.
The malignancy has spread. It didn’t even start with the presidency. We’ve been brewing and self-dosing a...
Boot.dev Blog
8 Best Ways to Learn JavaScript, Personalized
JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the best languages to learn as a developer, whether you’ve been at...
5th Feb 2022
JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the best languages to learn as a developer, whether you’ve been at it for years or are just starting out. More than 97% of today’s websites are powered by JavaScript. Regardless of what field you work in, you’ll likely be exposed to JavaScript at...
ntietz.com blog -...
[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier
I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
13th Jul 2015
I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read.
The book...
SOS
Fast Linear Gradient Fills with OffscreenCanvas
TLDR: Demo is here, Code is here, App is here
In Kidz Fun Art, the web app for tablets I’ve built...
27th May 2024
TLDR: Demo is here, Code is here, App is here
In Kidz Fun Art, the web app for tablets I’ve built for my kids and hopefully yours, I recently added a nice little feature where you can fill in any area with a linear gradient. It’s highly responsive to the user moving their...
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Proper UI Hierarchy
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
Epic Web Dev
How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster
Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
1st Nov 2023
Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
Matt Keeter
Zero-crossing logic for robust meshing
13th May 2017
37signals Dev
All about QA
Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years...
15th Oct 2024
Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years ago, and Gabriel, who joined the team in 2022. Together, we have a hand in projects across all of our products, from kickoff to release. Our goal is to help designers and...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on uploads
Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil....
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...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte reactivity — an inside and out guide
I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the...
22nd Apr 2023
I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the foot every now and then when using reactive state. Some of the confusion is due to my prior experience with React, but some points are confusing on their own. Today, I dive into...
Eric Bailey
Building a Good Download… Button?
3rd Feb 2018
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