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bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
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The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar...
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If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing manual, covering all of the most...
samwho.dev
Simple Complex Easy Hard You might have noticed the last time you were doing chores or tackling a tricky problem at work,...
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You might have noticed the last time you were doing chores or tackling a tricky problem at work, that when something is hard it's not always hard in the same way. The hard you experience when doing chores, that mindnumbing , I-can't-be-bothered hard, is different to the hard you...
Epic Web Dev
How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Winning from the back - late mover advantage We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to...
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We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
TokyoDev
Supporting communities that empower women in technology Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last...
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Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last survey's results, published in December 2022, I explored [the connection between gender and compensation](/insights/2022-developer-survey#salary-by-gender). The results were...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Sunsetting Kubernetes support for PostHog We're sunsetting support for our Kubernetes deployment for PostHog. Because we're an open source...
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We're sunsetting support for our Kubernetes deployment for PostHog. Because we're an open source company, I want to be transparent about what this…
Daniel Immke's Blog...
2019: Lessons learned It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end...
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It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end of year blog post last year so I…
Josh Comeau's blog
Animated Pride Flags Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll...
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a year ago
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. 🏳️‍🌈
Basta’s Notes
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...
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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...
Computer Things
I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
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Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go. The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
Making software...
HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode...
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HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode where I explained how to implement a very basic "dark mode" by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute. This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Racy git magic Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the...
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Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the index mtime itself is not race-free. – Linus Torvalds, Re:git bugs, 2008 A well-known race condition skulks through git’s plumbing. And I can demo it via a git magic trick 🪄1 $ tree...
Irrational...
Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles. The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering...
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The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering leadership styles. It’s an interesting chapter to me peronally, precisely because it’s not something I would have agreed with or written five years ago. This past Friday I gave a...
Neil Panchal
Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs? Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy...
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Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I've come to terms with it. It's fine. It'll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit
David Heinemeier...
It’s easier to forgive a human than a robot One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our...
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One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our medical care, or even just our customer support interactions, is that being as good as a human isn’t good enough for a robot. They need to be computer good. That is, virtually...
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The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
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The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
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This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Dan Quach Blog
Personal Newsletter 2023 Q1 Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the...
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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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cold-blooded Software Patrick Duboy has an interesting post making the rounds titled, “Cold-blooded Software”. He...
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Patrick Duboy has an interesting post making the rounds titled, “Cold-blooded Software”. He analogizes the idea of warm-blooded software: projects that are warm-blooded: everything is great when there’s constant motion on the project, generating heat. But put warm-blooded...
Making software...
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven't seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
Cognitive...
Dolphin 🐬 Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and...
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Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and series of instruct-tuned language models based on Microsoft's Orca paper. The dataset is released here, with Apache-2.0 license. The dataset can be used for commercial or...
Irrational...
Using cultural survey data. When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal...
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When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal was to better evaluate polished senior leaders who always said the right thing. I wanted to find the real beliefs and behaviors underneath all the polish. One interview focused on...
blag
Using uWSGI with Python 3 Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it. * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We are what...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle I’ve been obsessed with thinking about, adjusting and building upon my habits for a long time now, and...
the jsomers.net blog
The best general advice on earth These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology,...
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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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Upload (short story) My first attempt at bringing back the short story in ~30 years.
9 months ago
TokyoDev
Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012) I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already...
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I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already [another Rubyist here](https://twitter.com/igaiga555/status/247511186394972160). Five minutes before, I met [another one](https://twitter.com/yotii23) walking down the street. Last...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 3 This is day 3 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Intent! It's eldritch magic! or: house rules for warlocks who mean well As we all know, intent is an ancient eldritch power! Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks enter into pacts...
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As we all know, intent is an ancient eldritch power! Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks enter into pacts with otherworldly patrons who grant them such ancient magics in the form of pact boons. From page 107 of the Player's Handbook (5e, 2014): At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I don't shield my team from bad news I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite...
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I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and other negative aspects that are inevitable on
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 3: Returning to Math The third week of my batch at Recurse Center is finished. It is still flying by too quickly. Nine...
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The third week of my batch at Recurse Center is finished. It is still flying by too quickly. Nine weeks left! This week was a whirlwind and really busy. I think I pushed myself too hard. I had just recovered from my cold and was a little drained, and then got my COVID booster and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging and Composting Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct...
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Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of the banana you get the peel. And if you compost, you can make good use of the peel. Similarly, whatever you’re building is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of whatever...
ntietz.com blog
Resting is hard This post has been a struggle to write. Not just because it requires a lot of vulnerability, though...
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This post has been a struggle to write. Not just because it requires a lot of vulnerability, though that's part of it. And it's not just about finding the right words. Most of the struggle has been fatigue. It's hard to find the energy to open my text editor and when I do, my...
David Heinemeier...
Basecamp turns 20 On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve...
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On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve our own problems running client projects as an agency where we found email alone to be lacking. The first version was really just the basics: Messages, todo lists, milestones. We...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Market Yourself Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market...
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Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market Yourself in Public + at Work.
Steve Klabnik
Why I'm partnering with Balanced
over a year ago
Evan Jones -...
Advice on looking for a new software engineering job I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
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I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
On writing regularly It has been a while (perhaps too long) since I’ve written publicly. My notepad is, however, filled...
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It has been a while (perhaps too long) since I’ve written publicly. My notepad is, however, filled with half jotted down ideas, semi-written essays, and the scratchings and sketches of a madman re-learning algebra and Spanish. I once knew a man who lived by the somewhat...
Joel Gascoigne
How to gain traction in two sided markets * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas that involve two sided markets are notoriously difficult to get off the ground. It’s the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
Jibran’s Perspective
Bootstrap with Ruby on Rails 7 If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new...
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If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new <PROJECT> then you can safely follow the following steps to get Bootstrap 5 installed in your project. Install gems Add the following to your Gemfile and run bundle install. gem...
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 analytics ideas for marketing teams using PostHog One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making...
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One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making analytics accessible to more than just analysts. There’s…
Jibran’s Perspective
Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively...
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I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively to manage my knowledge base. I started the day by dumping my thoughts into Logseq. Here they are. These are open questions for now. I plan to investigate this further and try out...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Follow Up Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
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Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
Blog System/5
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...
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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...
TokyoDev
Entry Level Jobs in Japan *Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...
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*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.* When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....
bt RSS Feed
PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS 2021-06-20 Overall, I’m fairly impressed with the user interface...
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PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS 2021-06-20 Overall, I’m fairly impressed with the user interface design of Sony’s PS4 system OS. It’s minimal and keeps the content front and center. Even with it’s sometimes spotty performance hiccups, I’ve come to enjoy interacting with it. One of...
elementary Blog
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....
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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...
Making software...
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I've most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome. But that all changes...
TokyoDev
The 2020 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2020, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan to better paint a...
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In November 2020, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan to better paint a picture of what the typical foreign developer life is like. [The results are now live](/insights/2020-developer-survey), please check them out! With 362 people responding, I...
alexwlchan
I deleted all my tweets I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X). I wasted a lot of time there, got into some...
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I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X). I wasted a lot of time there, got into some embarrassing arguments, and wrote things I now regret. But it’s also where I met friends and partners, started my career in cultural heritage, and began my queer awakening. Maybe...
Hixie's Natural Log
Deciding which bugs to fix Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it...
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Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it makes the most sense to optimize for people-happiness per unit bug fixing time, maximizing how much our effort improves the product for our users. To put it in mathematical...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Medley as a Common Lisp development environment <![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp...
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<![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp is a project for preserving, reviving, and modernizing the Interlisp-D software development environment of the Lisp Machines Xerox created at PARC. Nine months later I know...
Cognitive...
Running Dolphin Locally with Ollama Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way -...
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Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way - Ollama. install ollama. after you finsh you should be able to run ollama from the command line. Also you will see the ollama icon up top like this: Iff you are curious - anytime you see that...
Ferd.ca
My favorite Erlang Container 2022/07/09 My favorite Erlang Container Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang...
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2022/07/09 My favorite Erlang Container Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang Program, which showed a very simple universal server written in Erlang: universal_server()->receive{become,F}->F()end. You could then write a small program that could fit this...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The End of Localhost > This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site:...
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> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
Elad Blog
Things I Don't Know About AI The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
10 months ago
Marco.org
Apple is Listening Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant...
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Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user. The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
Liz Denys
A geek feminism anecdote Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't...
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over a year ago
Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't intended to be about a specific topic - it's just full of what I feel like writing at the time. Perhaps, more technical things will follow in the future. Some friends and I randomly...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons" My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Visions of the future Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of...
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Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of realizing that something is simply better, and the only reason it hasn't taken off yet is because the world hasn't realized it. It's amazing, and it's how I'm feeling about Linux...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Learn In Private Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn...
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Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn In Public. The majority of the time you are still learning in private. Here are some thoughts on how to do it well.
bt RSS Feed
Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and...
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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...
Alice GG
Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats? Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject:...
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Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject: Blockchains. Two years ago, Vitalik Buterin revolutionized the nascent field by creating Ethereum. Ethereum was at the time a cryptographic protocol that would allow people to make distributed...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Avoiding Flash of Unthemed Code If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before...
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over a year ago
If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before JavaScript loads. Here is the solution.
Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 2 I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've...
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I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've used. Note that I currently practice in a community studio that glaze fires to cone 6 in oxidation, so my observations reflect that. Standard 420 Sculpture: Cone 6: average shrinkage...
Irrational...
Digital release of Engineering Executive's Primer. Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical...
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Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical copies will be available in March. Also, as of this moment, you can purchase the digital edition on Amazon, and read the full digital release on O’Reilly. (You can preorder physical...
Liz Denys
Curried pumpkin soup Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the...
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Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the first thing that comes to mind in winter is creamy squash soups. In the haze of moving, Mystery Hunt, and working on writing 6.042 problems this IAP, I somehow neglected making soup...
bt RSS Feed
Using HTML Validator Badges Again Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren’t great (and still aren’t perfect) but they represented a...
Irrational...
Internal comms for executives. Whenever an executive joins a new company, there is an awkward merger between the executive’s...
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Whenever an executive joins a new company, there is an awkward merger between the executive’s preferred communication style and the norms that organization has already established. I remember a recently joined executive complaining that engineers weren’t reading his emails. He...
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...
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a year ago
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...
Alex Meub
The Holy Grail of IE Testing I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This...
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I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This setup allows you to test authentic versions of IE6, IE7, and IE8 without the need to boot up virtual machines. It also allows you to have a debug bar in each of these versions so...
Steve Klabnik
The profile link relation and you
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator (Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in...
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(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in funding and major new features - including plugins…
Epic Web Dev
Tips and Techniques for 'Pixel Perfect' Figma to Tailwind CSS Conversions (article) Master converting Figma designs to Tailwind CSS with near "pixel perfection". Learn HTML structure,...
5 months ago
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Master converting Figma designs to Tailwind CSS with near "pixel perfection". Learn HTML structure, design tokens, layouts, responsive design, and animations.
HTMHell
#3 image-buttons Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif"...
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Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif" onclick="openDeleteDialog(123)"> Issues and how to fix them The purpose of the img element is to display images, not to execute JavaScript. A click event on a img triggers only on...
davidyat.es
Walkthrough: Causality Couriers
a year ago
TokyoDev
A four-stage approach for hiring women on your engineering team “We’d love to have woman engineers on our team, but we don’t get any applying to us” is a common...
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“We’d love to have woman engineers on our team, but we don’t get any applying to us” is a common sentiment I’ve heard from startup founders, both in Japan as well as my home country, the United States. If you’re in a similar position, and looking to increase the gender...
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
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This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
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Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux 2023-04-13 Everyone seems to be running some...
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Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux 2023-04-13 Everyone seems to be running some version of VSCode as their main editor these days. But not me. I find VSCode to be too bloated for my needs - not to mention being built on top of electron instead of native code. I...
Steve Klabnik
An overview of macros in Rust
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
New year, new calendar We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a...
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We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a calendar! And now, in celebration of the new year, it’s finally ready, and we’re rolling it out to the first customers starting today 🎉 See, it turns out that lots of people would...
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Why we ditched ‘talk to sales’ for transparent pricing "I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that...
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"I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that embody everything we hate about modern SaaS…
Joel Gascoigne
10 lessons from my startup journey so far * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s almost...
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* 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...
macwright.com
Year in Review The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old...
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a year ago
The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old writing is nostalgic and horrific. By the numbers, 2023 was pretty normal: I read around 20 books, ran around 400 miles. It’s funny how the statistics even out to the same numbers...
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Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles 2021-11-09 This website almost exclusively uses the...
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Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles 2021-11-09 This website almost exclusively uses the browser’s (whichever one that might be) default styling to render it’s HTML. I firmly believe, and have stated in a previous post, that the default HTML styling across all browsers...
Confessions of a...
The Pythonic Emptiness Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...
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alexwlchan
Putting history on the map &rarr; Back in July, we built an interactive map for the Flickr Commons Explorer. I wrote an article for...
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Back in July, we built an interactive map for the Flickr Commons Explorer. I wrote an article for the Flickr blog about some of the photos I found using the map – including Antarctic explorers, northern factories, and Hawaiian industry. [If the formatting of this post looks odd...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI & The Science of Creativity In an effort to better understand how all this AI stuff works, I’ve been chipping away at Stephen...
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In an effort to better understand how all this AI stuff works, I’ve been chipping away at Stephen Wolfram’s meticulous piece, “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?”. As you likely know, ChatGPT works by guessing at the next word. Here’s Stephen: when ChatGPT does...
Irrational...
Slides for Measuring an engineering organization. Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco about...
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Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco about measuring engineering organizations. This talk was essentially this blog post, and here are the slides. A few topics worth highlighting: Measurement educates you, and your audience,...
The Pragmatic...
The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices What accidentally taking down Amazon.com in 1997 taught Joshua Burgin; tech industry veteran and one...
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What accidentally taking down Amazon.com in 1997 taught Joshua Burgin; tech industry veteran and one of Amazon’s first 100 employees
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big...
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of “brutalist” or minimalist design, so I’m always inspired...
Joel Gascoigne
Plan or build? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I met with Jesse...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I met with Jesse Nowlin [https://twitter.com/MrJNowlin] a few days ago, a great founder who’s really hustling. We spent some time discussing his idea and I shared some of my experiences with...
Oxide Computer...
Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and...
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Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and HPC Convergence Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a plan to bring on-premises cloud computing capabilities to the Livermore...
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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...
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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...
Alex Meub
My Favorite Web Apps and Tools I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
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I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
Steve Klabnik
Memory Safety is a Red Herring
a year ago
The Changelog
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers) Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often...
over a year ago
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Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often not been raised: all of these things require an Internet connection. “Of course,” you might say. “Internet is everywhere these days.” Well, not so much, and it turns out there are...
Ralph Ammer
Aristotle — How to live a good life 2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual...
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2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life: What is good? First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good thing fulfils its unique function. A good knife is a knife that is good at cutting. A good eye is...
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 1 Livecoding my own Dev.to CMS with Next.js + Preact + TypeScript + Tailwind UI
over a year ago
Making software...
Happily Paying For macOS Apps Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
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Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS[^0] systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
Dan Slimmon
It’s fine to use names in post-mortems The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is not to make everyone feel comfortable. Discomfort can be...
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a year ago
The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is not to make everyone feel comfortable. Discomfort can be healthy and useful. The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is to let us find explanations deeper than human error.
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course...
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Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
Irrational...
Writers who operate. Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have...
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Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have rejected that option because I believe that writers who operate (e.g. write concurrently with holding a non-writing industry role) are best positioned to keep writing valuable work...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
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3 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
orlp.net - Blog...
Magical Fibonacci Formulae The following Python function computes the Fibonacci sequence, without loops, recursion or floating...
a year ago
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a year ago
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci sequence, without loops, recursion or floating point arithmetic: f=lambda n:(b:=2<<n)**n*b//(b*b-b-1)%b It really does: >>> [f(n) for n in range(10)] [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34] How does it work? As a teaser, look at...
bt RSS Feed
Stay Hungry Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
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Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
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Retention rate vs churn rate: An intro to churn analysis Here's what you need to know about churn rate and retention rate: Churn rate is the percentage of...
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Here's what you need to know about churn rate and retention rate: Churn rate is the percentage of customers who stop using your product during a…
Coding Horror
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
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It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
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2019 /r/ReactJS Survey Results [![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQrqygkW4AIxT0c?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQ...
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[![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQrqygkW4AIxT0c?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQrqygkW4AIxT0c?format=jpg&name=large)](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-JUtp9I5_gSk8OpV9Adk9sYzhoU-VNcwz9RUJ1-8Sw/edit?usp=sharing)
David Heinemeier...
Microsoft taught Apple nothing Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that...
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11 months ago
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. They’re in full “cut off the air supply” mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost....
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Should open source projects track you? Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking...
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Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking is horrible. It's usually buried deep in the…
PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog uses Wren to offset carbon emissions during offsites Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team...
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Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team members travelled from America, Estonia, The…
orlp.net - Blog...
Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more... Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small...
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Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random. This “deterministic randomness” is incredibly useful for a variety of purposes, such as hash...
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Finding your North Star metric and why it matters Successful products need actionable metrics and for many businesses this starts with identifying...
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Successful products need actionable metrics and for many businesses this starts with identifying what many refer to as a 'North Star' metric. This…
A Smart Bear
The Code is your Enemy A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming...
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A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming confirmation that the lesson is correct.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Deploy a Django App to Render.com Messing around learning Django and deploying
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on AMP Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP...
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Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP aside from it made pages load faster on mobile devices. It sounded neat. A couple weeks ago, I decided to dive in and integrate AMP with Postleaf. But the deeper I got, the more I...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on being a good manager Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
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Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day. When someone has a grievance, take an...
Steve Klabnik
Ruby on Rails maintenance policy
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How much equity should a CTO ask for? This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s...
over a year ago
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This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s especially awesome […] The post How much equity should a CTO ask for? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
David Heinemeier...
For what it'll make of you I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints...
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I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints on a treadmill. They make you reach for a million dollars in revenue, celebrate for a second, and then turn the chase to five million the minute after. No thanks. But specific,...
elementary Blog
Getting in shape for summer This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
a year ago
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a year ago
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot! Calculator Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
Liz Denys
Cocoa brownies Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice...
over a year ago
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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...
Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
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11 months ago
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
Oxide Computer...
The Cloud Computer Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer —...
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Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer — along with our $44M Series A financing. From the outset at Oxide, and as I outlined in my 2020 Stanford talk, we have had three core beliefs as a company: Cloud computing is the...
Alice GG
How to solve it (with raycasting) In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math...
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8 months ago
In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math teachers guide their students into solving abstract problems by asking the right questions. It has since had a large influence on math education and computer science, to the point of...
Founder's blog
Improving C# Performance with Span<T> Whenever I have some free time on my hands I love making our helpdesk app faster. The newest C# and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Whenever I have some free time on my hands I love making our helpdesk app faster. The newest C# and .NET Core releases come with so many performance oriented features that I've been waiting to play with, specifically the new datatype called Span<T>. Here's the thing. Every...
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The conformist startup rule you can ignore This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
David Gerrells
how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Journey from No CS Degree to AWS from Age 30 - 34 I was interviewed by Pete from No CS Degree on my journey, here are some extracts!
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
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...
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a year ago
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...
Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be happy and successful? Bring happiness to others * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the last 3...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the last 3 months I’ve regularly been meeting startup founders here in Hong Kong to try and help them with the biggest challenges they have. It’s been truly enjoyable and fascinating. I feel...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Headless CMS This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
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over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this post, we explain in a few minutes what Headless CMS is and show you how it's used. So, what is a headless CMS, what are the use cases and...
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5 ways to improve your product analytics data This is a guest post by Anna Debenham . Anna is a former developer and director of product at...
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This is a guest post by Anna Debenham . Anna is a former developer and director of product at cybersecurity company Snyk . She is currently an…
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
Daniel Marino
Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out: See the...
A Smart Bear
Hello, I'm 1074018628 Is "customer service" a genuine service? Or is it a shield so that most people at your company never...
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7 months ago
Is "customer service" a genuine service? Or is it a shield so that most people at your company never have to speak to one of those pesky customers?
David Heinemeier...
We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it...
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8 months ago
Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it takes our remote BuildKite-based continuous integration setup about 5m30s to verify a code change is ready to ship for HEY. My Intel 14900K-based Linux box can do that in less than...
Alex Meub
Buying a House in Portland After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically...
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After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically toured more than 70 houses, put in 13 offers and looked over hundreds of listings in nearly every neighborhood in the city. I thought it might be a good time to reflect on the...
davidyat.es
Adventures in latent space
a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
Unix version control lore: what, ident There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider appreciation: SCCS what and RCS...
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7 months ago
There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider appreciation: SCCS what and RCS ident. They allow you to find out what source a binary was built from, without having to run it – handy if it is a library! keyword expansion SCCS, RCS, cvs, and svn all have a way...
Joel Gascoigne
My experience with burnout as a startup founder Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way...
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way and wound up taking a 6-week break to recharge. I want to fully share my story here and include some things I wish I’d done differently in the hope
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
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3 days ago
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
A Beautiful Site
Buttons and Cursors There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way...
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There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way around social media this week. While the author is correct in his statement that operating system buttons don't have hand cursors, the pattern has become ubiquitous and somewhat...
Jake Zimmerman
A trick for invariant generics in Sorbet
7 months ago
Patrick Kayongo
Martyr Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the...
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a year ago
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the floor to catch the sweat that had started dripping from his forehead. His hand was shaking uncontrollably, jerked back and forth by the fear of getting caught again. Mukaajanga, the...
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Why IaaS beat PaaS The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.1.0 Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like...
over a year ago
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Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your…
General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
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9 months ago
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.34.0 PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for...
over a year ago
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PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for projects, smart names for all insights, an entire Data Management tool as well as support for horizontal scalability!
Joel Gascoigne
Why you should start marketing early * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
over a year ago
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been thinking a lot recently about when the right time is to start marketing a startup. In my previous startup [http://myonepage.com], we were hesitant to attempt to get press early. We were...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book. (If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.) This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
Computer Things
An idea for teaching formal methods better I was recently commissioned by a company to make a bespoke TLA+ workshop with a strong emphasis on...
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I was recently commissioned by a company to make a bespoke TLA+ workshop with a strong emphasis on reading specifications. I normally emphasize writing specs, so this one will need a different approach. While working on it, I had an idea that might make teaching TLA+— and other...
samwho.dev
I finally figured out how to take notes! I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking software, odds are I’ve tried it. I’ve even tried going old school with pen and paper. Nothing sticks. Until recently. Some time ago, I learned about Apple’s Shortcuts app. It’s...
ntietz.com blog
Recovering from a lost disk: how I setup, backup, and restore dev machines Last Wednesday just before 3pm, I went pack up my laptop to get ready to drive 7 hours to visit my...
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a year ago
Last Wednesday just before 3pm, I went pack up my laptop to get ready to drive 7 hours to visit my family in Ohio. Fedora had some updates to apply and when it went to come back on after those, I saw the words no one wants to see: Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed....
A Beautiful Site
How to get faster and better help from support It's tempting to take out your frustrations on the support person answering your email, but don't...
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It's tempting to take out your frustrations on the support person answering your email, but don't send out a message raging about their incompetence. Don't tell them how their product sucks or doesn't work the way you expect it to. Don't TYPE IN ALL CAPS to make sure they...
Daniel Marino
JS13K 2018 Retrospective In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a...
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In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a video game. I asked my JavaScript-whiz buddy, Brad, if he was interested in building a game with me. Without hesitation, he said “Yes!” Concept A couple of years ago I came up with...
Alex Meub
Chromecast Backgrounds I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
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I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome. I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
A Beautiful Site
If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping,...
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, "'Tis a design system," I muttered, "bringing order to the core— Ah, distinctly I remember, every button, every splendor, Each component, standardized,...
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Bright Barley Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
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Love Letter to Singapore Mixed Rice The most underrated part of Singapore that foreigners don't appreciate
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Programming avant-garde
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alexwlchan
emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty...
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I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty or nearly empty, and deletes them. This isn’t a completely trivial problem, because emptiness is deceptive. Consider the following folder. Finder tells us it has 0 items, so it...
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Introducing Collaboration for PostHog PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more...
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PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more valuable every time you invite someone from your…
The Changelog
So Many Caring People In This World When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the...
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of “disaster,” I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that...
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Improving Receipt UX Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago...
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Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further. What was the...
A Smart Bear
How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10) If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list...
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If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.
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Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
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a year ago
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
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Array 1.23.0 In this edition of the PostHog Array: Release 1.23 is out, and our 🔥 new PostHog.com homepage is...
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In this edition of the PostHog Array: Release 1.23 is out, and our 🔥 new PostHog.com homepage is live - amazing work from PostHoggers Cory, Lottie…
Tony Finch's blog
BIND zone transfer performance This year I have rewritten BIND’s DNS name compression and decompression code. I didn’t plan to, it...
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This year I have rewritten BIND’s DNS name compression and decompression code. I didn’t plan to, it just sort of happened! Anyway, last week my colleague Petr was doing some benchmarking, and he produced some numbers that seemed too good to be true, so I have re-done the...
TokyoDev
A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
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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...
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Are An Investment It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design...
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It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design system, especially in terms of salaries and development time. It's even easier to target a design system as the thing that's holding up a product from getting delivered. The truth...
Tony Finch's blog
More random floating point numbers I got some interesting comments about my previous notes on random floating point numbers on...
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I got some interesting comments about my previous notes on random floating point numbers on Lobsters, Dreamwidth, and from Pete Cawley on Twitter. Here’s an addendum about an alternative model of uniformity. There are 2^62 double precision floats between 0.0 and 1.0, but as...
HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product...
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Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product Status</h1> <h2>Is the product available?</h2> <div> <h3> <div> <div> <i> <h3 class="message is-success"> It‘s <a>available</a>. </h3> ...
ntietz.com blog
Asheville Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
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Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of...
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Donating $10k to FreeCodeCamp I benefited from FreeCodeCamp and would like to give back
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blag
Recurse Center Day 20: Django v4 upgrade (from v1) I worked on upgrading a Django project from v1 to v4
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charity.wtf
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You? Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
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Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible, while still maintaining the original UI concept. Let’s build out a demo example with a simple menu dropdown element. Interesting facts about our final CSS menu: Total weight 121 bytes...
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Collapsing Layers As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another...
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As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another look at our full stack for continued gains in efficiency, reliability and security.
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...
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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...
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Spark: live reloading for Rails applications Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications. Reloading the...
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Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications. Reloading the browser automatically on source changes is a problem that has been well-solved for a long time. Here, we wanted to put an accent on smoothness. If the reload operation is very...
Florian Bellmann |...
Build a career path by multiplying your value Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Exploring the has Utility in Tailwind CSS (tip)
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alexwlchan
Making alt text more visible I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text...
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I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text before I publish the site, but that means alt text has often been an afterthought – something I’d dash out at the very end of writing a post. I wanted to give it more attention, and...
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Swyx Faves: Software Engineering Daily > "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad...
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> "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad Masad](https://mobile.twitter.com/amasad/status/956603016513167360)
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What we built at our sun-kissed Aruba hackathon Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've...
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Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've been to Italy, Portugal and Iceland. This year, we…
alexwlchan
Saving your alt text from Twitter It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of...
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It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of their archive in case the site goes down unexpectedly. But large as it is, the archive doesn’t contain everything: Kate @thingskatedid my twitter archive...
TokyoDev
Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on...
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I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/not-setting-up-find-my-bricked-my-macbook), and how Apple refused to unlock it for me. Well, I did manage to finally get it unlocked. All it took was...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3 As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
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As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
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Steve Klabnik
I'm writing "Rails 4 in Action"!
over a year ago
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CSS Video Backgrounds CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
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CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS. Example: .video-background { background-image:...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding page transitions in SvelteKit Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition...
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a year ago
Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition effects in SvelteKit sites and apps as easy as adding just a few lines of code.
Blog System/5
Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
a year ago
HTMHell
The hidden attribute in HTML by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was...
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by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was introduced, it worked in a very simple way: it set the CSS display property to none. Many people voiced concerns because here we are, mixing styles with markup again. To be fair, this...
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Beware the leviathans I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for...
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9 months ago
I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for years now. Especially with those awful app store monopolies that have been choking out developers left, right, and center. But now that something finally looks to be happening, I'm...
Dan Quach Blog
Vietnam Grandma and the Vietnam WarWhen I was young, friends would visit, and there was one photo on the...
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Grandma and the Vietnam WarWhen I was young, friends would visit, and there was one photo on the shelf that caught their attention in my room.  It was a photo of an elderly Caucasian lady and their first question to me was, “How come you didn’t take the stock photo out of the...
Liz Denys
Some not-so-secrets of my kitchen I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some...
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I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some of the secrets of my kitchen. Actually, they're not so secret to anyone who's had a peek around my kitchen. Oven thermometer(s) For about five dollars, you can ensure your cookies...
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2023 Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
a year ago
Irrational...
Numbers go up. There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be...
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There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be summarized as, “numbers go up.” These games focus on the fundamental gaming loop rather than plot, characterization or anything beyond the foundational satisfaction of numbers...
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
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It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Cities need more trees A case for planting more trees in urban areas.
6 months ago
macwright.com
Recently Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my...
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11 months ago
Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my life. Reading In loving memory of the square checkbox is the kind of UX rant I’m there for. Interfaces that have different behaviors should look different, and familiar styles are...
The Pragmatic...
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...
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a year ago
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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Joining the Shopify board of directors I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he...
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I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he was building Snowdevil, which eventually became Shopify, to sell snowboards online. Here's his first commit to Rails from 2004, which improved the ergonomics of controller testing....
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like “URL forwarding” through your domain provider could work,...
ntietz.com blog
Using search as a primary datastore since the docs said not to Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do...
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Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do it. So when I saw that the Typesense docs say not to use it as a primary datastore? Well well well, that's what we'll have to do. I spent a little bit of time figuring out what a...
Blog System/5
Rust doesn't solve the CrowdStrike outage Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages...
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Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages like C++ should not be used anymore. But claiming that Rust would have prevented the massive outage that the world went through last Friday is misleading and actively harmful to...
Liz Denys
The Patriarchy as an otherworldly patron As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I...
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As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I feel that such figments of the imagination are well suited for becoming otherworldly patrons for Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks, so we created a variant otherworldly patron for the...
ntietz.com blog
Affirmations for bloggers Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of...
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Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated. It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you. But there are also some common issues that block people...
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
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i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
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Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
Making software...
Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about...
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Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about "drama" within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics...
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I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics of Programming Languages”. It’s a fascinating look at how a small OSS project like Elm has to compete in a world where many of the expectations around developer experience for a...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
The Phoenix project — Book Notes Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
over a year ago
Marco.org
Why it’s hard to read the time on Infograph Quick, what time is it? If that took you a bit longer than usual to tell the time on the Apple...
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over a year ago
Quick, what time is it? If that took you a bit longer than usual to tell the time on the Apple Watch’s new default Infograph face, you’re not alone: John Gruber finds it “far too busy” Jason Snell finds it “pretty and packed with features”, but misses hour numerals Zac Hall...
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Working at a Startup From Series B to C Some careful thoughts from joining a startup from Series B to C.
over a year ago
Making software...
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side...
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Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I'm writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
Epic Web Dev
Adding OpenID Connect Authentication to the Epic Stack (tip) Learn how to integrate OpenID Connect authentication into the Epic Stack with this comprehensive...
a year ago
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Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
over a year ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
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The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
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The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it’s fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple’s iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
Vadim Kravcenko
Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return Question: Answer: The post Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
8 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Should you optimize for all-cash compensation, if possible? Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how...
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Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how much of their total compensation is stock. What are the approaches to take?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
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I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
elementary Blog
New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and...
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This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements. Mail The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential...
A Smart Bear
Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead...
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Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead you astray.
TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
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a year ago
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
Basta’s Notes
We need to be liked, and it might be the fault of social media. If our god is a benevolent one, then why did he make us crave approval?
a year ago
Irrational...
Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s...
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One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s continuity. I call it a conceit, but I do mostly agree with it: I’ve felt literally sick after hearing about some peer’s unexpected departure, but I’m continually amazed at how resilient...
wingolog
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control...
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Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See for more notes. Java’s / seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently with the mutator, by the...
blag
What I want to do at Recurse Center Projects I want to work on at RC
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Master of my domain Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more...
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Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
macwright.com
Val.town Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the...
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Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the small, for writing short programs in TypeScript that can link together into something larger. It’s for writing that scheduled web scraper or basic API that you wanted to make but...
ntietz.com blog
Email addresses are not primary user identities A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and...
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A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and which will never change. It can't be linked to someone else, and it can't change. This is, of course, not true. Email addresses do change. I changed my work email address recently...
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Array 1.20.0 We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
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We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
Max Countryman
Data for Decisions Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our...
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Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our businesses. That said, the value of data is rarely the data itself but instead the insights we derive from it. In order to ensure these insights are meaningful and impactful it's...
Chris Nicholas
Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
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Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
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I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
Epic Web Dev
Stop Lying to Your Users
a year ago
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Fight Link Rot with Server- and Client-side Redirects (Netlify and Gatsby) Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
over a year ago
Joel on Software
Making the web better. With blocks! You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which...
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You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
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Being a minor AI public figure I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
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I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of insert design industry here and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
A Smart Bear
"It's a Balance" isn't always the answer Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a...
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Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a new solution, or find the balance.
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Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached...
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Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached out and thanked me for my previous post Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator, I thought I would continue to share more of my own custom Automator Quick Actions....
A Beautiful Site
A Web Component Story Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a...
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Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a component library for their design system. The one they were replacing was built with AngularJS, but AngularJS was old and rickety and nobody wanted to use it anymore. Plus, many teams...
Dan Slimmon
Incident, Inçident, Incidënt When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And...
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9 months ago
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And don't forget to create an incident so customers can stay informed!
bt RSS Feed
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create...
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RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box and loved the simplicity of it. I’m a sucker for using pseudo elements in creative ways but still managing to make them useful. Of course, this got me...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
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Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
HTMHell
Microdata for books by Alan Dalton Dive into marking up books Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us...
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by Alan Dalton Dive into marking up books Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us web geeks. (I hope you’ll find a Web Accessibility Cookbook in your Christmas stocking, gentle reader.) Unfortunately, A Book Apart closed this year. Fortunately, the authors...
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Scraping my Twitter Social Graph with Python and Selenium Using python and selenium to find better follows on Twitter
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
How to squash commits in a GitHub pull request
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Converting a Japanese Sole Proprietorship to a Company As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in...
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11 months ago
As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in Japan](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/creating-company-japan), I initially ran TokyoDev as a sole proprietorship, but in late 2022 converted it to a company. This involved three steps: 1. Incorporate TokyoDev Inc, a...
Epic Web Dev
The Web’s Next Transition Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a...
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Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.
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The Genius of Apple's Name An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
over a year ago
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Width or Flex-Basis? Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
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over a year ago
Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let’s breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis. Width Setting the width of the...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on Framework Churn I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
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I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster. Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
Irrational...
Drafted Eng Executive's Primer! Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s...
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Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer, with O’Reilly. I wanted to share a few notes on progress! First, there’s a cover, shown above in this post’s image, and also in the right rail (or bottom footer if you’re reading...
Liz Denys
Butternut squash with cinnamon sage brown butter I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than...
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I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than recipe-based, so I find it limiting to discuss one dish because it's a particular combination of techniques on a very particular set of ingredients. But I really enjoyed this particular...
Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
Marco.org
The 2018 Mac Mini Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
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Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
The Pragmatic...
Happy Leap Day! 29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
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29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why to use a date library when you can.
samwho.dev
Move Your Bugs to the Left We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping...
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We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping bug the week before release. To help with this, I’ve come up with a simple way to visualise the points in the development process that you can find bugs. The further to the left...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site launched I'd like to introduce my new web design studio. After considering a list of potential names and...
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I'd like to introduce my new web design studio. After considering a list of potential names and designs, I finally came up with a name that I thought fitting for the kind of web design business that I want to run. After a few pencil and paper sketches, a few hours in Photoshop,...
the singularity is...
Three Class Society I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t...
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I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t want to live in a free society. A free society requires personal responsiblity. People here want to be managed. They want a ruling class.” I heard something similar once from a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes and Reflections from Rich Harris’ Talk Rich has a new talk and, as usual, it’s full of practicality. I’ve got my text editor open and ready...
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Rich has a new talk and, as usual, it’s full of practicality. I’ve got my text editor open and ready to take notes as we go. Whatever Framework You’re Using, It’s Fine Note: that’s coming from the author of a framework! Rich points out that most of the degraded, slow, hostile...
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “People Used To Take Me Seriously. Then I Became A Software Vendor” I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a...
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a year ago
I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a conversation we had several years ago: “Hey, I’ve got a question for you. A long time ago I remember you talking about what an adjustment it was becoming a vendor, how all of a sudden...
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2024 I read 58 books this year – slightly down on last year, but I’m still happy with that number. I...
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I read 58 books this year – slightly down on last year, but I’m still happy with that number. I spent a lot of time this on my own writing and crafting, and I had less time for books. I returned to a couple of favourite authors and their latest releases – including Toshikazu...
MMapped blog
The numeric tower fiasco
a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust and Go vs everything else Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages...
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a month ago
Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.
the singularity is...
High Trust Society I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think...
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I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think this gets fixed? Is Kamala going to restore trust in government? Is Trump going to restore trust in government? Despite what Western media might have you believe about how the...
Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
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When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control...
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Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control structures Chapter 5: Arrays Chapter 6: Functions Chapter 7: Structs Chapter 8: Classes and Objects Chapter 9: Methods Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism Chapter 11: Some advanced...
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Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired...
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a year ago
I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired for teams across engineering, ops, people, marketing…
Stephen Wolfram...
Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram...
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This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin KitThe New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram LanguagePrompts for Work & Play:...
somenice
Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
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over a year ago
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the years following that tragic event, flotsam began arriving on the Pacific West Coast. Volunteers making great effort to return...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Private-ish GitHub repos This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public...
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This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository. – GitHub’s “We updated our RSA SSH host key” blog, 2023-03-23 Once you git push, nothing is private. Private info in git only stays private on your laptop. But once...
Seán Barry
A Realisation About Fitness No matter how much I run, or how much I lift weights, it never gets easier. There's always a part of...
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a year ago
No matter how much I run, or how much I lift weights, it never gets easier. There's always a part of me that wants to stop, and there's always another part of me fighting to push through. This is how I deal with that internal battle.
Alice GG
Atlas: Declarative schemas for SQL databases Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many...
a year ago
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a year ago
Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many cases, teams end up keeping a bunch of timestamped .sql files and automatically running them in order. While this work, it doesn’t scale well: the more developers you have working...
macwright.com
Recently This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big...
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a year ago
This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big update about Placemark. Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little breather and just do the usual: what’s new! Reading I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
samwho.dev
Language Interoperability From the Ground Up How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin call a function in...
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over a year ago
How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin call a function in Java? It's no secret that you can call functions in one programming language from another. Not only is it possible, it can be done in multiple ways. But how does it actually...
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
bt RSS Feed
Easy Custom Radio Inputs Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are something designers tend to over-think when trying to customize them. Let’s walk through how to create custom radio buttons with pure CSS, while still preserving performance and...
David Heinemeier...
We’re so back Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There...
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a year ago
Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There was scarcely a programming or product topic that couldn’t be turned into a struggle session on account of some perceived transgression or privilege. It was, to use the trauma...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2023 The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model...
a year ago
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a year ago
The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model number, based on this photo alone — if not simply because in its era there were fewer consumer electronics devices to choose from. I tested the image against Google Image search and...
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Singapore H1B1 Tips > Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on...
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> Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on /r/sg](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7nflav/h1b1_visa_ama/) about 1yr ago. Please also read this blogpost from /u/omakaselife!...
Nelson's Weblog
Trump's plans for his second presidency The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a...
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a year ago
The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a second presidency, mostly under the umbrella of Project 2025. There’s been a lot of good journalism about it. Some examples: Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside...
A Smart Bear
Learn by Copy In America we're trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we're...
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In America we're trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Joel Gascoigne
6 suggestions for an aspiring founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This article is...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This article is inspired by Startup Edition [http://startupedition.com] in response to “What advice would you give young entrepreneurs?” I feel incredibly lucky that I managed to jump on board...
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JAMstack or 'Pilha de Atolamento'? i18n in Gatsby + Netlify _Originally published on...
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over a year ago
_Originally published on [Scotch.io](https://scotch.io/@sw-yx/jamstack-or-pilha-de-atolamento-let-your-user-decide-i18n-in-gatsby-netlify)_
Miguel Carranza
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most...
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over a year ago
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most of it focused on the CEO role. The generic advice on leadership also applies to other non-CEO roles, but I could not find a lot of content targeted to technical founders. In fact,...
Steve Klabnik
Protocol and language
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently startups pop up and take over the press, framed as an “overnight success” taking just a year or two to reach some incredible milestone. For some time I’ve had a slight intuition that...
37signals Dev
A vanilla Rails stack is plenty If you have the luxury of starting a new Rails app today, here’s our recommendation: go...
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3 weeks ago
If you have the luxury of starting a new Rails app today, here’s our recommendation: go vanilla. Fight hard before adding Ruby dependencies. Keep that Gemfile that Rails generates as close to the original one as possible. Fight even harder before adding Javascript dependencies....