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Steve Klabnik
Anti-capitalism 101
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Another Week with Bad Software In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why —...
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over a year ago
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why — probably because I could. I had a hotel booked via booking.com, but once I arrived there the receptionist told me it was the first time he's heard of my booking, and he told me that...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Cancer and revenue - the latest board meeting It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with retinoblastoma - a fairly rare form of cancer that…
Chris Nicholas
How to use Sandpack for code demos Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every JavaScript framework.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Computers Are a Feeling Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: ...
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Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: the modern internet exerts a tyranny over our imagination. The internet and its commercial power has sculpted the computer-device. It's become the terrain of flat, uniform, common...
Grant Slatton
Lightweight property-based testing at Row Zero How we verify correctness
10 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Managing difficult software engineers In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every project, every failure, and […] The post Managing difficult software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Liz Denys
Bauhaus spoon rest, 2024 Bauhaus design / negative space / boundaries that are clear on paper
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
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
sancho.dev
Learning OCaml in 2023
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it work? Is it safe? Are there better ways to implement such state changes? TLDR: it works, but leaves you with an extra DOM update that may break stuff. As we all know, useLayoutEffect...
David Crawshaw
Searching the Creative Internet Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the 1990s. A place where everything was obscure or new. If you saw something mainstream like a Disney princess, it was because someone had taken the time to handcraft an ASCII art...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sept 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Tailwind CSS Color Tokens (tutorial)
10 months ago
Steve Klabnik
An overview of macros in Rust
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Trouble with Diaspora
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Sandcastles Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions about how sandcastles should be built.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2024 The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
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a year ago
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
David Crawshaw
Go 1.13: xerrors Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection proposal The error inspection proposal adds several features to errors that have been tried elsewhere (in packages such as ), with some new implementation tricks. The proposal has...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: CPython Memory Management Internals Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter...
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Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter (the VM), and the response from the attendees has been very encouraging. Next, I want to talk about how CPython implements memory management in its runtime. Most programming...
markround.com
Apollo Vampire V1200 Review After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2...
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over a year ago
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to...
Ink & Switch
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
a year ago
Alex Meub
My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created. Finding Campsites My wife...
Blog - Bitfield...
Best Rust books for 2024 There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are...
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a year ago
There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.
Posts on Nikita...
2024 Reflection Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
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7 months ago
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle. Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024 During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
alexwlchan
Redacting sensitive query parameters with koa and koa-logger At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website. Together, they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website. Together, they give us nice request-response logs for all our traffic: <-- GET / --> GET / 200 754ms 57.28kb <-- GET /stories --> GET /stories 200 374ms 71.29kb <-- GET /works?query=trees -->...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Samantha Cristoforetti's Logbook <![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space...
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7 months ago
<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space flight. On November 23, 2014 she was launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a mission to the International Space Station. I had the privilege of helping Samantha with a public...
Making software...
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
David Heinemeier...
Stick with the customer One of the biggest mistakes that new startup founders make is trying to get away from the...
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4 months ago
One of the biggest mistakes that new startup founders make is trying to get away from the customer-facing roles too early. Whether it's customer support or it's sales, it's an incredible advantage to have the founders doing that work directly, and for much longer than they find...
37signals Dev
Turbo 8 released We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board. Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8: Morphing...
The Changelog
A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP) A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
Words and Buttons...
Lagrange polynomial as a gateway drug to basis splines This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis polynomial, and how come it's a polynomial in the first place.
macwright.com
Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
a year ago
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a year ago
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
Eric Bailey
Comic Sans is a good typeface, actually body { font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", "ChalkboardSE-Regular", "ChalkboardSE",...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
body { font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", "ChalkboardSE-Regular", "ChalkboardSE", sans-serif; } In my ongoing, inadvertent quest to alienate myself from the design industry, I must now tell you all that Comic Sans is a good typeface. A lot has been written about...
Steve Klabnik
Write better cukes with the rel attribute
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Family Tree Wisdom Chris: My grandpa used to say that if you climb a rope every day, you’ll never not be able to do...
a year ago
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a year ago
Chris: My grandpa used to say that if you climb a rope every day, you’ll never not be able to do it. Ha, I love it! It got me thinking: I’d love to hear more folks’ “wisdom from the family tree”. Stuff like Chris shared, “My grandpa used to say…” I immediately had a few family...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And...
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Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love this stuff. While some apps made this transition fun (and further infused their brand with character), others did not. They did...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s course and it’s been on repeat in my mind ever since June 6th. June 6th I was on vacation at the beach with my family and tried something that, looking back now, maybe I’m too old for....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Content Distribution How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
over a year ago
Marco.org
Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him. But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world. He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Job Screening Blog Post Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good fit. #designEngineering Email :: Mastodon :: Twitter #designEngineer
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL: Implementing a typechecker in Rust
11 months ago
Maggie Appleton
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Stop Lying to Your Users
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Maximize your excitement * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge believer of the lean startup movement and the concept of validating ideas as quickly as possible. I think wasted time and resources are disastrous and no matter how much you love an...
Maggie Appleton
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I A case study showing how I make illustrations for abstract programming concepts
over a year ago
Making software...
Animated Card Tiles Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let's build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS. What we will be building...
Alex MacCaw
Unshackling Artificial Minds Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product...
a year ago
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a year ago
Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product of Entropy, the law of nature that dictates it is easier to destroy than to create. And here we are, on the cusp of creating not just something new, but
Blog of Simple...
What are Google Analytics' identifiers?
a year ago
Quentin Santos
Beware Rust Buffering This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much time to figure it out, I made this article as a reminder. Also, there is a post scriptum, also about buffers, but not about Rust. While writing my article about Linux pipes, I needed...
Words and Buttons...
The simplest possible smooth contouring algorithm The algorithm that takes a distance function and makes a smooth contour out of it in three steps.
over a year ago
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Tony Finch's blog
getopt() but smaller The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically...
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The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically simple command line argument parser. Most argument parsers are declarative: you tell them what to parse, and they do it. This one provides you with a stream of options and values and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog's recommended reading for startup teams The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so...
a year ago
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a year ago
The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so here’s a collection of the books our teams recommend…
Joel Gascoigne
The evolution of culture at a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s now 2 years...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s now 2 years since I launched Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and the company has grown from just myself (working from my bedroom) to a team of 7. In the last few months, I’ve been thinking a...
Engineer’s Codex
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
a year ago
David Crawshaw
Leaving Google Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers. I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0. As an operating system it gets so many things right. No doubt I will get a chance to be a user. For the...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.6.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. As Chickadee is still alpha software,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Novels as Prototypes of the Future Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine): A novel…is a prototype...
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Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine): A novel…is a prototype of the future. And if the ideas that the tech industry is pursuing feel stagnant…maybe it points to a shortage of compelling fictions for what the world could be. I love that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Optimistic, Offline-First Apps This is my attempt adapting an Amplify DataStore tutorial to Svelte
over a year ago
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 3 In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
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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over a year ago
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...
Irrational...
2024 in review. A lot happened for me this year. I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta, which...
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A lot happened for me this year. I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta, which is likely the most complex product domain I’ve worked in. My third book was published, and I did a small speaking tour to support it. We started the unironically daunting San...
Grant Slatton
Algorithms we develop software by Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
10 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Examples of Great URL Design Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010): URLs are universal. They work...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010): URLs are universal. They work in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, cURL, wget, your iPhone, Android and even written down on sticky notes. They are the one universal syntax of the web. Don’t take...
Eric Bailey
A website is like a puppy It’s exciting and fun, but also comes with a lot of responsibility. Successfully taking care of it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s exciting and fun, but also comes with a lot of responsibility. Successfully taking care of it means you’ll need to stick to a routine. It can bring you moments of both great joy and sorrow. It costs a little more than you think it will. It will also probably grow to be a...
David Heinemeier...
Coding should be a vibe! The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire...
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2 months ago
The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire project with AI — appears partly to be based on the fact that so many development environments are deeply unpleasant to work with. So it's no wonder that all these programmers stuck...
Josh Comeau's blog
Magical Rainbow Gradients If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible. At least, it wasn't! In this tutorial, we'll leverage bleeding-edge browser features to animate ANY CSS property, including background gradients, using CSS Houdini, CSS variables,...
Ognjen Regoje •...
All conference talks should start with a small technical glitch that the speaker can easily solve At a conference a while back, I noticed a couple of speakers get such a confidence boost after...
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3 months ago
At a conference a while back, I noticed a couple of speakers get such a confidence boost after solving a small technical glitch. We should probably make that a part of every talk. Have the mic not connect automatically, or an almost-complete puzzle on the stage that the speaker...
Ink & Switch
Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
a year ago
Ferd.ca
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
Elad Blog
AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by startups versus incumbents differs. In some waves it all goes to startups, while in others it goes to incumbents or is split between them. Unexpectedly, the prior wave of
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
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over a year ago
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
Paolo Amoroso's...
An unplanned upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon <![CDATA[I spoke too soon when I said I was enjoying the stability of Linux. I have been using...
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2 months ago
<![CDATA[I spoke too soon when I said I was enjoying the stability of Linux. I have been using Linux Mint Cinnamon on a System76 Merkaat PC with no major issues since July of 2024. But a few days ago a routine system update of Mint 22 dumped me to the text console. A fresh...
Paolo Amoroso's...
I accepted the Blog Question Challenge <![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about their background and motivations, tools, and workflows. It is a variation by Kev Quirk of a challenge originally created by Ava at Bear Blog. I have accepted this fun challenge and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.21.0 Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into...
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over a year ago
Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into the overall stability of PostHog squashing dozens…
David Heinemeier...
Our switch to Kamal is complete In a fit of frustration, I wrote the first version of Kamal in six weeks at the start of 2023. Our...
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4 months ago
In a fit of frustration, I wrote the first version of Kamal in six weeks at the start of 2023. Our plan to get out of the cloud was getting bogged down in enterprisey pricing and Kubernetes complexity. And I refused to accept that running our own hardware had to be that expensive...
Vadim Kravcenko
How much a CTO makes and where can I find CTO Jobs? Question: Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in...
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Question: Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in terms of $$$, most of the people in the field are secretive about how much they're getting. It's not just about the money (okay, it's a bit about the money), but also understanding if...
Blog of Simple...
Add Google Analytics to Convertkit
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
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...
Yale E360
RC Week 5: Wrapping up projects and starting a new one Another week of my RC batch wraps up. I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left! Time is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Another week of my RC batch wraps up. I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left! Time is still flying by, and I've hit an inflection point. I have gotten what I want out of the two projects I've worked on so far, so I'm going to wrap them up and move on to one new...
Max Countryman
Mindset for New Engineering Managers Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common...
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over a year ago
Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common mistake is to assume that our previous expertise will make this transition seamless. In reality, it's important to recognize the need to shift mindsets entirely.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Memento Vivere Remember what life can do.
over a year ago
Acko.net
In Search of Sophistication Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media: "Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees." This...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Ideas for replit bounties Apparently replit asks all Pro users about their thoughts. As it happens, I have a lot of thoughts...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Apparently replit asks all Pro users about their thoughts. As it happens, I have a lot of thoughts about how to improve Replit bounties. Lower transaction costs Currently the process is: I post a bounty one or more people apply I select an applicant they do the work I...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
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6 months ago
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
A Beautiful Site
My Commitment to Accessibility I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to...
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I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to the websites and applications that are created with it. This is an important goal of my projects. Oftentimes, people will ask "is it accessible?" I'm reluctant to answer because...
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Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a desire to get this down for my kids, I figure it’s time to write a bit about living through the PC and Internet revolution where I did: outside a tiny town in rural Kansas. And, as...
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If there’s one value Jason and I put above all else in business, it's independence. The freedom to make our own choices, good or bad, without ever having to ask anyone for permission. Not from investors, not from naysayers, not from platform gatekeepers. It’s why we’ve built our...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve mentioned before at the start of a post [https://joel.is/post/4132813715/acting-with-incomplete-information-in-a-startup] is that I often look back on quotes, blogs and books I’ve...
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Is the strategy of joining late-stage startups for the financial upside, a dead end? The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO...
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The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO company issuing generous equity, then wait for the IPO. This strategy seems to be less profitable in 2022.
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Why we've launched PostHog user surveys Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new...
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Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new pricing . Short version? Pricing is usage-based, with…
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Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
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After the HN launch PostHog launched on Hacker News . We were pleased with the reception. The reason we launched wasn’t...
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PostHog launched on Hacker News . We were pleased with the reception. The reason we launched wasn’t trying to get the world’s attention – we wanted to…
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BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin transactions per day](https://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions), I was flabbergasted: **there are only about 60,000 transactions per day.** I graphed the number relative to [the...
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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...
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!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
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Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
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Please stop using Any() for C# Lists and Arrays I'm here to talk about C# performance optimization (again). And about why you should stop using the...
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I'm here to talk about C# performance optimization (again). And about why you should stop using the .Any() LINQ method with Lists and Arrays and embrace the old-school .Count and .Length instead. Don't want to point any fingers, but I see people do it all the time, even in...
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The History of the...
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We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
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New Edna feature: multiple notes I started working on Edna several months ago and I’ve implemented lots of functionality. Edna is a...
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I started working on Edna several months ago and I’ve implemented lots of functionality. Edna is a note taking application with super powers. I figured I’ll make a series of posts about all the features I’ve added in last few months. The first is multiple notes. By default we...
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Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it...
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I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it contains 240 million unique positions1 from 3.8 million games. One of the things it needs to do is quickly find all the games where a particular position occurs. I'd also like it to...
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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...
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Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
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Meta is shutting down Workplace The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The...
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The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The traditional wisdom goes that if you buy from a big company, you're going to be safe. It may be more expensive, but big companies project an image of stability and reliability, so buying...
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Pensieve: 10 Mar 2024 - Band of Brothers Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum...
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Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum call where we made some concessions. I wish he were better able to take things off my hands but also I need to step up
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Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
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Confessions of a...
Celebrating 2^13 Subscribers & My Birthday I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply...
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Steve Klabnik
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This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you go.🌈✨🥂 In this doc I mention Christine, my wonderful, brilliant cofounder and CEO,...
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Using an ORM I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that...
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I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that you can spend twice as long learning an ORM as you can coding raw SQL. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I figured it was time to see for myself. For the Postleaf rebuild, I decided to try out Sequelize. I...
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Lifestyle business FAQ I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger...
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I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger business. Lifestyle businesses are intriguing to people, they sound too good to be true but the reality is they are imminently doable. Since I get quite a lot of questions...
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Blog - Bitfield...
Rust vs Go in 2024 Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and...
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Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
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Building a new personal website Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience...
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Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience this odd phenomenon where the final…
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Two practical uses for capture event listeners Normally, JS event are handled while bubbling up the DOM tree, and we've all had the pleasure to...
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Normally, JS event are handled while bubbling up the DOM tree, and we've all had the pleasure to catch an event from a child node on its parent. You'd even be excused for thinking that's the only way DOM events move. Many also know there's something else — events start at the...
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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...
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How we do customer support at our open source devtool company Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the...
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Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the feedback loop between your customers and your product…
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Documentation Levels People can't use your code without docs. People might get overwhelmed with too many docs. How can we...
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People can't use your code without docs. People might get overwhelmed with too many docs. How can we match the maturity of docs to the maturity of the project?
A Beautiful Site
An icon converter that supports multiple sizes and transparency If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's...
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If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's one that does exactly that. It supports full transparency when converting 24-bit PNGs and even lets you combine multiple resolutions into one icon file — perfect for generating...
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Google is about to make it a lot harder to track website and app users without third-party cookies Google says they intend to deprecate the use of third-party cookies in 2023. But why is this...
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Recurse Center Day 2: BTree Node This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
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This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
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Turns out nobody cared about panel gaps One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of...
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of the traditional values of car making. While the rest of the industry was stuck competing on the size of their panel gaps, and other aspects of precision and quality assembly,...
Tinloof - Blog
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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 two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it. Why website speed matters
David Heinemeier...
Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle...
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By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I've never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years....
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Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I’m going to quickly breakdown the update I’ve...
Posts on Nikita...
I switched from GMail and nobody died Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as...
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Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as authentication and sometimes as authorisation for certain actions. I’m not comfortable with Google having such power over me, especially given the fact that they practically don’t...
Liz Denys
Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
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When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation. But all bets are off as soon as I...
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How to Use class instead of className with Preact and TypeScript ## Bottom Line Up Front
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Nelson's Weblog
AI enhanced search LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to...
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LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research. I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
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Building an open source data science publishing platform - An interview with Datapane CEO, Leo... (Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations where we chat to our contributors...
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How to run a transparent startup There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
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There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
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Behind "Hello World" on Linux Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on...
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Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on Linux, like this one? print("hello world") Here’s what it looks like at the command line: $ python3 hello.py hello world But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on....
A Smart Bear
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This fresh take on "Willingness-to-Pay" analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to superior strategies for growth that also better the world.
Yale E360
The phrase "good enough" isn't fit for purpose Words matter. First impressions matter. I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and...
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Words matter. First impressions matter. I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and there's a section titled "Good-Enough Software". In it, the authors expand that "the phrase 'good enough' does not imply sloppy or poorly produced code" and that it must still meet...
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Why is my Simple Analytics data different from Google Analytics?
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I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
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Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
Ink & Switch
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Want Better Design/CSS Skills? Spot the Difference! A quick exercise to improve your attention to detail when implementing/designing with CSS.
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The 7 best mobile app analytics tools 1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an...
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Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
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Cognitive...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
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With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
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Every Web Performance Test Tool Check your site's speed quickly with a battery of tests
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The Changelog
O, Sunlight! “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in...
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“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in this world, much hope, much life. All we need to do is pause, breathe, and take a moment to see it. It might be as simple as the gift of sunlight. I hope you all have … Continue...
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Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
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The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
Kagi Blog
Update to Kagi Search pricing It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and...
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It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and we have been busy with three main large-scale initiatives: a new pricing model that ensures Kagi’s sustainability, new plans including Family plans, and enhancing search experience...
A Smart Bear
Moats: Durable competitive advantage Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
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Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
Neil Panchal
Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI. So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of...
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So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ New Jet Brains interface We're professionals. We can...
The Pragmatic...
Are reports of StackOverflow’s fall greatly exaggerated? A blog post suggests traffic is down 50% at Stack Overflow, due to ChatGPT gaining popularity. I...
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A blog post suggests traffic is down 50% at Stack Overflow, due to ChatGPT gaining popularity. I reached out to Stack Overflow for more details: the company admitted a drop, but it’s only 14% as per data shared with me.
alexwlchan
Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize,...
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I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser. I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites. If I tried a simple...
A Smart Bear
How to get customers who love you even when you screw up Customers love you when you're honest, even about your foibles. We forgive honest mistakes from...
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Customers love you when you're honest, even about your foibles. We forgive honest mistakes from earnest people, not stolid, cold, inhuman corporations.
David Heinemeier...
Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an...
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For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an 8-core/16-thread AMD 8745H CPU, which retails for $343 (or €379) as a bare-bone unit, and stays below $550, even after adding 48GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. I'm shocked to report that I really...
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.
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...
macwright.com
Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by () This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
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This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which aren’t mentioned on MDN. So, assuming you’re in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like: const body = await...
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Great AI Steals Picasso got it right: Great artists steal. Even if he didn’t actually say it, and we all just repeat...
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Picasso got it right: Great artists steal. Even if he didn’t actually say it, and we all just repeat the quote because Steve Jobs used it. Because it strikes at the heart of creativity: None of it happens in a vacuum. Everything is inspired by something. The best ideas, angles,...
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Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.
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3 Tips from Kent C Dodds for People Just Getting Started advice for beginners from a podcast
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Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
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Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
tonsky.me
Podcast: Nikitonsky про современные редакторы кода @ Тысяча фичей Каким должен быть редактор кода в 2024 году? Почему Vim морально устарел, а IDEA, кажется, сдает...
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Каким должен быть редактор кода в 2024 году? Почему Vim морально устарел, а IDEA, кажется, сдает позиции? Популярность Zed, минимализм SublimeText, гибкость Emacs и многое другое в новом выпуске.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Compressing for the browser in Go Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP...
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2 weeks ago
Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP request to a web server, it includes the following header: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd This tells the server that the response can be compressed using one of the...
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Networking Essentials: Router Design A small detour into Router Hardware!
over a year ago
Liz Denys
A little taste of fall and home: pumpkin muffins I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her...
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over a year ago
I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her heart-shaped muffin mold, and I'd eat them for breakfast, sneak them into my lunchbox, frost them for dessert after dinner, and snack on them off courts at tennis meets. But I...
Irrational...
My desk setup in 2025. Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally have it mostly pulled together...
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Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally have it mostly pulled together at this point. I don’t really think my desk setup is very novel, and I’m sure there are better ways to pull it together, but I will say that it finally works the way I want since...
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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over a year ago
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...
Maggie Appleton
Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Reader Mode: The Button to Beat
over a year ago
Basta’s Notes
The rough edges of Terraform that I awkwardly stumble over First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than usual. I actually have a number of nearly-complete drafts ready to go, but each is waiting on something. Two of them are posts that I think y’all will hopefully enjoy very much!
ByteofDev
Replacing Disqus Commenting Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent...
a year ago
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a year ago
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
Alex Meub
A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x2TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all...
Sometimes It Works...
A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID &...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID & OAuth Unnecessary Access The Idea Why would they pay? Potential Stumbling Blocks Can you really sleep safe on all those passwords? Image "Sweet Dreams…" by pulpoluxA Platform to...
Joel Gascoigne
Creating a sleep ritual * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My first post on...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My first post on this blog was one where I pondered whether exercise is a requirement for sleep [https://joel.is/post/1636226903/exercise-sleep]. The post was actually triggered by my inability to...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Can you tell an assembly language when you see one? An interactive quiz featuring several obscure high-level languages and assembly variants.
over a year ago
Liz Denys
A better grumpy fuzzball cake: just one of the many reasons I love buttercream more than fondant Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted...
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over a year ago
Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted primarily with rolled fondant, a dough-like frosting that is made with gelatin, food-grade glycerine, and the usual frosting suspects. But I don't love the taste or texture of fondant....
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Writing my first Security blogpost Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open source user_ (aka not a breach of us, which seems the norm).
Making software...
Do You Have an Extra $10? Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
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over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it's a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it's a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it's an impulse buy while we're out shopping for...
Eric Bailey
Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size
11 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Pollen’s enormous debt left behind: exclusive details Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the company has accumulated, most of which will not be paid. The highest offer to buy Pollen’s business assets - but without its liabilities - currently stands at only $250K. Details.
the singularity is...
Critical Trade Theory You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
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3 months ago
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false. The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
Making software...
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at...
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over a year ago
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser's URL - I've swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I'm a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I've been planning to do...
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Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Do NOT Assert on Requests (Do This Instead) (article) Test UI outcomes, not API requests. Mock network calls in setup, but assert on what users actually...
a month ago
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Test UI outcomes, not API requests. Mock network calls in setup, but assert on what users actually see and experience, not implementation details.
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
River Flows Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents.  I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer's product journey, and our next step to hire a VP of Product Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We've been building Buffer for coming up to ten...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We've been building Buffer for coming up to ten years now. We’re currently a 90-person fully remote team with over 70,000 paying customers and $20M in annual revenue. We’re proud to be a leader
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Using Next.js as a Static Site Generator for Netlify How to deploy a Static Next.js Site to Netlify, and then upgrade it to use Dynamic Route Segments to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to deploy a Static Next.js Site to Netlify, and then upgrade it to use Dynamic Route Segments to become a full fledged Static Site Generator!
Steve Klabnik
The secret to Rails OO design
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
That Model S Plaid I've owned a lot of great cars in my time. It's been one of the few places where hitting it big has...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've owned a lot of great cars in my time. It's been one of the few places where hitting it big has allowed for something that wouldn't otherwise be possible. From Lamborghini to Pagani, Porsche to Ferrari, Aston Martin to Bentley, I have owned and loved them all. A+ use of...
Don Melton
That bleeping kerfuffle After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via Twitter that all my colorful metaphors had been “bleeped” on the audio. I didn’t realize that because I hadn’t listened to the recording myself. And I don’t normally listen to my own...
Chris Nicholas
How to write exceptional documentation Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to crafting holistic, comprehensive documentation.
The History of the...
We’ve been waiting 20 years for this The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect. The post We’ve been...
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The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect. The post We’ve been waiting 20 years for this appeared first on The History of the Web.
ByteofDev
10 ways to speed up JavaScript loading JavaScript is one of the biggest contributors to long website loading times. This article will show...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
JavaScript is one of the biggest contributors to long website loading times. This article will show you how to speed up your JavaScript loading.
HTMHell
Native HTML light and dark color scheme switching by Vadim Makeev It’s getting dark early in Berlin in the winter. It’s not even close to evening, but...
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7 months ago
by Vadim Makeev It’s getting dark early in Berlin in the winter. It’s not even close to evening, but my OS and all apps have already switched to dark mode. Well, not all of them, unfortunately. And that’s the thing: dark mode has become a quality-of-life feature for many users,...
alexwlchan
My Python snippet for walking a file tree I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and they often involve iterating over a folder full of files. The key function for doing this is os.walk in the standard library, but it’s not quite what I want, so I have a wrapper...
The Codist
Stress And Programming Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern...
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2 months ago
Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern software development processes are far more stressful than when I started. It's not simply that developing software today is more complex than it was back in 1981. In that early...
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Why we're removing the sessions page This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain a daily list of all sessions by your users…
Liz Denys
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Where next for DEI? It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural...
a year ago
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a year ago
It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural world from 2020-2022, the reversal last year was astounding. The Supreme Court ruled the use of race in college admissions illegal, Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracst Research center fell...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Counting to Ten We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to the subject of counting to ten. Realizing everyone in the family can count to ten in a language unique to them at this moment in their life, we go around the table to do it...
Steve Klabnik
Thankfulness
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2023 The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to guess it exactly! Congrats, email me for your prize. It is the case that Pioneer gear has a very distinctive design style to it. I wonder if their PCB design software isn’t some...
Making software...
Improving Github's New Design Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
Liz Denys
Has Baby Yoda been engaging in Twitter 'platform manipulation?' and the broad brush of Twitter's... Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and spam" according to their Instagram. Twitter's policy on platform manipulation and spam allows for "using Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account," as...
Words and Buttons...
Bi-whatever transformations An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or even linear-cubic work, and how to craft your own that fits your particular task the best.
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writing Advice Some thoughts on writing your first few writings
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for such a source, please check out MDN. In general, the Map data structure is useful when we want to retrieve/add/delete values through a set of unique keys. One of the...
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Good Enough In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best",...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best", you just need "good enough".
David Heinemeier...
Rails World sold out in less than 45 minutes There hasn't been a major, dedicated Rails conference in Europe since 2008, so perhaps it's no...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There hasn't been a major, dedicated Rails conference in Europe since 2008, so perhaps it's no surprise that there was pent-up demand. But I was still shocked to see the forthcoming Rails World visit to Amsterdam sell out in less than 45 minutes yesterday! What an awesome...
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GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries My mistakes and insights on GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries.
over a year ago
The Changelog
Martha the Pilot Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our airplane in short flights to a nearby restaurant and long ones to Michigan and South Dakota. All this time, she’s been riding in the back seat next to Laura. Martha has been talking...
Yale E360
Impact of remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this morning: Ooh, a high severity remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain? On the one hand, I'm not entirely shocked that a framework that includes the ability to run LLM-generated code...
Posts on Nikita...
I'm writing a book! Over the course of my career, I introduced a couple of engineers into the topic of query engines....
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2 weeks ago
Over the course of my career, I introduced a couple of engineers into the topic of query engines. Every time, I bumped into the same problem: query engines are extremely academic. Despite the fact that industry has over 40 years of expertise, reading foundational papers and then...
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code. As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
Seldo.com
You Will Never Be A Full Stack Developer
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Big endian and little endian Every time I run into endianness, I have to look it up. Which way do the bytes go, and what does...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Every time I run into endianness, I have to look it up. Which way do the bytes go, and what does that mean? Something about it breaks my brain, and makes me feel like I can't tell which way is up and down, left and right. This is the blog post I've needed every time I run into...
Epic Web Dev
Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users who get confused when events of the same name are emitted from different components. Take <sl-details>, <sl-dialog>, and <sl-dropdown>, for example. They all emit sl-show and...
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React Distros Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today and tomorrow
Eric Bailey
Sabbath mode and assistive technology features There’s a secret mode that comes with almost all large ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers, and other...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a secret mode that comes with almost all large ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers, and other large kitchen appliances. It is called Sabbath mode, and there is a very specific reason it is provided by the manufacturer. No, it is not a mode made to placate Ozzy Osbourne....
A Beautiful Site
Valid Names for CSS Parts CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web component's shadow root so they can be styled by consumers with CSS. But what are we allowed to call these parts? What characters comprise a valid CSS part name? To find out, I had to dive...
blag
Recurse Center First Week Reflections on the first week of the Recurse Center
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
over a year ago
Yale E360
Achieving awful compression with digits of pi Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas. There are some...
a year ago
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a year ago
Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas. There are some numbers whose digits contain all sequences of digits1. People have long hypothesized that pi is one such number; a proof remains elusive. If we have a number which contains all...
David Heinemeier...
Imperfections create connections The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a...
a year ago
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a year ago
The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a pendulum. And that's key to why it's the most iconic sports car ever made. This fundamental imperfection is part of how it creates the connection. This is true of mechanical watches...
Patrick Kayongo
Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
Computer Things
How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also...
9 months ago
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Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also short. Logic for Programmers v0.4 Now available! This version adds a chapter on TLA+, significantly expands the constraint solver chapter, and adds a "planner programming" section to...
Ink & Switch
02 · Tracking provenance Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
11 months ago
David Crawshaw
Atom Feed
over a year ago
Alex Meub
Building an Arcade Stick I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an arcade stick (also called a “fight stick”). Here’s the finished product: Materials and Components I had some leftover IKEA oak butcher block from a kitchen project and I thought...
Julia Evans
Some notes on NixOS Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
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My Life as a Con Man Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it everywhere I look.
macwright.com
React is old My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web...
a year ago
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a year ago
My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web stack, we considered a few other options - we had used d3 to build iD, which worked out great but we were practically the only people in the internet using d3 to build HTML UIs - I...
exist
Non-Empty Recursion in Elm
over a year ago
Evan Jones -...
gRPC is easy to misconfigure Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is...
Irrational...
Predictability. Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how...
a year ago
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a year ago
Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how much it believes that key individuals drive and create industries. It’s an infectious belief, and a necessary one to write a concise, coherent narrative story about the origins of...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to replace useState with useRef and be a winner React state is the bread and butter of a react app — it's what makes your app dynamic. React state...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
React state is the bread and butter of a react app — it's what makes your app dynamic. React state lives in useState, useReducer or in this.state of a class component, and changing it updates your app. But then there's a vast ocean of state not managed by React. This includes...
Steve Klabnik
What's next for SemVer
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
What Happens When Python Starts Up? CPython Runtime Internals CPython JIT Internals, Part 1: What is the Runtime and How is it initialized?
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Building an an Early Stage Startup: Lessons from Akita Software Jean Yang sold her startup to Postman, and shares the details on what happened in the 5 years...
a year ago
Dan Slimmon
Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent...
a year ago
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a year ago
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent building things. So we never forget to interview for skills at building stuff. Sometimes we ask candidates to write code on the fly. Other times we ask them to whiteboard out a sensible...
TokyoDev
How to Get a Software Developer Job in Japan I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby...
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over a year ago
I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby developer](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan) at a Japanese startup. At the time, options for English speaking developers in Japan were few and far between: I could only find two...
Tinloof - Blog
A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
over a year ago
The Codist
If You Don't Give A Crap, This Is the Shit That You Get Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing broken or poor functionality in web and mobile apps. I always cared about what we were putting out, even if it was sometimes unimportant to my employer. When I see things that are easy...
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Changing text style for DandeGUI window output <![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
<![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm developing in Common Lisp. I finally got around to this and implemented the GUI:WITH-TEXT-STYLE macro which controls the attributes of text printed to a...
Tony Finch's blog
C is Turing complete Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing...
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Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing complete. The consensus in the StackOverflow question is, no, because the C abstract machine is a (large) finite state machine, or maybe yes, if you believe that unaddressable local...
somenice
Procedural “Trees” using Blender Geometry Nodes I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using...
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I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using Instances on Points. I started with a 60 x 60 grid of curves, made into spirals and animated with a Noise texture. This ended up creating 8.3 Million faces and took 12 hours to...
HTMHell
#31 additional “assistance” Bad code <a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional assistance in...
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Bad code <a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional assistance in navigating or accessing the content of this website, please call our customer service toll free number 1-800-666-8654309" title="If you find that you need additional assistance in...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document,...
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CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document, triggered via Ctrl + F. In my note-taking application Edna I wanted something slightly different. This article describes how I implemented it. The UI went from: to: CodeMirror is very...
Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows,...
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over a year ago
Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows, and how we might be able to make these more dynamic.
A Smart Bear
Who's lying? Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
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Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
Confessions of a...
(Live Session) Performance Thinking: Six Key Lessons from 1BRC Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation for the finer details that drive performance optimization—something I truly enjoy discussing.
The Changelog
Music Playing: Both Whole-House and Mobile It’s been nearly 8 years since I last made choices about music playing. At the time, I picked...
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over a year ago
It’s been nearly 8 years since I last made choices about music playing. At the time, I picked Logitech Media Server (LMS, aka Slimserver and Squeezebox server) for whole-house audio and Ampache with the DSub Android app. It’s time to revisit that approach. Here are the things I’m...
ByteofDev
State of the Web: Atomic CSS Learn more about the past, present, and future of Atomic CSS and frameworks like Tachyons, Tailwind,...
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over a year ago
Learn more about the past, present, and future of Atomic CSS and frameworks like Tachyons, Tailwind, and more.
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly July 2024
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David Crawshaw
2015-12-27 www.insidemetaladditivemanufacturing.com/blog/design-for-slm-topology-optimisation-of-metallic-struc...
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www.insidemetaladditivemanufacturing.com/blog/design-for-slm-topology-optimisation-of-metallic-structural-nodes-in-architecture-applications
Steve Klabnik
Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust
3 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #22: Why do companies over-hire?" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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Time to market for personal projects How I created my blog in just 2 days.
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Blog of Simple...
Debug Simple Analytics script
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Forget the Meta Theme-Color Tag Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the chrome around the browser doesn’t? To illustrate, take a look at this capture of my blog on an iPhone. When you toggle the theme from light to dark, note how the website turns white...
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
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over a year ago
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
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The Computer History Museum YouTube Channel I have been enjoying the CHM's YouTube Channel.
over a year ago
Making software...
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
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over a year ago
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't thank Chat GPT In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not...
a year ago
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a year ago
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not only is there no logical reason to add pleasantries to your chat with GPT, but it also takes tokens for it to remove them and get to the point of your message. Don't thank Chat...
Dan Quach Blog
Braces Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by...
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a year ago
Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by Dentist Chung (in Vietnamese I called him Bác Sĩ Chung – which means Dr Chung translated directly) and his sister running the office. The office was in Garden Grove, in between the...
Founder's blog
System.Drawing vs SkiaSharp benchmark This is a ridiculously short post for .NET devs looking to compare System.Drawing with SkiaSharp...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a ridiculously short post for .NET devs looking to compare System.Drawing with SkiaSharp (the fastest open-source alternative). I'm currently building a new pet project - a free tool, that will allow bloggers and webmasters generate open-graph "cover images" via...
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
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over a year ago
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
David Heinemeier...
Keeping the lights on while leaving the cloud It was a big year for ops at 37signals. In 2023, we moved seven major applications out of the cloud....
a year ago
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a year ago
It was a big year for ops at 37signals. In 2023, we moved seven major applications out of the cloud. Including HEY, our email service, which had been born there, and has an extremely high level of uptime criticality. Moving out of the cloud could not interfere with that...
bt RSS Feed
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
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over a year ago
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
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Enabling zero downtime data migrations for self-hosted users In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product...
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over a year ago
In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product evolves, your schemas evolve too, and you need…
Charles Chen
Google Firebase with dotnet6 Find out why Google Firebase is a great platform for application development with .NET 6
over a year ago
Irrational...
Meetings for an effective eng organization. Some engineers develop a strong point of view that meetings are a waste of their time. There’s good...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Some engineers develop a strong point of view that meetings are a waste of their time. There’s good reason for that perspective, as many meetings are quite bad, but it’s also a bit myopic: meetings can also be an exceptionally valuable part of a well-run organization. If you’re...
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...
over a year ago
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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...
37signals Dev
Kamal 2.0 released We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers. Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer. With Kamal 2.0...
Computer Things
Why I prefer rST to markdown I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on constraint solving and formal specification, and more! Get it here. This is my second book written with Sphinx, after the new Learn TLA+. Sphinx uses a peculiar markup called reStructured...
Steve Klabnik
Protocol and language
over a year ago
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Errors Are Not Exceptions Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is wrong.
Alex MacCaw
Nothing matters I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn't
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (for React) (tip)
9 months ago
Grant Slatton
How to Bootstrap a Town A modest plan
9 months ago
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The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
a year ago
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a year ago
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you’re wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
The Codist
A Programming Career By The Numbers As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be interesting to describe my long career with numbers. If you wind up working for four decades, your experience may vary. Years Active: 1981-2021, totaling 39.5 years. Irrespective of...