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Steve Klabnik
Write better cukes with the rel attribute
over a year ago
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Write better cukes with the rel attribute

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over a year ago
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How we monetized our open source devtool So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the...
over a year ago
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How we monetized our open source devtool

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over a year ago
So, you’ve decided to build an open-source product. While your choice is highly commendable, the resounding applause from devs on GitHub and Hacker…
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Tony Finch's blog
PCG64 DXSM random number generator Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It...
over a year ago
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PCG64 DXSM random number generator

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

over a year ago
Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It mentioned a new-ish flavour of PCG random number generator which I had not previously encountered, called PCG64 DXSM. This blog post collects what I have learned about it. (I have...
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David Heinemeier...
You can't get faster than No Build For the first time since the 2000s, I'm working on a new Rails application without using any form of...
a year ago
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You can't get faster than No Build

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

a year ago
For the first time since the 2000s, I'm working on a new Rails application without using any form of real build steps on the front-end. We're making it using vanilla ES6 with import maps for Hotwire, and vanilla CSS with nesting and variables for styling. All running on a...
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Hixie's Natural Log
Indexing into a string I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into...
a year ago
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Indexing into a string

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into an integer type.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.17.0 Having launched major features in our previous release such as Session Recording and apps ,...
over a year ago
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Array 1.17.0

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

over a year ago
Having launched major features in our previous release such as Session Recording and apps , over the past two weeks we worked extremely hard to…
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Charles Chen
React is the New IBM You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get...
over a year ago
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React is the New IBM

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over a year ago
You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and joyless every step of the way.
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Making software...
Browser History Sucks Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
over a year ago
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Browser History Sucks

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

over a year ago
Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not. Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn't changed in years....
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Coding Horror
The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.
3 months ago
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The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income

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3 months ago
The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.
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Basta’s Notes
Go fix your bugs An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
over a year ago
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Go fix your bugs

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over a year ago
An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
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Epic Web Dev
Server Componets (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip) Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different...
a month ago
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Server Componets (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip)

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

a month ago
Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different approaches, and trade-offs.
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Elad Blog
**Signup Now** Fireside- Dylan Field: Design, AI, School & Careers Sign up now for new fireside chat
over a year ago
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**Signup Now** Fireside- Dylan Field: Design, AI, School & Careers

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over a year ago
Sign up now for new fireside chat
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Eric Bailey
Focus Management and Inert
over a year ago
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Focus Management and Inert

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over a year ago
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Remains of the Day
TikTok and the Sorting Hat I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
over a year ago
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat

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over a year ago
I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
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Making software...
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog,...
over a year ago
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ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names

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

over a year ago
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I've been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I'm announcing ThriftyName. What is...
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Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
over a year ago
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Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […] The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Liz Denys
Cancel Like Everything Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
over a year ago
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Cancel Like Everything

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

over a year ago
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance: The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's: I've made an A4...
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Elad Blog
A return to company core mission & values If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of...
a year ago
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A return to company core mission & values

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a year ago
If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
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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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Comic Sans is a good typeface, actually

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

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...
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TokyoDev
A Developer’s Crash Course in Coming to Japan Thinking about moving to Japan? You’re not alone—Japan is a popular destination for those hoping to...
a month ago
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A Developer’s Crash Course in Coming to Japan

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a month ago
Thinking about moving to Japan? You’re not alone—Japan is a popular destination for those hoping to move abroad. What’s more, Japan actually needs more international developers. But how easy is it to immigrate to and work in Japan? Scores of videos on social media warn that...
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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,...
a week ago
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Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
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...
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A Smart Bear
Tech Support is sales Tech support isn't just troubleshooting; it's the face of your company. Which means it's your brand,...
8 months ago
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Tech Support is sales

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8 months ago
Tech support isn't just troubleshooting; it's the face of your company. Which means it's your brand, your positioning, and when it's excellent, it is sales.
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macwright.com
Val.town Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the...
over a year ago
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Val.town

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over a year ago
Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the small, for writing short programs in TypeScript that can link together into something larger. It’s for writing that scheduled web scraper or basic API that you wanted to make but...
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Irrational...
Make an effective executive LinkedIn profile. tl;dr - it’s valuable to update your LinkedIn profile to be a concise, accurate, and current summary...
over a year ago
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Make an effective executive LinkedIn profile.

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

over a year ago
tl;dr - it’s valuable to update your LinkedIn profile to be a concise, accurate, and current summary of your accomplishment. Spend at most two hours updating it, then ask a friend (ideally a recruiter) for feedback. Incorporate that feedback and don’t think about your profile...
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Epic Web Dev
Understanding the cause of hydration issues in react-router (tip) Today we go over how hydration errors happen in react-router and how to fix them.
a month ago
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Understanding the cause of hydration issues in react-router (tip)

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a month ago
Today we go over how hydration errors happen in react-router and how to fix them.
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Josh Collinsworth
How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all...
over a year ago
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How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript

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over a year ago
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all object keys (IDs) are unique, and how to find non-unique values.
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The Changelog
Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance...
3 months ago
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Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network

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3 months ago
From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance call for me then. Later, I ran a mail server in my apartment, then ran it as a VPS at various places. But running an email server got difficult. You can’t just run it on a …...
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Alex Meub
Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically...
over a year ago
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Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot

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over a year ago
I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room. A smart outlet wouldn’t work for this because the heater has a manual switch. My next thought was to use my Switchbot smart button pusher,...
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HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product...
over a year ago
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#19 heading in the wrong direction

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over a year ago
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product Status</h1> <h2>Is the product available?</h2> <div> <h3> <div> <div> <i> <h3 class="message is-success"> It‘s <a>available</a>. </h3> ...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Give Back Friday with PostHog Black Friday is normally an occasion to shop around for a new TV or mobile phone. But we wanted to...
over a year ago
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Give Back Friday with PostHog

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over a year ago
Black Friday is normally an occasion to shop around for a new TV or mobile phone. But we wanted to do something a little different, something to…
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Knowledge Laundering I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
a year ago
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Knowledge Laundering

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a year ago
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me: Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fri. March 8, 2024: Inkbase demos A few quick demos of Inkbase
a year ago
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Ink Note Fri. March 8, 2024: Inkbase demos

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a year ago
A few quick demos of Inkbase
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Blog - Bitfield...
Programming is fun I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about...
9 months ago
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Programming is fun

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about writing and teaching Go. Here’s a transcript of our chat.
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023 The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware December 2023

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a year ago
The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
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The Codist
Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their...
5 months ago
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Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts

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5 months ago
For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their complete control over the Treasury Department is entirely insane. Unless you intend to destroy everything, making arbitrary changes to complex computer systems will result in destruction,...
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Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2 Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
a year ago
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State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2

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a year ago
Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
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A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
a year ago
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Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected

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a year ago
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
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PostHog's RSS Feed
What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
a year ago
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon

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a year ago
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
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Blog System/5
Links: January 2024 edition Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
a year ago
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Links: January 2024 edition

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a year ago
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
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Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
9 months ago
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Credit where credit is due

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9 months ago
I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
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A Smart Bear
Solving the Low-Budget Online Marketing Dilemma Low on cash but need marketing results? Here are four specific things you can do to grow on a...
6 months ago
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Solving the Low-Budget Online Marketing Dilemma

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6 months ago
Low on cash but need marketing results? Here are four specific things you can do to grow on a budget.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tech’s Epithet: “Enabled By Default” I joked on Mastodon: If anyone endeavors to write a book about what went wrong with tech, I have a...
8 months ago
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Tech’s Epithet: “Enabled By Default”

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8 months ago
I joked on Mastodon: If anyone endeavors to write a book about what went wrong with tech, I have a great suggestion for the title: “Enabled by Default” It seems there really are two hard problems in tech: Naming things Setting good defaults Keeping to scope Anyhow, a little while...
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Cognitive...
dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b I get a lot of questions about...
a year ago
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dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b

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a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b I get a lot of questions about dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b and I wanted to address some of them on my blog. Dolphin got a nice video review from Prompt Engineering What's this about? Friday December 8, MistralAI released a...
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Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition) I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the...
over a year ago
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Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition)

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over a year ago
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the last 8 months the number of tech startups worth $1B or more ("unicorns") has grown by 43% from 487 Unicorns to 701. This is almost double the 361 unicorns in June 2019
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Hixie's Natural Log
Reflecting on 18 years at Google I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last...
a year ago
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Reflecting on 18 years at Google

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a year ago
I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google. I feel very lucky to have experienced the early post-IPO Google; unlike most companies, and contrary to the popular narrative, Googlers, from the junior...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How to harness the awesome power of growth loops A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs...
over a year ago
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How to harness the awesome power of growth loops

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over a year ago
A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs repeatedly power the series to exponentially grow…
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Irrational...
Is this strategy any good? We’ve read a lot of strategy at this point in the book. We can judge a strategy’s format, and its...
3 months ago
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Is this strategy any good?

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3 months ago
We’ve read a lot of strategy at this point in the book. We can judge a strategy’s format, and its construction: both are useful things. However, format is a predictor of quality, not quality itself. The remaining question is, how should we assess whether a strategy is any...
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Confessions of a...
Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Should Know Write faster code by understanding how it flows through your CPU
3 months ago
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Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Should Know

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3 months ago
Write faster code by understanding how it flows through your CPU
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alexwlchan
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
a year ago
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Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line

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a year ago
Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
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Alex Meub
Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266 Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s...
over a year ago
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Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266

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over a year ago
Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s pretty cool to order pizza, turn on a light, send a tweet, or even run a custom script at the press of a physical button. But I recently tried to use one of my dash buttons and couldn’t...
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Founder's blog
I'm finally dumping Visual Studio After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and...
a year ago
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I'm finally dumping Visual Studio

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a year ago
After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and frustrating, and I've decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code. While as a C# developer I'm still unsure if I can replicate every aspect of my workflow in VS Code, I'm...
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Vadim Kravcenko
I’m finishing university, scared about future career prospects Question: Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be...
a year ago
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I’m finishing university, scared about future career prospects

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Question: Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be a software engineer. But, I keep hearing the job market's tough. Been reading online that lots of devs are struggling to find steady gigs. Is your company looking for any devs?...
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Irrational...
How to create software quality. I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a...
a year ago
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How to create software quality.

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a year ago
I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a memo discussed in the Zero Defects chapter: You can improve the quality of your code, and if you do, the rewards for yourself and for Microsoft will be immense. The hardest part is...
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Nelson's Weblog
Trump's plans for his second presidency The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a...
a year ago
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Trump's plans for his second presidency

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a year ago
The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a second presidency, mostly under the umbrella of Project 2025. There’s been a lot of good journalism about it. Some examples: Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside...
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bt RSS Feed
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been...
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Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)

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over a year ago
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I’ve officially switched back over to Jekyll. I’m not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I’ll...
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Computer Things
New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers....
a year ago
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New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications

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

a year ago
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers. Patreon here. Anyway, I'm off to get a bone graft. Proper newsletter will come later this week when I've got more time to write.
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2025 The Ware for March 2025 is part of a Wekome WP-U157 “67 watt” GAN power supply. This particular unit...
2 months ago
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2025

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2 months ago
The Ware for March 2025 is part of a Wekome WP-U157 “67 watt” GAN power supply. This particular unit had overheated and let out the magic smoke, so I decided to take it apart to understand what was going on. There were a number of engineering issues with the design; the most...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2023 The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it,...
a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware November 2023

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a year ago
The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it, email me for your prize! Here’s some more images of the ware for your enjoyment.
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Steve Klabnik
A Happy Day for Rust
4 months ago
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A Happy Day for Rust

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4 months ago
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Case study of over-engineered C++ code You’ve heard of over-engineered, unnecessarily complex code but what exactly is it? I believe it’s...
5 days ago
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Case study of over-engineered C++ code

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 days ago
You’ve heard of over-engineered, unnecessarily complex code but what exactly is it? I believe it’s best to show by example. While it’s not my intention to criticize other people’s code, I think it’s better to show code and how to improve it rather than vaguely talk about...
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Maggie Appleton
Reverse Outlining with Language Models Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
over a year ago
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Reverse Outlining with Language Models

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over a year ago
Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
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TokyoDev
Heroku + Travis CI: Tokyo Rubyist Meetup Report While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist...
over a year ago
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Heroku + Travis CI: Tokyo Rubyist Meetup Report

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over a year ago
While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp), thanks to all the great people who attended, we were able to turn it into a lively event. Anchoring the night were presentations about...
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Joel Gascoigne
Enjoying the moment * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back...
over a year ago
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Enjoying the moment

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back on the times I’ve done the most productive work on my startup [http://bufferapp.com], it has always been when I’ve had a great balance of work and rest...
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charity.wtf
Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between...
3 months ago
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Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon

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3 months ago
Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between the pillars model and the single unified storage model and applying “2.0” to the latter, Christine was like “so what is going to stop the next vendor from slapping 3.0, 4.0, 5.0...
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for...
over a year ago
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Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition

from Daniel Immke's Blog Posts [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for Hacktoberfest again. I am in the middle of buying…
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Florian Bellmann |...
The late night coding session A small reflection on the joy of late night coding session
a year ago
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The late night coding session

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A small reflection on the joy of late night coding session
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Making software...
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I've been using a Samsung...
over a year ago
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Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor

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

over a year ago
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I've been using a Samsung 27" UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn't a bad setup, but I have since...
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ByteofDev
What is Bun, and does it live up to the hype? Bun is a new JavaScript runtime that claims to offer more features and performance compared to...
over a year ago
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What is Bun, and does it live up to the hype?

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over a year ago
Bun is a new JavaScript runtime that claims to offer more features and performance compared to Node.js and Deno. But is it as good as it is hyped up to be?
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Joel Gascoigne
Make progress faster by cooperating: 4 tips to try with your co-founder or co-worker * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For a number of...
over a year ago
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Make progress faster by cooperating: 4 tips to try with your co-founder or co-worker

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For a number of years now, I’ve found that I generally always had a “training partner” for my entrepreneurial goals. A few years ago, this was my great friend Khuram...
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37signals Dev
My adventures hunting down a Ruby memory leak 🎢 In this article, I tell the story of a memory leak we had in our HEY app, the cool tools I could use...
a year ago
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My adventures hunting down a Ruby memory leak 🎢

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a year ago
In this article, I tell the story of a memory leak we had in our HEY app, the cool tools I could use to investigate and how I finally figured out the root cause. Memory leaks can be tricky to diagnose and having the right set of tools makes a huge difference. I hope my adventures...
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Contraption Co.
Wine craft 2024 harvest season in Alsace
9 months ago
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Wine craft

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9 months ago
2024 harvest season in Alsace
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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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Imperfections create connections

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

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...
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Writing - Andreas...
Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
over a year ago
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Grit Multipliers

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

over a year ago
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
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orlp.net - Blog...
Branchless Lomuto Partitioning A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a...
a year ago
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Branchless Lomuto Partitioning

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

a year ago
A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a predicate) which indicates if an element should be in the first, or second partition. Then it returns two arrays, the two partitions: def partition(v, pred): first = [x for x in v...
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A Beautiful Site
If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping,...
7 months ago
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If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems

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7 months ago
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, "'Tis a design system," I muttered, "bringing order to the core— Ah, distinctly I remember, every button, every splendor, Each component, standardized,...
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Julia Evans
New zine: How Integers and Floats Work Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12...
over a year ago
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New zine: How Integers and Floats Work

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over a year ago
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats, or get an 13-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table of contents! Now let’s...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The iOS App Icon Book” in Japanese Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in...
a year ago
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“The iOS App Icon Book” in Japanese

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a year ago
Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in print, well that’s pretty damn exciting too. Such was the feeling when I opened my copy of the Japanese translation of The iOS App Icon Book. While the core idea of the book...
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Epic Web Dev
Stop Lying to Your Users
a year ago
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Stop Lying to Your Users

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a year ago
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David Heinemeier...
Bad Therapy This book nails it. What it's like to be a parent with school-age children in America right now. So...
a year ago
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Bad Therapy

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

a year ago
This book nails it. What it's like to be a parent with school-age children in America right now. So many kids with a diagnosis of one sort or another, so much monitoring of children's every move, so much anxiety over the most trivial things, like the sugar content of a cupcake....
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Elad Blog
Anduril & Defense Tech The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of...
over a year ago
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Anduril & Defense Tech

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over a year ago
The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of threats to our country and world. Examples of this include issues responding to the COVID pandemic, the cybersecurity ransomware attacks on critical US infrastructure such as our
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Maggie Appleton
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
over a year ago
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Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

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over a year ago
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still...
3 months ago
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Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures

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3 months ago
Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still being simple and intuitive?
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Joel Gascoigne
Crafting a support network Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
over a year ago
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Crafting a support network

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over a year ago
Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
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EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the...
over a year ago
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Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL

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

over a year ago
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the Everglades: the endless sea of grass, extending to the horizon, as far as the eye can see and beyond, and teeming with life. There are all kinds of animals there. Herons, egrets,...
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Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7 months ago
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Will AI destroy B2B SaaS?

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7 months ago
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
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Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
over a year ago
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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need
over a year ago
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Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap

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over a year ago
A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need
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On Test Automation
First things first - automate the execution of your tests “Well, it works on my machine” I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in...
8 months ago
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First things first - automate the execution of your tests

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8 months ago
“Well, it works on my machine” I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in our career, and we all roll our eyes at them in response. It clearly doesn’t work on your machine… We would do well to apply that exact same philosophy of ‘it shouldn’t just run on...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Switching Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Switching

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over a year ago
Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
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Yale E360
Teleportation teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of...
9 months ago
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Teleportation

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9 months ago
teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of myself —unwelcome guests poisoning me from the inside no longer welcome
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HTMHell
#3 image-buttons Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif"...
over a year ago
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#3 image-buttons

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over a year ago
Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif" onclick="openDeleteDialog(123)"> Issues and how to fix them The purpose of the img element is to display images, not to execute JavaScript. A click event on a img triggers only on...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
OOP for FP lovers: Simplistic Dependency Injection With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the...
over a year ago
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OOP for FP lovers: Simplistic Dependency Injection

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

over a year ago
With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the concepts whose names remind us of object-orientation. We throw constructors, methods and classes out of the window because they seem to smell of bank cubicles, water coolers and...
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blag
Galloping Search I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used...
7 months ago
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Galloping Search

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used to search sorted items when the upper bound is unknown. In this short post, I will share my notes and other alternatives I discovered for searching over unbounded items
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Making software...
CSS Value: `currentColor` CSS Value: currentColor 2019-04-13 There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of CSS...
over a year ago
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CSS Value: `currentColor`

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

over a year ago
CSS Value: currentColor 2019-04-13 There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of CSS value types, but today we are going to focus on currentColor. So what is the currentColor value type anyway? The currentColor value type will apply the existing color value to other...
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blag
How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how...
over a year ago
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How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine

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over a year ago
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how to configure git emails per directory or per project.
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bt RSS Feed
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers

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over a year ago
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn’t the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
People and Blogs and Me If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely...
a year ago
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People and Blogs and Me

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a year ago
If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely goal: to both highlight wonderful human beings and their blogs, and also to promote a healthier way to inhabit the web and show that traditional social media is not the be all and end...
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The Bear Manifesto An outline of my philosophy and direction for the platform
5 months ago
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The Bear Manifesto

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5 months ago
An outline of my philosophy and direction for the platform
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MMapped blog
IC internals: orthogonal persistence
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IC internals: orthogonal persistence

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over a year ago
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How (and why) we treat pricing like a product "Pricing is important" is common knowledge – price determines profit margin, which directly or...
over a year ago
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How (and why) we treat pricing like a product

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over a year ago
"Pricing is important" is common knowledge – price determines profit margin, which directly or indirectly determines nearly everything else. What isn…
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Miguel Carranza
Technical debt isn't evil Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the...
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Technical debt isn't evil

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over a year ago
Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. There are multiple interpretations of what technical debt is, but I am going to focus on the financial debt metaphor. Like financial debt, technical debt is something...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from the Chrome Team’s “Blink principles of web compatibility” Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this...
2 months ago
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Notes from the Chrome Team’s “Blink principles of web compatibility”

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2 months ago
Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this document from Rick Byers of the Chrome team titled “Blink principles of web compatibility” which outlines how they navigate introducing breaking changes. “Hold up,” you might say....
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Seán Barry
Presentation: Pushing Compute to the Browser Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose...
over a year ago
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Presentation: Pushing Compute to the Browser

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over a year ago
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose technical and real-world problems. Using a number of modern solutions like HTTP 2, web workers and careful state management with redux we can offload the work to the browser and deliver...
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On Life and Lisp
The first conformant M1 GPU driver Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the...
a year ago
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The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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a year ago
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux! For existing Asahi Linux users, upgrade your system with dnf upgrade (Fedora) or pacman -Syu...
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Yale E360
What would a web app canary look like? Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...
a year ago
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What would a web app canary look like?

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a year ago
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots. Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to. They are an essential component...
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the singularity is...
Resentment If you give some monkeys a slice of cucumber each, they are all pretty happy. Then you give one...
3 months ago
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Resentment

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3 months ago
If you give some monkeys a slice of cucumber each, they are all pretty happy. Then you give one monkey a grape, and nobody is happy with their cucumber any more. They might even throw the slices back at the experimenter. He got a god damned grape this is bullshit I don’t want a...
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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
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Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux

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a year ago
A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection model.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Clone Open Source Apps > Author's note: This is part 3 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
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Clone Open Source Apps

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over a year ago
> Author's note: This is part 3 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
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Ink & Switch
Inkbase: Programmable Ink What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
over a year ago
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Inkbase: Programmable Ink

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over a year ago
What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Post Bootcamp Mindmap What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or...
over a year ago
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Post Bootcamp Mindmap

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over a year ago
What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or bootcamp?
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Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
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Implementing HATEOS with presenters

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over a year ago
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The Pragmatic...
Google Shutting down Firebase Dynamic Links Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS,...
a year ago
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Google Shutting down Firebase Dynamic Links

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a year ago
Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS, Android, and the web. Now after 7 years, Google is shutting down this product. But why? I asked the Big Tech giant for details.
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Nelson's Weblog
Seven slaves, a marker I've written before about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave. Today I...
over a year ago
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Seven slaves, a marker

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over a year ago
I've written before about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave. Today I learned there were more, at least seven. This marker comes courtesy of Find-a-Grave. It's on a small family cemetery near Bagwell, TX. I'm not positive but I think the land is...
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Alex MacCaw
The six principles of lifestyle businesses Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
over a year ago
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The six principles of lifestyle businesses

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over a year ago
Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Won't Choose To Be A Manager I recently decided that I will not _choose_ to be a manager. This is how I arrived at that...
over a year ago
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Why I Won't Choose To Be A Manager

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over a year ago
I recently decided that I will not _choose_ to be a manager. This is how I arrived at that conclusion.
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the singularity is...
A One Way Bridge Okay I went to Devcon. And while there I had a great idea that the crypto space really needs. It...
7 months ago
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A One Way Bridge

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7 months ago
Okay I went to Devcon. And while there I had a great idea that the crypto space really needs. It seems like while AI infrastructure has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 5 years, crypto infra has actually gotten worse. I’m proposing some great new infrastructure that the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
over a year ago
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Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools

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over a year ago
The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
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Maggie Appleton
Frequently Asked Questions Questions I am often asked to answer
over a year ago
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Frequently Asked Questions

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over a year ago
Questions I am often asked to answer
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes to Self on Mastodon Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to...
over a year ago
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Notes to Self on Mastodon

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over a year ago
Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to articulate what I do understand in a way that helps me better understand the differences — and similarities — between Twitter and Mastodon, especially when it comes to owning more of...
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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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Go 1.13: xerrors

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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...
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Quentin Santos
How to use “real” UART I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This...
3 months ago
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How to use “real” UART

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3 months ago
I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This is just a recap of the basics to help put things in context. Many tutorials focus on using UART over USB, which adds many layers of abstraction, hiding what it actually is. Here,...
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macwright.com
2025 Predictions I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not. 1: The web becomes adversarial...
6 months ago
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2025 Predictions

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6 months ago
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not. 1: The web becomes adversarial to AI The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your ranking on search engines was pretty easy -...
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Letters of Note
Better Letters of Note Dear all, It gives me untold amounts of pleasure to announce that the Letters of Note website has...
over a year ago
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Better Letters of Note

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over a year ago
Dear all, It gives me untold amounts of pleasure to announce that the Letters of Note website has been given its first facelift since I naively launched it in 2009 using a bog-standard Blogger template. I would like to thank, profusely but from a very safe distance, the patient...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React...
a year ago
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The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines

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a year ago
On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React what REST APIs are to local-first sync engines. jQuery was manual DOM manipulation. You were in charge of writing the instructions to create, read, update, and delete DOM...
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Renegade Otter
A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts A tale of two rewrites Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”,...
a year ago
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A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts

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a year ago
A tale of two rewrites Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”, invented that whole thing where you can send HTML in emails, and more. In his harrowing work diary of how Mosaic/Netscape came to be, Jamie described the burnout rodeo that was...
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Irrational...
Who runs Engineering processes? Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was...
over a year ago
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Who runs Engineering processes?

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over a year ago
Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was created as a deliberate non-acronym–but was otherwise a fairly typical review process. When I first joined, we’d review one or two specs each week. The volume of requested reviews...
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Stephen Wolfram...
Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram...
over a year ago
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Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository

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over a year ago
This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin KitThe New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram LanguagePrompts for Work & Play:...
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A Beautiful Site
Parsing a JSON string results in an 'Invalid Label' error Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred...
over a year ago
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Parsing a JSON string results in an 'Invalid Label' error

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over a year ago
Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred server-side language. I use JSON whenever I can to pass data between JavaScript and PHP. After all, $.get and $.post both process JSON easily, so it's my data type of choice. Sometimes,...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The essential tools used by product engineers Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to...
over a year ago
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The essential tools used by product engineers

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over a year ago
Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to gather insights, ideate, and deploy solutions…
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David Crawshaw
2014-07-28
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2014-07-28

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over a year ago
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Julia Evans
Writing Javascript without a build system Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend...
over a year ago
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Writing Javascript without a build system

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over a year ago
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build system? I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I (usually) still don’t use them, and why I find...
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Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 1) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user...
over a year ago
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How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 1)

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over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS. In the second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
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Ink & Switch
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
a month ago
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

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a month ago
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from? Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
over a year ago
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Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?

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over a year ago
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
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A Smart Bear
If you build it, they won't come, unless… A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt...
over a year ago
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If you build it, they won't come, unless…

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over a year ago
A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt and cheese" isn't a recipe.
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Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: assemblages
over a year ago
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Deleuze for developers: assemblages

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over a year ago
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Maggie Appleton
Programming Portals Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple...
over a year ago
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Programming Portals

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over a year ago
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
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Yale E360
Building Molecule Reader in one day Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when...
over a year ago
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Building Molecule Reader in one day

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over a year ago
Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when there are notifications coming in or even just other content on the screen1. I have a reMarkable tablet (RM), which I love dearly2 and much prefer to read on. But it's annoying...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Actually Structured Journaling (Jan 2025) I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was...
6 months ago
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Actually Structured Journaling (Jan 2025)

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6 months ago
I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was disappointed by the recommendations:
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Ognjen Regoje •...
When am I "allowed" to quit and not be labeled a quitter? There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps...
a year ago
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When am I "allowed" to quit and not be labeled a quitter?

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a year ago
There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps raising bridge rounds but whose valuation stagnates. Anecdotally, their founders belong to two groups: They’re still convinced that the business will work and are unflappable in their...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Creator Clones Fail The Innovator's Dilemma according to MKBHD, applied to YouTube's attempt to clone TikTok
over a year ago
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Why Creator Clones Fail

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over a year ago
The Innovator's Dilemma according to MKBHD, applied to YouTube's attempt to clone TikTok
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alexwlchan
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my...
2 months ago
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A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

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2 months ago
I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my local machine for analysis or backup. When I’m starting a new project and the database is near-empty, this is a simple rsync operation: $ rsync --progress...
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HTMHell
What is the Difference Between Alternative Text, Long Description, and Caption? When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and...
over a year ago
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What is the Difference Between Alternative Text, Long Description, and Caption?

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over a year ago
When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and understandable to everyone. Which means you need to include text alternatives to describe the image information or function. Three options are: Alternative Text Long...
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samwho.dev
Life Skills Learned Playing World of Warcraft Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft...
over a year ago
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Life Skills Learned Playing World of Warcraft

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over a year ago
Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft (WoW). In the first half of this post I'm going to explain the game and how I played it. In the second half I'll talk about the skills I learned and how they've helped me. If you played a...
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Epic Web Dev
Embracing Slow Networks: Improving User Experience (article) How web devs can tackle high latency networks and enhance UX and the role React Server Components...
a year ago
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Embracing Slow Networks: Improving User Experience (article)

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a year ago
How web devs can tackle high latency networks and enhance UX and the role React Server Components plays in this.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to change custom domain on Substack Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
over a year ago
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How to change custom domain on Substack

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over a year ago
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 009: Thinking with ink, spreadsheets for exploring scenarios, and a local-first key... A project from our programmable ink track, a spreadsheet for exploring scenarios, and a new...
5 months ago
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Dispatch 009: Thinking with ink, spreadsheets for exploring scenarios, and a local-first key agreement protocol

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5 months ago
A project from our programmable ink track, a spreadsheet for exploring scenarios, and a new algorithm for local-first authorization.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Jan 2020 Recap a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
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Jan 2020 Recap

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over a year ago
a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
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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
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What Happens When Python Starts Up? CPython Runtime Internals

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a year ago
CPython JIT Internals, Part 1: What is the Runtime and How is it initialized?
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HTMHell
The hidden attribute in HTML by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was...
a year ago
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The hidden attribute in HTML

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a year ago
by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was introduced, it worked in a very simple way: it set the CSS display property to none. Many people voiced concerns because here we are, mixing styles with markup again. To be fair, this...
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bt RSS Feed
Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
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Simple Accessibility

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over a year ago
Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
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bunnie's blog
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
a year ago
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Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge

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a year ago
IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
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Maggie Appleton
Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born? A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive
3 months ago
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Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born?

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3 months ago
A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Source Code for Life v0.1 Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
over a year ago
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Source Code for Life v0.1

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over a year ago
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
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Nelson's Weblog
The Sandbaggers I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the...
a year ago
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The Sandbaggers

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a year ago
I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the show name-checks James Bond frequently the soul of it is more of a Le Carré thing. Intelligence as a series of dismal political battles between underpaid civil servants at the home...
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Steve Klabnik
"The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press
over a year ago
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"The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press

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over a year ago
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Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental...
over a year ago
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions

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over a year ago
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
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macwright.com
Figma Plugins At the beginning of 2023, I released a Figma plugin called Placemark, which lets you create vector...
a year ago
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Figma Plugins

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a year ago
At the beginning of 2023, I released a Figma plugin called Placemark, which lets you create vector maps in Figma, the graphic design tool. Since then I’ve been maintaining that plugin for fun, and introduced another one, Placemark Globe. They’ve been somewhat successful! The...
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markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
over a year ago
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1

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over a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
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Joel Gascoigne
Zero notifications * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
over a year ago
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Zero notifications

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
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Eric Bailey
Tag, you’re it I’ve been seeing, and enjoying reading these posts as they pop up in my RSS reader. Dave Rupert...
3 months ago
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Tag, you’re it

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3 months ago
I’ve been seeing, and enjoying reading these posts as they pop up in my RSS reader. Dave Rupert tagged me into the chain, so here we go! Why did you start blogging in the first place? With the gift of hindsight, I guess I came up being blog-adjacent. Like Dave, I also had a...
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Ralph Ammer
Aristotle — How to live a good life 2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual...
a year ago
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Aristotle — How to live a good life

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a year ago
2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life: What is good? First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good thing fulfils its unique function. A good knife is a knife that is good at cutting. A good eye is...
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Alex Meub
Finding Campsites with Python My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
over a year ago
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Finding Campsites with Python

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over a year ago
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite. If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
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Making software...
CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
over a year ago
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CSS Slope Graphs

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over a year ago
CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let's change that, shall we? The Demo I'm basing...
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David Heinemeier...
You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
a year ago
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You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation

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a year ago
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
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David Heinemeier...
The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
6 months ago
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The premise trap

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6 months ago
The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long...
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Engineer’s Codex
Clever code is probably the worst code you could write And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
a year ago
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Clever code is probably the worst code you could write

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a year ago
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
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PostHog's RSS Feed
What we learned about hiring from our first five employees Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five...
over a year ago
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What we learned about hiring from our first five employees

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over a year ago
Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five hires PostHog ever made, how we made them, and why…
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Tony Finch's blog
Concurrent qp-trie performance numbers Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my qp-trie code in BIND. I have...
over a year ago
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Concurrent qp-trie performance numbers

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over a year ago
Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my qp-trie code in BIND. I have now got it working with a refactored qp-trie that has been changed to support asynchronous memory reclamation - working to the point where I can run some benchmarks to compare the...
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A Beautiful Site
Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into...
over a year ago
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Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files

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over a year ago
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files: for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!
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alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
a year ago
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Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian

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a year ago
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example: $ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
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Eric Bailey
Re: Selling your extension Although my fifteen minutes of fame for Millennials to Snake people is long over, I still get the...
over a year ago
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Re: Selling your extension

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over a year ago
Although my fifteen minutes of fame for Millennials to Snake people is long over, I still get the occasional email offering to: Buy the extension outright, or Pay me to add their code into it. The goal of each offer is the same. The solicitor wants to add malicious code for some...
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Julia Evans
In a git repository, where do your files live? Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does...
a year ago
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In a git repository, where do your files live?

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a year ago
Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does git store your files? We know that it’s in your .git directory, but where exactly in there are all the versions of your old files? For example, this blog is in a git repository, and...
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David Heinemeier...
The Musk Algorithm Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book....
a year ago
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The Musk Algorithm

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a year ago
Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best business books, it's not merely an instruction manual, but an inspirational guide too. Not since reading Ricardo Semler's Maverick in the early 2000s have I...
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Steve Klabnik
The next iteration of my blog
over a year ago
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The next iteration of my blog

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over a year ago
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Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
over a year ago
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Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA

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

over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
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David Heinemeier...
Introducing Omakub Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a...
a year ago
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Introducing Omakub

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

a year ago
Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a rite of passage in certain parts of the community where becoming an expert in the intricacies of every tool and its theming is required to prove you're a proper nerd. I think that's a...
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Steve Klabnik
Cards for dad - follow-up
over a year ago
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Cards for dad - follow-up

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over a year ago
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Getting an Unread Badge Count For the Docked Gmail Web App in macOS If you didn’t know already, you can now turn webpages into “apps” on your Mac. I’ve done this for a...
a year ago
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Getting an Unread Badge Count For the Docked Gmail Web App in macOS

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a year ago
If you didn’t know already, you can now turn webpages into “apps” on your Mac. I’ve done this for a few apps already and it works great. I get system-level notifications, unread badge counts, and more! Except for Gmail. With Gmail I get notifications but I don’t get application...
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy issues of chatGPT: This is what's ahead of us
over a year ago
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Privacy issues of chatGPT: This is what's ahead of us

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over a year ago
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Yale E360
Personnel update This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt...
9 months ago
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Personnel update

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9 months ago
This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt coldly impersonal for such a deeply personal event, so I imagined what it would be like if the same approach were taken to other deeply personal events. * * * Subject: Personnel...
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David Heinemeier...
Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
11 months ago
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Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU

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11 months ago
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
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Eric Bailey
SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them
over a year ago
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SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them

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over a year ago
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Epic Web Dev
Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)
over a year ago
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Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)

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over a year ago
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Marc Astbury
Intervention ≠ good Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite...
a year ago
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Intervention ≠ good

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a year ago
Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite consulting doctors and trying different treatments, nothing worked. Resigned to his fate, the friend finally gave up all treatments and stopped eating. Surprisingly, this led to an...
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Tony Finch's blog
BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be...
a year ago
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BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices

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a year ago
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be useful in my previous blog posts, but which some readers might find informative. Some of them I learned the hard way, so I hope I can make it easier for others! contents of key...
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Joel Gascoigne
Want to be successful? Be inconsistent * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently...
over a year ago
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Want to be successful? Be inconsistent

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently 37signals published an article titled Some advice from Jeff Bezos [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos]. This wasn’t your usual advice, and I found it...
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Nelson's Weblog
Windy.com is good weather I’ve found a mobile app for weather I finally like enough to be happy about paying for. Windy, best...
over a year ago
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Windy.com is good weather

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over a year ago
I’ve found a mobile app for weather I finally like enough to be happy about paying for. Windy, best known for its website. The mobile app has extra phone features like notifications and home screen widgets. Also its UI is a little more understandable. Windy makes a strong first...
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A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
over a year ago
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Finding Fulfillment

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over a year ago
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
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alexwlchan
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that...
a year ago
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Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany

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a year ago
I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that there’s a maximum size for a PDF document: Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381...
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Josh Comeau's blog
Animated Pride Flags Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll...
over a year ago
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Animated Pride Flags

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over a year ago
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️‍🌈
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Yale E360
Kill the crunch time heroics Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
over a year ago
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Kill the crunch time heroics

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
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Yale E360
Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to...
over a year ago
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Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to solve most of those problems by producing code. Ultimately, producing code is hard, and we need help. That's why GitHub's Copilot is exciting, but it's far from ideal, and it's the tip...
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Irrational...
Onboarding peer executives. While many companies build out an elaborate Engineering onboarding program, the process for...
over a year ago
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Onboarding peer executives.

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over a year ago
While many companies build out an elaborate Engineering onboarding program, the process for onboarding new executives tends to be an ad-hoc, chaotic affair. There usually is an executive onboarding process, but it’s used too infrequently to ever get excellent. Part of the problem...
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Alice GG
Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s...
a year ago
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Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou

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a year ago
Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s job easier, it’s a good idea to put together a press kit. The press kit should contain all the information someone could want to write an article about your product, as well as...
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alexwlchan
Preserving Dates during JSON serialisation with vanilla JS For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our...
over a year ago
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Preserving Dates during JSON serialisation with vanilla JS

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over a year ago
For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our longest-standing issues has been around sending Date values via JSON – JavaScript will happily encode a Date value in JSON, but it gets encoded as a string, and there’s no easy way to...
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Epic Web Dev
Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop) Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more...
a year ago
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Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop)

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a year ago
Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more in the Authentication Strategies & Implementation Workshop!
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Steve Klabnik
How can I contribute to Ruby on Rails?
over a year ago
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How can I contribute to Ruby on Rails?

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over a year ago
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Code Of Honor
Tough times on the road to Starcraft I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
over a year ago
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Tough times on the road to Starcraft

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over a year ago
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
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TokyoDev
Entry Level Jobs in Japan *Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...
over a year ago
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Entry Level Jobs in Japan

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over a year ago
*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.* When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....
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swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite Podcasts 250 Podcasts I enjoy listening to
over a year ago
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My Favorite Podcasts

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over a year ago
250 Podcasts I enjoy listening to
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds ---
over a year ago
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Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds

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over a year ago
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James Vaughan's blog
Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control
11 months ago
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Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control

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11 months ago
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Ink & Switch
Patchwork 02 · Writing prose Writers of books, blog posts, and science papers could benefit from powerful version control.
a year ago
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Patchwork 02 · Writing prose

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a year ago
Writers of books, blog posts, and science papers could benefit from powerful version control.
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Alex MacCaw
Captain's Log #1 In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech...
over a year ago
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Captain's Log #1

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over a year ago
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech businesses, and more.
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Tony Finch's blog
the algebra of dependent types TIL (or this week-ish I learned) why big-sigma and big-pi turn up in the notation of dependent type...
a month ago
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the algebra of dependent types

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

a month ago
TIL (or this week-ish I learned) why big-sigma and big-pi turn up in the notation of dependent type theory. I’ve long been aware of the zoo of more obscure Greek letters that turn up in papers about type system features of functional programming languages, μ, Λ, Π, Σ. Their...
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alexwlchan
How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights &rarr; I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the...
over a year ago
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How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights &rarr;

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the benefits of moving our data storage and processing to the cloud. Building out this infrastructure is a large part of what I’ve been working on for the last six (!) years. It’s been...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink deformation You can think of informal ink as a superset of formal ink: it starts out with less structure, but...
a year ago
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink deformation

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a year ago
You can think of informal ink as a superset of formal ink: it starts out with less structure, but structure can be added over time, by the sketcher or the system.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
80/20 is the new Half-Ass Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look...
over a year ago
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80/20 is the new Half-Ass

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

over a year ago
Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look back and wonder why you never hit 100% on anything.
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Tony Finch's blog
semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago....
11 months ago
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semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make

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

11 months ago
Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in between. Yesterday I...
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elementary Blog
Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here! This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8....
11 months ago
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Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here!

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11 months ago
This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8. We’re getting very close to releasing the latest version of our operating system and that means releasing new versions of all of the projects we maintain! That means big new versions...
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Epic Web Dev
Mocking Techniques in Vitest (workshop)
9 months ago
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Mocking Techniques in Vitest (workshop)

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9 months ago
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David Heinemeier...
Magic machines There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to...
a year ago
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Magic machines

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a year ago
There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to computers run by anyone but themselves. Perhaps it's a corollary to imposter syndrome, which leads programmers to believe that if a computer is operated by AWS or SaaS or literally...
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Nelson's Weblog
Phanpy, a Mastodon client Phanpy is good software for reading Mastodon or other Fediverse posts. Astonishingly it’s an open...
a year ago
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Phanpy, a Mastodon client

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a year ago
Phanpy is good software for reading Mastodon or other Fediverse posts. Astonishingly it’s an open source passion project from a single developer, Chee Aun. Its quality is extraordinary, better than most commercial social media software. There’s so many good things about Phanpy...
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alexwlchan
Filtering out bogus requests from Netlify Analytics I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance. It’s...
over a year ago
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Filtering out bogus requests from Netlify Analytics

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over a year ago
I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance. It’s essentially server-side logging with a dashboard on top, and it’s more than sufficient for the very limited analytics I want to do here. One of the dashboard panels is “resources not...
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ntietz.com blog -...
They want your ethics for $105 If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest...
8 months ago
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They want your ethics for $105

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

8 months ago
If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes." Recently, I got one which was a little different flavor than the usual spam, so I bit and replies. The end result was...
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Marc Astbury
Annual Review 2024 Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the...
6 months ago
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Annual Review 2024

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6 months ago
Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the cool 15 degree climate. This year, I’m in freezing cold Sapporo drinking a carton of the delicious local milk. For simplicity, I’m largely sticking to the format from my 2023 annual...
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David Heinemeier...
We wash our trash to repent for killing God Denmark is technically and officially still a Christian nation. Lutheranism is written into the...
4 months ago
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We wash our trash to repent for killing God

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

4 months ago
Denmark is technically and officially still a Christian nation. Lutheranism is written into the constitution. The government has a ministry for the church. Most Danes pay 1% of their earnings directly to fund the State religion. But God is as dead here as anywhere in the Western...
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is...
over a year ago
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Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization

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

over a year ago
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.” – Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die. I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising A Brief Guide to Startup Fundraising Terminology for Beginners
over a year ago
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A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising

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over a year ago
A Brief Guide to Startup Fundraising Terminology for Beginners
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elementary Blog
It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and...
a year ago
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It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible

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a year ago
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and plenty of OS 8 news. Disability Pride Month It’s disability pride month, which means making space to talk about how we can build communities and systems that better accommodate...
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Nelson's Weblog
The Transcantábrico Train We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
a year ago
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The Transcantábrico Train

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a year ago
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in 2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here. The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
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Charles Chen
TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions) Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
4 weeks ago
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TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions)

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4 weeks ago
Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Found-Money Startups 'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
over a year ago
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Found-Money Startups

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over a year ago
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
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Marc Astbury
Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
2 months ago
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Osaka Team Retreat Recap

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2 months ago
We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
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Joel Gascoigne's...
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have...
11 months ago
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The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media

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11 months ago
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have introduced support for Bluesky in Buffer. This is an important moment for us as a company, and there are a number of reasons that adding Bluesky is personally meaningful for me. With...
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Blog of Simple...
Google will start tracking all your devices (WTF?)
6 months ago
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Google will start tracking all your devices (WTF?)

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6 months ago
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Code Of Honor
Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers...
over a year ago
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Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists

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over a year ago
In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers — even good ones — seem to get terribly wrong! Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, more memory efficient and more...
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Basta’s Notes
That time I broke login at Box and what it says about business logic and code re-use
over a year ago
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That time I broke login at Box

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over a year ago
and what it says about business logic and code re-use
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The Pragmatic...
How Games Typically Get Built The differences between games development and more “standard” software engineering, roles, and how...
a year ago
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How Games Typically Get Built

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a year ago
The differences between games development and more “standard” software engineering, roles, and how games are typically built.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
You Already Use Types _[Published on Freecodecamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/you-already-use-types/)_
over a year ago
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You Already Use Types

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over a year ago
_[Published on Freecodecamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/you-already-use-types/)_
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Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
over a year ago
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How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful

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over a year ago
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
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Steve Klabnik
Burnout
over a year ago
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Burnout

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over a year ago
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: May 2023
over a year ago
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Privacy Monthly: May 2023

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over a year ago
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How we raised $3M for an open source project Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
over a year ago
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How we raised $3M for an open source project

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over a year ago
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
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davidyat.es
Image upload with render hooks
8 months ago
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Image upload with render hooks

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8 months ago
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ntietz.com blog -...
Your product shouldn't require showing my legal name Last week, I finally got verified on LinkedIn. Now there's a little badge next to my name that says...
4 months ago
40

Your product shouldn't require showing my legal name

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

4 months ago
Last week, I finally got verified on LinkedIn. Now there's a little badge next to my name that says "yes, she's a human who is legally named Nicole." Their marketing for verification says that I should now expect 60% more profile views and 50% more comments and reactions. For a...
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Making software...
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
over a year ago
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Keynote Slides with Pure CSS

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over a year ago
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple's Keynote, etc....
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
over a year ago
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Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme

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over a year ago
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Review: Beepy, the pocket-sized, linux-powered cyberdeck THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my...
a year ago
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Review: Beepy, the pocket-sized, linux-powered cyberdeck

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a year ago
THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my cat printer The Beepy is a handheld Linux console designed by artists and built for nerds. From the first announcement, Beepy’s creator—SQFMI—was candid about the device’s lack of...
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Steve Klabnik
Ditching Google Chat with XMPP
over a year ago
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Ditching Google Chat with XMPP

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over a year ago
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blog Posts vs. Social Posts From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience): I started writing more blog...
10 months ago
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Blog Posts vs. Social Posts

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10 months ago
From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience): I started writing more blog posts recently. I like it because it's different than X. You get a spike of views when you share something on X, but that dies off quickly. If you provide great value with your...
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Sometimes It Works...
A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? For a change, why not try this? Let’s run some numbers… Now for the...
over a year ago
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A New Way to Hire Tech Talent?

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

over a year ago
A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? For a change, why not try this? Let’s run some numbers… Now for the other option ¶A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? Hiring goes a little something like this: Hire traditionally — firewall interviewing (resumé culling, technical testing, group...
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Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
a year ago
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Daily Inspirational Word

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a year ago
Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
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tonsky.me
Local, first, forever So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught...
a year ago
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Local, first, forever

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a year ago
So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught my attention: Specifically, this part: But first, some context. What is local-first? For the long version, go to Ink & Switch, who coined the term. Or listen for Peter van...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Temporal - the iPhone of System Design Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it...
over a year ago
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Temporal - the iPhone of System Design

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

over a year ago
Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
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Quentin Santos
Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one...
a year ago
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Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge

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

a year ago
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2023 The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”....
over a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2023

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

over a year ago
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”. Congrats to jackw01 for arriving at the correct answer! congrats, email me for your prize. This one was surprisingly difficult to guess from just the PCB alone, but once the associated...
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Computer Things
The Juggler's Curse I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1...
5 months ago
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The Juggler's Curse

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

5 months ago
I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1 I've gotten to the point where I can almost consistently do a five-ball cascade, which I thought was the cutoff to being a "good juggler". "Thought" because I now know a "good...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Ductility in Software I learned a new word: ductile. Do you know it? I’m particularly interested in its usage in a...
3 months ago
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Ductility in Software

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
I learned a new word: ductile. Do you know it? I’m particularly interested in its usage in a physics/engineering setting when talking about materials. Here’s an answer on Quora to: “What is ductile?” Ductility is the ability of a material to be permanently deformed without...
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Sometimes It Works...
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An...
over a year ago
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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies

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

over a year ago
You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An Acceptable Risk What else can you do? Enter Ensemble ¶You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies I’ve got a little present for you: you’re enjoying a well-earned break from work!...
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Joel Gascoigne
Focus on the line, not the dot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I...
over a year ago
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Focus on the line, not the dot

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring? [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half a...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood...
a year ago
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LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood out: For the best [prompt] results, combine: Domain knowledge of the thing you're working on Understanding how the models work Intuition gained from playing around with them a lot I am...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
A story about pivots PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year,...
over a year ago
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A story about pivots

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over a year ago
PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year, pivoted again whilst we were there and have now gone…
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Copper • A blog...
Making my own sharpening blocks When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use...
9 months ago
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Making my own sharpening blocks

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken. I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel...
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David Crawshaw
2015-12-15
over a year ago
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2015-12-15

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

over a year ago
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Joel Gascoigne
Why we go on international retreats 3 times a year with our startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
over a year ago
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Why we go on international retreats 3 times a year with our startup

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most exciting parts of the culture we’ve developed at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] for me is our international retreats. It’s also potentially something we’ve not shared that much...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Rate Limiting and Traffic Shaping How Computer Networks shape, police, measure, and limit the traffic that flow across them.
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Rate Limiting and Traffic Shaping

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

over a year ago
How Computer Networks shape, police, measure, and limit the traffic that flow across them.
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Max Countryman
Value Modes and Mud Balls In developing software products, we're often accustomed to prioritizing incremental delivery. This...
over a year ago
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Value Modes and Mud Balls

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

over a year ago
In developing software products, we're often accustomed to prioritizing incremental delivery. This is usually a good way to mitigate the risk of working on the wrong thing. However, sometimes our problems don't fit neatly into accretive methodologies and we need to consider other...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Permissions and projects in PostHog, explained So, you’ve installed your snippet and started tracking data in PostHog. What’s next? Before forging...
over a year ago
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Permissions and projects in PostHog, explained

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

over a year ago
So, you’ve installed your snippet and started tracking data in PostHog. What’s next? Before forging ahead into the heady world of insights…
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Steve Klabnik
Extracting domain models: a practical example
over a year ago
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Extracting domain models: a practical example

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over a year ago
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alexwlchan
Saving your alt text from Twitter It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of...
over a year ago
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Saving your alt text from Twitter

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of their archive in case the site goes down unexpectedly. But large as it is, the archive doesn’t contain everything: Kate @thingskatedid my twitter archive...
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Kevin Chen
How Cruise vehicles return to the garage autonomously in heavy rain Cruise doesn’t carry passengers in heavy rain. The operational design domain (ODD) in their CPUC...
over a year ago
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How Cruise vehicles return to the garage autonomously in heavy rain

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

over a year ago
Cruise doesn’t carry passengers in heavy rain. The operational design domain (ODD) in their CPUC permit (PDF) only allows services in light rain. I’ve always wondered how they implement this operationally. For example, Waymo preemptively launches all cars with operators in the...
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Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past...
over a year ago
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Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past couple of years, I’ve been through a number of interesting experiences through building Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]. One of the things I’ve ended up thinking about a lot is the...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s TypeScript and Then There’s TypeScript Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming...
a year ago
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There’s TypeScript and Then There’s TypeScript

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming “No!” The answer seems simple, but (as with most things) it might be more nuanced than you think. Here’s Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript Co-Creator & Lead Architech, from the...
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bt RSS Feed
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting...
a year ago
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Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech

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

a year ago
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting over my wife’s small business website (built off of WordPress + Woocommerce) from EasyWP to NearlyFreeSpeech. Although the process was fairly easy-going, I thought I would post my...
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HTMHell
The Implied Web by Halvor William Sanden People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get...
a year ago
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The Implied Web

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
by Halvor William Sanden People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get attention and herd people towards clicks increase cognitive effort because they obscure themselves and reduce interfaces to clickable surfaces. The implied web is based on the idea...
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Marco.org
The 2018 Mac Mini Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
over a year ago
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The 2018 Mac Mini

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

over a year ago
Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
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General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Part 3: How to Escape Pilot Purgatory I hope you don’t fail, but building a robotics company is very hard. So it's useful to study the...
over a year ago
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So You Want To Do Robots, Part 3: How to Escape Pilot Purgatory

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over a year ago
I hope you don’t fail, but building a robotics company is very hard. So it's useful to study the patterns of what doesn’t work. We’re going to dig into the most common death pattern for robotics startups: starving in pilot purgatory. If you’ve been at a robot startup, this story...
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The Changelog
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
over a year ago
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Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN

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

over a year ago
Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
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Ink & Switch
11 · Universal comments We experiment with adding a universal comment system that works across different apps.
11 months ago
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11 · Universal comments

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11 months ago
We experiment with adding a universal comment system that works across different apps.
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Cognitive...
Based-30b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and...
over a year ago
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Based-30b

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-7b, I came to the realization that these models, despite being trained with no refusals, were still refusing. How could this be? It dawned on me, that...
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Irrational...
Building personal and organizational prestige Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
over a year ago
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Building personal and organizational prestige

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over a year ago
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
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Making software...
Avoiding Featurism Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term "featurism". I came across this term while...
over a year ago
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Avoiding Featurism

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

over a year ago
Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term "featurism". I came across this term while reading the wonderful article Why I don't use Netscape, which the author credits to Bernd Paysan. Although it sums up the current "digital product" industry quite well the more...
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A Beautiful Site
Social sharing buttons are ineffective Back in 2012, I wrote an article called Down with the "Share" Widget. In it, I talked about why...
over a year ago
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Social sharing buttons are ineffective

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

over a year ago
Back in 2012, I wrote an article called Down with the "Share" Widget. In it, I talked about why plastering social sharing buttons all over your website is completely ineffective. This morning, Smashing Magazine all but confirmed my theory. In today's Smashing Newsletter, they...
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Nelson's Weblog
Angkor Wat resources I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good...
3 months ago
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Angkor Wat resources

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3 months ago
I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I found useful about the Khmer empire in...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Digital Garden Terms of Service This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who...
over a year ago
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Digital Garden Terms of Service

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

over a year ago
This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.
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TokyoDev
Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin...
over a year ago
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Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped

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over a year ago
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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Maggie Appleton
New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast Illustrations made for a set of episodes of the Cultivated Meat podcast
over a year ago
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New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast

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over a year ago
Illustrations made for a set of episodes of the Cultivated Meat podcast
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Set Up SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS A quick 3 step guide for myself on how to set up Svelte with Tailwind CSS
over a year ago
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How to Set Up SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS

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

over a year ago
A quick 3 step guide for myself on how to set up Svelte with Tailwind CSS
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Steve Klabnik
Trolling is a art
over a year ago
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Trolling is a art

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over a year ago
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Yale E360
Paper Review: Architecture of a Database System Last week, I read "Architecture of a Database System" for a Red Book reading group. This is as...
over a year ago
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Paper Review: Architecture of a Database System

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over a year ago
Last week, I read "Architecture of a Database System" for a Red Book reading group. This is as massive paper: 119 pages. What surprised me is how approachable it is. I have relatively little background building database systems and more experience using them. Despite this, the...
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Steve Klabnik
Birthday cards for Dad
over a year ago
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Birthday cards for Dad

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over a year ago
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David Heinemeier...
Visions of the future Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of...
a year ago
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Visions of the future

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

a year ago
Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of realizing that something is simply better, and the only reason it hasn't taken off yet is because the world hasn't realized it. It's amazing, and it's how I'm feeling about Linux...
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Blog System/5
Hardware autoconf: ACPI & Device Tree An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device...
4 months ago
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Hardware autoconf: ACPI & Device Tree

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4 months ago
An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device drivers to hardware devices
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A Smart Bear
The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but...
over a year ago
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The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager

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over a year ago
According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020 An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year
over a year ago
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My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020

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over a year ago
An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year
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Steve Klabnik
Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees?
3 months ago
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Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees?

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3 months ago
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Oxide Computer...
Building Big Systems with Remote Hardware Teams The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to be a centralized,...
over a year ago
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Building Big Systems with Remote Hardware Teams

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to be a centralized, integrated product because that’s what our customers need. This requirement and the design choices we’ve made to meet this need create some daily efficiency challenges for our team....
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Josh Comeau's blog
Common Beginner Mistakes with React I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped...
over a year ago
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Common Beginner Mistakes with React

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

over a year ago
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a...
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS

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over a year ago
Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible. This is...
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires

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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
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.io considered harmful The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
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.io considered harmful

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over a year ago
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
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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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We’ve been waiting 20 years for this

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a year ago
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.
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Confessions of a...
Why Do Python Lists Multiply Oddly? Exploring the CPython Source Code A look at the internals of list implementation in CPython to understand this weird quirk about them
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Why Do Python Lists Multiply Oddly? Exploring the CPython Source Code

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a year ago
A look at the internals of list implementation in CPython to understand this weird quirk about them
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The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article) Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making,...
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The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article)

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Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making, boost your career, and help you build better software.
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College Advice I Would Give My Freshman Self
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College Advice I Would Give My Freshman Self

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A Beautiful Site
Getting it right To my awesome users: I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes,...
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Getting it right

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over a year ago
To my awesome users: I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes, the betas were pretty awesome, but they weren't what I wanted them to be in terms of design, code, and function. I can do better, and you deserve nothing less than my very best. The...
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ckBTC internals: event log
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ckBTC internals: event log

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Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement. If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that prematurely applying...
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Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement.

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9 months ago
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that prematurely applying pressure to a strategy’s rollout prevents evaluating whether the strategy is effective. Pressure changes behavior in profound ways, and many of those changes are intended to make...
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