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What I'm up to - September 2023 I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Sep 2023
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What I'm up to - September 2023

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

1st Sep 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in August - Launched FRCTNL, a community of fractional tech workers. - Co...
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
6th Jan 2022
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Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing

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

6th Jan 2022
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please... Google has created one of the best operating systems...
Code Review is Work Software companies have tried to measure productivity with time tracking, counting closed bugs, and,...
25th Jul 2021
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Code Review is Work

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

25th Jul 2021
Software companies have tried to measure productivity with time tracking, counting closed bugs, and, infamously, by counting lines of code. But what are organizations doing about the time developers lose waiting for code review? As an industry, we obsess over the 10x developer...
Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1 The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log...
4th Mar 2025
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Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1

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

4th Mar 2025
The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web.. The post Expanding Access: The History of...
Before and after Almost Perfect At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in...
8th Jul 2024
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Before and after Almost Perfect

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

8th Jul 2024
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my resi...
Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow Buttondown makes it easy to start collecting subscriptions without having to muck around and...
11th Oct 2019
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Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow

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

11th Oct 2019
Buttondown makes it easy to start collecting subscriptions without having to muck around and changing your CMS.
A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the...
7th Dec 2025
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A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

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

7th Dec 2025
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the first one, Red Alp. There, I went into details about the whole process, so I recommend to check it out first if you're not familiar with the field. We will look at 4 demos:...
Unicorn Market Cap 2026: SF is the GenAI Super Cluster The San Francisco Bay area has morphed into a massive AI supercluster with 91% of market cap
16th Apr 2026
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Unicorn Market Cap 2026: SF is the GenAI Super Cluster

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

16th Apr 2026
The San Francisco Bay area has morphed into a massive AI supercluster with 91% of market cap
LLMs and performative productivity It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we...
5th Jun 2026
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LLMs and performative productivity

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

5th Jun 2026
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
Software Praxis The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period...
27th Jul 2026
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Software Praxis

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

27th Jul 2026
The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period carrying its own set of talking points and controversies, which are almost completely forgotten in the next. In 2026, we find ourselves immersed in the tools and talking points of...
7th Sep 2018
APIs for content sites must be free Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives...
14th Jun 2023
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APIs for content sites must be free

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

14th Jun 2023
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
9th Nov 2022
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Super Apps vs WhatsApp

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

9th Nov 2022
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
The Elon Swing Voter I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
6th Dec 2024
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The Elon Swing Voter

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

6th Dec 2024
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed is industries with a lot of gravitas thinking that their use...
14th Jul 2021
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A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed

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

14th Jul 2021
A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed is industries with a lot of gravitas thinking that their use cases are somehow different and special. Somehow, the thinking becomes “our UI component is different because we deal with healthcare/banking/taxes/etc.” The opposite, however, is...
The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
8th Aug 2023
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The complex simplicity of my static websites

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

8th Aug 2023
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed 2023/01/01 A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed When I first started my forever project, a peer to...
1st Jan 2023
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A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed

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

1st Jan 2023
2023/01/01 A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed When I first started my forever project, a peer to peer file sync software using Interval Tree Clocks, I wanted to build it right. That meant property-based testing everything, specifying the protocol fully, dealing with error...
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
1st Jun 2022
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to

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

1st Jun 2022
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
How good is Claude, really? At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant. So much has happened in the...
4th Mar 2026
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How good is Claude, really?

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

4th Mar 2026
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant. So much has happened in the time I was busy carving wooden spoons, that I felt it simpler to just ignore the hype. One morning, in this seemingly never ending winter, a friend told me excitedly how his employer...
Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. –...
22nd Apr 2023
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Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto

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

22nd Apr 2023
It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. – David Foster Wallace, This is Water At the heart of my management philosophy lies a simple belief: people are working as hard as they can. It’s a lazy assumption to assume people are...
Developer Tools, Hardware Enablement, and Multitasking Futures Your monthly updates post is here! This month we have a couple of releases for our developer tools,...
11th Aug 2025
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Developer Tools, Hardware Enablement, and Multitasking Futures

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

11th Aug 2025
Your monthly updates post is here! This month we have a couple of releases for our developer tools, plus plenty of improvements to Bluetooth, as well as a hardware enablement boost from Ubuntu and plenty to talk about in Early Access. Let’s dive in! System Settings The previously...
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
13th Aug 2021
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Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400

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

13th Aug 2021
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn't as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
22nd Oct 2018
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Oct 2018
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
Things nobody taught me about money When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
2nd Jun 2023
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Things nobody taught me about money

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

2nd Jun 2023
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
!!Con 2018 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
12th May 2018
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!!Con 2018 Notes

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

12th May 2018
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
Equifax Data Breach, Credit Freezes, and Beholden Design Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start?...
11th Sep 2017
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Equifax Data Breach, Credit Freezes, and Beholden Design

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

11th Sep 2017
Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start? This is a kind of experience I call “Beholden Design.” Full of Dark Patterns and pain, Beholden Design is the evil, goatee-wearing twin of Universal Design. It forces people to...
僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
29th Sep 2021
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僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Sep 2021
This article is also available [in...
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
6th Jan 2019
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Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders

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

6th Jan 2019
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
Let's Learn CSS Variables! CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
25th Feb 2018
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Let's Learn CSS Variables!

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

25th Feb 2018
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
2019: Lessons learned Looks like I've got it all figured out.
13th Dec 2019
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2019: Lessons learned

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

13th Dec 2019
Looks like I've got it all figured out.
Quality is a trap Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to...
25th Jun 2025
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Quality is a trap

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

25th Jun 2025
Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to periodically erupt on social media. Also like cicadas, these articles are as predicable as they are irritating. I can’t count the amount of Medium thinkpieces I’ve seen come and go where an...
The best data warehouses for developers, compared With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a...
4th Sep 2026
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The best data warehouses for developers, compared

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

4th Sep 2026
With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a permissions grant, and a BI dashboard. And they're all…
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
13th Apr 2024
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On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars

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

13th Apr 2024
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
6th Jul 2022
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch

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

6th Jul 2022
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
14th Jun 2023
Logo: Squawkbox Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
14th Jul 2026
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Logo: Squawkbox

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jul 2026
Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement. Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity...
8th Dec 2024
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Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.

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

8th Dec 2024
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools, which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time: Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learn Instrumenting metrics...
Maximize your excitement * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge...
2nd Oct 2012
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Maximize your excitement

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

2nd Oct 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge believer of the lean startup movement and the concept of validating ideas as quickly as possible. I think wasted time and resources are disastrous and no matter how much you love an...
Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024 Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
1st Mar 2024
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Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024

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

1st Mar 2024
Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
9th Sep 2019
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Plain Text Emails, Please

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

9th Sep 2019
Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn't this same approach...
6th Sep 2016
Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
19th Feb 2021
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Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

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

19th Feb 2021
Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
3rd Dec 2021
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects

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

3rd Dec 2021
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
7th May 2023
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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life

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

7th May 2023
A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
Subtraction Is Functionally Complete To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point subtraction is functionally complete. That means you can...
28th Sep 2023
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Subtraction Is Functionally Complete

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

28th Sep 2023
To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point subtraction is functionally complete. That means you can construct any binary circuit using nothing but floating point subtraction. To see how, we must start at the bottom. I quote the IEEE 754-2019 standard, section 6.3: 6.3 The sign...
Using Bun.js as a bundler Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s...
17th May 2023
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Using Bun.js as a bundler

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th May 2023
Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s primary focus being on extreme speed. I’ve been following it for a while but until today haven’t had a good excuse to use it. (Edit: There’s some good conversation about this post...
Friction isn't velocity. When you’re driving a car down a road, you might get a bit stuffy and decide to roll your windows...
15th Mar 2024
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Friction isn't velocity.

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

15th Mar 2024
When you’re driving a car down a road, you might get a bit stuffy and decide to roll your windows down. The air will flow in, the wind will get louder, and the sensation of moving will intensify. Your engine will start working a bit harder–and louder–to maintain the same...
The Money Filter One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for...
30th Nov 2025
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The Money Filter

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

30th Nov 2025
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for next to nothing. Somewhere along the way, the perception formed that a website is a commodity—quick, cheap, and interchangeable. So when someone asks what I charge (for a very...
Common Beginner Mistakes with React I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped...
6th Mar 2023
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Common Beginner Mistakes with React

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

6th Mar 2023
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...
Disqus - An Apology Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
12th Jun 2024
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Disqus - An Apology

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

12th Jun 2024
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
29th Jul 2021
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Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

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

29th Jul 2021
On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
The StarCraft path-finding hack Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite...
20th Feb 2013
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The StarCraft path-finding hack

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

20th Feb 2013
Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite right, and then that minor issue becomes a rage-inducing, end-of-the-world problem. During the development of StarCraft there were times when path-finding just didn’t work at all. As...
Creating space Do less, to create the space to be great.
4th Jan 2026
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Creating space

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

4th Jan 2026
Do less, to create the space to be great.
Celebrating our first 20,000 members Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* ,...
24th Jan 2024
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Celebrating our first 20,000 members

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

24th Jan 2024
Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* , including over 1,500 families all over the world, in our community.
Dinosaur pie! I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago....
30th Mar 2015
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Dinosaur pie!

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

30th Mar 2015
I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago. Naturally, I decided to make an apple pie because he likes apple pie and because I can make a mean apple pie with fresh ground cinnamon and a small amount of pre-cooking the apples on the...
The Problem with Education is a Problem of Incentives I’ve found that almost anyone I talk to agrees with the statement: There is something wrong with...
10th May 2022
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The Problem with Education is a Problem of Incentives

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

10th May 2022
I’ve found that almost anyone I talk to agrees with the statement: There is something wrong with education, particularly higher education.
How I Update and Deploy this Site I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and...
5th Sep 2023
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How I Update and Deploy this Site

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

5th Sep 2023
I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and even a rapid CMS can cause an unprepared server to grind to a halt. I used to love running my own servers, but I don't have the time to do it for my personal site - I just want it to...
How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
9th Jul 2021
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How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup

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

9th Jul 2021
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […] The post How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Beware The Fallacy of Composition Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
1st Oct 2020
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Beware The Fallacy of Composition

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

1st Oct 2020
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
How to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook (Part 1) This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1...
1st Nov 2019
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How to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook (Part 1)

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2019
This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook. In this first part, we will use the scroll event to achieve that. Here’s a preview of what we will achieve by the end of the article:
The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
27th Jan 2022
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The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite

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

27th Jan 2022
Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different? Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
1st May 2019
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How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

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

1st May 2019
Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
My Wild Security Head-Fiction My Wild Security Head-Fiction ¶My Wild Security Head-Fiction I’m not a security expert. I...
15th Mar 2019
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My Wild Security Head-Fiction

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

15th Mar 2019
My Wild Security Head-Fiction ¶My Wild Security Head-Fiction I’m not a security expert. I confidently believe I don’t have the kind of mind it takes to ‘always expect the worst’. I couldn’t be a threat analyst, defence strategist or CIA agent because I think you need a drastic...
Password Rules Are Bullshit Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If...
10th Mar 2017
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Password Rules Are Bullshit

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2017
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv — Jeff Atwood
Find programming work by increasing luck surface area Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote...
29th Jun 2022
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Find programming work by increasing luck surface area

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

29th Jun 2022
Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote a response centered around increasing luck surface area. This essay expands on it because I’ve seen this a few times now: good developers asking how to find work while botching...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
1st Nov 2024
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Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses

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

1st Nov 2024
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
2nd Mar 2023
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How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library

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

2nd Mar 2023
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
2nd Oct 2023
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Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms

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

2nd Oct 2023
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
What I have been so busy with How I built a website that lots of you will probably hate
8th Feb 2024
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What I have been so busy with

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

8th Feb 2024
How I built a website that lots of you will probably hate
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
6th Feb 2023
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How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS?

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2023
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question. On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider. But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
1st Nov 2019
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll

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

1st Nov 2019
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022 We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has (as of v2.3) not shipped...
1st Nov 2022
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How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022

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

1st Nov 2022
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has (as of v2.3) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found this post which was almost everything I needed, but required some stuff in the comments for it to work.
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
13th Apr 2024
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On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars

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

13th Apr 2024
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun...
5th Jul 2022
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Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System

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

5th Jul 2022
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun project, studying a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the Ising model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics. It's the only significant thing I've...
Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
10th Aug 2019
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Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots

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

10th Aug 2019
Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
Developer variants Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job titles. I'm talking...
9th Aug 2016
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Developer variants

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2016
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job titles. I'm talking about motivations and fulfillment. In my years of writing code and leading projects, I've come to learn a bit about how my teammates, and I, experience success, through a...
Intro to Vim Talk I gave a talk at the San Francisco Vim Enthusiasts user group.
16th Jan 2014
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Intro to Vim Talk

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jan 2014
I gave a talk at the San Francisco Vim Enthusiasts user group.
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025 Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python...
11th May 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025

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

11th May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we’ve been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
Snowsports and the Normalisation of Deviance Les Dents du Midi, March 2025 There’s a mountain range visible from the office here that i’ve looked...
4th May 2025
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Snowsports and the Normalisation of Deviance

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

4th May 2025
Les Dents du Midi, March 2025 There’s a mountain range visible from the office here that i’ve looked at almost everyday for the last 12 years, when weather conditions allow of course. Les Dents du Midi. Often i’ve thought “I wonder if anyone has ever skied or snowboarded down one...
Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
8th Oct 2024
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Credit where credit is due

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

8th Oct 2024
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...
Beginning 3D printing A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks...
28th May 2025
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Beginning 3D printing

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

28th May 2025
A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.
Mary Had a Little Lamb - Parallel Fifths My dad and I recorded a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb where I sang and played the same song a...
13th Dec 2009
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Mary Had a Little Lamb - Parallel Fifths

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Dec 2009
My dad and I recorded a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb where I sang and played the same song a fifth above.
People-First Leadership Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but...
7th Apr 2023
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People-First Leadership

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

7th Apr 2023
Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but actively thriving. People-first leadership offers an approach which consistently cultivates an environment where folks can show up and do their best work, propelling the business...
"Lazy Afternoon" Barbershop Tag I wrote and recorded a barbershop tag for Chelsea.
29th Jun 2009
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"Lazy Afternoon" Barbershop Tag

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Jun 2009
I wrote and recorded a barbershop tag for Chelsea.
fibre broadband anticlimax How can something that “just works” be so annoying? situation We live in Cambridge off a little road...
3 weeks ago
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fibre broadband anticlimax

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

3 weeks ago
How can something that “just works” be so annoying? situation We live in Cambridge off a little road down a drive in shared ownership between us and our neighbouring houses. All the utilities are buried under this drive, including the phone line. anticipation Over the last few...
Iinkomo “I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing...
30th Sep 2023
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Iinkomo

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

30th Sep 2023
“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing the last bit of her belongings into her bags, rushed by her anger and irritation. “I told you; it will just be for a few days. My grandfather is here for a medical procedure, and...
What I'm up to - April 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Apr 2026
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What I'm up to - April 2026

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

1st Apr 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in March - Published Software in the AI era and updated my personal website. - Wrote Agent experience abo...
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose...
18th May 2014
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You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

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

18th May 2014
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example, or sport, or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know....
Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming....
4th Nov 2019
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Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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

4th Nov 2019
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming. Let’s take a look at what they are, when to (maybe) use them, and when not to.
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
23rd Nov 2021
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Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Nov 2021
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
The GPU Banana Stand Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my...
20th Jul 2022
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The GPU Banana Stand

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

20th Jul 2022
Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my declarative/reactive WebGPU library. This includes features and goodies by itself. But most important are the code patterns which are all nicely slotting into place. This continues to be...
Procrastinate for Success! Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
7th Jul 2024
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Procrastinate for Success!

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

7th Jul 2024
Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can...
24th Dec 2022
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Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It

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

24th Dec 2022
Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can dramatically improve your odds of hiring exceptional software engineers.
What I'm up to - June 2023 ✨ What I've been up to It's been a busy month at Contraption Company. I'm amid building a new...
1st Jun 2023
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What I'm up to - June 2023

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2023
✨ What I've been up to It's been a busy month at Contraption Company. I'm amid building a new product called Booklet, which I plan to launch this Summer. It's a community platform designed to be a cal...
“Why are my tests so slow?” A list of likely suspects, anti-patterns, and unresolved personal... Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been tweeting a LOT about lead time to deploy: the interval...
31st Dec 2020
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31st Dec 2020
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been tweeting a LOT about lead time to deploy: the interval encompassing the time from when the code gets written and when it’s been deployed to production. Also described as “how long it takes you to run CI/CD.” How important is this? Fucking...
Counting the days, revisited Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers or similar counts...
9th Aug 2026
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Counting the days, revisited

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

9th Aug 2026
Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers or similar counts such as rata die as used in Calendrical Calculations. This algorithm is the core of C’s mktime() function that converts a broken-down date-time into linear time_t. I recently...
Crafting a support network Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
3rd Jan 2021
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Crafting a support network

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

3rd Jan 2021
Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
Notational Velocity Notational Velocity (NV) is a “modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application”, as the...
26th Aug 2019
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Notational Velocity

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

26th Aug 2019
Notational Velocity (NV) is a “modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application”, as the author describes it, which is elegant, attractive, and powerful. The original application has inspired various forks, of which  nvALT is perhaps the best, and adds some very useful...
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform...
11th Dec 2022
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Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic

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

11th Dec 2022
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is. But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
8th Jan 2025
RSS-to-email just got even more powerful. RSS-to-email just got even more powerful.
4th Apr 2023
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RSS-to-email just got even more powerful.

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

4th Apr 2023
RSS-to-email just got even more powerful.
The things we do to ship desktop software I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in...
1st May 2019
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The things we do to ship desktop software

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

1st May 2019
I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in under a second. It might surprise you that I spent more time on things that are not related to core functionality. Let’s call it a tax of shipping desktop software. Here are some of...
#22 the good ol’ div link Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div...
14th Oct 2020
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#22 the good ol’ div link

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Oct 2020
Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div onClick="location.href='about.html'"> About us </div> <div data-page="aboutus" data-url="index.php"> About us </div> …or any other variation of this pattern where an element other than <a> is used to link to a...
Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters: Red Alp GLSL demo in 448...
29th Sep 2025
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Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

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

29th Sep 2025
A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters: Red Alp GLSL demo in 448 characters void main(){vec3 c,p,K=vec3(3,1,0);for(float...
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?) My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
17th Jan 2024
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All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?)

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

17th Jan 2024
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed...
3rd Jul 2025
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Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts

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

3rd Jul 2025
I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed creating something that's purely a hobby, and working in other mediums inspires my ceramic studio practice in unexpected ways. I recently finished a very large, non-ceramic project:...
Block-Level LWW: The Missing Piece for Collaborative AI Agent Memory How a deceptively simple CRDT algorithm unlocks something surprisingly powerful: AI agents that...
13th Apr 2026
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Block-Level LWW: The Missing Piece for Collaborative AI Agent Memory

from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2026
How a deceptively simple CRDT algorithm unlocks something surprisingly powerful: AI agents that learn from each other without ever talking to each other.
Cronometer is a good food diary Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge...
10th Sep 2023
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Cronometer is a good food diary

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

10th Sep 2023
Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge improvement over MyFitnessPal (MFP) or Lose It and is not exploitative like Noom. The key improvement with Cronometer is accuracy, particularly good data sources for nutrition...
Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
8th Jan 2022
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Assumed Audiences

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

8th Jan 2022
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
1st Dec 2023
Adding page transitions in SvelteKit Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition...
1st Mar 2023
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Adding page transitions in SvelteKit

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

1st Mar 2023
Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition effects in SvelteKit sites and apps as easy as adding just a few lines of code.
Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote...
8th Apr 2008
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Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP

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

8th Apr 2008
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote webpage. $c = curl_init(); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/"); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data =...
Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser...
9th Mar 2023
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Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB

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

9th Mar 2023
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser session. Since I’m using Svelte, having it available as a store makes sense. This article describes how to implement a Svelte store whose values are persisted in IndexedDB. What is...
The World of CSS Transforms The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take...
9th Aug 2021
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The World of CSS Transforms

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

9th Aug 2021
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
Gathering Structures How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
20th Feb 2024
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Gathering Structures

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

20th Feb 2024
How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
How to not make a résumé in React I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like...
7th Apr 2020
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How to not make a résumé in React

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

7th Apr 2020
I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like recently. They all promise the same thing, namely how to use React to create a résumé. I mean, I get it. It’s important to have something to build towards when learning a new skill,...
“Just” One Line From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a...
3rd Jun 2024
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“Just” One Line

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

3rd Jun 2024
From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just one line of code” is a pitch you hear all the time. It might also be the biggest...
11th Jul 2023
What I'm up to - August 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2025
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What I'm up to - August 2025

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

1st Aug 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Back to eating solid foods after my jaw surgery. - Playing with gpt-oss on my com...
Color Shifting in CSS A little while ago, I was trying to animate an element’s background color, so that it cycled through...
8th Sep 2025
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Color Shifting in CSS

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

8th Sep 2025
A little while ago, I was trying to animate an element’s background color, so that it cycled through the rainbow. Seems easy, but it turns out, browsers have a surprisingly big limitation when it comes to color processing! In this tutorial, we’ll dig into the issue, and I’ll...
The Exodus Curve The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large...
8th Feb 2025
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The Exodus Curve

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

8th Feb 2025
The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large language models (LLMs), as highlighted in a recent Reforge article. The article argues we’re witnessing unprecedented market disruption, in this post, I propose we’re experiencing...
Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
8th May 2022
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Merlin Bird Sound ID

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th May 2022
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
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AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot

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

8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
JSX is a Lovechild Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
20th Jan 2019
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JSX is a Lovechild

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

20th Jan 2019
Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
8th Jun 2022
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The "Talk vs Walk" framework

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

8th Jun 2022
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
Booklet&#x27;s architecture Booklet is a modern email group software from Contraption Company. Think "Google Groups," but with a...
4th Dec 2023
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Booklet&#x27;s architecture

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

4th Dec 2023
Booklet is a modern email group software from Contraption Company. Think "Google Groups," but with a modern interface and features. If you haven't tried Booklet, here is a 3-minute video showing how it works. In this post, I'll share technical details about how I
Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
1st Jan 2021
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Fibonacci Goals

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

1st Jan 2021
A system for goalsetting.
Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and...
1st Sep 2020
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Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring

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

1st Sep 2020
My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and more time refactoring our code and tests. As a result, and perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, we’ve noticed a significant increase in our throughput of features and bug fixes.
High Trust Society I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think...
2nd Nov 2024
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High Trust Society

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

2nd Nov 2024
I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think this gets fixed? Is Kamala going to restore trust in government? Is Trump going to restore trust in government? Despite what Western media might have you believe about how the...
Simply explained: how does GPT work? By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
4th Mar 2023
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Simply explained: how does GPT work?

from Confused bit [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2023
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
on taking advantage of ragged stops Many years ago I read one of those Cliff Click “here’s what I learned” articles in which he was...
6th Sep 2024
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on taking advantage of ragged stops

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2024
Many years ago I read one of those Cliff Click “here’s what I learned” articles in which he was giving advice about garbage collector design, and one of the recommendations was that at a GC pause, running mutator threads should cooperate with the collector by identifying roots...
Haiku Package Management Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
13th Feb 2023
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Haiku Package Management

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

13th Feb 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
How to filter out old email from inbox Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too...
3rd May 2025
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How to filter out old email from inbox

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

3rd May 2025
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with, and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email. Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that...
1st Aug 2010
Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs a silly Rails login bug (or: pairing is magic) On Wednesday morning suddenly I wasn’t able to login...
7th Jan 2021
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Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs

from Rc-2020 on Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2021
a silly Rails login bug (or: pairing is magic) On Wednesday morning suddenly I wasn’t able to login in my dev environment, even though it was working in prod and it had worked the day before and I thought I hadn’t made any changes to my login code. The error was really weird...
Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
3rd Dec 2019
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Nov 2019 Recap

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

3rd Dec 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
The Age of PageRank is Over When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
9th Nov 2022
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The Age of PageRank is Over

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

9th Nov 2022
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
What I'm up to - July 2023 ✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to...
1st Jul 2023
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What I'm up to - July 2023

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

1st Jul 2023
✨ What I've been up to We finished moving back to NYC last month. I made a quick stopover to Canada for Tailwind Connect, where I met some interesting people and learned some new CSS techniques....
13th Mar 2026
Why I left Instagram Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
18th Apr 2022
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Why I left Instagram

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

18th Apr 2022
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
My 2021 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
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My 2021 New Mac Setup

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

5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
A few spikes in Pico cos() A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x),...
15th Aug 2026
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A few spikes in Pico cos()

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

15th Aug 2026
A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x), ranging from 0 to 2π. The orange line shows the result of evaluating cosf(x), which looks exactly as expected. The blue line shows the time it took to evaluate cosf(x) for each x, in...
Japanese Glory Hole Funny Onion gag
2nd Mar 2026
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Japanese Glory Hole

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2026
Funny Onion gag
Rust Macros: Zero to Hero A comprehensive guide on Rust macros
1st Sep 2024
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Rust Macros: Zero to Hero

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2024
A comprehensive guide on Rust macros
America’s Future It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America...
27th Oct 2024
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America’s Future

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

27th Oct 2024
It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America is not in decline, I want to believe America is not in decline. If America is in decline, I want to believe America is in decline. So let’s ask, what does the future look like for...
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1st Oct 2020
Japan's [Employment Security Act](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?id=10&vm=2&re=) requires a recruitment business to obtain a license. Failure to do so can result in imprisonment of up to a year. While I've met sleazy recruiters, sending them to prison...
Sock🧦 nerdery🤓 Being a nerd is not about what you love; it’s about how you love it. – Wil Wheaton My running last...
1st Jul 2022
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Sock🧦 nerdery🤓

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

1st Jul 2022
Being a nerd is not about what you love; it’s about how you love it. – Wil Wheaton My running last week I’m a runner and a sock nerd, and in four days, I’m running a half-marathon (eek!). Here are some reflections on socks because if there’s one thing every runner knows it’s:...
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
15th Apr 2018
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The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Apr 2018
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.   If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
Wokeism There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things....
13th Feb 2023
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Wokeism

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

13th Feb 2023
There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things. My followers on Twitter helped me with this. When you Google it, the top two results contain radically different definitions. I googled “wokeism” and got: The first...
Windows 98 Icons are Great In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons...
26th Feb 2015
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Windows 98 Icons are Great

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

26th Feb 2015
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing. Why are they so good? Rather than some designer’s flashy vision of the future, Windows 98 icons made the operating system feel like a place to get...
The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
18th Jan 2022
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The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live!

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jan 2022
In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2021-developer-survey), please check them out! With 435 people responding, I had about 20% more responses than [2020's...
Tools ≠ skills A couple of years ago at Jenni we spent time breaking down retention strategies of software...
4th Aug 2025
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Tools ≠ skills

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

4th Aug 2025
A couple of years ago at Jenni we spent time breaking down retention strategies of software products. One pattern we found is where ability to use a tool becomes a synonym for the skill it supports (e.g. Photoshop/ Illustrator). The term we coined internally was ‘product as a...
1st Jun 2010
Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a...
3rd Nov 2024
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Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2024
I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy. (Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.) Hopefully nobody noticed! When I flipped the DNS records to...
EndBASIC 0.11 is here Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
20th Jul 2024
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EndBASIC 0.11 is here

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

20th Jul 2024
Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
Using AWK like grep with envvars This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s right, I use DuckDuckGo like a...
6th May 2018
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Using AWK like grep with envvars

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

6th May 2018
This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s right, I use DuckDuckGo like a verb). Like everyone who lives the daily joy (and, frequently, deep frustration) of using the command line to accomplish day-to-day tasks I am a fairly deft manipulator of...
Playing with Streamlit and LLMs. Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools...
19th Jun 2023
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Playing with Streamlit and LLMs.

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

19th Jun 2023
Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools for their teams to make it easy to test LLMs against their internal usecases. I wanted to take a couple hours to see how far I could get using Streamlit to build out a personal LLM...
Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm I would like to thank Modern Health. It was not their intent, but using their service broke me out...
1st Feb 2023
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Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm

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

1st Feb 2023
I would like to thank Modern Health. It was not their intent, but using their service broke me out of a deep depression by launching me into an incandescent rage. I’ve read enough on destigmatizing mental health that I feel no shame in discussing this. In fact, in this regard I...
Promises From The Ground Up The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it...
3rd Jun 2024
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Promises From The Ground Up

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

3rd Jun 2024
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.
Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was...
1st Oct 2019
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Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload

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

1st Oct 2019
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was testing it in the interactive Python REPL, the first version turned out to have some bugs (the second and third ones also did 😉). That's fine - I thought - I will just fix the module...
3rd Sep 2018
Buried by the media "No one else would follow; even the minister failed to show. Shaking his head ever so slightly,...
5th Sep 2016
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Buried by the media

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

5th Sep 2016
"No one else would follow; even the minister failed to show. Shaking his head ever so slightly, Jerry Flemmons of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram turned to me and said, 'Cochran, if we're gonna write a story about the burial of Lee Harvey Oswald, we're gonna have to bury the son of...
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
15th Jun 2023
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Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet

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

15th Jun 2023
My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center! It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three...
11th Sep 2022
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I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!

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

11th Sep 2022
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!). I've also struggled with depression...
Beaglebone Black Setup on Debian 8 Flash eMMC with latest Debian image Download Debian image...
1st Apr 2016
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Beaglebone Black Setup on Debian 8

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

1st Apr 2016
Flash eMMC with latest Debian image Download Debian image [whatever].img.xz http://beagleboard.org/latest-images unxz bone-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-01-4gb.img.xz Insert microSD card and make sure that it is unmounted lsblk fdisk -l Copy the img to the microSD...
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
1st Jun 2016
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1st Jun 2016
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life: Content warning: abuse, rape Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
Sub-pixel Distance Transform High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited...
16th Jul 2023
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Sub-pixel Distance Transform

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

16th Jul 2023
High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support. For the full experience, use Chrome on Windows or Mac, or a developer build on other platforms. In this post I will describe Use.GPU's text rendering, which uses...
Python Community Intro The PSF just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community", then autosubscribed a bunch of people and...
22nd Sep 2015
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Python Community Intro

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Sep 2015
The PSF just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community", then autosubscribed a bunch of people and solicited introductions. At first I was surprised, but I was quickly charmed by the response and joined in on the action. Here's what I wrote: If Alex Martelli is doing it, then...
2022 in review. Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
13th Dec 2022
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2022 in review.

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

13th Dec 2022
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak. The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
1st Sep 2020
10th Feb 2014
Whistler High Note Trail Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail...
1st Sep 2022
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Whistler High Note Trail

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2022
Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail backwards from Harmony Lake Loop up to the Peak chair.
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I...
6th Jun 2022
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What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election

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

6th Jun 2022
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco Chronicle and SPUR endorsements. Contents California Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State Controller Treasurer Insurance Commissioner United...
Liftmaster 87504-267 This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
13th Sep 2022
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Liftmaster 87504-267

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

13th Sep 2022
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door! Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
The RP2350-USB-A cannot see devices disconnect What’s better for New Year’s Eve than debugging some USB hardware issues? In my previous article, I...
1st Jan 2026
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The RP2350-USB-A cannot see devices disconnect

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

1st Jan 2026
What’s better for New Year’s Eve than debugging some USB hardware issues? In my previous article, I explained how the design of Waveshare’s RP2350-USB-A can make the USB-A host connector incapable of detecting certain USB devices, and of any hot-plugging. The solution was to...
25th May 2025
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May 2025

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

25th May 2025
Recently Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun...
1st Sep 2023
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Recently

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

1st Sep 2023
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new, especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
The $100b Bull Case for Temporal Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
7th Mar 2022
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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal

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

7th Mar 2022
Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
2014-04-18 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
18th Apr 2014
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2014-04-18

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

18th Apr 2014
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware...
26th Aug 2025
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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

26th Aug 2025
In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration. Our story begins in...
My path to OpenAI I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing...
3rd May 2016
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My path to OpenAI

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2016
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
Who's lying? Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
26th Feb 2022
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Who's lying?

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

26th Feb 2022
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled...
2nd Jul 2025
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Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility

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

2nd Jul 2025
July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled community and work on breaking down barriers to access. Last year we had the pleasure of being introduced to Florian—a fully blind cybersecurity enthusiast—and thanks to his feedback...
Kagi raises $670K Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our...
28th Jun 2023
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Kagi raises $670K

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

28th Jun 2023
Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date.
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
18th Oct 2018
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?

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

18th Oct 2018
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
26th Dec 2018
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity

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

26th Dec 2018
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
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