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Alex Meub
Hotel Guest User Agent Data I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country....
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I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country. This data is very different from say: StatCounter or NetApplications estimates because they rely on getting their data from trackers on specific websites. The data I pulled comes...
Blog of Simple...
Add Google Analytics to Convertkit
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Browser History Sucks Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
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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....
David Heinemeier...
Europeans don't have or understand free speech The new American vice president JD Vance just gave a remarkable talk at the Munich Security...
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5 months ago
The new American vice president JD Vance just gave a remarkable talk at the Munich Security Conference on free speech and mass immigration. It did not go over well with many European politicians, some of which immediately proved Vance's point, and labeled the speech "not...
Engineer’s Codex
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Returning to Free Software, a guide
over a year ago
Elad Blog
AI Safety: Technology vs Species Threats There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The...
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There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The conventional view is that AI is just yet another of many tool-based technological advances. Like all technologies, the main threat of AI in this scenario is if a human were to use it for...
wingolog
preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has...
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When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has been allocated recently. To do so, you need to keep a : a set of old-to-new edges, used as roots when performing a minor collection. A language run-time maintains this set...
Steve Klabnik
An API ontology
over a year ago
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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Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to gather insights, ideate, and deploy solutions…
A Smart Bear
Metrics that cannot even be measured in retrospect Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's...
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Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's now to identify and avoid this trap.
Irrational...
Advancing the industry. Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious...
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Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious opportunity and paid more, I took it. As I got further, and my personal obligations grew, I started to think about navigating a 40-year career, where a given job might value pace...
Evan Jones -...
Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to...
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Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to do things when changes occur. For example, we might want to send email notifications if a bank balance drops below a threshold. This is a very common reason applications use...
A Beautiful Site
Using an ORM I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that...
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I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that you can spend twice as long learning an ORM as you can coding raw SQL. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I figured it was time to see for myself. For the Postleaf rebuild, I decided to try out Sequelize. I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2023 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research A walkthrough of how I manage and tend Evergreen notes in Roam
over a year ago
Confused bit
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,...
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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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Organizing State of Diffusion++ I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed...
a year ago
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I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed up! Here are some photos!
elementary Blog
OS 7 Updates and More OS 8 News It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the...
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It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the latest GNOME Web which includes a new Tab Overview mode. Plus we’re shipping some updated icons for things like the animated downloads icon in the Headerbar and hardware access...
David Crawshaw
2015-08-07 "The sinkhole attack is is used to drop a rootkit into SMRAM. Rootkit now invisible to the OS, ring...
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"The sinkhole attack is is used to drop a rootkit into SMRAM. Rootkit now invisible to the OS, ring 0, hypervisor, AV, and everything else." "A forgotten patch to fix a forgotten problem on a tiny number of legacy systems 20 years ago… That opens up an incredible vulnerability on...
Blog of Simple...
Meta fined $102 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission
8 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unofficial VS Code Snippets for AWS Amplify making my own vs code snippets helpers for working with AWS Amplify
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Snowflake Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake...
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Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake was fully managed, expensive, and broadly featured…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Learnings from Elon People hate or love him. Regardless, I read the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson over...
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People hate or love him. Regardless, I read the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson over Christmas and here are some lessons that we can take from…
alexwlchan
My Python snippet for walking a file tree I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and...
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I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and they often involve iterating over a folder full of files. The key function for doing this is os.walk in the standard library, but it’s not quite what I want, so I have a wrapper...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is user segmentation? User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it...
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User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it mean? In this article we'll explain what user…
bt RSS Feed
Super Mario Blocks in CSS Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build...
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks. What our final product will look like: Live CodePen Example The HTML The set of Mario blocks doesn’t require a huge...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Digital photos and privacy Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most...
over a year ago
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Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security: Digital photos and privacy Digital...
A Beautiful Site
SSH failing on macOS Sierra For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel...
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For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a handful of other apps. In fact, it seems to break any app that uses an SSH key with a passphrase. 🤔 The solution I found was to tell SSH to use the MacOS keychain. Simply...
dthompson
Guile-Websocket 0.1 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an...
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I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. source tarball: https://files.dthompson.us/guile-websocket/guile-websocket-0.1.tar.gz signature:...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Fave New Podcasts of 2022 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years...
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As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main [2019 list](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), then my [2020](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2020) and [2021](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2021) diffs),...
Steve Klabnik
I'm writing "Rails 4 in Action"!
over a year ago
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....
a year ago
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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...
Eric Bailey
The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing
over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently 2024 Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be...
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Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be able to remember and carve out the time around New Years to write this, so here’s some end-of-year roundup, ahead of schedule! Running This was my biggest year for running on...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Nabbing macOS Icon Artwork I keep a personal collection of beautiful macOS app icons, which might make you ask: “How does he...
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I keep a personal collection of beautiful macOS app icons, which might make you ask: “How does he get those icons?” Apps in the App Store For apps in the Mac App Store, I have my ways. I don’t necessarily want to write about them because I’m semi-afraid Apple would frown on my...
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 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.
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
10 months ago
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Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
Nelson's Weblog
What are passkeys? That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are...
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That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Router Design A small detour into Router Hardware!
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
Making software...
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on...
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don't style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Consistent Navigation Across My Inconsistent Websites Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven...
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Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven development. I can convince myself that just about anything is a good idea at the time. But in retrospect my rationales are quite often specious. At one point in the past, I decided that I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Against Namespacing Personal Sites I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm...
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I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm calling "URL Architecture". In true fashion, I'm blogging about it.
A Beautiful Site
Reflection and Custom States in Web Components In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both...
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In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property. A...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-15 "The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student...
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"The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unit and Integration Testing for Plugin Authors Some thoughts on how to set up testing with plugins
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Suite smells: testing legacy code How do you rescue a legacy codebase that has no tests? Let's look at some techniques for clawing...
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How do you rescue a legacy codebase that has no tests? Let's look at some techniques for clawing your way back to maintainability, one test at a time.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project <![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in...
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<![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in time as hoped. I accomplished the initial goal of extending NoteCards to visit websites. This is my Linux desktop after traversing a NoteCards link to a Web card which opened the...
bt RSS Feed
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting...
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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...
Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel (part 1) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first article, we provide a comprehensive...
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This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project. In the second part, we'll focus on the development approach, walking you through...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019 I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
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I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
The Pragmatic...
Pollen’s enormous debt left behind: exclusive details Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the...
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Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the company has accumulated, most of which will not be paid. The highest offer to buy Pollen’s business assets - but without its liabilities - currently stands at only $250K. Details.
Don Melton
Waiting four years to exhale Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And...
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Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And Kamala Devi Harris as our 49th vice president. While they cannot immediately undo the American carnage inflicted upon us by the previous administration, at least the vindictive...
37signals Dev
Kamal 2.0 released We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or...
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We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers. Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer. With Kamal 2.0...
charity.wtf
On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week —...
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Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week — scoping it down, writing straight through, trying real hard to avoid over-writing or editing down to a pulp. Week 1 — “On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of...
TokyoDev
Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes,...
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Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes, [Eric Ries](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/). While talking to him, I realized one of the pitfalls of [the...
TokyoDev
All code is technical debt Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward...
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over a year ago
Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
Patrick Kayongo
Play “I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their...
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“I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their backs from the lazy sloth on the paved ground outside of his garage. All the kids in the conformant townhouse complex regularly gravitated towards his house during the school...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is development the right career for me? Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling...
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Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling with. It’s one […] The post Is development the right career for me? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Julia Evans
Rebase: what can go wrong? Hello! While talking with folks about Git, I’ve been seeing a comment over and over to the effect of...
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a year ago
Hello! While talking with folks about Git, I’ve been seeing a comment over and over to the effect of “I hate rebase”. People seemed to feel pretty strongly about this, and I was really surprised because I don’t run into a lot of problems with rebase. I’ve found that if many...
Dan Slimmon
Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
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It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
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...
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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...
Steve Klabnik
Writing a su feature with Authlogic
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog raises $15 million Series B for open source product analytics Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million...
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Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million in fresh funding and major new free features for…
Sometimes It Works...
You Don’t Need a Website You Don’t Need a Website ¶You Don’t Need a Website I came across this Reddit post the other day. The...
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You Don’t Need a Website ¶You Don’t Need a Website I came across this Reddit post the other day. The gist of it is: Websites are an expensive necessity that companies hate paying for And you can understand why sometimes. Some organisations just have a completely absurd view of...
Liz Denys
The Patriarchy as an otherworldly patron As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I...
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As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I feel that such figments of the imagination are well suited for becoming otherworldly patrons for Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks, so we created a variant otherworldly patron for the...
A Beautiful Site
The Term "Headless Component" is a Misnomer You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid, accessible components without any styles. A clean slate to style from scratch! But the structure (bones) and logic (head) are there. You're mostly adding styles. They should be called...
alexwlchan
randline: get a random selection of lines in a file using reservoir sampling I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of...
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I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of lines in a file: $ randline < /usr/share/dict/words ultraluxurious $ randline 3 < /usr/share/dict/words unexceptionably baselessness salinity There are lots of tools that solve...
TokyoDev
Japan's Earthquake and Technology Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
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Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in Northern Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami). Despite Tokyo being several hundred kilometers from the epicenter, it's effects were felt even here (although to a much lesser extent than...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Advanced Promises Coordination: Serialization and Concurrency Limiting I'm sure you can chain promises with doBefore().then(() => doAfter()) and even run multiple promises...
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over a year ago
I'm sure you can chain promises with doBefore().then(() => doAfter()) and even run multiple promises in parallel using Promise.any. However, chaining an unknown count of homogenous promises is trickier. Let me teach you to serialze promises like a pro! Suppose we want a list of...
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2025: What I’ve Learned by Building to Last Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2025. This year, the theme is Sustaining Software Development...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2025. This year, the theme is Sustaining Software Development Craft, and here’s the description from the conference website: The big question we want to explore is – how can we keep doing the work we do, when it sustains us, provides meaning...
Daniel Marino
Gamedev.js Jam 2021 Retrospective Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can...
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Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can run on the Web in a browser without extra plugins. This year’s theme for the competition was “mirror”, which could interpreted however participants chose. I had an itch I wanted to...
Steve Klabnik
Random Ruby Tricks: Class.new
over a year ago
Blog System/5
Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereignty The recent disconnection of the ICC's chief prosecutor, at the behest of the American...
a month ago
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The recent disconnection of the ICC's chief prosecutor, at the behest of the American administration, could not have come at a worse time for Microsoft. Just a month prior, the folks from Redmond tried to assure Europe that all was well. That any speculation Europeans could get...
the jsomers.net blog
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
The Changelog
So Many Caring People In This World When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the...
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over a year ago
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of “disaster,” I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that...
Irrational...
Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in the next week or two, I put together a website for its content. That site is pretty much the same format as this blog, but with some improvements like better mobile rendering on /...
Steve Klabnik
redis-namespace 1.3.1 security release
over a year ago
Contraption Co.
Behind the scenes of the Find AI API We recently released a Search API for Find AI, and announced its integration with Clay.com. APIs...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We recently released a Search API for Find AI, and announced its integration with Clay.com. APIs allow developers to interact with a product using code. There are many different ways to build an API, and many tools to make it easier for customers to adopt. In this post, I&
The Pragmatic...
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
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Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
Oxide Computer...
Engineering a culture We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a...
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We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this particular issue was something of an Oxide object lesson, representative not...
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m sorry Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Coming soon This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things...
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This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new
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Implementing nested context menu in Svelte 5 I was working on Edna, my open source note taking application that is a cross between Obsidian and...
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I was working on Edna, my open source note taking application that is a cross between Obsidian and Notational Velocity. It’s written in Svelte 5. While it runs in the browser, it’s more like a desktop app than a web page. A useful UI element for desktop-like apps is a nested...
Kagi Blog
Celebrating our first 20,000 members Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* ,...
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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.
ByteofDev
State of the Web: Bundlers & Build Tools Learn more about the past, present, and future of bundlers like Webpack, Rollup, and Vite
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Daniel Marino
Free Radon album released A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go...
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A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go with Lofi or Chillvibes. Or maybe Not-Rock-n-Roll. I don’t know—I’m so bad at classifying music. I wasn’t sure what to do with the songs. I was experiencing some intense emotions...
Eric Bailey
Web components still need to be accessible
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Use the happiness advantage * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Looking back to...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Looking back to the start of Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], one of the things I think may have helped a lot with gaining traction fast was to involve users in the validation process and tell these...
Joel Gascoigne
6 things I do to be consistently happy * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s almost two years since I first had the idea for Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and with the year and a half before that which I worked on my previous startup, I’ve started to notice...
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Content marketing strategy for devtool companies - How we do it at PostHog Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to...
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over a year ago
Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to what type of content they consume, and clickbait…
Liz Denys
Sometimes, the outside is inside Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
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over a year ago
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
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Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
Joel Gascoigne
Enjoying the moment * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back...
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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...
David Gerrells
content slop AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
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10 things we've learned about pricing for SaaS startups Originally published in our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping...
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Originally published in our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
Ink & Switch
04 · Diff visualizations Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
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02 · Tracking provenance Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
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Cognitive...
Built with Dolphin I started to understand that a lot of people are using and enjoying Dolphin - so I decided to put a...
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I started to understand that a lot of people are using and enjoying Dolphin - so I decided to put a list here of products or projects that use Dolphin. If you would like to be listed here please reach out to me and I'll add...
Joel Gascoigne
What is your coming soon page for? > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect." - Mark...
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over a year ago
> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain When you’re building a startup, it’s very important to question assumptions. I think one of these assumptions which needs to be questioned is the initial few steps people
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Night Time Sky Read more about RSS Club. When I was a kid, my Dad used to take us outside to look for what...
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Read more about RSS Club. When I was a kid, my Dad used to take us outside to look for what he called “UFOs”. It’d take a moment, but after enough searching we’d eventually spot one. One night, all of us kids were outside with our uncle. We saw a star-like light moving in...
Writing - Andreas...
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries...
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One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next book on your list. Reading is not about page count or...
Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
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Kagi Blog
Summarize anything with the Universal Summarizer Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing...
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over a year ago
Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing just about any content of any type and any length, by simply providing a URL address (and soon ( #roadmap ) by uploading a file).
swyx's site RSS Feed
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of...
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over a year ago
A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of checkboxes: <fieldset id="group_1"> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="0" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="1" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="2"...
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Array 1.10.0 This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
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over a year ago
This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see…
Steve Klabnik
Thankfulness
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Quentin Santos
Talking to Espressif’s Bootloader In my article about Espressif’s Automatic Reset, I briefly showed UART output from the bootloader,...
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2 months ago
In my article about Espressif’s Automatic Reset, I briefly showed UART output from the bootloader, but did not go in more details. In this article, I want to go just a bit further, by showing some two-way interactions. We’ll use the initial basic “real” UART setup. Note that I...
macwright.com
Obsidian Freeform Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian...
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Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian Freeform is an extremely small Obsidian plugin that enables totally custom JavaScript-powered frames alongside your notes. I created it because I use Obsidian as my note-taking...
macwright.com
Recently Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
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Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories. Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
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How to seed, grow, and scale Developer Relations (and how we're doing it at PostHog) Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer...
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Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer Relations journey at PostHog has just begun, and…
The Changelog
How Gapped is Your Air? Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things. For instance: An industrial control...
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Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things. For instance: An industrial control system for a municipal water-treatment plant should never have data come in or out Or, a variant of the industrial control system: it should only permit telemetry and monitoring data...
Alex Meub
Windows 98 Icons are Great In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons...
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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...
Yale E360
Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it...
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over a year ago
I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it contains 240 million unique positions1 from 3.8 million games. One of the things it needs to do is quickly find all the games where a particular position occurs. I'd also like it to...
Alex MacCaw
Captain's Log #2 On projects, side-projects, AI, and existential dread.
a year ago
Computer Things
State and time are the same thing Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten...
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Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten minutes later I walk out with two photograph prints.1 In the 1st one, the second hand is pointing at the top of the clock, in the 2nd it's pointing at the bottom. Are these two...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prototyping Magic Tricks and Software In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their...
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In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their favorite ways to design a magic trick is to come up with an idea and then act it out as if they already know how to do it. Here’s Penn: We still start with an idea for a trick, how we...
Liz Denys
Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
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over a year ago
When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
over a year ago
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Web Application Testing (workshop) Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing...
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Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing covers unit testing, E2E, integration testing, and more!
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Privacy Monthly: October 2023
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A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019 Illustrated notes on the new language changes in JavaScript ES2019
over a year ago
Contraption Co.
Wine craft 2024 harvest season in Alsace
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Data Processing Agreements
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We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ...
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PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ideas was to share our changelog updates in a…
Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
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a year ago
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy. I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy, and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
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a year ago
Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book. (If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.) This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
Irrational...
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Eric Bailey
Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall...
a year ago
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a year ago
Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall “feature”. Talking to even one person who works in cybersecurity, political advocacy, domestic abuse prevention, LGBTQ+ support, etc. would reveal the full, naked horror this sort of...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Nerding out about heaters Keeping warm in the winter
a month ago
Josh Collinsworth
The Five Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me as a Design Student Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not...
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over a year ago
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this...
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over a year ago
CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this deep-dive tutorial, we'll learn how CSS keyframes work from the ground up, and see how to use them to build high-quality animations.
Liz Denys
Black coiled bowl, 2023 Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, glossy blue glaze
a year ago
David Crawshaw
2015-04-02 "- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one...
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"- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one common section.- When a blue train waits for red trains to go through the shared section, the blue trains behind it catch up (get more clumped)- If the merge rules are efficient...
Eric Bailey
Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 2
over a year ago
Charles Chen
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1 The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: May 2023
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Josh Collinsworth
Impressions of the ZSA Moonlander at one month My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal...
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My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal and work projects for a full month
A Smart Bear
Learn by Copy In America we're trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we're...
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In America we're trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Navigations on the Web When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of...
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8 months ago
When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are not. That can take you pretty far. However, like most things, there’s nuance and that mental model can fall apart under certain...
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The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
elementary Blog
Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled...
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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...
Vadim Kravcenko
Where do I find technical co-founder for my startup? Starting a business can be a daunting task. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it alone and...
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over a year ago
Starting a business can be a daunting task. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it alone and you’re not […] The post Where do I find technical co-founder for my startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn’t mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
blag
SQLite Slaps why SQLite is cracked
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Steve Klabnik
The Hackety Manifesto
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Yale E360
We deserve to know if something was generated by AI We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on...
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over a year ago
We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on that. What portion of the text you read each day was generated fully or partially by a human, or by an LLM? We don't know, and probably can't know, and that brings about some...
macwright.com
Recently I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts...
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I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts as a “listening” item, because the theme song, “Baby Love Child” by Pizzicato Five, is also spectacular. Guitar Moves is a good series of interviews by Matt Sweeney, who I...
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My Life as a Con Man Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it...
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over a year ago
Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it everywhere I look.
Yale E360
Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we...
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over a year ago
I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we have in place and something clicked for why they feel so wrong despite being so prevalent. I'm not sure what any solutions look like yet, but outlining a problem is the first step,...
Patrick Kayongo
Can I Speak To Someone? On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from...
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a year ago
On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from Heathrow Airport, London. After boarding, the flight remained on the runway for over an hour without taking off. Eventually, the pilot told us that due to the coup in Niger, the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Browser Defaults We Throw Away Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a...
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Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a JS approach that includes writing event.preventDefault all the time is kinda off. The browser defaults are great, and yet we're rollin' our own for years now. 🤔 I’ve been thinking...
Julia Evans
How do Nix builds work? Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
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over a year ago
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here. I started by complaining on Mastodon: are there any guides to nix that...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2024 The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it...
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The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it because I had trouble searching for a recent example at an image quality sufficient to make out most of the part numbers. Maybe this can help someone else in a similar fix! Warm...
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
HTMHell
Test-driven HTML and accessibility by David Luhr When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD)...
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a year ago
by David Luhr When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD) workflow, I was stoked with the immediate feedback and confidence I gained in every line of JavaScript I wrote. TDD improved my software design with simpler, more predictable code. It...
Dan Slimmon
Fix tomorrow’s problems by fixing today’s problems A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have...
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over a year ago
A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have been performed. At first, it’s too minuscule to notice. But the average deploy latency grows over time. Eventually, deploys start randomly timing out. The deploy pipeline grinds to...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte stores: the curious parts We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in...
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over a year ago
We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in svelte components. But not all state belongs in components — sometimes we want app-global state (think state manager), sometimes we just want to reuse logic between components....
Remains of the Day
American Idle I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And...
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over a year ago
I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part. But it discusses a bunch of other topics, some only tangentially related to TikTok. All the points I wanted to cover seem hyperlinked in a sprawling loose...
Yale E360
The bittersweet end of a year of independence Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
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over a year ago
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
Making software...
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated,...
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Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated, but I have finally started to port over all my personal open-source projects to sourcehut.org. I'll get into the why and how momentarily, but first let's take a look at all the...
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia FizzBuzz
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blag
Setting up Github Actions for Hugo Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
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Liz Denys
Some not-so-secrets of my kitchen I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some...
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over a year ago
I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some of the secrets of my kitchen. Actually, they're not so secret to anyone who's had a peek around my kitchen. Oven thermometer(s) For about five dollars, you can ensure your cookies...
James Vaughan's blog
Running around Albany
over a year ago
Julia Evans
Some Go web dev notes I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not...
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I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not ever see the light of day, but I learned a couple of things along the way I wanted to write down. Here they are: go 1.22 now has better routing I’ve never felt motivated to learn any...
Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 Million ARR - October update
a year ago
Alex Meub
Controlling Wemo Smart Plugs with Arduino «««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them...
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«««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them for controlling lighting and fans. I thought it would be cool to control my Wemo plugs using a physical button (in addition to my phone). In many situations, a button is faster than...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3 As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
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As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
Charles Chen
A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
a year ago
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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Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an...
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For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an 8-core/16-thread AMD 8745H CPU, which retails for $343 (or €379) as a bare-bone unit, and stays below $550, even after adding 48GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. I'm shocked to report that I really...
MMapped blog
The numeric tower fiasco
a year ago
Making software...
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
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Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
Ink & Switch
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Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects advancing the future of Automerge.
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flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for exploring the Flickr API &rarr; I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a...
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I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a couple of command-line tools to make a simple tool for exploring the API. They’re not meant for building “proper” apps, more for quick experiments and seeing what API responses...
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How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
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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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Numbers go up. There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be...
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There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be summarized as, “numbers go up.” These games focus on the fundamental gaming loop rather than plot, characterization or anything beyond the foundational satisfaction of numbers...
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What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs? Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering...
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Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large language models at work. Unsurprisingly, the intersection of those two ideas is a topic that I’ve been thinking about a...
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JAMstack for Indie Hackers _This article was [published on Indie...
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_This article was [published on Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/jamstack-for-indie-hackers-b07f7a943d)!_
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When deciding which framework to use a few months back for all of our new systems, there wasn’t… When deciding which framework to use a few months back for all of our new systems, there wasn’t even...
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When deciding which framework to use a few months back for all of our new systems, there wasn’t even a mention of framework speed. The truth is in practice that it just doesn’t matter for a large proportion of use-cases and certainly not for ours (funded startup with tens of...
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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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Import/restore MySQL files from the command line I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure...
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I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure it out online. Here are the steps to import a large SQL file from the command line. Upload the SQL file to the server that your MySQL database is on Execute the following command...
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Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases by I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s...
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I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s not good for every problem, I think React is a good solution to many problems. I think the React team has good intentions. Even though React is not a solution to everything, it a...
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Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes...
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Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker.
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How To Google Your Errors ---
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There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need to do is take the time to notice it and learn from it.
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
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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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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Getting your Idea to the MVP appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
HTMHell
Improving SEO without knowing where to start Summary Introduction What is SEO ? Web quality with Opquast SEO-related Opquast...
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Summary Introduction What is SEO ? Web quality with Opquast SEO-related Opquast rules Conclusion Introduction ↑ Colleagues sometimes ask me: “Hey Alex, I would like to learn a bit about search engine optimisation (SEO) but I don't really know where to start. Do you have tips for...
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Why IaaS beat PaaS The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
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Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all users, including those using assistive technologies.
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Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have included errata, but the results might not be reliable, so take this with pinch of salt! vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster...
A Smart Bear
When customers are "willing" to pay This fresh take on "Willingness-to-Pay" analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to...
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This fresh take on "Willingness-to-Pay" analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to superior strategies for growth that also better the world.
Irrational...
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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...
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How to gain traction in two sided markets * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas that involve two sided markets are notoriously difficult to get off the ground. It’s the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
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Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
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Charles Chen
C# Discriminated Unions and .NET Channels For parallel processing of records, C# discriminated unions and .NET System.Threading.Channels make...
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These are a mix of stories from Norway, Croatia, and Slovenia from some past trips. Make Serbia Great Again Our first stop is the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia, which has become well known being the primary filming location for Game of Thrones seasons 2 – 8.  I watched the series,...
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Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight....
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Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight. I’m a big fan. It freed us from the tyranny of passive aggressive email chains, and when practiced with good etiquette quickly became my favorite way of communicating via text at...
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
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Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
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Cold-blooded Software Patrick Duboy has an interesting post making the rounds titled, “Cold-blooded Software”. He...
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Patrick Duboy has an interesting post making the rounds titled, “Cold-blooded Software”. He analogizes the idea of warm-blooded software: projects that are warm-blooded: everything is great when there’s constant motion on the project, generating heat. But put warm-blooded...
Oxide Computer...
A Tool for Discussion At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
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At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design decisions. They document the processes, APIs, and tools that we use. The workflow for the RFD process is based upon those of the Golang proposal process, Joyent RFD process, Rust...
Evan Jones -...
Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those...
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You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...
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How to run a transparent startup There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
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There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
Making software...
Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don't pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
Alex Meub
Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and...
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I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and works amazingly well. It has more than enough grill space for me and is pretty minimalist on features, which I like. Last Thanksgiving, many people wished they didn’t get the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Ode to An Event Apart I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The...
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I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The event I remember most fondly is An Event Apart: Austin in 2013. In my memory (which, granted, might be fuzzy) that conference was more about ideas than any specific technology. What I...
Irrational...
How should Stripe deprecate APIs? (~2016) While Stripe is a widely admired company for things like its creation of the Sorbet typer project, I...
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While Stripe is a widely admired company for things like its creation of the Sorbet typer project, I personally think that Stripe’s most interesting strategy work is also among its most subtle: its willingness to significantly prioritize API stability. This strategy is almost...
A Smart Bear
Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
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Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
Ink & Switch
Ink Note June 2023: Ink Studies Report This is a summary of what we think are the most salient studies that were done during this period.
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Advanced markdown processing in Go Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing...
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Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing in Go using gomarkdown/markdown library. All the code examples are available at https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/tree/master/examples Basics first Here’s a good...
Tony Finch's blog
getentropy() vs RAND_bytes() A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
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A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy() which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting cryptographically secure random...
macwright.com
Notes on using Linear We’ve been using Linear for a month or two at Val Town, and I think it has ‘stuck’ and we’ll keep...
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We’ve been using Linear for a month or two at Val Town, and I think it has ‘stuck’ and we’ll keep using it. Here are some notes about it: The keyboard shortcuts are as good as people say they are: you can do things like hover your mouse over a row in a list, hit a keyboard...
Steve Klabnik
A 30 minute introduction to Rust
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A Beautiful Site
Complacency on the Front End We live in a world where front end developers are fatigued from the framework wars. Most have...
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We live in a world where front end developers are fatigued from the framework wars. Most have settled into a niche — especially the React crowd — and they’re happy to not have to think outside that box. They are, by far, the hardest crowd to sell web components to. I'm not...
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REST Endpoint + CRUD with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in 2 minutes A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD...
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A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD capability with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and AWS Amplify in 2 minutes.
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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...
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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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Impostor syndrome, an ancient arcane magic Dealing with impostor syndrome isn't fun, but playing Dungeons & Dragons is! Here's a quick little...
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Dealing with impostor syndrome isn't fun, but playing Dungeons & Dragons is! Here's a quick little 5e spell combining the two: Impostor syndrome 5th-level enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You create an...
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Measuring Developer Relations DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective...
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DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor.
A Smart Bear
Brittle Points: How to make companies robust Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for...
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Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: deterritorialization
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A Beautiful Site
Give your JPEGs alpha channels If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem...
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If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem is that PNGs are lossless and can grow in file size very quickly — much larger than your average JPEG. So what if there was a way for JPEGs to support alpha channels? I discovered...
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
11 cities in 3 months: The highs and lows of digital nomad lifestyle In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin] casually mentioned to...
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In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin] casually mentioned to me that he would love to go traveling and explore Asia. I love Asia. I lived in Japan as a kid for 3.5 years, and I lived in Hong Kong for 6 months in
orlp.net - Blog...
When Random Isn't This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive...
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This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive me if I do not accurately remember all the details. Some details are also simplified so that anyone that likes computer security can enjoy this article, not just those who have...
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Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
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TokyoDev
There’s No Place Like Home: Finding an Apartment in Japan What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor...
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What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor give a moving-in quote of 600,000 yen for an apartment that costs 80,000 yen a month to rent? Why does my apartment not have lights, curtains, or even a stove? Am I getting ripped...
Irrational...
Those five spare hours each week. One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology...
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One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology Officers should actively write code. There are a lot of strongly held positions, from “Real CTOs code.” at one end of the spectrum, to “Low ego managers know they contribute more by...
Oxide Computer...
Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of us being born in a...
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We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of us being born in a garage and Bryan’s on the soul of our new computer company. Also, see the perspectives of some of our founding engineers: Robert Mustacchi on joining Oxide, Joshua Clulow on the need...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using DEV.to as a CMS Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
over a year ago
ByteofDev
Replacing Disqus Commenting Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent...
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Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️ Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my...
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Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my weather center Despite their best efforts, all weather apps will eventually lie. Weather is often hyper-local. For example, trying to suss out the temperature this...
TokyoDev
TokyoDev supports the legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect...
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Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect people I care about. So when I saw Business for Marriage Equality, a campaign that highlights 500+ companies and organizations that support legalization of same-sex marriage, I...
elementary Blog
Let's Talk OS 8 One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that...
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One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that make it more inclusive and accessible, protects your privacy and ensures apps always operate with your explicit consent, and addresses your feedback with over 200 bug fixes, design...
Yale E360
Write more "useless" software After my last blog post about Hurl, someone asked me, and I quote: "... why?" The simple answer is...
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After my last blog post about Hurl, someone asked me, and I quote: "... why?" The simple answer is "for the joke." But the longer answer is that useless software1 is a fantastic way to explore and experience the joy of computing. Play is an important part of exploration and...
Sometimes It Works...
Punctuated Excitement Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new...
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Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?” So I...
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Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
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Steve Klabnik
_why is a role, not a person
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How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up? Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve...
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Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve consulted with, grapple with. I […] The post How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
sancho.dev
Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune
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Mental Health in the Japanese Tech Industry Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a...
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Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a foreigner (such as Japan where standing out is not considered to be an exceptionally good thing) understandably takes a toll on someone’s mental health. At the same time, language...
Marco.org
Overcast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign! I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume...
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I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume widget. You see, Overcast’s previous Apple Watch app really sucked. I did my best with the capabilities of watchOS 1–4, but I couldn’t give people what they really wanted: Standalone podcast...
Elad Blog
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment...
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About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
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A Beautiful Site
Using the classList API jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff...
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jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff wasn't built into JavaScript. But wait — it is now! What your looking for didn't exist until IE10, but it's been in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera for some time now. It's...
bt RSS Feed
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
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Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the “golden age” in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
David Crawshaw
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Confessions of a...
Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous...
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Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous multithreading) implementation in Intel’s x86 processors.
Elad Blog
Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart Full video & transcript from Fireside chat with Apoorva Metha
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macwright.com
React is old My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web...
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My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web stack, we considered a few other options - we had used d3 to build iD, which worked out great but we were practically the only people in the internet using d3 to build HTML UIs - I...
HTMHell
ARIA Live Regions by Andrea de Souza ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of roles and...
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by Andrea de Souza ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of roles and attributes that makes web page elements accessible to users who require assistive technology, like screen readers, when native HTML alone is not enough. One of these sets of roles...
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5 essential PostHog apps for new users PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
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PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
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Improving the tests for RestAssured.Net with mutation testing and Stryker.NET When I build and release new features or bug fixes for RestAssured.Net, I rely heavily on the...
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When I build and release new features or bug fixes for RestAssured.Net, I rely heavily on the acceptance tests that I wrote over time. Next to serving as living documentation for the library, I run these tests both locally and on every push to GitHub to see if I didn’t...
TokyoDev
Service Introduction: Forkwell One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending...
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One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An...
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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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The Difference Between Clearing, Resetting, and Restoring Mocks (article) Understand the key differences between mock state management methods: mockClear(), mockReset(), and...
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Understand the key differences between mock state management methods: mockClear(), mockReset(), and mockRestore(). Write clean test states.
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Never Do Spec Work for Free Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let...
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Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let me say that again for the people in the back: your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Time is the most precious commodity we have as human beings, so never waste...
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2016-01-07 "Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know."
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Joel on Software
Progress on the Block Protocol Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
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Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
The Pragmatic...
Lyft in Trouble Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just...
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Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just stepped down and a former Amazon executive is the new CEO. What does this major change mean?
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But...
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But I've come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
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How I test Rust command-line apps with `assert_cmd` Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like...
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Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like create_thumbnail, emptydir, and dominant_colours. There’s no place for Rust in my day job, so having some self-contained hobby projects means I can still have fun playing with it. I’ve...
ByteofDev
State of the Web: Serverless Functions What are serverless functions, why do they matter, and how are they currently used for server-side...
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What are serverless functions, why do they matter, and how are they currently used for server-side JavaScript?
Ink & Switch
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Engineering AI Agents - OpenAI DevDay Singapore talk this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Gestures Some of the techniques we use to handle events and gestures in our prototypes
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The case for frameworks
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The Web’s Next Transition Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a...
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Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on comments For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a...
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For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a good blog post without a relevant discussion to accompany it? You might find it strange to learn that Postleaf doesn't ship with comments. This is by design, and I'll explain why...
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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) 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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A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising A Brief Guide to Startup Fundraising Terminology for Beginners
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[Renovated] Challenge your performance intuition with C++ magic squares Let's play a game. There will be twelve rounds, each round is a match between two solutions. Or...
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Let's play a game. There will be twelve rounds, each round is a match between two solutions. Or rather between their execution times. Using your intuition and best judgment, please estimate their relative performance.
A Beautiful Site
Swapping variables with JavaScript Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I...
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Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I told you there was an easier way to do this with JavaScript? Traditional method # The goal is to swap the values of a and b. The textbook method for doing this looks something like...
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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
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An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
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Cleaner ways to build dynamic JS arrays Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you...
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Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you need some items to appear based on a condition. So you add an if (condition) array.push(item). Then you need to shuffle things around and bring in an unshift or two, and maybe even...
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Processes don't create ownership, people do Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right...
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Thoughts on Framework Churn I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
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I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster. Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
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Kagi search introduces Team plan Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
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How to turn user interviews into actionable snapshots Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an...
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Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an efficient way to share what you learn. At PostHog…