Kagi Blog
Update to Kagi Search pricing
It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and...
8th Mar 2023
It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and we have been busy with three main large-scale initiatives: a new pricing model that ensures Kagi’s sustainability, new plans including Family plans, and enhancing search experience...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
@levelsio and survivorship bias
Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software.
He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s...
20th Oct 2021
Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software.
He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s close to making $1.5 million a year from his business, almost all of it profit.
Almost all of it is his profit since for most of the time he was a sole developer / marketer / copy...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast...
27th Apr 2018
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
Boot.dev Blog
Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"
The podcast is available here.
Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!...
9th Dec 2019
The podcast is available here.
Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron...
Sedimental
Developer variants
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job
titles. I'm talking...
9th Aug 2016
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job
titles. I'm talking about motivations and fulfillment.
In my years of writing code and leading projects, I've come to learn a
bit about how my teammates, and I, experience success, through a...
The Web Witch's Blog
Imposter Syndrome Driven Design and a Bedfordshire Clanger
The past few days have been incredibly stressful for me with more bureaucratic processes and...
4th Oct 2023
The past few days have been incredibly stressful for me with more bureaucratic processes and paperwork. I can feel the stress sitting in my body despite my morning routine of yoga.
It's a necessary bureaucratic process that is now nearly complete (hooray!) but the stress is...
Paolo Amoroso's...
The faded world: my experience with cataract
< (a proud...
Joel Gascoigne
Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup, and why the reasons don't matter
Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and
failures. Over time this...
21st Sep 2014
Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and
failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as
part of the values of the company
[http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04].
Since we defined our value of...
orlp.net - Blog...
Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more...
Hash functions are incredibly
neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small...
2nd Nov 2024
Hash functions are incredibly
neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size
output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random.
This “deterministic randomness” is incredibly useful for a variety of purposes,
such as hash...
Brendan Gregg's Blog
eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools
eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is...
27th Apr 2023
eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is and using them for security monitoring would be like driving your car into the ocean and expecting it to float.
Observability tools are designed have the lowest overhead possible so...
Making software...
Simple Accessibility
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward:
Basic design
Test that your project has the proper...
Eric Bailey
Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design
2nd Jun 2016
The History of the...
The Website that Predicted AI
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in...
13th Nov 2024
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995.
The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Email tips from the drowning
I have never seen an email message too short.
– Roman and Raphaelson, Writing
That Works
Email is a...
13th Jun 2023
I have never seen an email message too short.
– Roman and Raphaelson, Writing
That Works
Email is a cornerstone of remote work and a colossal waste of
time.
People say: “That meeting could have been an email.” But I’d add:
“That email could have been a few bullet points.”
Writing...
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...
1st Jan 2023
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),...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Google Your Errors
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4th Jan 2018
Marco Bambini
The State of Vector Search in SQLite
Making vector search fast, memory-efficient, and natural in SQLite.
1st Sep 2025
Making vector search fast, memory-efficient, and natural in SQLite.
Maggie Appleton
Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data
Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
10th Apr 2019
Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
Daniel Marino
Building a Random Music Sequencer with Preact
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of...
5th May 2022
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of randomly generating music. Not that this is a new concept, but I was curious to see what I could come up with. Go ahead and check out the RMG-2021.
Design
I love how sequencers look...
TokyoDev
Japan's Earthquake and Technology
Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
16th Mar 2011
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...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st May 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in April - Cat's out of the bag - the "Shenanigans" I referenced in March and April are revealed. I...
Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
28th Jun 2023
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
A Beautiful Site
The difference between web designers and web developers
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
22nd Dec 2009
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we designed the PostHog mascot
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
7th Oct 2021
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
Kagi Blog
Announcing The Assistant
Yes, the rumours are true!
Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience,...
4th Sep 2024
Yes, the rumours are true!
Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience, creating a smarter, faster, and more intuitive search.
ntietz.com blog -...
You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap
Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not...
1st May 2023
Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not universal.
They should be universal, though.
Hackdays help you get great new ideas that are both impactful and feasible.
They're probably the best thing you can do to improve your product and...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Good advice on JSX conditionals
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
17th Jan 2022
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead:
condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy,
condition ?...
Making software...
My Cheapskate Commenting System
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of...
I went down a...
3rd Feb 2022
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of...
I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
13th Feb 2025
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
Alex MacCaw
Artificial Knowledge Creation
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
5th Jan 2024
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
Liz Denys
Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024
Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
1st Mar 2024
Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
swyx's site RSS Feed
The only Permanent Underclass are the ones who believe it is permanent
20th Oct 2025
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children...
2nd Jan 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
Epic Web Dev
The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article)
Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making,...
11th Mar 2025
Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making, boost your career, and help you build better software.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it...
21st Sep 2021
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it work? Is it safe? Are there better ways to implement such state changes? TLDR: it works, but leaves you with an extra DOM update that may break stuff.
As we all know, useLayoutEffect...
wingolog
the last couple years in v8's garbage collector
Let’s talk about memory management! Following up on my article about , today I’d like to bring that...
13th Nov 2025
Let’s talk about memory management! Following up on my article about , today I’d like to bring that up to date with what went down in V8’s GC over the last couple years.5 years of developments in V8’s garbage
collector
I selected all of the commits to since my previous...
Nue developer blog
Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine
**Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect...
18th Feb 2024
**Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect 2023 how Tailwind CSS was born out of this sentence:
The Web Witch's Blog
You look tired
"You look tired."
Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent...
5th Jun 2025
"You look tired."
Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent myself from throwing up, while needing to force myself eat every 2 hours despite not really exercising and needing to sleep for what seems like 12 hours a day all totaled up, and then...
Buttondown's blog
Czech localization
Czech localization
1st Oct 2025
David Crawshaw
2014-05-06
"No space for poem"
twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
6th May 2014
"No space for poem"
twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
Sometimes It Works...
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies
You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies
“Nope! Composer is safe!”
Adventure Time
An...
15th Dec 2018
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!...
Irrational...
Revised rules of engineering leadership.
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments,
which are challenging,...
15th Jun 2026
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments,
which are challenging, but also educational. The most valuable feature of hypergrowth is that
your mistakes reveal themselves next month rather than next year, because things go wrong very loudly when...
blag
Setting up Github Actions for Hugo
Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
29th Nov 2020
Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
Identity Designed
BERA
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
22nd Feb 2022
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
Steve Klabnik
What's new with "The Rust Programming Language"
15th Aug 2016
Alex Meub
A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is...
5th Feb 2019
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
elementary Blog
More Apps, More Features, More Cowbell!
Hot off the release of OS 8.0.2, we’ve got a great new batch of feature updates for you as we get...
6th Oct 2025
Hot off the release of OS 8.0.2, we’ve got a great new batch of feature updates for you as we get closer to the release of elementary OS 8.1!
Maps
The first stable release of elementary Maps is now available for download on any Linux OS. For now we’ve focused on some of the...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2026
The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of...
2 weeks ago
The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of a bandgap voltage reference circuit. As its name implies, a bandgap voltage reference generates a near-constant voltage for use inside chips. The voltage is intended to be fairly...
Liz Denys
I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker'
When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required...
3rd Jan 2014
When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required computer class. Our teacher did not once call this programming; it was just another project among ones that usually weren't programming. I generalized almost every exercise - something...
TokyoDev
“Can They Change My Contract?”: Protecting Your Workplace Rights in Japan
Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established...
21st Apr 2025
Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established workplace practices have come under threat. These include businesses pushing for return-to-office mandates after years of remote work, eliminating flexible scheduling, and cutting...
Liz Denys
Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta
Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I...
5th Feb 2011
Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I would absolutely dread the 15 minutes every hour that I couldn't stay in the pool known as adult swim - until I headed over to the pool's snack shop and grabbed a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has (as of v2.3) not shipped...
1st Nov 2022
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has (as of v2.3) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found this post which was almost everything I needed, but required some stuff in the comments for it to work.
Alex Meub
A Look at Portland Car2Go Data
Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
21st Apr 2014
Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option.
Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
Evan Jones -...
Network Latencies in the Data Center
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
25th Sep 2021
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
Daniel Marino
My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
13th Feb 2021
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
Jake Zimmerman
What if typing on phones was fast?
27th Nov 2024
swyx's site RSS Feed
What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to?
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3rd Feb 2018
Tyler Cipriani: blog
CI Files in Their Own Namespace
I recently had a random idea to fix a problem that evidently only
bothers me. It has become de...
2nd Dec 2018
I recently had a random idea to fix a problem that evidently only
bothers me. It has become de rigueur to litter every project with a
random smattering of top-level dotfiles. I’m thinking of the
.travis.yaml-type files that are regarded as a necessary
evil to perform some kind of...
SOS
Explore Wallpapers for Mac
Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which...
22nd Apr 2025
Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which automatically downloaded beautiful images from the Flickr photography website and changed the phone background image on a regular basis.
I wanted to see if I could rebuild that app in...
Tony Finch's blog
On "the OSI deprogrammer"
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled
“That OSI model refuses...
26th Mar 2024
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled
“That OSI model refuses to die”,
in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer”
published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters,
and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
Kagi Blog
Taking web search through the last mile
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
1st Dec 2019
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
Seldo.com
AI's effects on programming jobs
17th Mar 2025
David Crawshaw
2015-12-04
www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
4th Dec 2015
www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
On Test Automation
Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me...
31st Mar 2025
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me because they felt they could use some support. When I first saw the code they wrote, I was pretty impressed.
Sure, there were some things I would have done differently, but most of...
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
5th Nov 2023
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
Liz Denys
Why I left Instagram
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising
Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
18th Apr 2022
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising
Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
Making software...
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
28th Jun 2016
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
Epic Web Dev
Implicit Assertions (article)
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
12th Mar 2024
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
A Beautiful Site
Postleaf: reimagined
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
26th Apr 2017
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!)
Today, I'm...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I...
1st Oct 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in September I launched Booklet, a forum as an alternative to chat. It's my attempt to ma...
charity.wtf
DevOps vs SRE: delayed coverage of the dumbest war
Last week was the West Coast Velocity conference. I had a terrific time — I think it’s the best...
30th Jun 2016
Last week was the West Coast Velocity conference. I had a terrific time — I think it’s the best Velocity I’ve been to yet. I also slipped in quite late, the evening before last, to catch Gareth’s session on DevOps vs SRE. I had to catch it, because Gareth Rushgrove (of DevOps...
Elad Blog
AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs)
NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is...
30th Aug 2022
NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is we keep raising the bar on what it means for something to be a machine intelligence. Early machine learning models have been quite successful in terms of real world impact. Large...
Copper • A blog...
Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode
You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of...
17th Jan 2023
You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels.
You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision.
Closing the lid is not an option because you...
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
27th Apr 2023
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
David Gerrells
how to make a game engine
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript without any AI help. That is right, 100% pure...
20th Dec 2025
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript without any AI help. That is right, 100% pure manmade code. How hard can it be?
Dan Slimmon
The World Record for Loneliness
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
6th May 2024
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
Boot.dev Blog
Top 10 Books on Web Development in 2023
If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web...
5th Sep 2023
If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web developer. Makes sense – great pay, solid job security, and interesting work. But beyond that broad goal, you might be looking for some web development reading to satisfy other goals.
Matt Keeter
Panic! At the Async Runtime Shutdown
1st Aug 2024
A Beautiful Site
A clever way to style the <mark> element
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
1st Feb 2019
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials:
Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
blag
Using uWSGI with Python 3
Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
18th Dec 2015
Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
The Pragmatic...
Meta’s historic growth challenge
The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position...
6th Oct 2022
The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position than Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft. Why is this and what can the company do to get out of this situation?
Boot.dev Blog
HMAC and MACs - The Inner Workings of JWTs
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A...
5th Aug 2020
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A Message Authentication Code (MAC) is a string of bits that depends on a secret key and is sent with a message to prove the message wasn’t tampered with. HMACs are a more strict...
Founder's blog
I'm finally dumping Visual Studio
After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough.
It's buggy, slow, and...
19th Jun 2024
After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough.
It's buggy, slow, and frustrating, and I've decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code.
While as a C# developer I'm still unsure if I can replicate every aspect of my workflow in VS Code,
I'm...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Spent Labor Day in Boulder - Went to Alchemy Springs Sauna in SF- I'm happy to see...
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five intro
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event:
“We’re here to watch...
6th Aug 2018
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event:
“We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
37signals Dev
Monitoring 10 Petabytes of data in Pure Storage
As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of...
2nd Jan 2025
As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3). After exploring different alternatives, we decided to go with Pure Storage FlashBlade solution.
We store different kinds of information on S3,...
Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
1st Jul 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - March 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Mar 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - I published "Why Ruby on Rails still matters", and it went a little viral and was re...
Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six...
14th May 2023
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls!
There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
11th Aug 2023
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
wingolog
soot, solar, sedimentation, sin, & 'centers
Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosely-knit stories.
A couple years ago, my house was...
16th May 2026
Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosely-knit stories.
A couple years ago, my house was heated by a . It was awful
from both an environmental and a geopolitical perspective:
environmental, as I would emit somewhere around 2.5 tons of CO2
equivalent per year to heat...
dthompson
Guile-websocket 0.2.1 released
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.1 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an...
6th Aug 2025
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.1 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket
protocol, both the
client and server sides, for Guile Scheme.
This small patch release contains the following changes:
Greatly improved validation of initial...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
My ZSH (and bash) prompt
Junkfood theme in git
directory
In order to become a card-carrying Linux user, I feel like you
need...
18th Dec 2012
Junkfood theme in git
directory
In order to become a card-carrying Linux user, I feel like you
need to have spent a truly astounding amount of time fiddling
with your
dotfiles.
Me? I’ve gone way beyond the point of diminishing returns. Past the
point where anyone who loves me...
Alex Meub
A Look at ProgressQuest: The Original Idle Game
Progress Quest is generally considered the original idle game. It came out in 2002 as a parody of...
17th Mar 2026
Progress Quest is generally considered the original idle game. It came out in 2002 as a parody of EverQuest and the emerging MMORPG boom. “Playing” it consists of creating a character, clicking “Sold!”, and then watching progress bars fill forever. There’s no interaction, no real...
Eric Bailey
Sandcastles
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions...
17th Apr 2023
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions about how sandcastles should be built.
Maggie Appleton
A Metaphorical Reading Collection
A collection of my favourite books on conceptual metaphor theory
1st Jun 2020
A collection of my favourite books on conceptual metaphor theory
Boot.dev Blog
Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM)
If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a...
1st Jul 2020
If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a Go scratchpad in the browser. Want to show someone a code snippet? Want to quickly test some syntax? Browser-based code pads are helpful. On that note, I created a new playground....
charity.wtf
On Call Shouldn’t Suck: A Guide For Managers
Maybe I need to write a blog post called "On Call For Managers". If you're asking engineers to be on...
3rd Oct 2020
Maybe I need to write a blog post called "On Call For Managers". If you're asking engineers to be on call for their code — and you should — you owe in return: – enough time to fix what's broken– hands to do the work– closely track how often they are interrupted/woken– ..etc —...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.6.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development...
19th Nov 2020
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to
provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers
need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme.
As Chickadee is still alpha software,...
Daniel Marino
What I’m Using in 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s...
4th Jan 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s list.
Applications
Chrome — Chrome was on my list last year, but I’m mentioning it again because I actually used Brave for most of 2025. I like Brave, and honestly I can’t even...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
2nd Mar 2023
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
Eric Bailey
Announcing What Can’t I Press?
I made an app!
What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to:
Read, search, and filter through...
15th Jun 2026
I made an app!
What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to:
Read, search, and filter through screen reader keyboard shortcuts.
Scan open apps and add their keyboard shortcuts to the collection.
Copy a keyboard shortcut to your clipboard, with modifier keys to format the...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the...
31st Dec 2019
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,...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in April - Visited NYC briefly. Discovered a new cafe I like called WatchHouse - they even happened to be...
Basta’s Notes
What have I been up to lately?
Just a little update, because I've been quiet
9th Apr 2023
Just a little update, because I've been quiet
blag
Galloping Search
I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used...
7th Dec 2024
I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used to search sorted items when the upper bound is unknown. In this short post, I will share my notes and other alternatives I discovered for searching over unbounded items
Maggie Appleton
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
15th Dec 2020
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture...
31st Dec 2020
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Computer Things
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
6th Mar 2024
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
The Pragmatic...
I'm shutting down my job tech jobs board after two-and-a-half years
I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down...
9th Apr 2024
I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down permanently, despite a reasonable success in traction. The shutdown was triggered by my vendor – Pallet – discontinuing their job board and talent collective approach. However, I ...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC"
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
18th Oct 2008
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship.
In the...
Ferd.ca
My favorite Erlang Container
2022/07/09
My favorite Erlang Container
Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang...
10th Jul 2022
2022/07/09
My favorite Erlang Container
Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang Program, which showed a very simple universal server written in Erlang:
universal_server()->receive{become,F}->F()end.
You could then write a small program that could fit this...
blag
Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi
This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
5th Dec 2013
This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
Alice GG
DEFCON 30
This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around...
20th Nov 2022
This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around 27000 hackers in the fabulous city of Las Vegas, Nevada.
With more than 30 villages and 3 main conference tracks, the event managed to cover pretty much every subject from malware...
Josh Collinsworth
Profit is Not a Value
Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company...
5th Aug 2015
Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company claims that they reward and value their employees exhibiting their brand values. But is that really accurate?
Jordan Eldredge's...
I was interviewed for a podcast
My work interviewed me as part of their "employee spotlight" series.
29th Oct 2016
My work interviewed me as part of their "employee spotlight" series.
Epic Web Dev
Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article)
What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your...
12th Nov 2025
What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your tests?
Miguel Carranza
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most...
6th Dec 2020
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most of it focused on the CEO role. The generic advice on leadership also applies to other non-CEO roles, but I could not find a lot of content targeted to technical founders. In fact,...
Vadim Kravcenko
Fundraising for SaaS Startups
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
1st Jul 2022
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Posts on Nikita...
2024 Reflection
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
8th Dec 2024
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle.
Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024
During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
A small freedom area...
Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several...
18th Oct 2025
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several approaches to rendering them, but one especially challenging
problem, both mathematically and technically, is computing the distance to
a Bézier curve. For quadratic curves (one control...
Eric Bailey
Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a...
5th Nov 2025
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a project-based option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology.
This service...
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
1st Oct 2024
Reading
It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you.
Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
Tony Finch's blog
sudon't
My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the
practices and security processes...
2nd May 2024
My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the
practices and security processes that use and recommend sudo, the
reasons for using it are mostly bullshit.
When I started my career in the late 1990s, I was already aware of
really(8) and userv because one of my...
The History of the...
What happened to the comment section?
In 1998, Bruce and Susan Abelson launched Open Diary. Building on personal site builders like...
11th Nov 2025
In 1998, Bruce and Susan Abelson launched Open Diary. Building on personal site builders like Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod, Open […]
The post What happened to the comment section? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS?
TL;DR
The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped.
Businesses used to buy...
7th Dec 2024
TL;DR
The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped.
Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever.
The discovery problem.
...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Podcasts I like
A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
14th Jul 2016
A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
David Crawshaw
2014-12-11
shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652
11th Dec 2014
shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652
DevOps - Bitfield...
Should I buy or should I build?
Pop quiz, hotshot. How much does it cost to build a self-hosted Kubernetes
cluster? Quick, no...
14th Aug 2022
Pop quiz, hotshot. How much does it cost to build a self-hosted Kubernetes
cluster? Quick, no conferring. If you thought the answer was “nothing”, go
to the back of the class.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved...
1st Aug 2022
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved feature flag persistence and much more!
James Vaughan's blog
Micro reviews: Bun, Cursor, Cloudflare Pages, and more
14th Oct 2023
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Name Things
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
16th May 2019
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - Leon Bambrick
Eric Migicovsky's...
7 best free open source business intelligence tools right now
Not everyone has money to dish out for an enterprise Tableau contract, and not everyone wants to...
9th Sep 2025
Not everyone has money to dish out for an enterprise Tableau contract, and not everyone wants to send their data to Looker (Google) either. Free and…
Matt Keeter
Abstraction and instances in graph programming
17th Dec 2016
Boot.dev Blog
Qvault is moving to Boot.dev
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard...
7th Apr 2022
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming...
Paolo Amoroso's...
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